How many world-shaking ideas have you had in stop-and-go traffic, meditating on those Pennsylvania license plates URLs that seem to change every year? I’ve had 53 — but I can’t remember any of them.

Enter DictaBrain.

DictaBrain gets World-Shaking Idea #54 out of your head and onto your blog (or your book, or your shopping list, or your ransom note). It’s my partner James Woods’latest Very Cool Idea. While creeping down Toronto’s appalling Highway 401 he had a brainstorm — and luckily he actually remembered it when he got home.

He and the hyper-smart Vlad Jebelev took their traffic-inspired “Aha!” and transformed it into a working product in two short months.

Dictabrain is a voice-to-text transcription service. When you’re stuck on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (or the 405 Freeway — it works in L.A. too), make a call, spill out your incredible idea, and find your nugget beautifully transcribed for you when you get home.

Or you can have it go straight to your blog!

Bloggers have deep pockets, but usually they’re empty. James and Vlad decided to buck the trend and come up with an actual revenue model for DictaBrain.

Doctors and lawyers need transcriptions too, and they way that they do it now (voice recorder -> computer -> transcriptionist) is expensive, and time-consuming.

DictaBrain is much much easier, and all your transcriptions (both voice and text) are stored and neatly ordered at your account at DictaBrain.com.

James explains it all on video from DemoCamp 9 in Toronto recently.

Did I mention it’s FREE? At least it is if you sign up now.

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