Ideas: January 2026 Release

THE MOTIVATION

The ideas section is a place to offload and share various ideas I’ve come up. Although these are only the ideas that have already been implemented, tested, something I’m not interested in doing, or technically incomplete (meaning there’s various technical progress that needs to be accomplished before it’s applicable), however, it has definitely been conceived by me independently. Then there’s the secret ideas that I can’t quite reveal yet because I want to develop it first or because it maybe patentable and I want to protect my ability to patent it and open source it globally. Overall, these ideas serve to share the kind of practical imagination I have but also to share the journey into the future:

Hot-swappable smart glasses battery

Rather than carry multiple smart glasses and using a different pair when the battery runs out or using prohibitive large batteries, companies should develop smart glasses with hot-swappable batteries for all day battery life. The extra batteries charge inside an wireless earbuds like case, while the batteries themselves sit at the temples of the glasses or on the back of a neck lanyard.

Smart dimming sunglasses

Sunglasses that use a display technology built into the lenses and cameras to precisely block out bright elements like the sun or snow without blocking everything else. Already a technology used as a blocking filter to enhance AR glasses, turning them into smart sunglasses could be an extra added benefit.

Passthrough perfect vision

A benefit of something like Apple vision pro where you have external cameras that passthrough to internal displays is that you have perfect vision since the cameras are doing the focusing for you. Especially for the elderly you don’t need to have multiple sets of glasses to handle your vision needs, the passthrough glasses are all you need. This could be a stand alone product meant solely for focusing vision or an extra benefit to MR glasses.

Power boosting home battery

Basically a battery at home to supply extra amperage than the landline can handle temporarily, because upgrading the landline is prohibitively expensive (tens of thousands of dollars each) to do at scale and electrifying everything is necessary for carbon control (electrifying the stove stop, water heater, central heater, and car).

Webapp for managing organizations

A webapp that handles things like electing leaders, defining a constitution, electronic voting, and etc. We’ve seen how Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring have failed due to the lack of organization and direction, this was the missing piece. It’s also something that was recognized by other people and has various incarnations.

Fantastic Longevity side effect

An interesting thought that I had was that most people believe the reason why we don’t live longer was because it was evolutionarily unfavorable to maintain our cells any better. So this means that if we one day engineer ourselves to live longer maybe the only side effect is that you’ll need to eat more or you’ll lose weight.

Next-gen scissors

Basically scissors that work with two rotating circular blades that pull material in, so that you can just glide through material rather than cut/open/move/cut. Could use a pressure sensor that varies the speed at which the circular blades pull material in.

ChatGPT inline-branching

ChatGPT should allow you to inline branch the conversation to make it easier to clarify and explain certain parts of the response without clogging up the main conversation. Maybe design it by highlighting the text then click on a tooltip to initiate a branch with your prompt.

Bioinformatics as a service

People can write code that performs a specific function that people pay for by buying the necessary cloud compute plus a little premium for the people writing the software. It exists as a centralized repository providing the interface with the code kind of like how hugging face allows you to test run software in the browser but upgraded so that it can handle real workloads.

Moving costs

When a friend told me he’s spending thousands of dollars a month on rent when he makes more than enough to pay for a mortgage because he was told he’d lose more money buying a home if he didn’t live in it for at least 3-5 years, I was shocked. But ChatGPT validated those concerns, typical round trip cost to buying and selling a home is 9% to 15% of the home price. But should it be this expensive, what are the first principles cost of buying and selling a home? This shows there can be vast improvements (like if moving was a low fixed cost). And where a future where housing affordability is key, an essential change.

Aging research standard

Maybe human aging interventions should be given a standard protocol that assaults cells with environmental insults and you measure the slope of aging to see if the intervention is reducing the rate of aging rather than wait out a lifespan assessment. This could greatly increase the pace of aging research in regards to humans because we have such long lifespans that clinically running is too expensive. Also we need to focus on human cells more so than rely on model organisms like mice, because model organisms have shorter lifespans and thus there are clinical improvements for them that we as humans already have.

Aging experiments

1. There are multiples different species of animals that don’t follow Gompertz law (where an animal becomes more likely to die as it gets older) naked mole rats, blandings turtles, etc. We can use convergent evolution to see what these very different species have in common that give them their unique ability. And this is likely one of the closest shortcuts to learning what aging is, it just needs more research.

2. What if dedifferentiation is key to allowing partial reprogramming to rejuvenate the cell by allowing itself to redifferentiate back to its original state using built in developmental guides to reset epigenetic markers? What if earlier developmental stages reset the remaining epigenetic markers that aren’t covered by current transient OSKM induction. Can you dedifferentiate cells more and isolate the part the resets the remaining epigenetic markers?