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Can you come up with an interesting challenge for ideators to think about?

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Darko Savic
Darko Savic Apr 28, 2022
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Bounty for the best solution

Provide a bounty for the best solution

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For someone who enjoys coming up with useful ideas the bottleneck becomes finding interesting problems to think about.
So the goal here is to come up with a challenge (problem) that meets all of the following criteria:
  • Is presently unsolved or poorly solved.
  • Publicly neglected. The general public rarely hears about it.
  • An interesting problem that inspires other brainstormers on this platform to think about solutions.
  • Clearly and concisely described so that people can understand the problem.
How to participate
  1. Create a new challenge on the Brainstorming platform
  2. Link it on this page below under "creative contributions" and Include a brief summary.
Who wins the bounty
At the moment, there is no objective way of choosing the best challenge(s). From the newly added challenges that attract the most engagement from others, I will pick the 3 that result in ideas I like the most. This is not ideal, but until we figure out a better/feasible/objective way of selecting the winners, it will have to do.
A cool fact: any challenge you come up with will be the seed for all ideas that stem from it. Defining the problem well is the first step to solving it. It won't take long to see this process in action.
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Creative contributions

Invent leftovers-free packages

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 03, 2022
The challenge >>
There are often leftovers in the packages in which food is sold – this is ecologically and economically inefficient. Come up with a way to pack food allowing to easily finish all the food from the package, without cutting, twisting and other unsightly actions :) Examples: a drinking jogurt package, jam, juice, etc.
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Invent a "pepertual" filter for water

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 10, 2022
Challenge >>
Invent not too expensive water filters for each house (make it a construction standard), which do not require regular change of the cartridge and other consumables, and make the water high-quality and safe for health. You buy, install, and forget it for decades.
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Can we envision a tool to optimize beach cleaning efforts or find a way to improve existing tools?

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Spook Louw
Spook Louw May 18, 2022
Can we envision a tool to optimize beach cleaning efforts or find a way to improve existing tools?
The reasons for keeping our beaches clean should be apparent. The reason for finding a new tool, or improving existing tools to help with beach cleanups is that I believe that we have not found the perfect balance between loud, large, expensive, disruptive machines and cheap, simple tools.
Community groups looking to keep their beaches clean cannot afford the large machines and do not want them spoiling the scenery on their beaches anyway, so they would greatly benefit from a simple, effective design that makes the process of removing trash from beaches easier.
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How to deal with and benefit from overthinking at the same time?

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jnikola
jnikola May 26, 2022
The session
The ask:
How to deal with overthinking and, at the same time, benefit from it? Is there a way how we can tackle the problem and turn overthinkers into brainstormers? Are the brainstormers just collaborative overthinkers? Did the brainstormers learn how to control the overthinking? Can thus brainstorming help with depression or anxiety? Can we benefit from overthinking?
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Povilas S
Povilas S2 years ago
Good one! I suffer from overthinking quite a bit, thanks for turning the issue into a challenge;)
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jnikola
jnikola2 years ago
Povilas S That makes the two of us (at least)!
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Povilas S
Povilas S2 years ago
Oh, I think there are many more:)
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How to make people care about geopolitics and international affairs in peacetime?

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Miloš Stanković
Miloš Stanković May 27, 2022
How to make people care about geopolitics and international affairs in peacetime?
Geopolitics is by far the most influential force in society, causing death, destruction, and refugees, yet few people have a working knowledge of the principles under which it functions. Nor the key factors and motivators.
How do we make the common person get interested in geopolitics and international affairs in peacetime when discussions are more levelled?
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Can we find a way to decrease vehicle speeds in residential areas?

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Spook Louw
Spook Louw May 02, 2022
Finding a way to reduce vehicle speed in residential areas is a problem that communities around the world face.
Why?
I believe the number of accidents that still occur every year is a clear indication that the current solutions to this problem are ineffective. It might not be a publically neglected problem, in that communities do tend to complain about it quite often, but it is not being addressed adequately.
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An automated way to process negative emotions?

