Collin: April 2007

Friday, April 27, 2007

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Improoved Brake Lights

I also have an idea for improving the brake lights on transportation vehicles. When you apply the brake in the car, normally your break lights shine the color of red. But all that tells the person behind you is that you indeed are braking. But what it doesn't tell him or her is the speed at which you are slowing down. This problem arises especially in elderly people, who can not notice or react as quickly to decreases or increases in speeds. But what I think should be implemented into brake lights, is a series of colors that indicate the amount of pressure that you are applying to the brake. If you are lightly tapping the break, the color green would shine in the place of the normal red. If you are braking at a moderate speak, then the color of yellow would be displayed. And if you are slamming on your brakes, the normal color of red would appear.

My Idea for Internet Security

I think that this is possible. But basically my idea is this.

When you download a file via the Internet, Norton or some other Internet security pops up and says "Simulating" What it then does, is takes the file you downloaded, and copies it over to a small partition on your hard drive (probably about one or two gigabytes), and then runs it on that partition. Then it looks at what the program actually is doing. Whether it is changing registry files or altering other programs or attempting to connect to the Internet. Then once it has investigated the file, it deletes it from the partion and gives you a notice on whether or not it is save to run it on your main partition. Right now the only problem I can foresee, is having it copy itself onto another partition without rebooting.