Uber for video calls

Some way for people in the hospital to have someone come by and use their mobile device to help them do a video chat with somebody that they miss or cannot go and see.

Or you could even hire somebody to go and stand somewhere and broadcast Facebook live or whatever live video from a corner or an event or a family reunion that you cannot make it to. You could make it sort of like Uber or sort of like some of those dating apps where you connect and pay all within the app. And some people could even volunteer to be the one holding the device and going to the different places with their device just to make somebody's telepresence available.

Along those same lines you can also use telepresence by strapping an iPad on your chest or on a helmet and be the person remotely. And then they can tell you which way to turn and may be sit or stand or that sort of thing. Instead of using a robot to do it remotely you hire a person in the pay $15 an hour or something like that going be your body. Around the screen at an event or at a meeting.

Turbine for car

Wind turbines for cars

We have alternators, but for these electric cars it would be cool to have sleek wind turbines that are like jet engines that suck in the air and then turn the turbine really fast to generate electricity to charge the car and give it more range.

Body charger

Phone charger that plugs into your body.

Reference the author that wrote Neuromancer and I think his name was Williamson but the idea is to electrodes that actually get inserted under the skin and pick up on the electrical current of the body and you have a battery on your belt plugged into these things and it would capture the charge and it would also capture the kinetic movement into the charge of the battery which could then be used to power your phone.

Monopod robot #idea

Put a wheel with the motor on it on a box that's on wheels and that wheel with the motor on it can go around the body of the box and then be pressed down onto the surface beneath the box and spun either forward or backwards to push the box in a certain direction.

This would be like a monopod microscopic creatures in our lakes and water and that sort of thing that push themselves along and do that in order to get to different places. You could put sensors on the box so that it knows if it's running into a wall or getting close to a wall or if it's open on all sides of it. Being a box you have plenty of room for all the wires and everything like that so it would be a different approach to moving around. And you can make it more something like a R2-D2 like thing but it would be square and that easy to pop open and add things to inside.

You could even make it like panels on each side so that you could pop a panel open and do things and then now swap it out.

Kind of like R2-D2 and he would do a pop of his 1 foot out there and pull himself long. But the sensors could progress from sonic distance sensors to light and dark sensors and even to cameras eventually. The cameras could be such that the you can take a picture and have the programming look at the picturing okay where about this far away we need to go this much and then start measuring that distance from the X or the target or whatever it's looking to bump against or be up close to as it goes along.

Kitty litter bot

Kitty litter box with a screen. The kitty litter goes on top of the screen. Once a day the screen lifts up and tilts to gather the poop to one corner. Then that corner lifts up and dumps the poop into a cup on the side of the box. The cup could have a liquid that dissolves the poop so it can be poured into the toilet or down the drain.

Frisbee drone

Make a frisbee that always flies back to where it was thrown from.

Bonus if it is powered by the wind it is flying through!

Cat control

Use brain impacts to give you remote control of a cat.