Postcard Printer for Museums

This is Katie's idea, and I feel like maybe it exists, but I am too lazy to look it up:

You have been there before: you are at a museum, you love the exhibition, you want to get the catalogue or the postcard from the show - especially because you loved that ONE piece so much! It moved you. You want to be reminded of that feeling. In the giftshop there are three postcards, none of which are the ones you want. You see the catalogue, but the one piece you loved beyond measure is not part of it. You buy the catalogue anyway because you are a sucker. But what if you could print out - in the museum giftshop - your own postcards of the image you liked best? Like printing an image from an image search on the internet, but this one is all licensed, the museum and the owner of the image get support, and you get a decent print on nice cardstock (or paper).

Reinvent The Urban Bus System

Sitting on the bus as I type - reminded of how much I hate the bus system. It's painfully slow, unreliable, too crowded and unfriendly. Not to mention motion sickness.

We need to reinvent the local bus system by getting rid of local stops. Busses should be express rides from neighborhood to neighborhood. This would encourage more walking which is good for everyone. It would speed up service and more people might want to take busses, so more busses could be added.

They need to get rid of the bottleneck payment system too.

This could be a boon for urban living.

Somehow I have to get off this bus now!

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Silent Garbage Trucks

I have had this idea before (oh, so many times) so I am just going to put it on the blog in case someone who knows how to do this reads it and does it, since god knows I cannot.

The idea is this: HYBRID garbage truck that does not make sound. Isn't it possible to make those hydrolic lift things so that they are noiseless? We can go to space but we cannot make a hybrid garbage truck? They are so loud and wake me up almost everyday (so yes, this is a self-centered idea) and I have to believe that a quieter solution is possible. Or else an entirely new way to collect garbage?

Maybe one day we will be a zero-waste society and this will solve the problem? Perhaps I should concentrate on making that change?