Creativity Wasted

Three tech-based ideas for transforming society in a way which would lead to more racial equality, including a new grade-school teaching system ("Teach or Die"), a new low-cost futuristic type of housing ("Stuff-On-Demand Housing"), and a new architectural/city-planning framework ("Garage Cities") which would encourage low-cost and flexible entrepreneurship and would also reduce the spread of COVI...

Idea: To solve racism by forcing everybody to wear augmented-reality race-swapping glasses which cause them to see their family and their favorite celebrities as the race that they hate the most. Also, a theory that the reason it's hard to digest "ethnic food" (or food from other cultures/races) is racism, and therefore that ending racism will cause both racial and gastrointestinal harmony Jason G...

Idea: A new type of Olympics where each event is designed to promote innovation in human biological enhancement/recovery, sporting equipment technology, or both; events include Human Battering Ram, Vertical Running, Flugtag (human powered flying machines), Artificial Liver Drinking Contest, and Team Pole Vault (where the pole vaulter goes so high they need to parachute down). Also: a moderate amou...

Idea: An app to remind people who are smoking weed or eating edibles not to freak out, i.e. no cops are coming to get them (unless, of course, the cops are coming to get them). Also: friends could alter the app to prank you, the app might backfire and freak you out more if you're on LCD Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 28 Robert Johnson (twitter.com/blackrob2006) DC Bradley (instagram.com...

Idea: A visual indicator that a woman is underage so you don't accidentally hit on her. Also: steroid-filled chickens that might make women grow up quicker and also beat you up, comedians telling dirty jokes when there are kids in the audience, the possibility of using a weird disappearing birthmark as an underage indicator Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 28 Robert Johnson (twitter.com/b...

Idea (NSFW): A home renovation reality show where they build BDSM "dungeons" and deal with drama such as cost trade-offs, the structural support required to mount equipment on the walls or hang it from the ceiling, prudish contractors, etc. The idea is to be a parody of HGTV reality shows. Also: tiger cages, customized equipment for the obese, the "Silence of the Lambs" pit, a room full of dirty g...

Idea: A virtual reality videogame where the main character uses a handheld helicopter drone to propel himself/herself around on roller skates and chop up enemies. Also: VR for exercise, changing the stereotype of a "gamer", movement in VR that won't make you feel sick like walking or running often does Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 27 Felicity Blue (twitter.com/FelFelBlue) Sai Dharmara...

Idea: A service for wealthy old people to send money to unemployed millennial hipsters and art students to feel young and cool again. Also: taking old people to parties and pretending they fit in, the old person can teach the millennial about money and the young person can teach the old person how to use an iPhone, what to do if the unemployed millennial isn't cool enough to attract wealthy old pe...

Idea: An app to hire maternal or paternal figures to give advice, teach you life skills, provide emotional support, help perform errands, etc. Also: your real parent can hire someone to do things for you that they don't want to do, hiring parental figures means they can't give you "tough love" and are thus "parent as slave" (unless you choose the "tough love" option in the app), no "adult baby" st...

Idea: Underwear which captures farts and releases them on demand, which is a silly idea that might help save the world from global warming. Also: getting out of boring work tasks, holding farts to be released later during police pat-downs, catching and bottling fart bubbles when in a bathtub or when wearing fishtank pants Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 27 Felicity Blue (twitter.com/FelF...

Two idea: 1) Two sharp blades connected by a pivot point and used to cut paper, 2) house payment contracts which are meant to be paid until you die. Also: totally-not-invented-before ideas, the origins of the word "mortgage", quitting a job out of moral principle Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 26 Steve Hansen (twitter.com/StevenRHansen) Branden Milsk (twitter.com/BrandenMilsk) Joey Derd...

Idea: To somehow use your rear-view mirror to blind people who are driving behind you with their brights on. Also: the poetic justice of blinding someone with their own light, intentionally becoming a victim so you can justifiably take delicious revenge Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 26 Steve Hansen (twitter.com/StevenRHansen) Branden Milsk (twitter.com/BrandenMilsk) Joey Derderian (ins...

Idea: Voice cancellation where a person's voice is replaced by the soothing sounds of the ocean. Also: it'd make you more likeable if you're an annoying person, the best way to get fired, ruining ocean vacations Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 26 Steve Hansen (twitter.com/StevenRHansen) Branden Milsk (twitter.com/BrandenMilsk) Joey Derderian (instagram.com/derderianjoey) Tom Walma (twitt...

