Eitan Burcat

Just thought about a scheme to make sure that I really wake up with my alarm clock, and I came to the idea of Goggles Phone (I must be infringing a gazzilion trademarks right now ). The idea is simple: your cell phone will ask you to pass an alertness test in order to stop ringing at the time you chose to wake up. Just like GMail has started to do. Maybe I need a Goggles for wordpress, I’m writing this post after waaay too much hours with no sleep .

Update: Looks like this is easy to implement using Skype: https://developer.skype.com/wiki/Skype4Py/examples/s4p_call_py

I keep looking for other alternatives, though…

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Every time I piss in the toilet, I feel a great shame over the clean, fresh and tasty water that I’m using to flush my number 1. It’s a massive and collective insanity, when you pause and think about it for a moment. A giant elephant in the bathroom. About half of us on this planet, males, could piss without wasting even a single drop of water – but instead, we simply piss on everybody, and put this precious resource to a stupid use.

So, with our poor water conditions here in Israel, how come that we still don’t have some waterless johns in our homes? Awareness, Architecture, Interior Design, Engineering, and Marketing. We need all of these to solve the issue.

And here’s my challenge:

Now, that you’re aware of the situation – this is one of the greatest things that you can do to serve specifically Israel, and humanity at large: By the end of this century, make it so – that 99% of the Israelis will have a waterless-toilet-in-their-homes. Devise a name, a story, a design and an architecture – that will get us rid of this stupid water misuse. 

Anybody with me on this? Let me know. I’m thinking about starting a real competition with this

In 2006 I did a pilot for an MP3 city walk called “MPTrips” in Israel.

Since then I moved on to other ventures, but I’ve received some good feedbacks on the MPTrip pilot – so I decided to open it to friends and family.

You can get the pilot here: http://www.eburcat.com/?page_id=15

The password is my phone number (full number when dialing from within Israel, no dashes, no spaces, only digits – “054465…”).

The MPTrip violates some copyright laws, so please don’t forward it to people that I don’t know…

Mail me at eitan at eburcat dot com if you don’t have my phone number.

And it’s always FUN to get feedbacks on these things

Maybe this is the time to thank again Yossi Goldberg, Sarit Peri, and Eyal Shindler for their great work.

A bill for a new Israeli timezone will help Israelis arrive in time to meetings and conference calls.

There’s another bill calling to move the date in Israel 3 days forward – in order to meet more deadlines.

This is a compilation of my favorite tools on the net.

I personally use them all, and even pay for some of them.

It is updated as I go, so it should be quite up-to-date…

http://del.icio.us/eburcat/recommended

Enjoy