Well Masque can take a joke, can't he?

Figure out how to make mobile phone batteries charge faster, then. You'll make a billion dollars.

What about a phone app that you can choose to turn on whenever you want to communicate with other drivers on the road? Might make some of those long distance drives less boring, while enabling people to connect/dissolve the metal barriers we put between each other. Might also help resolve difficult road situations, like when there are lights down or there's a drunk driver swerving into people.

Surely there are good reasons why this hasn't taken off yet?

Or what about an app that allows you to communicate with nearby people no matter where you are. You might be bored at the airport for example or in a plane, and you may want to text-talk with people around you; help gauge whether they're worth talking to face-to-face? We need more of this social connectivity I think. People are lonely and depressed.

I'm just trying to unwind.

Those newer USB C chargers work very quickly though.

Any interest in the rugby today Charlie?

You've invented CB radio again...

It seems to me social relations are in decline in spite of us being more connected.

I read an article last week that a publican had banned phones in his bar. The article had a poll attached and the majority of people that voted agreed with a widespread ban.

I'm starting to wonder if dating apps are killing relationships. I'm sure people have found meaningful relationships on there. From my experience there's lots of people on there getting a kick out of one off meets.
If a person has a choice of a hundred potential partners, why not monkey branch from one to the next.

That's nice.

So do batteries require a lot of electricity, or do they acquire it slowly?

I hate rugby.

Get into fiction. That’s the easy segment to prosper in using invention without any or much manufacturing work.

Kitty update-


Vet says Milly may have a bobcat relative in her blood. She does come from bobcat territory.

Cats are awesome at getting humans to like them.

Oh yeah.
Specialists. That one is super advanced at it.

They can ban comedians but they are going to have hell on earth trying to ban kittens.

Power is the question. Batteries supply a max voltage and current. P = VI. Your cellphone charger probably supplies 5V at 100mA. After converting the AC mains into that regulated DC voltage. incased in such a small enclosure. The cellphone battery then supplies about 3.3V and whatever current it takes to run a cpu, lcd or the entire phone in other words. They vary in maH obviously. But you could break it down to supply to a charging circuit to the battery.

Why not have the ability to open the cell phone take out the battery and put a new one that is fresh. You can have endless supply of previously charged ones so you are never in trouble if you have to act fast.

What you can do currently is also connect it to your laptop and it charges it. You can connect it to your car as you are driving. But it would kick a$$ to be charged by you moving around or exercising vigorously (it can get charged while out there away from any source lost or whatever).

While at it create a gizmo that acts like a beacon connecting with satellites that localizes you anywhere on the planet if you decide you need help. That way you can never be lost at sea or an airplane accident or whatever situation they are trying to find you and have no idea where to look. Whenever you go out there in the wilderness you have it with you.

You can create a little gizmo that very young kids have with them when out with parents so that if the kids get away more than 10 meters say the alarm goes and acts like a localizing target to your phone until you are a few meters from it again and can see it. Kidnapping becomes difficult now.

Here is a device you can probably create. A swiss army knife has a flash stick that attaches to phone and discharges the equivalent of 5% battery life when all options are out plus has some gb data space if needed to transfer anything. While at it create an app or app plus stick device that transfers your messages to another phone when you change phones quickly.

Ultimate outdoors further gizmo on swiss army knife; You can remove a little metal rod arm part that can re-configure as a little manual rotation dynamo that you rotate a few hundred times a magnet inside the swiss army knife's inner chamber and get a little charge on your phone like maybe 2-5% enough to have some functionality even when completely away from civilization or lost etc.

That flash battery assist stick above can even be in your keys. The keys charge the part that is in the keys as you are driving if you connect it that way (ie keys that act also as chargers by re-imagining the functionality of the ignition key input. The keys stay there as you drive and so what happens? nothing! Make them useful while in there. You have always some survival last refuge solution in your keys.

We need to create that encrypted forum for further ideas lol. Just create the damn company and see where we can take it with 100 bs ideas and 1 that finally wins.

Phones must come with easy on off switches that act super fast when you want to literally be undetected and test your location only once every few seconds in case anyone is calling or has sent messages. So instead of the phone being on 100% it goes to a semi alive mode of activity down to 1-5% of the time to either remove your detection and maintain anonymity while traveling with your phone or to preserve battery life to essentially any indefinite future points you want to use it finally even days later. I mean some very easy option in the phone that does that not some enormous procedure sequence powering it off etc. I imagine something that turns it off in a variety of different ways of user defined semi functionality.

