Dave's dashboard

one of my freinds who has a gps gets confused what to do when her GPS from garmin (nickname:stella) directs her to go into a dangerouse neighborhood. This ussually hapens when she has no idea where she is-in an unfamiliar area. I understand there could be ramifactions along the lines of racial accusations if garmin specified certain neighborhoods for a car to avoid, but they should allow users to set boundries of certain parts of towns and cities that are not safe for most people to drive down. Use a social networking concept for users to share such areas to avoid and to do so automatically. this way people will have a easier time and more comfortable safter feeling when using your gps products.

put a quick add box or keyboard shortcut within gmail for adding events quickly to google calendar

Seems many people with adhd have some symtoms of internet addiction - i admit- i do somewhat fall into that category, but this trend is to get nothing but worse for those people like me who tend to hyperfocus on things like the world wide web. Think about doing 2 things (note they do not have to go together neccesarily but they could do so well, and also be taken in totally different directions)

1. make browser plugins for Google's chrome browser (which will be showing up on new computer desktops next year i hear) as well as Mozilla's firefox browser to allow for brain games to be integrated gradually into a persons browsing experience. (note: such a function would need the option to be turned off, but instead of adding another annoying button to a tool bar, simply allow individuals to turn it off from the options menu ( show them a little youtube video on how to adjust the options as well) - this way brain games can be increasingly be made into more of a platform for how we learn and take in information on the web ( if you can spur this, you can dominate this industry)

2. people like me have some trouble with wasting time online due to semi addictive behaviors online...is it possible to create games that either pop up or are semi/fully integrated into our browsing experience so that they help people who do have issues with such things do two things - A:stop their time wasting online due to the addictive nature of the internet and B:help them to use higher executive functions within such a vastly distracting enviroment on the internet.

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also, give people the ability - include this in your mobile app and make it possible for people to add things to it by talking into their phone- but to create a review program they can choose to use by simply creating virtual flash cards/records of what they learned at certain moments and days/classes - allow them to connect the bits and pieces of information together for more associated learning, and then create a learning review program that follows the natural patterns of our memory that allow people to reflect on things they learned inorder to incorporate them into long term memory.

- out of curiosity- how helpful do you find my ideas and how many of them do you seriously consider pursuing?

Google Mail Googles for gmail - if you arent aware of what this little game is, sign up for gmail and enable the feature in labs and see if you can partner with google in such a way to A- offer your brain games to them at a free/much discounted price for the ability to first off- insert your game in place of the original mail goggles math problem game as well as for the chance of more ability to implement your brain games into their system.

when i write a daily to-do list i like to leave dashes next to the tasks so i can go through and number them in the order that i want to do them, and so if i do not know what i should focus on next specifically I just go through from 1 to what ever till i find the next task. - it keeps my eyes focused and my mind in a liniear thinking/orgnized pattern and it helps. ( i also use pencil so i can erase the numbers and reevaluate my work flow throughout the day by renumbering...the system of numbering tasks in relation to work flow really helps i find because it makes me visualze my self doing them in order ( with transitioning) as i go through my work day. so allow for work flow numbering, and easy quick renumbering of all the tasks on the list for today by clearing the numbers and then re-numbering.

provide schools 2 games to have students play before tests, or eventualy when every living thing has a smart phone, provide ways for students to do something called morning coffee- that is not only a brain game but its something that is meant to wake their brain up ( use a combination of binaurial beats with processing speed games that cause students to wake up in the morning)

at times gmail chat can be a time thief for some. and for those that find it to be so it may be helpful to allow us to tell gmail to load with chat automatically turned off. (ideally id like it not visible unless we turn it on, but i'll take what i can get)

you could adapt the rain drop game for schools in such a way to teach kids better how to learn times tables and other execises that they ussually do at that point. Sides doing so would also offer you some penetration with other school makets that may then think about buying your product for their school