10,000 Brilliant Ideas

Can you have a warehouse clear up north where shipping companies can pass by with frozen goods, leave them there with minimal storage cost, and then ship them to countries when needed?

24/7 dispatch in any storm (Is the water getting close? Give us a call!) preventative service (with guarantee!) must-go taxi service (never miss a flight!) Gear Tough dudes on call (with waders and boots) snorkeled and sealed SUVs and trucks (with winches and the like for clearing roads if needed) Truck-based pumps Gas-powered pumps Tarps and coverings Sandbags car props for getting a vehicle up high collapsible door tunnels (these might not yet exist...) Obviously this plan is very seasonal, but only the gear needs to be sitting around all year. The guys that are needed can just be regular joes with normal jobs that don't have other worries when the rain comes. Their regular jobs will be cancelled during that time anyway.

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.

Want to save a ton on air conditioning costs? Instead of cooling your bedroom, just cool your bed! This bed has sides on it (done in a stylish way) about a foot and a half high with air vents at the top. The bed is cooled like an open deep freeze and the sides keep the cold air in. The temperature controls are right there next to you while you sleep.  UPDATE: coolbed now comes with a mosquito net on top. You simply lift it, climb in and enjoy. 

Researchers never share. They want everyone else to share with them, but they never share. Well, they do want to share eventually (weee publish!), they just really don't want to be scooped. How do you fix this perverse situation of smart people? (full disclosure: I think I really don't like the whole archaic publishing process of current day academia. Maybe I'll find something down the road, but I feel like it's been long enough and I still don't really like it. (a)) - Create some incentive to reveal early what you're up to. Some kind of notoriety. Or, more excitingly - Create a news site that hunts down things investigative journalism style. As soon as someone starts a trial or anything scientific they're posted in the papers. Of course researchers could 'turn themselves in', which is what they'd start doing if the journalists were good at sniffing them out anyway. (a) Reasons I don't like the process. - It's gatekept by establishe...

I have no plans to save you money. I don't think that's what you really want. In fact I have plans to take the exact amount of money that you want to spend. What I do want to do is give you the maximum output for that money. That way you look good to donors. You implement (spend) all you plan, and you have great results to show for it. Expect to see me make my pitch around October/November of each year.

Bail bonds is a system that more or less works. You got bail to pay, they loan you the money and then use every tactic possible to make sure you show up for court. Could the same thing go for Visa applicants? You want to go to the US. The US doesn't believe you'll return when you say you will. You pay me a bit and I guarantee the US government to a certain amount of money that you'll be back on that plane.