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Silver Lightning™ is a hardware product to provide a streamlined solution for personal computing. It aims to be a more secure and reliable replacement for a physical PC. It would accomplish this by using a smartphone app to setup and use a virtual computer image running in the cloud. It would include a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, Chromecast, Android App, and Amazon WorkSpaces desktop. It would work by using the app to setup and connect to a WorkSpaces desktop, then integrate the peripherals and display, passing through control between those and the WorkSpaces desktop. Silver Lightning™ would pass input from the keyboard and mouse to the cloud desktop, and provide output audio and video from the cloud desktop to a display (such as a TV) through the Chromecast. These integrations would be performed by a smartphone app so the customer would not need any physical PC device at his location. Observations: Many people have and use mobile devices before obtaining and setting up a P...

Cash Drone™ is a financial service that would allow a customer to push a button on their smartphone and call a drone down to quickly bring them cash at a variety of locations. Versus ATMs : This would be more efficient than an ATM because the Cash Drone™ would be mobile. It would be able to meet customers where they were rather than requiring customers to find an ATM and get to it. Providers wouldn't have to figure out how to obtain and maintain many physical locations for ATMs. Versus Mobile Payments : It would still be useful in the age of mobile payments, because many transactions costing money do not support mobile payments yet, but they all do accept cash. Security Considerations : It would be a challenge to prevent malicious actors from destroying or stealing a Cash Drone™ or its cash. Like many challenges to business ideas, this challenge presents an opportunity to enhance this idea with additional ideas that will result in a more robust end product. Possible avenues t...