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The Mind Camera: a device that photographs what you see with your mind’s eye, exactly as you see it. That way, when you’re looking in the mirror and thinking, “wow, I actually look pretty good today!” you can have photographic evidence of it with the push of a button. A much better option than those external cameras we currently use that lie to you as they gleefully shoot down your self-esteem with their wonky lighting tricks and that whole evil conspiracy of adding 10 lbs to your frame.

The mind camera would also come in handy when trying to explain something to someone. No need to clumsily detail what you see in your head ever again - with the push of a button, there it is for others to contemplate in all it’s detailed glory. Imagine the lack of misunderstandings that would occur as a result! It would be a communications revolution.

It would also be great for document preparation. Say you have an article, or a speech, or an essay or something that needs to be written. By you. In your head, you’re doing a pretty good job of it, perhaps even having moments of brilliance. Yet when you put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard, as it were), the result is… not so much. With a mind camera, you could just snap the perfect if vaguely formed document in your head and out it comes, sort of like a .pdf file. Or maybe this is something different? Invention #001.1, perhaps.

At any rate, how awesome would it be if something like this existed? I’d buy one. You know you would too.

I just found this interesting site: igotanenvelope.com, home to this cool idea:

Igotanenvelope is a continuous art project where people leave empty self-addressed stamped envelopes in public places to be picked up and filled by others, who then send them back.

It sounds kind of like Post Secret, but with cool artsy type things rather than deeply personal, often embarrassing and sometimes disturbing secrety type things.

I’m so gonna do this too, so if you find a random envelope addressed to me laying around somewhere, send me something good!

The Uniform Project: This is a really cool idea for a fundraiser / social consciousness raising experiment, and the girl behind it is SO cute! Fashion, fundraising and social good? I’m all over that!

From the website:

The Idea

Starting May 2009, I have pledged to wear one dress for one year as an exercise in sustainable fashion. Here’s how it works: There are 7 identical dresses, one for each day of the week. Every day I will reinvent the dress with layers, accessories and all kinds of accouterments, the majority of which will be vintage, hand-made, or hand-me-down goodies. Think of it as wearing a daily uniform with enough creative license to make it look like I just crawled out of the Marquis de Sade’s boudoir.

The Uniform Project is also a year-long fundraiser for the Akanksha Foundation, a grassroots movement that is revolutionizing education in India. At the end of the year, all contributions will go toward Akanksha’s School Project to fund uniforms and other educational expenses for slum children in India.

These are my favorites so far:

What do you think?