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 02, 2022
An automated way to process negative emotions? - is the request for ideas.
To recall or invent fully automated ways to remove habits to experience unpleasant emotions in response to specific stimuli, without spending human effort and time. There are many psychological and meta-psychological techniques for pacifying or removing emotions, but they are time-consuming. Some are fast but still take some time and effort. Also, there are drugs but they affect non-specifically and temporarily. What about ways of changing the habits to react with emotions to stimuli forever and without human efforts?
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Is it possible to display information on a device without harming children's eyes?

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 02, 2022
Device for presenting (displaying) information with no harm to eyes even for children - the challenge itself.
Come up with a way to display information so that the eyes do not strain and do not get ill. It is a big problem today for about 500 million people, who intensively use smartphones and computers.
Providing such a device or method, children will be able to do computer games for many hours in a day without any harm to their health! That's what many of them really love to do.
This will allow all school subjects to be made in the form of computer games (including multiplayer!) as well as attention-catching videos to be produced by the best teachers, from whom children like to learn, no need to be forced! Choose the best: teachers, producers, actors, game authors. Games and the devices on which they are played should stimulate the whole body to be active. This will allow physical development, not only intellectual.
Then we can create an integral system of school education from A to Z without human teachers and visiting a school. Coupled with a system of distant and automated control and help to children, this will save a lot of money for school eduction.
As for social development, virtual reality (suppose, it will be safe for health, allowing to be in it all through the day) will give cheap or free opportunity to get social and communicational skills. Children may be trained both with human peers and by Artificial Intelligence playing for a peer.
For the first step: how to make electronic games to be fully safe for eyes even for children?
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Christopher Lutz
Christopher Lutz2 years ago
I feel as if computers and screens could be made with a similar screen to that of a kindle, from personal experience it is much less of a strain on the eyes. Often my eyes take a toll working on computers and I can feel the strain but if I use a kindle to read I feel it does not strain the eyes as much. I'm not sure if this is a viable solution, more research would need to be done but maybe just some food for thought, with regards to the way information is displayed on screens.
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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov2 years ago
Christopher Lutz Even paper books strain eyes, if read long each day. The problem is concentrating vision on a thing that is too close to eyes. This is not good physiologically.
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Darko Savic
Darko Savic2 years ago
Mikhail Korsanov any kind of exercise strains the body. In moderation, this is beneficial because the body adapts/upgrades to be able to handle the lifestyle. Stress becomes detrimental when the body is pushed too hard to the point where it can't handle it. So maybe a good reading device would know how much your eyes can handle before it becomes too much. Then it would just shut itself off.
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How do we develop transmissible vaccines?

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Subash Chapagain
Subash Chapagain May 04, 2022
Since a large number of present-day vaccines are based on live-attenuated viruses, and since the technology required (and the theoretical knowledge) is already there, can we develop a vaccine that can be transmissible in the population? (It has been recently proven in a field trial in bats). Details of the challenge here!
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Darko Savic
Darko Savic2 years ago
This one is older than the bounty. It should be new:)
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Reinvent Velcro straps that do not make a crack noise

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 04, 2022
It's the challenge >>
Come up with Velcro straps that do not make a crack noise when unfasten. It interferes with sleep of other people when someone undresses clothes or shoes with Velcro at night.
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Invent truely independent media

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 09, 2022
Challenge >>
Invent a system that ensures the freedom of the main media influencing on public opinion, from the state and big capital, otherwise it is impossible to hope for objectivity, truth and impartiality from the media. Dependance may be:
  • financial, including hidden and indirect
  • organizational
  • hidden personal connections, including family, relatives and love/sexual relations
  • hidden threats to the head of the mass media organization
  • ideological
  • personal prejudices
  • affecting the media through its audience.
Methods of influence on content:
  • direct moderating and editing of content
  • creating inside organizational regulations
  • selecting authors / reporters / heroes who sincerely express the views required
Nowadays, you know, most "independent" media uses this word only as a marketing trick to make people trust and read/watch.
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How to convince "everyone" that the Earth is not flat?

