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4. Bathroom Doors Open Out, www.whynot.net, trevman31, 4/27/04
All public bathroom doors should exit outwards. I should exit by
pushing on the door. I do not want to exit but
pulling on a handle or knob which is covered with germs from the hundreds
of people who left before who didn't
wash their hands. (BTB, simply running some water on your hand(s) for two
seconds does not do anything. Use
soap. Warm water. Lather. Rinse)
I am aware that some doors cannot open into places with heavy traffic,
but more thought should be given to this idea
during the design.
5. Jury Duty - Let Us Choose When, www.forbes.com, Seth5447, date unknown
I once tried to volunteer for jury duty when I had the time to do so.
I was stunned to learn "you can't do that."
Why? Wouldn't letting people schedule dates to serve benefit everyone
and encourage more people to serve?
Wouldn't this put less of a burden on pulling people from jobs at times
that might critical for their employer or
agency?
6. Panic Pin, www.halfbakery.com, johng, 7/20/00
In addition to the regular PIN number (*), each bank card would have a
second PIN number that would indicate the
user was in some sort of distress (such as being forced to withdraw money
at gunpoint). Use of this alternate PIN
would summon the police and perhaps put the ATM's camera in a higher resolution
and/or frame rate mode. The
panic PIN would otherwise function just like the regular PIN in that money
could be gotten from the machine, so
that the hostile party would not be able to tell that authorities had been
called. Perhaps the ATM could distribute
marked bills as well.
I think that the general knowledge that any coerced PIN or transaction
could actually be used to summon the police
would dramatically lower the incindence of crimes against ATM users.
7. Keyhole Coated with Luminous Material, www.creativitypool.com, aarthidhar, 4/30/04
There are several times when you fumble to fit the key into the hole.
If the edge of the keyhole in the lock or on
the door is coated with luminous material it can be easily found in the
dark. No need for torch or any external light
source.
8. Elevator DeSelect, www.whynot.net, Elon, 12/02/03
This is simple...I think. A button in an elevator to "unselect" a
floor.
9. Backward Period Amnesty Period, www.halfbakery.com, st3f, 11/02/04
Many office systems force their users to change their passwords on a regular
basis. If I forget my password, it'll
always be the day after I changed it. The new one just hasn't fixed itself
in my brain yet.
In cases when the password has been changed routinely, rather than to counter
any specific security threat, the old
password could remain active for a week as a background password.
Should a user enter a password wrongly (three times in a row) within the
first week of a scheduled password
change, they would be taken to a screen where they can change the new password
to something more memorable,
using the old password as authentication.
10. Chewing Gum Aspirin, www.creativitypool.com, bob12, 5/09/04
Some times you need to take an aspirin to stop a headache but you don't
have any water or juice to do so. A
chewing gum aspirin would be a handy solution. This method could be generalized
to other medicine especially for
children.
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