Tech that just got out.Explained so a 12-year-old gets it, checked against the original paper, then turned into business ideas you can test this week.
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Ideas from papers with buyer, price hypothesis and one-week test.
Business Ideas/Space tech/United Kingdom
Nine of 16 real satellite fleets sit above the size at which their own wreckage keeps growing. Insurers and small operators need that answer on one page, and nobody is selling it to them.
Business Ideas/Semiconductors & chips/India
A flagship phone tops out near 19 tokens a second on a small model, and memory sets that limit, not the AI chip. App teams planning on-device AI features do not know which of theirs will fit.
Business Ideas/Edge computing/China · Nigeria · Singapore · South Africa · United Kingdom
A chip design claims 19 times the AI work per watt of an H100, and it draws as little as 122 milliwatts. Power, not speed, is the limit for AI on small devices, and that is a business.
Business Ideas/AI agents & MCP/China
A free scanner sorted good agent skills from bad ones with an F1 of 0.9848 on 5,520 test cases. Companies have no list of what their staff installed, and that gap is the business.
Business Ideas/Cybersecurity/China · South Korea · USA
Eight scanners flagged 96.89 percent of running MCP servers, but a hand check found fewer than half the alerts were real. Somebody has to say which ones matter.
Business Ideas/Biotech & health tech/Canada · USA
A model shipped into rural Cote d'Ivoire called half the healthy samples infected. Four hours of local labelling fixed it, and that fix is something you can sell.
Business Ideas/Agritech/Ethiopia · Tanzania
Two African labs built crop disease models that run on a phone with no signal. The business is not the model, it is the shop counter where a dealer guesses today.
Business Ideas/Climate & energy tech/Nigeria · South Africa
Ordinary weather records forecast hourly sunlight in Ibadan with a yearly error of 0.19, using free public code. The buyer is the operator deciding tonight about the generator.
A humanoid picked battery screws 87 percent of the time standing still, and 37 percent after walking to the job. Build the business that keeps the machine still and moves the pack instead.
Business Ideas/Mixed reality/Canada
On one Meta Quest 3, passthrough users reached 0.43 cm too far and virtual reality users reached 0.31 cm short. Training studios score trainees on reach, so part of that score is the headset mode.