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Shubhankar Kulkarni
Shubhankar Kulkarni May 11, 2022
There are people who believe that the Earth is flat. They spend resources trying to prove the same. These resources could be spent elsewhere meaningfully. The solution should not be ignoring them or fighting them. Also, we do not want them spreading the wrong message to people who are not from the field. The solution should be creative and simplistic that even a person without a science degree should understand. The solution could be and experiment that could be performed to check for yourself.
Let's deal with this once and for all.
The challenge is explained in detail here.
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Invent a solution reliably preventing caries

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 16, 2022
Challenge >
Come up with a solution reliably preventing caries. In fact, it is pandemic in civilized countries, which brings pharma and medical equipment business big and recurring profits on creating materials and tools for dentists and remedies for partly reducing the problem (tooth pastes and brushes, mouthwash, etc.), while most of people spend money and time reguarly visiting dentists to fix tooth problems.
I have a guess, the solution is somehow connected with providing constant and high local immunity in teeth not allowing carious bacteria to live and proliferate. Tooth brushing and paste does not solve but only reduce the problem, because it only decreases the amount of bacteria outside the teeth, but they do not disappear anyway. Under low immunity, bacteria proliferate anyway and eat the dental tissue. Also, I suppose, some bacteria may go from blood and limpha.
What could help radically?
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Come up with a solution to prevent or significantly reduce respiratory viral diseases

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 18, 2022
Come up with a solution to prevent or significantly reduce respiratory viral diseases in society.
In fact, this is one of the most popular medical problems, making a significant damage to economy. An adult is ill about 6 times a year by 7 days = 42 days a year which makes about 17% of all the working time.
COVID is only one of types of respiratory viral diseases.
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Come up with a way to motivate the big business to act in the best interests of their customers

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 19, 2022
Challenge >
Come up with a way to motivate big business to optimize the interests of buyers and customers to a predominant extent, rather than maximizing profits. A lot of decisions are made in the interests of shareholders, but harm the best interests of the widest range of customers and buyers, and therefore the whole society as a whole.
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Reinvent defecation to keep the anus clean

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 24, 2022
Challenge >
Reinvent defecation process so that one doesn't have to wipe or wash the anus. Suppose, one defecates once a day, and wiping/washing takes 1-2 minutes, one will spend 20-40 days of his/her life solely for wiping his/her ass. Each year humanity spends about 50 000 full human life-spans for wiping or washing asses after defecation! This is about an average town busy solely by wiping their asses all their life 24/7! This also may give birth to a new commercially interesting product.
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Darko Savic
Darko Savic2 years ago
This challenge is a few hundred years too early. Teleportation will solve it:)
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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov2 years ago
I hope, there are other simpler options :) Even with nanobots you can bring the substances out of the body without defecation through the skin molecule by molecule, or at least clean up anus without paper and water :)
To start with, one can use a special simple device, tightly entering to anus. The stool will go through it, without making the anus dirty. This will be like additional artificial skin. Washing the device may be automatic. You just take it out of your ass and kick it to a washing machine.
Alternatively, it may be disposable. You enter it to your ass before defecating, then you remove it and through it away in the trash bucket. Of course, it must be made of a material, friendly to the environment and anus mucosa and microflora.
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Come up with an idea how to LEGALLY pay no taxes having income and raising your capital

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 24, 2022
Challenge >>
How to LEGALLY pay no taxes doing your business and non-commercial projects? Cryptocurrencies are not sufficiently good by themselves, because legally you may have problems in many countries in case somebody finds out you have a capital of this kind paying no taxes. You have a risk. It is possible to hide things, but it would be more reliable to have a way to pay no taxes fully openly and legally, hiding nothing.
Also, I do not mean ways reducing taxes. The ideal result is 0 taxes and no relations with tax authorities.
Also, I do not mean not being pro-social! But when you start or do a project that will be of a great benefit to all humanity, paying taxes may be unethical toward sponsors and other people: they give money not to your state but to you, so that you can implement your idea.
It may be good to pay taxes, when you have no better ways to help humanity or your country except giving out the money to people who know better. But when you know for sure, you will be more efficient in doing good for this money, it is unethical and unefficient in term of public good to give out these money to governments.
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How a state can live without taxes?

