A Baby Monitor with Sound Cancellation

I've mentioned the physics behind noise cancellation before.  It's pretty simple, sound is energy in wave form and any wave that is met by a wave of equal but opposite magnitude will cancel out.  Luxury cars have this system to deaden the noise getting into the cabin.  The car "listens" for noise and then the speakers emit a sound of equal but opposite magnitude.  Why not incorporate this technology into the standard baby monitor?  Then when the older kids are going crazy or the dog barks or the doorbell rings you could rest easy knowing the sleeping baby's room was sound buffered.

Server Farm in Siberia

Server farms are hot.  Computer equipment in general is hot so you can imagine having hundreds of big daddy computers all running at the same time.  I've only been in one server farm before and it was way cool (both literally and figuratively).  It takes so much energy to keep a server farm cool so why not use mother nature to a server's advantage.  There are three options here to harness the power of nature's cool.  You could locate a server farm in a place like Siberia or Nunavut.  Then instead of having to cool the air into the server farm you simply blow the Arctic chill in.  The second option is to locate the server farm at high altitude.  I like this option because LA for example has a mountain range just north of the city that reaches heights of 11,000 ft.  At that altitude nightly temperatures reach into the 40's year round.  The third option, and probably the best, is to find a cheap place for electricity and then dig a hole in the ground.  You could build a server farm 10 ft underground and just use a heat exchange system to harness the constant 50 degree temperature at that depth.

3D Glasses for your Bike Ride

I love to ride my bike, it's great exercise.  The problem is the weather.  They make these little stands you can buy to turn your road bike into a stationary bike.  So when the snow hits you can set your bike up in the garage and ride away.  Boring right.  Well my brother-in-law has this pair of 3D glasses that you can hook up to any device with one of those red, yellow and white video outputs.  Surprisingly they were less than $50.00.  Now lets add a third piece of equipment the odometer/speedometer on the bike (any serious road biker will have one).  The business idea is this have a speedometer on your bike with a video output for 3D glasses.  You set you bike up on the bike treadmill and the speedometer sends your 3D glasses an interesting ride through the Grand Canyon or over the Golden Gate bridge.  It would be way cheaper than buying a stationary bike with the game built into it.

Turn Your Doorbell Off

My wife and I have recently had a line at the front door of door to door sales people.  A few have had the good luck of ringing the bell while our 11 month old was napping.  This makes us cranky.  While talking this idea over we really were blown away that they don't have these yet.  It would be simple to hook the doorbell up to a switch that you could turn on and off.  That way when the baby goes to sleep you just flip the switch and anyone who hits your door button gets...well nothing.

IRobot Weeder

They have robot vacuums and robot sweepers and robot moppers I want a robot weeder.  This marvel of engineering would mark each of your plants using GPS.  Then as the summer goes along it would roll through your flower beds and anywhere it located a plant that wasn't mapped on the GPS it would spray round up.

Air Conditioned Car Seats

While on long trips during the hot summer months I think it would be nice to have little vents in my seat that was hooked up to the A/C in the car.  That way your back and seat would stay nice and cool.

Air Conditioning for Your Bed

Today's product idea would be a specialized blanket for your bed.  It would have a special tube that would have a special head that would connect to one of your room vents.  Then as the A/C came on the air would flow through the tube to a ventilated sheet on the bed that would disperse the cool air.