OK, about a year ago I was trying to come up with iPhone App ideas.

A couple I cam up with and half wrote were...
1. A camera app that connects seamlessly with Twitter and Facebook and other social networks. Note, not a Facebook app, not a Twitter app, a camera app but it allowed instant sharing of photos that you have taken.
2. An alarm app that allows you to set reminders based on location not time. i.e. Remind me to get some bread next time I'm near the supermarket. Remember to call my mum when I'm leaving my house to set off for hers.

Then iOS5 was announced... with Twitter integration directly in the camera app ... and location based alarms! FFS!

Secondly, at work the lifts are tectonically slow. And they seem to have know AI controlling where and when they go. It could be done randomly and still be quicker. Anyway, I began to think of a new style of lift. One that has no buttons inside (for the floors) but has a panel of buttons on the outside with every floor listed on it (or some type of entry panel). That way you turn up at the lift and tell it where you want to go. Based on the list of destinations the lifts have and the position and direction of all the lifts in the system it can then calculate the quickest way to get, not just you, but everybody to their chosen destinations.

Just watching one of the recent TED videos about algorithms and BOOM... destination control lifts.

http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_h ... world.html 9:49 into this video.

Why can I not act on my ideas and turn them into something before someone else does?! It's not like it's a generic idea either. This one regarding the lifts is a very specific but revolutionary change from the norm.

I came up the idea of a semi-auto gearbox - something that allowed you to drive as a manual (with clutch pedal) or as an automatic, though my idea had the idea of changing it on the fly.

I also thought of a whole bunch of other things that I can't remember now - should have wrote them down.

I invented the mp3 audio format back about 1984 when I first learned about Fast Fourier Transform algorithms and DSPs.

I thought of something many, many years ago that still hasn't been brought to market by anyone else.

Somebody probably thought of it and then it was shot down as a crap idea. Serves you right!

I did think about virtualisation in 1984 or thereabouts.

years ago I had a weird dream of a really futuristic car, the front and rear lights gave the impression they went all the way across and both lights were connected to each other kinda thing, well that dream came true and honda made the EXACT car in my dream

this

http://www.dragtimes.com/images/14218-2008-Honda-Civic.jpg

I just wonder if I drawn out blueprints of it before they thought of that design I might of been rich

Sure you weren't just thinking of the Citroën SM?