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Patently Unpatentable: Use Kinect To Shape Insoles
If you need arch support or insoles, you know what a hassle it is to get them right. Using a Kinect controller, it should be simple to capture the 3D shape of your feet. All we’d need is glass that is...
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Patently Unpatentable: Multi-Language Movies
Not DVDs, in the movie theater: Each visitor get to enjoy the movie in their home language. How? Anyone has a mobile phone today, right? The audio system of the theater will only play the background...
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Patently Unpatentable: Ask Patents
Ask Patents is a new website by the guys at StackExchange with the goal to answer questions about the patent system in general and to help finding prior art for certain patents. From the FAQ: What is...
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Patently Unpatentable: Put a Camera Into the Headlight
Simple idea: If you exit a tight side street with high walls on both sides, you can’t see the traffic coming from the sides. If there was a camera in the headlights of your car, you could see around...
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Patently Unpatentable: Federal Circuit is Trying to Develop New Test For...
One of the old problems for patent office or a court is to determine whether a patent is patentable. “‘Laws of nature, natural phenomena and abstract ideas’ are not patentable under US law – but their...
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Patently Unpatentable: Remote Presence Systems
With the recent advances in 3D printing and robotics, there will be a time when traveling to conferences to meet people in person will work like this: You send a 3D scan of your head and hands to a 3D...
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Printing Money @Home
Ever thought about printing money at home? It’s illegal, right. But think about this idea: Your printer driver is connected to, say, PayPal. You draw some cute image (or use your cat if you can’t draw...
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App to Manage Terms and Conditions
There is this old joke on User Friendly about license agreements: “Have any of you ever actually read a license agreement?” “I have! A few words, anyway …” “And what did the part you read say?” “umm…...
View ArticleVirtual Cables for IoT Devices
IoT devices are a security nightmare: They should be easy to use / set up but hard to hack. With classic devices, the solution is “cable”. If there is no cable between two devices, they can’t talk to...
View ArticleKey Escrow that Might Work
Instead of encrypting everything with a single government key, several government agencies need to provide new public keys every day. The private key must be under the control of a court. Each secure...
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