That's the spirit. We have Engineers, Mathematicians, Physicists, leftist/creative social Scientists, wise right wingers among us with one trait in common, that is we are all thinkers. If we cant pimp the system, no one can.

However, there may be one thing missing: Once we do inevitablly lead to that Eureka, we are going to need that investment money. That is when we ought to reach out to the Jews. If that's a conspiracy, someone among is off to the dragon's den.

Just because a lot of people care about who wins X Factor doesn't make us thinkers.

"This is a great pub. I've been reading about it on your website."
"Website?"
"Yes. Built in 1860. This bar is original, right?"
"Yes. Everything is original."
"The floor? Is that original?"
"Oh no. The original floor was full of holes. We had it replaced a couple of years ago."
"The lamps?"
"No. They would have had gas lamps in those days."
"The furniture? Is this stool I'm sitting I'm sitting on original?"
"[Laughs] No, they probably sat on straw in those days..."

Next time ask whether it was once a great pub and if it still a great pub. Actually, don't. Make your own mind up.

X-factor is still on?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ

It's a great pub according to my version of authenticity, and I have undertaken an intense study of London over the past few years.

We dont need external funding. That would be a mistake unless the terms are great and the idea instantly a win but requires enormous financing at start. After it wins we need to sell the company and restart a real one we are the only owners if we do it that way.

If we join as a team of 10-20 or whatever all it takes is $1-2-5k each and we have it going. You can start a fund and add every month into it buying shares of the emerging company until we get it right with all processes legally clean. Ideas plus funding buys shares according to some rule that is fair. You do not need a ton of money for a good idea.

The proper way to do it is by starting small first with something doable and decent to learn the process. We can start with interesting small cost apps that people will find impossible to ignore for just 1-2$ per download and maybe $5 service per month. We need to make whatever it is we do accessible by a lot for very little but not for zero. We will start with zero though in many functional uses of these apps to gain exposure and action. The zero will give a hint of the real good that comes next. The zero will be still useful but will have a time wasting component to it. But the real thing will be truly useful. People need to learn that time is more important than a few $.

So start small first but good. Then use the profits and experience from it to go bigger. The endgame of course years later is the real estate development of the solar system and AI in a safe way for mankind. Make no mistake about it. Either think big or not at all. Google, Amazon etc hahaha. This is a new level of design to exponential. We will create even our own digital currency and in a decade have 1 billion users all over the planet working for the "company". This is not about dominating or anything. This is about the entire universe.

People tip more when they pay by cash than by card. I don't know what the underlying psychology is, but it's true.

Stupid question for someone who has a background in electronics. I was playing around with an old Lego NXT (robotics) kit, and the part with the circuit board started smoking. After taking it apart, it looks like there's a 16 V/2200 uF capacitor that's blown. (It's bulging.)

At the local Fry's Electronics, they sell 25 V/2200 uF capacitors for something like $2. My memory is that the voltage rating is a maximum voltage rating, and that going to a larger voltage maximum should not have a negative impact if I do a swap. This runs off of 9 volts DC (6 AA), though I'm pretty sure that doesn't make a difference.

But I wanted to check to make sure that seemed right. I think the discharge rate is tied to the uF rating, so that's the thing I need to match...

I’m back:

London is on the big side. That is a great deal of city travel and spadework to accomplish so much in so little time. Kudos. What else is in London besides Pubs? Anything else worthwhile to report on?

Yes. You can look at some RC circuits, to see where time comes into charging and discharging. t = RC, a time constant. You can see how its derived.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLQrPqYlPmI
https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/rc/rc_1.html

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/ free book.



Replacing a cap with a greater voltage is safe. Can only charge to Vsource. They make a nice bang when you exceed it, which you can try at home.

Endless road closures, in order to fix Victorian sewers and to pursue the utopian fantasy of everyone travelling by bicycle.

Yes. Jeremy Paxman has a white dog and lives in Notting Hill.

This tidbit of information sounds suspicious and possible public outcry could have serious repercussions for this Mr. Paxman fellow. Was this reported in the Daily Star? I want to verify the information came from a reliable source before I pursue legal action.