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- 3D Live local maps

- Incremental automated driving

- Long tail angel stock auction to get 200 $200 investors for seed funding

- Roomba + cell network + camera = cheap multi-purpose tele-operated robot. Home security a big plus.

- The "piping" for image and video processing to power the next wave of intelligent analysis.




On the driving and maps note, I'm at a large university and I'd love to be able to determine via phone if a certain parking lot is full or not.


Yeah, voice activated iPhone app, "guide me to the nearest available parking spot"


I'd be happy with v0.1 ... txt xxxid where id a parking lot id and it returns how many spots are empty. Or even just if the lot is full (all I really care about).


I believe number two is illegal in the United States. Over a certain number of investors, you start running into costly securities laws.


I'm told it's not illegal, just costly and/or complicated. You could probably manage it by buying shares in a single entity for all the companies invested in, and having that entity act as an accredited investor. It's a lot like a mutual fund then.

Come to think of it, this aggregation is almost exactly like the micropayment aggregation in Tipjoy.

No wonder I thought of it :)




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