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 24, 2022
Challenge >>
Taxes is something that people commonly do not like. They decrease life quality. It takes time or money to prepare tax declarations (you need an accountant), also taxes take quite a large % of citizens income (up to 60-80% for well-off people).
Is there a natural way for a state to serve public interests without taking taxes from people? Without tax declarations and all this work related with taxes on both sides: state officers and private people/organizations paying taxes.
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How to build a lightweight, plug and play biosafety cabinet?

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Subash Chapagain
Subash Chapagain May 25, 2022
Biosafety cabinets are platforms used for diagnostic and research focused handling of biological samples. But at present, they are heavy and static. Hence, the challenge is to come up with design features and ultimately a working model for a lightweight, portable Biosafety cabinet that can be transported easily as needed. Here goes the challenge in detail.
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Come up with a bar alternative where people socialize equally well, but without alcohol

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Povilas S
Povilas S Jun 01, 2022
Can you envision a public place where people come to actively socialize without alcohol or/and drugs? What would it look like, what means would encourage socializing and what would be the business model (if needed) to sustain it?
Full challenge is here.
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eWaste - a ballooning problem hidden in our drawers.

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Rob S Jun 01, 2022
This question came to me as I've just purchased a new laptop because my old one cannot retain its battery charge anymore. I love my new laptop as well as my old one but I feel sad that my old one now sits on the corner, waiting for its eventual death in my burnable garbage bin. Is there any way to recycle/reuse or suitably dispose of our old devices?
My full challenge/question is here.
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How to create a system to make small investments in real estate?

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Shubhankar Kulkarni
Shubhankar Kulkarni Jun 01, 2022
You can't make small investments in real estate directly - the way you can do in equity. However, real estate can be a great way to earn money. Therefore, create a system where people can invest in real estate in small amounts (like an Systematic Investment Plan (SIP)) and sell it when in need of money.
Currently, the only way you can invest in real estate directly is by buying land or built spaces. The area is usually large and costs a lot. Indirectly, you could invest in real-estate companies. I am looking for alternative ways to invest directly in real estate but small amounts.
Find the challenge here.
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How to pass over mental images to other people without describing all the aspects?

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 02, 2022
Here's the challenge.
Come up with a way to transmit not logically isolated aspects, but the whole mental images to another person, which includes all the aspects simultaneously. If we get one, communication will be much faster, meaningful, people will understand each other much better.
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Darko Savic
Darko Savic2 years ago
That's what memes are for:)

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov2 years ago
It may be hard to invent a right meme reflecting your idea... I am afraid. Also, pictures and videos do that sometimes, but again: it is hard to find the right image/video or it is long to create it anyway. For some people it is easier to picture their ideas, however it is far not always less time consuming. Also, far not all people are capable to picture their ideas, as well as invent a good meme. You need a special type of creativity for that... like wittiness. Far not all people are talented in it.
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How to solve a contradiction between privacy benefits and full openness of personal data?

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 02, 2022
The challenge is here.
Task: come up with a fundamental solution to the contradiction between personal security and safeness in all aspects and the benefits of full openness of each one's personal data.
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How to conquer overweighting and overeating worldwide with reasonable costs?

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 02, 2022
Challenge here >>
Come up with a system of measures sufficient to solve 95-97% of the problem with reasonable costs.
It is a widespread problem of overeating and obesity (overweighting) around the world: incomes grow even among the poor, food becomes more accessible and tasty, physical activity decreases thanks to technological progress, and the habit of eating a lot remains, as with traditional physical activity.
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How to motivate doctors and pharma-companies to cure patients as fast as possible and prevent diseases?

