Tornado can often strike at night when people are asleep and not tuned into the weather channel. As a result many of them are injured or killed. My solution is to create software that the National Weather Service can use to inform people about the tornado (in a single second). It will send text messages to all cell phones/landlines to people in areas most likely to be hit. This will be definitely a great warning system for those who are not tuned into TV, but are carrying phones.

My idea is to create a mobile application integrated with a database of public lavatories within a city/country/state/etc. After you define your location the application will return the list of the nearest lavatories. It seems to be very convenient. By the way, the database should be updated on a daily basis.

Why not create software to scan videos of crime scenes and identify frequently reoccurring faces? This will help with the identification of individuals who may know something about the crime. The software will work from any video stream, including cell phone video. It could also be used to count the number of times an individual shows in a particular location, and mark that person as a possible person of interest if they appear more than a certain number of times.

A service desperately needed is a concert reminder service: you create a profile where you enter your location as well as the bands you like, and the system will send you an email as soon as it's known that one of "your" bands is coming to town. Getting an email along the lines of "Hey Steve, we just got word that The Kills will be coming to town next April - secure your tickets now" would be just so much nicer than reading in the newspaper how The Kills rocked the local club this past...

Choose any Search Engine and install it with the added perameters of data input which puts more power, and accuracy in what you search for simply by answering personalized questions and which results you prefer to come first to last in any online search. An easily adaptable, question/answer alteration to any search engine which would then be applied to all chosen search engines until you wish to change parameters and personal preferences. This program should be Freeware and apply to...

A website that allows groups of people to enter into a contract to distribute payments from a single source according to a simple percentage scheme. For example, if a creative product developed by a group was sold on the web, the resulting payments would be made through this website to a common account for the product, but then distributed to the individuals in the group automatically. This is similar to Paypal, but with the automatic distribution system, it allows long-term collaborations...

It would be nice nowdays to have banks provide wireless HDD servies. (This may have already been accomplished). It's not that hard. Most of us have our prized possessions on our drives. Pictures, Movies, Documents, become our life. Some of us store, media, in the banks vault. But it's not that readily available. To have a wireless account to a banks HDD array would be great. Come in to the bank, transfer a few files to and throw, via secure wifi. And leave.

This would be a social networking site targeted at adults and professionals, generally people from ages 25 and up. It would have all of the features of Facebook such as a network system, groups, events, photos, etc., but people would also put their jobs, professional skills, or even a resume if they were looking for a job. Companies could pay to do power searches for people, but for people to join would be completely free. This website would be a mix of LinkedIn and Facebook. It's...

Provide broadband packages where the connection speed is set at, say, 1mbps. Then if a user needs to download a particularly large file they would be able - at a click - to boost their connection to 2mbps for an extra fee per minute.

An online recipes website, that allows you to search for recipes based on ingredients. Not main ingredients, like most recipe sites, but ALL ingredients. In other words, I would log onto the site, enter in what I have in the fridge and in the cupboard (store the info in a database so I don't have to add it every time), and then look for what I can cook. I would only see recipes that I would be able to make at that moment with the ingredients I allready have.