I Need Your Help! Vote for Outside-In on CrowdSpirit!

if UFOCapture is worthy of BoingBoing ( http://tinyurl.com/55ceyd ), then Outside-In is worth your vote!!!   Lets build this thing!  http://tinyurl.com/63wg3m

Here’s how CrowdSpirit works:

Step 1: Innovator sends ideas. The contributors fine tune them & vote for the best one.

Here is my proposal from Crowdspirit:

Problem context :

The idea of blurring the boundary between inside and outside has become an increasingly popular desire of many homeowners. As a designer of environmentally friendly homes, I see ’strong indoor/outdoor connection’ on the top of almost every client’s wish-list. While we may be able to connect the two visually, no amount of architectural acrobatics can bridge the acoustical gap between an indoor environment and the natural soundscape of the outdoors.

Proposed Solution :

What I am proposing is a relatively simple device. It might be as simple as a series of weather-proof wireless microphones that send a signal to an indoor receiver that can output to the homeowner’s existing surround-sound stereo systems, headphones, etc.

This system, in its simplest sense, would be a tremendously marketable and relatively inexpensive device.

Additional features for more specialized interests such as birders (the fastest growing hobby in North America) that might be sold seperately might include intelligent audio-sensory software that can recognize the species of birds singing in your yard. It might even listen constantly, delivering a daily podcast to the owner. The signal might be streamed live, and be available to the owner remotely by logging into a website. Perhaps a social network dimension might connect people with these devices, comparing the variety and type of species in each owner’s area. Tracked over a large geographic region, metadata collected from these devices might be parsed to deliver migratory data, or hone in on the location of rare or endangered species.

I just noticed this system that is a relatively adequate precedent,  which works as “a Windows application that helps you videotape meteors and other fast-moving stuff in space. You hook up a sensitive video camera to your computer, point it out your window, and while you slumber, the software saves all the good bits.”

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/19/software-to-video-me.html

Getting closer!

Vote for the idea here: http://tinyurl.com/63wg3m