Expense Tracker
i mentioned about using some OCR reader to read receipts and automatically generate entries in your daily expense report (since we all know it’s a bitch to keep track of expenses since it is such a pain in the ass to type stuff in… and too bad it’s too expensive to pay someone to do data-entry for these kinds of stuff, unless you’re buying porshes for breakfasts and fortune 500 companies for lunch… but i’m digressing).
I was thinking whether it is possible to create the same functionality using existing hardware (it needs some integrating, of course). I was toying with the idea of having the supermarkets to print out a semacode [that contains relevant information about your purchase] at the end of the receipt that you can read in using your cell phone (i know nokia phones can read semacodes). this will then automatically create an entry in your handphone and therefore eliminate manual data entry (which totally sucks). we could expand on that idea i.e. we don’t really need to use a semacode, since i can forsee how companies that might want to collaborate on this project would want some exclusivity on their devices.
Stylish Purse
embed a system to keep track of how much money somebody spends into a purse or wallet.