10,000 Brilliant Ideas

This idea has a sensitive altimeter attached to a pair of glasses, maybe with Bluetooth that can sense when your head is as high as it possibly can be and when it begins to dip. When it does, your phone alerts you and you adjust your posture. It uses smart algorithms to know when you're going up stairs or getting in a car or whatever.

In the name of fitness and haste, in big office buildings have one or more elevators that only go to every 10th floor. This is  preferably the elevator right next to the staircase and maybe the staircase isn't so ghetto, but that's another issue. If you work on a 10th floor, lucky you. If you work on a mid-10th floor, say the 43rd, you can either ride up to the 50th and walk down 7 flights or ride up to the 40th and walk up 3 flights. Either way it's going to be good for your health. If you have bags to carry, just take the slowvator with the fat people.

Assuming that mosquitoes have plenty of legs around to bite and the only thing really that's stopping them from multiplying quicker is the lack of suitable places to lay eggs; and also assuming that no Malarial vaccine exists (or dengue); then if you were to construct a mosquito feeder that would give the mosquitoes the blood meal they need, while at the same time preventing the spread of the virus, couldn't you effectively "immunize" the biteable population enough that malaria would die out? UPDATE Smart people had essentially this same idea (albeit much more thought out and informed) back in 2011. Cool to see my main assumption somewhat vetted as well. I like this kind of validation.  http://www.epjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/EP10602610.pdf

mHealth stands for mobile health and basically means using mobile phone technology to improve health systems. While visiting the MDR-TB clinic yesterday I looked into how they keep their records and how they report them. Basically each patient has a paper file, some data of which is transcribed into a register book, which is then typed into a computer. So basically data is entered 3 times at least. Health workers sometimes don't consider it a priority (surprise!) to enter their numbers in the computer and sometimes let things get backed up. In discussion with the people there, it again seemed clear to me that data should be entered once, electronically. (You may be tempted to think that triple entry improves accuracy, but actually it only reflects the accuracy of the transcribing since data is only taken from the source once.) But there's another problem. Computers aren't so abundant. And even if they were, internet connections and power connections aren't so abundant...

This may not be a good idea, but it is an idea and I had it, so here goes. I visited a treatment center for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis yesterday. The treatment is huge. It lasts two years and requires patients to come in every day and take gut-wrenching drugs. It's often very tough for patients to continue treatment (in fact that's why most have drug resistant TB because they didn't adhere to their original treatment.) While I was there, patients were hanging around for awhile. I asked why and was told that they each have their own style of taking the drugs to make it easiest on the stomach. So here's my idea. Create an intense telenovela series of 700 twenty-minute episodes. Play one episode a day over and over again for the patients who come in. Each episode will end with such a cliff-hanger that everyone will have to come back for the next installment. Thus adding another motivation to get to the clinic to get your daily treatment.

How hard might it be to make a disposable air filter that fits in your two nostrils? Would it look weird no matter what and thus be a deal breaker or could you make it look socially acceptable?