Until now, I housed the various ideas I published online at my personal site. I decided to move them here to my blog, and I did just that today. I could not have done it without the Import/Export functionality in WordPress, and even more importantly, without the Redirection plugin from Urban Giraffe. That plugin is one amazing piece of work! I just love it.

I imported my posts, assigned them to a new user so I could easily find them, and then I simply entered the corresponding URLs on each site into the Redirection plugin settings page, as seen below. Then I deleted the original posts at RaoulPop.com. Now every time someone tries to access the page for an idea at RaoulPop.com, they’ll get a 301 redirection to that same page here at ComeAcross. It couldn’t have been easier!

I got a chance to look at my ideas once more, and it was interesting to see that some of them have already come true. I’ll let you have a look at them as well. Can you tell which ones are already out there?

• Taking foolproof photos
• Minuscule headset powered by novel battery
• A novel way to search music or movie files
• Music players should match genres with equalizer presets
• Speedometers should store speed for last 10-15 minutes of driving
• Google should offer web hosting
• The next media player
• Using recycled plastic to minimize collision impact
• Audience-inclusive advertising
• Gravitational propulsion-levitation vehicle
• The personal computer of the future
• A truly portable cellphone
• Securing wireless networks
• Using wind-driven turbines to offset electricity costs in high-rise buildings
• Solving part of the traffic and transportation problem
• A better way to store and install printer drivers
• Integrating solar panels into our windows

The thing to keep in mind as you go through these ideas is that I tried to match the publish time of each one with the exact time (to the minute, anyway), when I got the idea. So you’ll see publish times going back to 2005 or so for most of them. The gravitational propulsion-levitation idea doesn’t have an exact time. I do know that I started thinking about it back in 1997, and although it seems outlandish, I’m pretty confident that it can be done. We just don’t have all of the pieces of the that jigsaw puzzle yet.

This page will give you the background information on why I decided to publish my ideas on the web. I call it my great experiment in ethics. We’ll see how it turns out.