Logan Buesching

I was thinking about it today, and why isn’t there (or is there?) a gadget that uses wifi to broadcast a TV signal, and another companion device that receives the signal and outputs it through a coax or RCA cable? I know that there exist the Slingbox, but that’s not exactly what I’m looking for. Sometimes, you don’t have the TV right next to the cable outlet, and you don’t want to either rewire the cable or you don’t want the cable going all the way across the room / house. I’m thinking this would be the perfect device for a college town, because often they don’t have cable hookups in every room, and you could hook this up to the one hookup, then have all of the other devices tap into the one source.

So I’ve been kicking this idea around in my head, and decided that I would write about it.

I was thinking about how cool it would be to have a stock market of internet meme’s that is driven by youtube. What you would do, is pick a video “stock” and if it got more successful, you could win money (or just points) and if it went less successful, less money/points. Success could be measured by hits/day, links, or any other random fact. If you start a meme, it could really make you rich / have a lot of points. In order to get the most functionality, you would need to operate your own site, such as break.com, youtube.com, or any other random dump for internet video’s. Obviously there would be a lot of security issues such as ballot stuffing and such, but still, I think it would be a fun game to play. Maybe have a leader board of the top brokers in the game.

You could make money by charging for trades, putting a small commercial before the most popular video’s, or just simple ads on the site.

Has this been done before or thought about? Or am I just a crazy nut with a terrible idea?