[erikpukinskis]

Good ideas, but I disagree that you need a Bill Gates to make it happen.

The way this will happen is a grad student hacker who is avoiding working on his thesis will start coding it, and then create a kickstarter asking for support to spend the summer working on it. If she's a credible engineer, she'll get the support easily, and every subsequent kickstarter grant will also be fulfilled and it'll get built.

If you build it (right) they will come.

[apl]

You may not want to believe it, but this is not an engineering challenge.