Why not provide our mobile phones with ECG machine capability of clinical-quality readings? Such a cell phone should have a pair of electrodes to send ECG readings via Bluetooth. The device could be held in the hands to take pulse readings, or could be placed on the user's chest. Of course, received ECG wouldn't be as comprehensive as a full electrocardiogram but it could be helpful while arrhythmia or other heart pattern issues monitoring.

Why not create an electronic lamp which dynamically matches the color of whatever it stands on? It would be some kind of chameleon lamp :). The lamp would light the surface underneath it with two hidden white LEDs and then use an optical sensor to determine the correct color. It would match this color by adjusting the shade of numerous multi-color LEDs imbedded in its frame.

The idea is to combine a facial recognition system with a hand gesture recognition system, which could allow users to control their devices more naturally. The technology will use a previously recorded image to recognize the shape, motion and position of the user's hand, and will be able to detect vertical and horizontal hand motions as well as a variety of hand and finger shapes. A wave of the hand will access the system, and it can also be automatically triggered by analyzing the...

Why not develop a smartphone app which will work with metal detectors to help the hunt for unexploded land mines? The app will be able to detect and draw the outline of the buried land mine. The app will work with existing metal detectors, and provide a more exact visual of the shape and size of the mine. This will allow the minesweepers to differentiate mines from cans, wires, and other debris.

The water resistant nanocoating will protect smartphone from water intrusion without affecting usability or adding bulk. The coating will be applied to the device as a vapor, which will penetrate the entire device and all its nooks and crannies. It will be bonded to the surface at the molecular level, which will create an extremely long life-span.

Such a situation seems to have happened to everyone... You have been watching a football match or some other sports event for nearly two hours and nothing spectacular has happened. So you decide to go and fetch a beer. The moment you're in the kitchen, you hear the commentator yelling and the audience roaring. You forget about beer and run back to the living room to see what's going on, but by the time you're there it's all over. Of course, they might show you a replay, but it's not the...

It would be great to have a TV set that would allow two people in same room to watch different TV programs. My idea is to create a two-sided TV screen for this. It would have separate remotes and possibly speakers inside remote or simple headphone speakers. With such a TV set couples won't need to have extra TV in another room.

Are you a kind of person who just can't stop tapping your fingers on the furniture trying to reproduce a favorite melody? This seems to be annoying... Why not create electronic gloves which will create the music while you are tapping on the dining table for example? Each finger on the glove will be mapped to a different note with different musical instrument tones for you to choose from. There could be also a couple of distinct background rhythms and pre-recorded songs.

Why not create an application which will use camera equipped dashboard mounted mobile devices to let drivers know the best speed to maintain in order to avoid traffic lights? The application will collect traffic signal data as the car moves about and then will feed it back to a central system, which will allow a larger image of the traffic flow to be created. This information could then be used to tell the driver how quickly they are approaching the traffic signal as well as where...

A new LED technology will be paired with a smart phone app to help customers find specific items while shopping. The technology will involve the use of radio frequency tags that will be applied to the merchandise. Upon entering the store, the customer will use a public computer or their own smart phone to pinpoint the location of the object, which the system will able to determine by reading the flicker rate of the overhead LED lights. This flicker system will allow the tags...