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greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 3919
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 10:53 am: |     |
If you could make anything, what would it be?
This morning, I stopped halfway to work & picked up my venti latte at Starbucks. When I arrived at my office 15 minutes later, my piping hot coffee had cooled. I realized what my car is missing:
The cup holders should have a little button that turns on a warmer. And, another button could make it a chiller for cold drinks.
So, what little gadget would you invent if you could?
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Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 1473
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 10:59 am: | |
I’m still waiting for the rocket packs and flying cars that I was promised as a kid. We’re supposed to be flying by now. |
Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 2633
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:05 am: | |
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Dave
Moderator
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5346
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:09 am: | |
Voice-activated snow-clearing and garbage disposal systems.
A service that fills my car's gas tank at night once a week while it's parked in the driveway.
A system that filters unsolicited advertisements in physical mail like email spam.
An adjustable laser beam trimmer that will keep hedges at an exact height year-round. |
mjc
Citizen
Username: Mjc
Post Number: 268
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:19 am: | |
"Voice-activated snow-clearing and garbage disposal systems."
We have this at home now in the form of teenage sons, but a more efficient upgrade would be welcome. Say, something that works within 24 hours after the voice command. |
Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 2636
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:28 am: | |
I'd invent something to replace one's hand as a tool when wishing to remove breadcrumbs, etc. from a restaurant tabletop. It'd be something very simple and elegant, and easily stashed by wait-staff on their persons...
Whatd'ya Think? |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5607
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:29 am: | |
A computer screen that acts as a real desktop, horizontal, that is five feet wide and three or four feet deep. 100dpi. |
suzanneng
Citizen
Username: Suzanneng
Post Number: 283
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:30 am: | |
Soda... you mean you've never seen those bread crumb catcher/sweeper gadgets?
http://www.foodservicedirect.com/index.cfm/S/200/N/5188/Crumb_Sweepers.htm
http://www.foodservicedirect.com/index.cfm/S/200/N/1610/Table_Crumbers.htm
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Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 2637
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:34 am: | |
Now you're talkin'!
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Dave
Moderator
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5347
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:51 am: | |
You don't have a table-vac? |
Wendyn
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Username: Wendyn
Post Number: 1389
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 12:28 pm: | |
A device that would measure the nutritional information in an item before it is eaten. So I would know before hand that the (giant) cookie at Starbucks would consume about 1/2 of my weight watchers allowance for the day.
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Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 4998
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 1:22 pm: | |
King size sheets which would be sized to allow for the girth of the sleepers as well as the length and width of the matress. |
Pizzaz
Citizen
Username: Pizzaz
Post Number: 1524
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 1:27 pm: | |
Joan, you are approaching a BIG number. Tuesday, posting at 1:22pm? Pardon the question.  |
marion cobretti
Citizen
Username: Marion_cobretti
Post Number: 73
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 1:40 pm: | |
greentree, i think that is a product. there is a travel coffee mug that stays hot with the press of a button. i think you plug it into the cigarrette lighter. not exactly what you were looking for but close. anyway i would invent a way to convince elderly people they do not need larger cars as they get older. |
Morrisa da Silva
Citizen
Username: Mod
Post Number: 148
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 2:02 pm: | |
Given the state of bathrooms at public sporting events how about Depends with sports logos. Go Jets! Go, go,go all you want. |
musicme
Citizen
Username: Musicme
Post Number: 973
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 2:09 pm: | |
How about an SUV that folds up into an attache case? |
maaaa
Citizen
Username: Maaaa
Post Number: 122
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 3:03 pm: | |
Morrisa da Silva---
No logos, but someone's sharing your thoughts:
http://www.stadiumpal.com/ |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5617
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 3:06 pm: | |
David Sedaris told a story of trying the Stadium Pal. It was hilarious. I'm not sure if it's in print, but you can get it in audio: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1586215647/102-3229769-7701710
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Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5003
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 5:24 pm: | |
Pizzaz:
At 1:22 PM I was at home waiting for the insurance adjuster. A car sideswiped our house on Monday in the early AM and ran over most of the plants we had on the corner and along the front line of the house and side yard.
For the full story, see my blog entry #106.
To get back on topic: perhaps someone could invent rubber bumpers for houses.  |
Carrie Avery
Citizen
Username: Carrie33
Post Number: 135
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 5:43 pm: | |
I would invent the ability to eliminate all idiots from the planet and keep those that were of some significant purpose.
