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		<title>X-Plane + liveatc.net</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if X-Plane, the FAA approved flight simulator available on Linux, Mac and PC, had built in support for the fantastic online service LiveATC.net [it streams live feeds from air traffic control towers from around the world]. Currently the simulator has random and continuous radio chatter to add to realism of in-cockpit sounds. And for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vonk.leonjacobs.com/?p=118</link>
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		<title>Taxi-cheat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is there was a mobile phone application that could help travellers find out if their taxi drivers were cheating? You would simply add your starting point, your destination and then the app would sound an alarm when the chosen route deviates much from the shortest possible route. This would be especially useful to users [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vonk.leonjacobs.com/?p=116</link>
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		<title>File extensions on business cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A nice idea for a company that operates in the media industry, is to add file extensions to the business cards of their employees. Almost like academic qualifications, these could show which packages the employee can author media in. Imagine: John Wayne &#8211; copywriter .txt .doc or Sue Banksy &#8211; art director .psd .ai .idd [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vonk.leonjacobs.com/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Augmented Reality on the pitch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if we could paint augmented reality boxes on sports fields in the way we put sponsor logos on the pitch? Spectators could use smartphones to get live video content on their devices by just pointing their cameras at the box. This content could include action replays, commercials or even promotions.]]></description>
		<link>http://vonk.leonjacobs.com/?p=113</link>
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		<title>Hong Kong shopfronts coffee table book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A coffeetable book of photography, documenting Hong Kong storefronts could be unique. Hong Kong is the biggest small city in the world, with loads of tiny, interesting little shops, filled with anything from radio-controlled helicopters to turtle-filled fishtanks, standing shoulder to shoulder to compete for attention. Their shopfronts are often complex, tiny and well lit.]]></description>
		<link>http://vonk.leonjacobs.com/?p=110</link>
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		<title>Hashtags in email subject headers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hashtags have proven to be extremely useful in twitter. It has the ability to convert noise to signal in the cacophony of the millions of 140 character packets that fly around the planet everyday. What if we can spread the same meme and apply hashtags to that other noisy medium: email. If we were disciplined [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vonk.leonjacobs.com/?p=107</link>
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		<title>Thumb drive trees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if you could have a way of turning all those countless little USB thumb drives into a mass, useful storage device? I&#8217;m imagining a wire, similar to fairy lights or a Christmas tree lights, that have a number of USB ports dangling off it. You simply stick a thumb drive into each one and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vonk.leonjacobs.com/?p=104</link>
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		<title>Disconnecting trains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if trains could disconnect in motion? Imagine a subway line with x number of stops. Now imagine trains in that line had equal number of cars. Each car was labelled with a different stop on that line, in sequence, with the first stop being the last car. As the train speeds across the line [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vonk.leonjacobs.com/?p=103</link>
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		<title>Roadhogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if there was a Web service similar to plusplusbot.com that could collate car registration numbers in the context of good or bad driving. If you spotted a bad driver you can tweet their registration number with x hashtag (possibly including location) and a positive or negative modifier that would then classify that number. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vonk.leonjacobs.com/?p=102</link>
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		<title>Meeting candles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What businesses could buy sets of meeting candles. They could come in various sizes and be burned to dictate when a meeting should end.]]></description>
		<link>http://vonk.leonjacobs.com/?p=101</link>
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