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StuffApp™ would be a software product to help people save time and money and live more efficiently by helping them manage their personal possessions. StuffApp™ aims to help customers add items to their stuff, organize their stuff, find stuff when it would be useful, and get rid of stuff when it is no longer worth keeping. Getting Stuff: When a user obtains a personal inventory item, they could snap a photo of it with the mobile app. They could enter some basic information (owner, title, brief description, location, approximate cash value). Perhaps the app could use image recognition knowledge systems to attempt to automatically start identifying or classifying the item based on the image. The mobile app could also use location features to automatically start adding location information. Additionally, when a user makes a purchase, perhaps the app could integrate with other systems to automatically add stuff to the inventory based on the purchases. Organizing Stuff:  Perhaps S...

IRL™ (In Real Life™) would be a mobile app to facilitate better situational awareness and higher quality personal relationships by calling attention to people, conversations, and events with other significance besides electronic contact lists, media, and apps. Observation Technology consumers often find themselves distracted by their devices, even to the point that they themselves do not want to be. For example, family relationships may suffer because family members may sit around a room in their house distracted by other activities (watching movies on their TVs, using social networks on their laptops, texting on their phones), and neglect interacting with their family. The Vision IRL aims to restore balance between interactions in traditional relationships and those enabled by technology. Reality Checks and Zone Outs IRL could achieve this balance through reality checks  and zone outs . A reality check could display a notification, interrupting what the user was doing on...

Virtual Doorbell™ would be a software product that improves communication about visitors arriving at a location without the need for any physical device for a doorbell. It would do this by allowing a visitor to notify the host of his arrival through the app. This would provide the benefit of letting the host know who the visitor was. Observation:  Many people currently use alternatives to knocking or ringing a doorbell to announce their arrival at a location. Many have Internet connected mobile devices and already use such devices to announce their arrival through something like text messages or chat apps. Overview of How it Works : A host could use the app to setup a Virtual Doorbell™ at his location. Visitors could also access the app. Then, when a visitor arrived at the location, the app would display the Virtual Doorbell™ for the visitor to activate. Once the visitor activated the Virtual Doorbell™, the app would notify the host of the visit and the identity of the visitor...

Trunk Space™ is a shipping service that would allow a customer to have items shipped faster and cheaper than traditional shipping services. Trunk Space™ would accomplish this by routing shipments between the spare trunk space  in private vehicles on their usual routes. Unique Benefits : Traditional shipping services rely on maintaining some physical real estate for sorting and loading, a dedicated fleet of specialized vehicles, and specialized professional drivers and/or delivery personnel. We would be replacing that infrastructure with software that would automatically distribute the shipping services to ordinary drivers of private vehicles on their usual routes. Observations: With the Rise of eCommerce, Efficient Shipping is a Significant Problem The Transportation System Includes Reliable Predictable Routing of Ordinary Vehicles To At Least The Vast Majority of Endpoints With Spare Usable Space The Technology is There The Vision : Turn your perspective on transpo...