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Thought 56: A CRISPR Vaccine

Vaccines are designed to train our immune system to react to incoming virus and track component of their D/RNA. That information is generally stored inside cells inside our bone marrow. Current technology is that we find the virus break it apart and identify the piece that will trigger an immune response. What if we could change it up and simple put the information needed by the body direcctly into the storage cells? Could we take survivors of a disease and extra the DNA alterations stored in the bone marrow? Could we use that and build a CRISPR sequence that could be used to give immunity with needing to invoke an immunno response? Could end the need for endless vaccines in early childhood and start by modifying the immune system from the get go, many less injections? Could we accelerate future vaccines by already having this vetted and in place, so the time from initial infection to herd immunity basically drops to a few days? We can use crispr for virus id. ref We are pla

Thought 55: An End to Bread Ends.

For some reason people dislike bread ends and this alwasy leaves them to be turned into bread crumbs. We always cook them in a pan even the major manufactures. Now, there is a type of bread that is made without ends, but it's very different. But why couldn't someone like Wonder Bread create a convayer belt of bread and remove the pans? That is the belt is a series of overlapping U shapes. The pans drop down from the back preventing dough from going backwards. The U's are sprayed with butter/oil then the dough is dropped into the U's in a continous fashion. The belt continues forward into a low temperator oven to help the dough raise it can take an s-shape here as we are only doing dough rising, from here the dough move to a long and slow oven for the hour or so to cook the bread. At the end of the oven tunnel the bread is sliced, now with no ends. The U conveyer belt drops down and the endless loaves now move to slicing and packaging. The U's now go up thr

Thought 54: The House of Cloud PI

The concept of a smart house with a computer that is everywhere is a concept that is today possible with things like alexa and all sorts of technologies. But when the internet is down much of this breaks down to a more simplier format. What if it were possible to combine the cluster performance of the cloud with a set of smart home controllers. That is with the always on of many of the smart plugs and bulbs can we boost each's CPU power and combine that power into a cluster? The concept being take a quad core arm, but now every bulb, outlet, switch, appliance, and smart camera contains one. First would the combined house power be useful? or efficient? Efficent would be a draw of about 2 Watts per device, which be up from the near 0 most of the zigbee and zwave device produce now when they are in low power mode. Does that mean that let's assume you have 40 of these (40 from how many devices I had when I last constructed a smart home, but really we'd likely be higher o