I need everybody's help. I was selected as a finalist for the local science museum's contest to identify the innovation that I would most like to see invented and create a small exhibit about it. I put in a huge amount of effort to make a very well researched and prepared presentation, and even built a kid-friendly museum exhibit and presentation to illustrate my idea. The winner gets a trip to Italy. But get this: it turns out the winner is going to be determined by an easy-to-game online poll. So I feel like an idiot for spending so much effort, because the person with the most Facebook friends is going to win. Please help me fight for justice for voting for my project. (It's project #1). Update: Somebody was stuffing the ballot box, so they enabled some fig-leaf anti-cheating protections and reset the vote.
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The convertible heel shoes are already a product. The company participated in the Mass Challenge startup competition last year. It is likely they have patents on it.
http://masschallenge.org/
http://www.convertible-heels.com/Day2Night.html
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Seems they were on Kickstarter too....
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2072356942/day2night-convertibl...
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But you see, the thing about the samurai is that they can be beaten once or twice, but they don't die from that and they eventually learn one or another lesson and come back even stronger than before. Also, they possess a very specific skill that ninjas lack: they look good even when being beaten up.
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Normally I roll my eyes at these kinds of posts. When I read the list, I was surprised that it was legitimately the best candidate. Solor paint was a close call but in the end, humanity would be better off with ninjas to keep our bodies in shape.
Maybe adapt them to counter the effects of 0 gravity on the human body?
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These ideas are either silly or simply not achievable scientifically.
I guess I'll vote for your idea because it's the most sensible out of the whole bunch. Bare in mind though that this is not new, there's lots of use currently going on regarding the involvement of nano robotics and its use in medicine.
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2012/February/DNA-robots-des...
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depends how massively your stretching the truth with your definition of nano-robotics.. hmm. a lab i used to work in worked on a lot of nano bioengineering projects
making nano wires with using wire shaped viral capsids as scaffolds, re-engineering more simple MS2 like viral capsids as drug delivery capsules, simple self assembling dna based circuits, re-engineered ribozymes and riboswitches as molecular circuit breakers and molecular sensors respectively. also, in another lab cancer cell target genetically modified viruses (as targetted chemotherapeutics basically) ...afaik those types of projects are the nearest we are so far to even nanoscale 'effectors' let alone 'robots' .i'm not counting mutation enzymes with modified function either. as for anything afm, optical tweezer based or similar..........well make for some pretty demonstrations or some useful single molecule measurements, but again, different ballparks.
eric drexler has a lot to answer for! literal molecular scale repair robots, even for dna let alone anything else .not going to happen.. much more targetted medicines and repairs...........yeah, sure -10 to 20 years
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ps the work in that RSC link is very analogous to prostate cancer GIANT project utilizing engineered adenovirus to specifically ONLY target prostate cancer cells -a different approach but v similar result. Targetted aptamers conjoined to chemotherapeutic containing secondary aptamers domains (eg holding cisplatin analogues say) also achieves similar results
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It is a little hypocritical to first whine about how stupid the voting system only to use your massive (relative to the other's facebook friends) osnews crowd to "game" the poll in your direction. Surly by using osnews, the others don't stand a chance?
Where's the justice in that?
I hope everyone here will vote for the entry they feel DESERVES to win.
I would wish you good luck, but now you probably don't need it 
/Uni
Edited 2012-12-02 20:40 UTC
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Most of these polls are just a popularity contest...
"We'll, a lot of contests are run on Facebook. Since I am interested in photography, I get messages about photo contests. Of course, when my Facebook friends enter a contest of some sort, they post a message about it.
What disturbs me is that with very few exceptions, the people who enter such contests send a message encouraging others to vote for themselves, not to look at the contest and vote for the best submission.
This is, by definition, corruption."
Read more about it:
http://kallokain.blogspot.se/2012/11/is-facebook-corrupting-us.html
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