Well I've had a few ideas pop into my head over the past couple of days so I thought I'd share them with everyone.

1) A transparent spray that you can apply to paper that illuminates when dark be it through chemiluminescence or electrical stimulation is up for debate. It could also be embedded into the paper when manufactured. I'm so sick of wanting to read in the dark and not having a light on hand or having one that doesn't light up anything for photons sake (yes that was lame, whatcha gonna do)

2) Next up is my porous street idea due to all the rain we've been getting up in Canada (yes I know its ironic since Canada is usually associated with snow and we of all people get rain when the rest of the world is bombarded with torrents of the white stuff). The name really says it all, just make the streets capable of absorbing more liquid so it doesn't pool on the streets (screw the sewers). I realize that this will cause major issues in the winter when it freezes over so it still needs a lot more work, but you can always use it in warmer climates.

3) Like most people this time of year I to have been traveling a lot so it wont come as a surprise if this last idea is road related again. This last idea was a sort of alternative energy thing, basically we can have magnetic rods embedded into car tires and at the same time have an induction system in our roads. This will allow for energy to be produced while the population is driving. Obviously there are some serious issues with this one,the fact that the magnetic tires will attracted unwanted debris and the resistance of the magnetic fields reducing fuel economy just for example. Ok so this one needs a lot more work before we can start tearing up the roads but then again its still a preliminary idea.

I know the reason for this blog was to try and pressure myself to make my ideas come to life and here I go proposing ideas like this. What can I say I'm a dreamer, hopefully I can still do some work on these projects if not now then in the future.

Oh yeah I forgot to say Happy New Year. Have fun and lets hope this blog takes off in the new year, cheers.

Well needless to say I'm a huge Isaac Asimov fan and while there have always been things in his books that have intrigue me one of the inventions that most stood out in my mind was the way they controlled the robots in his robot series. In the book one of the characters would make a specific hand gesture and it would mean a specific function the robot was to preform. In the book this was achieved by the hand being placed in an electronic field and the distortion caused by the hand gesture would activate the function, this seems a little out of my league so I thought I would use a camera with some kind of recognition features programed into it. Hopefully I will actually make this instead of just leaving it as an idea.

Sup,

First post on Pedro's Project, im not Pedro. Hes very lazy to change the name.

So i remember seeing a video about a company that designed a coffee table that morphes into a racing chair. I thought to myself "Shit! That is a smart ass idea" then i saw the price...5Grand for this.

The way its designed is the chair just folds into the table and a cover on top for the "table" part of it. For something that is this simple, 5grand is WAY too much to be paying. I've decided to make the same design for under 150$(estimated price). I will be having my Winter Break in 1 week when i will start to plan this out with my good friend, Pedro.

This is definitely the blog to follow for day to day updates on this project!

If we get enough followers, i might just sell this project for less than it cost me create it :D Of course i will post step by step on how to create with pictures.

• A solar powered charging dock (for phone, mp3, or any other USB device)
• A lamp that is triggered by your hand (just replacing the manual switch with a photo eye)
• Another charging deice that uses the kinetic motion of your ankle while walking to charge a device