Two problems with cars to solve in this post with one simple solution.

First: the blind spot. No comments.

Second: when the car is stolen, it’s hard to identify the thief (unless you have friends in NCIS).

How to solve both?

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Few might agree but I think that new Audis are cool. Nice and stylish and cool.

Four letters in “cool” and four rings in the Audi logo. Any ideas for the ad?

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I’ve had this digital alarm clock for some time and I’ve always felt that there is something wrong with it. Couldn’t figure out what exactly until it struck me.

It’s showing time in 24 hour-format. Three digits from 0:00 till 9:59 and four digits for the rest of the day. The latter are displayed symmetrically but three digits don’t, and this breaks the harmony.

Easy to fix!

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When I’m stuck in traffic after work I have only two things on my mind:

• an empty rear windscreen of the car in front of me (hey, they sometimes put ads there!) and
• how big is the traffic jam, i.e. when will I get home?

If read windscreen is all I can see, why not to use it to tell me when I’ll be moving again? Here is an idea.

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Idea on how one could eat a pack of french fries and not get his fingers all covered in oil was posted earlier: link.

Driven by the same intention I’ve come up with a similar idea for chips (or “crisps” in UK).

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I have two problems with chocolate bars:

• They are irresistible and I end up eating lots of them, which makes me gain extra weight.
• Despite all the efforts of manufacturers, the packaging has never been user friendly enough for me: I have no control over unwrapping process and often the bar just falls out of it before I start eating.

I think that solving the second problem could also help solve both of them!

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ZIP and RAR are two most popular archive formats on the Windows side of the planet. They are used to compress data like word documents and excel tables to take much less space.

This, in turn, is useful for generating efficient backups and sending one-year Microsoft financial reports by email.

People who are not very familiar with computers can understand the idea behind data compression rather easily. What I found almost impossible to explain to such people is why a file compressed by one archiver can be further compressed by another archiver.

Here is an idea how to illustrate the process of double compression.

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There is nothing better than a cold drink on a hot summer day. Out of the fridge, nice little bottle of water or a fizzy beverage… can be very hard to open!

Indeed, if you hands are sweaty and the bottle is cold enough, there is not enough friction between fingers and the lid to open the bottle. Especially true for small kids and my wife!

Here is how this problem could be easily solved.

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If you are a driver, you possibly agree that all pedestrians are slow, stupid and usually have no idea what they are doing. Imagine a pedestrian who just left a supermarket with five bags of stuff and trying to cross a road at about 6.30 pm.

This pedestrian is twice as slow (five bags of stuff, remember?) and stupid (after a long day at work) than usual. Therefore he is more dangerous and should be easier to spot to make up for it.

Here is an idea how to make this happen.

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Ever wondered why your proposal always ends up at the bottom of the pile on your boss’ desk? Here is an idea how to make your paper documents stand up from the crowd with minimum investment.

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