My physically inventive mind has been on for a while so I've like to get some stuff off of it.
The hand held scale - sexy name pending
This lovely vehicle comes out of making huge 'salads' from a buffet and wanting to know my macros as I'm going....or at least know them in general?
Okay so part 1: a glove or something that weighs the bowl I'm holding onto. The way you usually hold bowls as you fill them - with your thumb holding the top inner edge into your palm/fingers to grip it.
part 2 is a system by which I can tell the contraption that I'm changing the type of thing going into the bowl. Perhaps by voice? Probably by voice. but also a dope scanner would be amazing if the Google salad bars would deign to install scanners. I feel like they have the calorie info somewhere...
So it works like this. I hold the bowl and I tell the input what item I'm about to put in. then as I drop it into my bowl it associates the new weight (until the next item or I mark it complete) with that item. repeat until my salad is a masterpiece. Then I can get a readout (or I can see the progress on a little screen - maybe on my phone or my watch -my watch also has a microphone so it might work well for that as well) of the calories and macros - maybe even micros that I can keep for myself or enter in an app.
I've considered how to put a scale in a glove - maybe the tab wearable keyboard would work?
Another thing I've been thinking about for years:
The extensions maker.
Okay hear me out - tons of "real human hair" is brush hair. AKA very poor women sell the hair on their brush for pennies. (at least this is how it's been told to me) Now the reason that's usually considered low quality hair is not because it fell out of its own accord. It's because the cuticle is no longer all going the same way - thus the hairs will grab each other like velcro and tangle mercilessly - not something you want for hair additions. So what they do is take these hairs and run them through harsh chemicals that strip the cuticle off completely. Now the cuticle gives you the shine so then they run these naked hairs through a thick silicone coating bath to plate them with shiny plastic. The reason the hair is human but cheap is that that coating will wear off after several washings and you'll be left with dull, thin, not great feeling hair. They really should just sell special conditioners for it that rebuild the silicone coating but alas.
It seems that all we have to do to make brush hair into remy hair (hair that all goes the same direction) is to make a machine that could line them all up the same way. sidebar: I thought I could manually do this - just find the root and align the hairs. It took me an hour for 2 days worth of hairfall....so obviously not the best expenditure of time.
So now my idea comes in. I want a machine that can take hairs and align them in the same direction.
baseline: can take clean and separated hairs
step up: can take tangled brush hair or shower wall hair and align it
best: can align the hair and then sort it by length - now we're cooking with gas!
I really don't know how to do this tbh. It would need to detangle without harming the hair. Now note - I don't have time limits. I don't care if it takes a few days to detangle! So maybe there's a rubik's cube type answer where if you have robot phalanges that just keep doing the same movements eventually all tangles are worked out? some of those vibrate-y brushes seem to be well liked but they are on hair that's already align and not in a big ball. hmm
this probably takes experimenting. and a machine learning algorithm.
then once hairs are untangled the machine needs to align them - it needs to either detect where the root is (some hairs won't have this but I think most that are of any good length will) or detect the direction of the cuticle. Then it needs to have a way to move the hair into the right direction
another nice to have is to recognize the point near the end at which the hair has too much damage to survive well and chop it off before that point - also detecting single strand knots.
organize the hair by length - this is probably pretty simple for straight hair with lasers but for curly hair we may need to quickly wrap the hair around 2 pages to measure the distance.
lastly - storing the hair - it should all be stored one direction and bunched with hairs of similar length.
at the end you can take away a tress of hair to have made into extensions or a wig or sold.
while I'm at it I'd also like a contraption to braid my hair but that may need a whole robotics lab.