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 02, 2022
Here's the challenge >>
Come up with a model of medicine and pharmaceutical industry financing, in which doctors, pharmaceutical companies, drug stores and medical organizations have no motivation to rip off money from patients (or insurance companies) and treat them as long as possible, but rather are better off when patients are alive, healthy and happy as much of life time as possible.
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How to avoid spending time for changing clothes when you come home and go outside?

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 04, 2022
The challenge >>
Come up with a way how not to spend time and effort changing into street clothes and shoes and back into home clothes and shoes when you leave and come home, while it was just as hygienic and convenient.
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Invent pigtails without pain!

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 05, 2022
Challenge >>
Come up with an idea how to braid pigtails for little girls so that they don't have to cry of pain. This is really quite a unpleasant procedure, especially for sensitive children.
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Stop brain cancer, caused by wireless microphones!

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 06, 2022
Challenge >>
Judging from how often artists and public speakers suffer from brain cancer, it seems that the wireless microphone used by them significantly increases the likelihood of brain cancer. Come up with another principle of contactless quality sound transmission, where an e/m field of such high intensity, located close to human organic tissues, is not used.
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Invent a system that prevents cold shock in the first second after turning water on

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 07, 2022
Challenge >>
Come up with such showers and taps for the bathroom so that hot water comes at the right temperature as soon as you turn it on, and not so that you have to wait until it heats up – until warm water reaches through the pipes. Water stands still in the tube cooling down until you turn it on. Otherwise, a human gets a cold shock in the first 5-40 seconds (depending on the system) after one turned the water on.
Experienced people do not enter under the shower until they make sure the water is of right temperature. But this takes 5-40 seconds time each time to wait until water gets warm enough.
Especially actual this problem is for private houses, where the boiler may be quite on a distance from the shower and the tap. The 40 seconds may be quite real waiting time.
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Invent a better way to make hands dry in the public places than existing paper and cloth towels and electric hand dryers

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 08, 2022
Challenge >>
Come up with an idea of a device or a way for drying hands in public places, overcoming disadvantages of existing variants - electric hand dryer, paper towels for hands and usual, cloth:
- sanitary safe, not as with cloth towels
- 2-3 seconds for drying hands, not 12-60 as for electric hands dryers
- no need to buy each time a new portion of a consumable spending money, time for recharging, and burden the nature as paper towels do.
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How to make all women beautiful even after childbirth and breastfeeding?

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 14, 2022
Challenge >
How to make all women beautiful even after childbirth and breastfeeding? Some women stay beautiful even becoming mothers, and some lose their beauty. How to solve that and let all stay beautiful naturally, without operations, with reasonable costs in terms of money and time?
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How do we defend our freedom when overstepping governments send robotic police after us?

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Darko Savic
Darko Savic May 16, 2022
How will we stop fully independent AI-powered robot soldiers and riot police when they become a reality and you/we find ourselves among protesters demanding change that isn't in the interest of those instructing the robots?
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Improve the efficiency of paddle and other vehicle engines

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 19, 2022
Challenge >
When rowing, 3 works are performed: 1) pushing the water back 2) carrying the oars 3) pushing the boat forward. Maybe somehow it will be possible to come up with another principle – to limit ourselves only to pushing the boat forward in order to spend less effort? I understand that a fulcrum is needed, and a lever, and the transfer of the paddle and pushing the water play this role, but still, suddenly it is possible in an energy sense to perform these functions cheaper or to do without them at all? The same applies to aircraft.
In a jet engine they figured out how to avoid the transfer of the paddle :) But the air is still being pushed back... This is a lot of work, needed only to push the vehicle forward. Maybe it is possible to do it somehow without pushing water and air back?
On hard surfaces, it is possible to save this energy significantly better. For example, jumpers – kinetic energy goes back and forth, and is not absorbed by the environment, due to this it is possible to increase the running speed to 40 km / h or reduce energy consumption at the same speed. Wheels on the ground allow you to move much faster than propellers on the water. Perhaps there is a way to somehow give liquid and gaseous media the properties of solid ones for a while, at the moment you are pushing from them? Maybe this will solve the problem?
I'm not an expert in physics, but it seems like when hitting water, it has the property of a solid body for a short period of time? Maybe then a much faster blow is needed – so fast that the water will behave like a solid body? Or come up with something else. It may be inconvenient to use a magnetic field, because an external environment with an intense magnetic field is needed. But maybe something will still be able to come up with?
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Come up wit the best way to find a leader for a project implementing your idea

