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"Google hosted its second annual Solve for X event last week, a meeting of big minds to discuss radical high-tech solutions to world problems. On the docket were everything from asteroid mining to eradicating malaria, and Google posted the new proposals on the Solve for X site, which also got a makeover.\nIn a blog post, Google also said it was introducing more community features to the site, letting visitors log in with their Google+ account info and create a profile specific to Solve for X. Once you're logged in, you can rate any of the existing proposals (though you can't comment) and even submit your own.\nPart of creating a profile includes declaring your own \"X\" \u2014 a big world problem that you want to see solved or simply a field of study that you're particularly passionate about. Anyone with a Google+ account can join, and the Xes range from the banal (\"gaming\") to the complex (\"a world of connected sensors that 'fill in the gaps' and augment in real time our limited human capabilities\") to the intriguing (\"overview thinking\").\nSEE ALSO: Google Launches 'Solve for X,' Think Tank for Fixing Global Problems [VIDEO]\n\nThe recent Solve for X event included 18 proposals. Google says the project is all about \"moonshot thinking,\" and a Solve for X proposal should do three things: First, target a big, global-scale problem. Second, propose a radical solution. And third, it should use some kind of breakthrough technology.\nIf that sounds a lot like what you may have seen from organizations such as TED and X Prize, they apparently thought the same thing, and are now formal partners of Solve for X. MIT Technology Review, GE Focus Forward and Singularity University are also on board.\nThe Solve for X project also serves a pitch farm for Google X, the company's division that takes proposals for sci-fi projects and works to make them reality. Ideas currently in the works include Google's self-driving car and Google Glass, the wearable augmented-reality goggles that have captured the imagination of the tech world.\nWhich of the Solve for X projects do you think Google should actively pursue next?\nImage courtesy of Google"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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