Things which someone ought to invent

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I went swimming last night, and it occurred to me that the thing I hate most about going swimming (esp in winter) is that transition from leaving a nice hot shower after your swim, and the getting cold again when getting dried off/dressed. I thought "wouldn't it be brilliant if someone invented a room where you were blasted with hot air like an all-over hairdryer so you wouldn't have to bother with damp towels etc"

What else needs to be invented?

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Why not just invent water that doesn't make you wet, or some kind of skin coating like what ducks have on their feathers?

― hmmmmmm, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Chocolate flavoured chewing gum would be grebt.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Tele-fucking-porters.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Jarlr'mai - check this out.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Oxygen gum - like, a chewing gum that releases oxygen that can then be breathed. This coupled with an exhale-only nose-mask could revolutionize man's quest to compensate for gillslessness.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Salt and Vinegar flavour Wotsits.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Incompetant-co-worker-killing-device.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

powdered beer in sachets that I could add to the water here without anyone knowing.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Good call.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Something better than those damn traffic lights. God dammit.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Something that would make my walls not-damp. Dry, even. Not covered in mold, paint-flaked and wet-to-the-touch. C'mon.

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

some kind of communications medium that would make it possible to discuss (at work, without anyone noticing, possibly via some kind of tv screen type thingy) things which someone should invent.

― hmmmm, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

An alarm clock/gravity boots/pulley system that would pull you up to the ceiling by your feet to get you out of bed in the morning.

― BrianB (BrianB), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Telepathic Computing

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Salt and Vinegar flavour Wotsits

OTM OTM OTM OTM OTM

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

an easy compurer

― peckham rye, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The slightly-higher-than-pint-glass

― arf, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

sex

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Chocolate flavoured chewing gum would be grebt
Bubble Fudge! I loved that stuff!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

the powers of matthew star

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

the hubcap diamond star halo

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i want someone to invent an alarm clock for naps that can tell when you fall asleep and wake you up when you've been sleeping for the amount of time you want.

when i set alarms for naps i either stay awake until a minute before the alarm goes off, or don't set one and sleep for hours.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The hummer thread shows military technology available to regular consumers, as a result of the ever increasing power of the military-industrial complex and corporate dominance of society. Consumers of the future will not only be able to buy military developed products, the actual shopping experience will be like entering battle. The newest advance in shopping technology will be the "Guerilla Enemy Neutralizing - Offensive Cybernetic Implant Device - Shopper's Assault Video Equipment" GENOCIDE'N'SAVE. It's cybernetic prosthetic eyeballs designed to see infrared/UV/xray vision/5th dimensionally, to detect/lock on target for the best bargains in the store and shoot laserbeams at other shoppers who try to snatch them before you do.

― Mr. roboto, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

you know the Sony robot dog? well why aren't they making little battle droids with which we can replace the poor cockerel with?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Intelligent hair.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

If you have enough hair could train it to do stuff like housework, or typing...I was thinking the individual strands could combine and form intelligent third, fourth, fifth limbs.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

a magical tree that produce wonderous fruits that are alarmingly cigarette like. i would harvest the smoky treats by the hundreds! oh, and they would of course be harmless! and the foliage would have to be fifty dollar bills.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

A re-versable matter shrinking device. It'd be great if you have a lot of stuff but no where to store it, instead of throwing it away...you just shrink it to micro size, and then if you ever want the thing again you just reverse the process and there you go.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Cigarectarines!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Bear Capes - i would like to see more bears wearing capes

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Remote Volume Control for FELLOW FUCKING PASSENGERS

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

London-New York Nazgul Express

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

a poopless mechanical replacement colon

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

bio-degradeable chewing-gum

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

A TV Remote control that had voodoo stylee properties which meant I could kill people who appear on telly who I do not like or are full of shit.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Why so harsh on the constipated?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

It's no way to live a life.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

This morning I came up with the idea for a nighttime cold medicine that comes with an antidote. So at night, you take the medicine, you sleep well all night long, but in the morning, if you're still groggy but you need to wake up, you take the antidote and it reverses the sleep-inducing aspects of the medicine. I'm not talking about caffeine or some other drug, just something that eliminates the sleepiness drug.
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― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

an ipod that explodes in sunlight

― kephm, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I can definitely think of one thing that somebody better invent! No, that somebody make!! I mean, I heard it mentioned, when I was growing up, so damn often by my mother, and yet, needless to say, have I or anybody else ever actually seen it, I'm positive, so... Well, that non-existent name does have a name though, at least in my neck of the woods -- "küsijapersepulk" = in literal translation: "the-arse-stick-of-the-one-who-asks-the-question".
Yeh, somebody should make it. Period.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

argh! "...that thing does have a name..." argh!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"küsijapersepulk" = in literal translation: "the-arse-stick-of-the-one-who-asks-the-question".

Around here that's known as the "bee-covered sodomizing stick." Has it gotten out of beta testing yet?

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The bees keep suffocating in the krazy glue.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

In the meantime, things that are conspicuously lacking from my life:

1) A cure (or even a palliative) for the common cold. Do I have to spend a couple weeks every year choking on mucus?

2) Truly run-proof tights.

3) A bespoke knitting service. I don't want handknitting or fancy cables, I want to be able to order a sweater that fits me in the textile, color and neckline of my preference, even if those happen to be out of fashion at the time.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

A vending machine that runs out of change and instead of insisting that you absolutely must have exact change in order to purchase something just says "Sorry, man, I don't have any change, but if you really want those 70-cent Famous Amos cookies and are willing to give up the whole buck for them, that's your business. Cool?"

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

YES!

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Also it would have a dehumidifier inside, so the powder on the powdered donuts wouldn't liquify into sweet slime and slick off onto the inside of the plastic.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Those are SEVENTY CENTS at your workplace??! Shit, they're a whole dollar here -- although I think that's a 3oz bag.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

We get sweet deals -- Red Bull for $1.25!

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

A filter for this FUCKING WATERFOUNTAIN WHOSE EMISSIONS TASTE LIKE PATCHOULI.

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

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