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Mikhail Korsanov
Mikhail Korsanov May 28, 2022
Challenge >>
Ideators may often find themselves in situation, when they need a leader to head a project to implement their idea.
For example, look at the requirements to such a leader, which I am looking for my project implementation: http://better-life.ru/leader_of_the_project.html
Which is the best way (fastest, cheapest, most reliable) to find the right person?
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Find a way to make musical social media apps successful

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Povilas S
Povilas S May 31, 2022
The demand for successful musical social media is obvious – people love to share music, love to discover music and one of the main things that connect people is music. However, so far, all the efforts to create one have failed.
What is the main obstacle preventing such apps from becoming successful and can we come up with a way to overcome it?
Full challenge is here.
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How to create a "membrane" mirror?

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Povilas S
Povilas S Nov 14, 2022
How would you approach creating a material/device that lets the light through from one side, but reflects it from the other? And is it even possible? I'm not talking about one-way mirrors, cause they work by different principle and don't fit the description I just mentioned. I'm also not talking about deformable, micro-scale mirrors currently used in science that have the same name. The thing I'm talking about doesn't exist yet as far as I know.
Why would one do that:
I initially came up with a concept for such a thing when thinking about ways to terraform Mars and make it permanently habitable. One of the main principles for doing that is heating up the Martian atmosphere to create greenhouse effect. So I thought about ways to do this without introducing large amounts of greenhouse gasses. I envisioned many satellites orbiting Mars (in a Starlink manner) and carrying such mirrors that would have a huge surface area. At first thought, this seemed like a possible way to heat the Martian surface quickly. And even though in reality such an approach for terraforming Mars might be completely impractical, the challenge of creating such a mirror remains.
Having such material would also enable a situation where one makes a box out of it, places it in the light and the space within the box gets increasingly brighter and warmer over time (or would it?) - a sort of light trap.
What would be some other, practical applications for such materials if they were created?
The challenge is described in more detail here.
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Miloš Stanković
Miloš Stanković2 years ago
"From the newly added challenges that attract the most engagement from others, I will pick the 3 that result in ideas I like the most." - this also encourages the users not to participate in others' challenges as their own challenge might get squeezed out of the runnings.
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Darko Savic
Darko Savic2 years ago
Miloš Stanković good observation. We should have a challenge for coming up with fair ways of selecting the bounty winners, that are not detrimental to the platform's vision.
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D. Eagle2 years ago
Darko Savic, you may need to review below extract from your criteria for the winning challenge.
"From the newly added challenges that attract the most engagement from others, I will pick the 3 that result in ideas I like the most." (Emphasis is mine).
This appears problematic because challenges will inevitably be added at different time frames and the volume of engagement may be influenced by submission time frames
In other words, new challenges added on the first day and those added on the last are both qualified submissions. However, the latter challenges would be at a significant disadvantage, since they would not have the relative benefit of sufficient time to "attract the most engagement from others".
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Darko Savic
Darko Savic2 years ago
D. Eagle good point. We should probably create a challenge that focuses on coming up with fair and feasible (software-wise) methods of judging bounty submissions
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D. Eagle2 years ago
Darko Savic, sure - in due course. For the purposes of this challenge, a human-wise solution could simply eliminate the problem by rephrasing or removing the text in question to make the challenge fairer, if possible.
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