Ken's blog

consider editing code with an editor, a very common activity. transformations to code, editing it, or even just navigating it, can be arbi...

fly anywhere, unimpeded by the rods.  you can see quite far because the rods are thin.  slide a cursor that rides on the rods to the exit. ...

present a 4D maze as an array of 2D slices.   navigate among cells in a slice with the keyboard arrow keys with the right hand.  navigate am...

connect 8 cubical rooms in tesseract topology, for a 3D game.  when using a door, you see at most two rooms at a time, so you never directly...

3 knobs to rotate around standard axes (yaw, pitch, roll) (future post anchdwzz), 2 knobs to choose latitude and longitude of a different ro...

in the diamond cubic crystal structure, each carbon atom connects to four others.  this provides a way to navigate 3-space with only a 4-way...

(say) 6 items in a row.  touch the space between adjacent items to swap them.  goal is to put the items in their "correct" order. ...

adapt the feature of "layers" of 2D drawing programs into a 3D design program.  this has likely already been done. move stuff be...

some features desirable in a hypothetical programmable mouse: any (decent) programmable mouse can assign programmable mouse buttons to act...

two rows of digits, x and log10(x), inspired by (common) log tables. move a cursor to select a digit to adjust.  can adjust either row.  t...

consider a Hilbert curve on a grid.  navigate around the grid with 4 arrow keys.  navigate along the curve in 2 directions, forward and back...

Casinos have many games that rely on randomness.  It's surprising that they haven't deployed technologies that allow players to veri...

this blog will gradually transition to abandoning capitalization at the beginning of sentences.  the reason is to avoid fighting with autoco...

Phase 1: Mash a button a million times to earn the right to face the final boss.  At 8 button presses per second, this will take 35 hours.  ...

Hackenbush seems like a game perfectly suited for a touch screens app.  Swipe to cut, two-finger zoom if some region needs magnification. ...

What movie action sequences are enjoyable to watch artificially slowed down?  There is good stuff going on that is too quick for the eye to ...

Consider replacing the common electrical setup of two up-down light switches controlling one light in XOR fashion with two push buttons.  Ea...

Consider structuring documentation around the adage "make the common case easy, but keep the uncommon case possible". First, docum...

Have a computer play chess against itself for a long time, months to years.  What about this might be entertaining for people to spectate? ...

Consider some variations on Tetravex as a computer game (GNOME Tetravex). Pieces can be rotated (physical versions of the puzzle can do this...