How can you define the ultimate mobile phone these days, Hardware specs, Software builds, Apps? What? What does it take to satisfy all the critics? What is the most lacking feature in your best phone? Can you define the Ultimate phone?

As a classical singer, I'm often asked to sing for specific occasions - weddings, funerals, birthday parties, anniversary events, etc. and I'm sometimes at a loss for a variety of options to offer the event host.  Language requirements are occasionally given or secular versus non-secular...

 The NYC BigApps Competition will reward the developers of the most useful, inventive, appealing, effective, and commercially viable applications for delivering information from the City of New York's NYC.gov Data Mine to interested users.

The realtime web is rich with signals, and alive with the seeking, sharing and viral spreading of information. OneRiot API partners use these signals to deliver realtime content to the people looking for it - but what does it look like before it reaches them? In other words - how can we...

Update 10/02/09: Thank you very much for your participation in the Mozilla Labs Weave Web UI Design Challenge. The Weave team will go through the submissions in the coming days, evaluate, and discuss. Mozilla should finish this process by the end of next week, after which they will provide...

Current survival rates from cardiac arrests in most major cities is in the single digit percentage. By getting motivated trained people equipped with mobile technology to locate victims of cardiac arrest in an urban landscape, the percentage of survival rates can be as high as 70-90%.

First, create a list in excel as follows: Company Name, Company Phone Number, Company Website Listing all of the property management companies in NYC. This alone will be useful. Next, create a list of buildings with their corresponding management companies: Street Address of Building,...

Develop a small and portable device that measures purity of the milk. Impure and contaminated milk is a big problem in China, India and many other developing countries. Over 50% of the milk is distributed by small dairy owners and distributors and less than 50% by the large companies. Due to...

How many times do you simply click "I agree" to a bunch of legal-ese without having read a single word? How often do you check the box which says you've read the full Terms of Service for a product download or a website sign-up, when you've merely scrolled past it all to the bottom of the...

The Possibility DansCause is creating for the food ecosystem is the possibility of being Transparent and Healthy   Most of the idea's should revolve around handing over the decision making process to the now well informed consumer. As of now, we have too many multi-corporate agrabusinesses...

While venture capitalists pass on companies for many reasons, one of the most common reasons is that they don't think the opportunity is "big enough". What does this mean?  It means that even if the company executes as planned, the VC doesn't think the exit will be large enough to generate...

Current prosthetic legs are expensive and only last 3 to 4 years. To win this challenge you must create a complete design for high-performance legs that will last for at least 5 years and that can be built for less than USD$1,000.00 Users must be able to run and sprint comfortably as well to...

I am a frequent user of the New York Public Library system and am tremendously grateful to be able to request books, view my list of checkouts and even download audiobooks online, but I find myself wishing for one really key option: email alerts to let me know of the approaching due date...

A public service that will let two or more people schedule a meeting.  Just provide email address, calendar service, schedule rules, and it will poll your individual calendars to suggest a time.

I do my best to ensure my family is consuming a balanced diet, but how good a job am I actually doing?  At the beginning of each week, I select recipes from various sites that I like and from a stack of recipe books, and I make sure to add fruit, cereal and healthy snacks into the mix, but I...

Would you like to make a contribution of historical proportions? Here's your chance. This challenge is to create technology that can literally help to reshape our world, liberate hundreds of millions of people from repression, and bring down evil regimes in the process. There are few...

I'm sure everyone has dreamed of winning a prize at one time or another - the HGTV dream home giveaway, a trip to the Bahamas advertised on the back of a grocery box or a makeover from a high end salon.  Many of these sweepstakes have online entry forms where people can post their...

The New York State Legislature, long a hotbed of turf wars, ethnic politics, naked self interest, backroom dealings and general incompetence, has finally outdone itself. The New York State Senate is currently deadlocked in a 31-31 split between Democrats and Republicans, with the consequence...