USB Movies for Travellers and Anti-Landmine Robots
Joe regularly writes about his inspired ideas for changing the world. Most recently, he proposed USB movies for travellers.
Loaded by a vending machine that takes credit cards. The vending machine in turn loaded over a broadband connection every few days. The content could injected into the USB key (which could be sold as part of the package) with the content embedded in a player program. The player program is designed to timeout with the timeout being set to around 48 hours. After that you can discard the data and use the key as normal. Next time just reload the same key with a different set of movies/shows.
I like it. Presumably the USB works as a dongle, and you could only watch the movies with the device plugged into your laptop.
As a bonus, Joe recently wrote a longer entry about the problem of landmine clearing.
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