I would invent the ability to chose a system- whereas a course of action would be in place- that could determine who can have babies and who aren't qualified.
I would invent the ability for those who are smart enough, wise enough, and mature enough to see into the furture and make sound decisions in life for the success of this planet.
A little over the top? Perhaps, but this is a game, right? |
suzanneng
Citizen
Username: Suzanneng
Post Number: 285
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 8:01 pm: | |
Tom R. - My husband was on a team that developed something like that for a MoMA exhibit, back in 2001. Is this what you are thinking of? Check out the "WorkSpheres" exhibit archives at MoMA.
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2001/workspheres/
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/CAREER/trends/10/16/moma/ |
Cedar
Citizen
Username: Cedar
Post Number: 155
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 9:02 pm: | |
Racoon-proof garbage cans. (This one I've almost got figured out to be human-friendly, as well.) Adding a dog to the household has reduced my desperation, however...... |
No ID
Citizen
Username: Noid
Post Number: 1
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 11:18 am: | |
Carrie - so you want to be God? Your post kind of frightens me.
I would invent something to protect your toes when you have no shoes on so that it wouldn't hurt so bad when you accidentally kick the corner of the couch. I hate that. |
gemini
Citizen
Username: Gemini
Post Number: 376
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 11:25 am: | |
Cedar I have big grey ones (i think from home despot), that if you snap down both sides, the racoons won't come in. I hate when my husband or someone else puts garbage in them; they don't "snap" them, then I have food all over my driveway. |
shoshannah
Citizen
Username: Shoshannah
Post Number: 746
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 11:26 am: | |
A mechanism by which the lower rack of the dishwasher could be raised to the same height of the upper rack. In other words, you pull it out and lift it to a position parallel to the uper rack. |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 429
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 12:08 pm: | |
A heated driveway and walkway so we wouldn't have to clear the snow. |
Chris Prenovost
Citizen
Username: Chris_prenovost
Post Number: 345
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 12:10 pm: | |
A pill that gives the taker instant common sense, PC indoctrination notwithstanding. |
Carrie Avery
Citizen
Username: Carrie33
Post Number: 138
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 7:25 pm: | |
No ID: God, you say? no way, that's a big job, even for HIM.Hence the reason for the post, sometimes He needs a little help. Don't be scared, be creative. |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 1483
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 8:30 am: | |
LilB, Heated driveways are already out there. |
Joan
Supporter
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5022
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 2:10 pm: | |
An implant that will enable the listener to hear not only what a person said but what that person meant to say. |
brusin2
Citizen
Username: Brusin2
Post Number: 21
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 4:57 pm: | |
a brushy, suctiony thing around a door that will remove all the white cat hair from your black clothes as you walk thru -- maybe like a dry car wash. or maybe it could be ionized so all the cat hair flies off of you and onto the ion rods. |
Bobkat
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 7714
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 6:01 pm: | |
Yeah, but those heated driveways are expensive. How about a snow removal robot like those robot lawn mowers? |
Cathy
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 700
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 6:58 pm: | |
Some device, any device, that will prevent my cat from hanging her butt over the side of the litter pan when she "goes." I really, really need this. |
Joan
Supporter
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5032
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 10:20 am: | |
Cathy:
Are you using a covered litter box? If not, that might help. |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 430
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 10:54 am: | |
I had a feeling heated driveways existed...I guess just not in my world.... |
Cathy
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 702
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 11:01 am: | |
Joan: She still sticks her butt out the "entryway." (sorry for being gross ... )
Grrrrr .... 
She's just an old, old cat (19+) with not-too-fussy habits any more ... I hope people are as nice to me when I'm an equivalent age as I've been to her. |
kmk
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Username: Kmk
Post Number: 454
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 7:00 pm: | |
I've said it before....we need a sunblock application booth at the beach. Pay a buck, put in your kid and she gets sprayed all over - like they do in the tanning salons with the fake tans!
I would save money on all the different strengths and styles of sunblocks. I would "reapply" often and I would finally get to the beach and not be stuck at home "slathering". |
Analog01
Citizen
Username: Analog01
Post Number: 45
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 10:00 pm: | |
A device that makes teenagers help out around the house (hmmm, a teenage snow-shoveling robot) |
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