Idea: A weird way to approximate backwards time travel in video games and possibly the real world. Also: the "Back to the Future" disappearing photo, memory manipulation and trans-cranial direct-current stimulation, delayed remembering of externally-stored memories, the perils of living in the past, the "satanic panic" of the 80s, Wild West bar fights Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 26 S...

Idea: A grocery store where, instead of having only a handful of free samples, you can have a free sample of anything you want. You select the item and scan it with a phone app, which will tell you if you've reached your free sample limit for the week, if you've already tried the item (and thus can't have another free sample), or if you're approved for the free sample. Some items will be totally f...

Idea: Choose-your-adventure movies in movie theaters, where the audience votes what happens next. Also: possible fights if the rest of the audience wants to go the same direction you've already seen Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 25 Ken Witzgall (twitter.com/KenWitzgall42 suspended) Scott Fischer (instagram.com/scottimscott) Justin Mcleod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Tom Walma (twitter.co...

Idea: Gun license cards and mandatory long (multi-month) gun safety courses. Also: close call gun stories, a not-so-merry Christmas Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 25 Ken Witzgall (twitter.com/KenWitzgall42 suspended) Scott Fischer (instagram.com/scottimscott) Justin Mcleod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www. PodcastDet...

Idea: An organization that ensures that adult entertainment is produced ethically, i.e. no physical or emotional coercion. Also: female producers on set, "mature" women in porn are less likely to be emotionally broken and exploited if they made it to that age without dying of a drug overdose, video editing software to remove condoms Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 25 Ken Witzgall (twitte...

Idea: An app to scan barcodes while shopping to tell you if the product was produced ethically. It could show emojis of kids crying or forests burning if you scan the wrong thing Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 25 Ken Witzgall (twitter.com/KenWitzgall42 suspended) Scott Fischer (instagram.com/scottimscott) Justin Mcleod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recor...

Idea: Holograms on the roofs of cars for expressing anger to nearby drivers. Also: sparkly ambulances in Japan, the 2Pac hologram, the Pepper's ghost illusion, mistaking the car roof hologram for a soul leaving the body after a car crash Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 25 Ken Witzgall (twitter.com/KenWitzgall42 suspended) Scott Fischer (instagram.com/scottimscott) Justin Mcleod (twitter....

Idea: Houses where most of the furniture and possessions are wheeled in and out on demand by small Roomba-sized robots. Also: getting rid of the idea of "themed rooms" like "bedroom" and "bathroom", the elimination of house chores, wheelable toilets with privacy snuggies, sharing appliances and select items with neighbors and with strangers on the global shipping grid, moving without packing and h...

Idea: A service for leasing or "time-sharing" spouses and/or children. Also: time-sharing pregnancies (what's an ovary amongst friends?), trading husbands to obtain the currently-needed carpentry skills, the three-husband theory Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 24 Samantha Rager (twitter.com/SGRager) Max Sheldrick (instagram.com/maxsheldrick) Teena Green (twitter.com/TeenaMGreen) Jeewan G...

Idea: A brainstorming session for guerrilla marketing/promotion techniques for standup comedians, including skywriting, business cards exploding out of fake corpses, etc. Also: the famous bum of a small town Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 24 Samantha Rager (twitter.com/SGRager) Max Sheldrick (instagram.com/maxsheldrick) Teena Green (twitter.com/TeenaMGreen) Jeewan Gill (facebook.com/jee...

Idea: Karaoke for blind people. Also: human record players, can you drink while doing brailleoke, the blind kid who tried to play football Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 24 Samantha Rager (twitter.com/SGRager) Max Sheldrick (instagram.com/maxsheldrick) Teena Green (twitter.com/TeenaMGreen) Jeewan Gill (facebook.com/jeewan.gill.5) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast D...

Idea: An electronic device to listen to and respond verbally to small children when parents are unable or unwilling to devote their full attention to them Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 23 Dustin "Lee" Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Ted Moss (twitter.com/TedMossComedy Podcast: https://TEDTALKS2much.com Book: "Look Out...I'm Parenting Here! A Survival Guide for the Single Parent") R...