Creativity Wasted

Idea: To train artificial intelligence (AI) based on your jokes (i.e. nobody else's jokes) and have it suggest new jokes for you based on your style. Also: incorporating audience reaction to your jokes in the AI training algorithm; configuring the AI to suggest jokes slightly outside of your usual style (for example, dirtier jokes); bad AI and privacy concerns on Netflix and social media; having A...

Idea: A very long rollercoaster divided into 5 track segments, where each segment is it's own ride (with, for example, a jungle theme or a space theme), and the lines for the 5 rides criss-cross and get occasionally switched up, so you don't know which track segment of the rollercoaster you're gonna ride, and therefore you don't know how many hills or loops you'll experience. Also, the audio/visua...

Ideas: A dustpan with a hand-powered pump/suction attachment to suck up the last line of dirt; a periscope for short people to use at concerts to see the stage. Also: preventing people from using the concert periscope upside-down for lewd voyeuristic purposes; sitting on someone's shoulders during a concert is a dick move; the joy of watching animals freak out during an eclipse and the despair of...

Idea: A gritty, realistic, HBO-style drama about an amoral social expert/negotiator/facilitator who works on contract to help solve problems for people or organizations, such as facilitating illegal commerce, helping a president avoid a scandal, helping someone get a date, etc. Also: avoiding the hacky network TV "genius protagonist" procedural format ("Lie to Me", "The Pr...

Idea: A delayed-release pill or drink to give you energy in 5 hours so (for example) you can wake up with full energy instead of having to make coffee and wait for it to kick in. Also: it could also contain instant-release Melatonin to both help you sleep now and help you wake up later; springing up when you wake up like Bruce Willis in "Pulp Fiction" and sending the pet who was sleeping...

Idea: To give prisoners the option to get out early if we amputate their arms (or put them in arm-locking exoskeletons) and give them AI robots to monitor them and care for them. Because if these robots of the near-future can do everything, not having arms would no longer be debilitating. Also: robots or exoskeletons with cameras and AI could monitor you while you're on probation, and detect, for...

Idea: To withhold announcing the cause of someone's death until their funeral so people can try to guess the cause of death and win prize(s) (maybe even the inheritance). Also: 'cause of death' reveal presentations; the family could take a percentage of the bets to help pay for the funeral; a back-and-forth discussion on whether this would lead to less or more murder; being peer-pressured into hav...

Idea: "Night lights" to help you go to the bathroom at night without turning on bright lights and fully waking you up, including both glow-in-the-dark footprints leading to the toilet and a glow-in-the-dark ring around the inside of the toilet. Also: questioning whether toilet night lights already exist in some form, possibly as a bidet with a light on it; the risk of an assassin moving...

Idea: A tiny house where almost everything in the house (even furniture) is on hangers, and robots move the stuff on hangers across a series of interconnected racks/rods (including power lines that also function as hanger rods), so it can easily be stored in the ceiling or sent to a neighborhood warehouse to be stored and/or cleaned. Also: keeping bugs and pets on the ground from reaching your stu...

Idea: Scented candles with scents that most people would find bad, but which you enjoy, such as gasoline, lawn clippings, Newports (which smell like home), etc. Also: a prank candle that smells like natural gas; using a foul-smelling scented candle to intentionally end a bad Netflix-and-Chill session; a scented candle made from belly button lint that sparkles when the small hairs ignite Brian Atki...

Idea: A movie about evil mooses (sic), possibly a zombie-moose-infused remake of the movie The Sound of Music. Also: Cocaine Bear but with moose and pot; evil moose attacking a mall during Christmas; using AI to recreate old movies scenes but then having evil moose kill everybody; why Tom thinks that almost every movie made before 1984 sucks Brian Atkinson ( https://brianacomedian.com facebook.com...

Idea: A TV show like Californication starring a senior-aged but still attractive and promiscuous protagonist, only in this case, it's a woman. Also: there should more female equivalents of a "silver fox" who's "still in the game" and "all the dudes still drool over"; an awkwardly long conversation about older actresses we find attractive and whether they'd be a good f...

Idea: A product (Mucinex pill, nasal spray, etc.) that gives your phlegm a delicious flavor of your choosing when you have a cold. Also: causing Amanda to get more and more grossed out by the idea; romantic partners using complementary flavors before getting intimate; "hocking a loogie" and how dogs would want to lick it up if it was flavored Brian Atkinson ( https://brianacomedian.com f...

Idea: A large battering ram for police to use to conduct raids where their body is safely inside the bulletproof battering ram. Also: a dog-like or centipede-like battering ram with robotic legs where one cop lays down inside of it; a multi-person parade-dragon-style battering ram where their upper bodies are inside of it and their lower bodies are protected by bulletproof boots and bulletproof ho...

Idea: A social media app to show off and/or request karaoke or lip-syncing videos from your friends or from celebs. Also: paying people to help them overcome their shyness to do karaoke for you; the app could only allow the recipient to see the video once or only allow the singer to attempt the song once; wanting to see other people sing badly but not wanting to do it yourself Mark Hamilton ( face...

Idea: A smart watch that monitors a menopausal woman's body and alerts her (and optionally her husband on his "Man-On-Pause" device) if her mood or body temperature is about to change. Also: things that bring on hot flashes; the device could include controls for (or it could automatically adjust) the temperature of a room or mattress, play calming music, etc.; a menopause-themed party ga...

Idea: A straw to use to suck up popcorn so you don't get butter or salt on your hands. Also: A romantic popcorn straw for two, which might accidentally create a competition for the popcorn that harms the relationship; accessories such as a popcorn shovel, a filter so you don't choke on the popcorn when sucking it through the straw, etc.; a popcorn straw helmet, which might cause the people sitting...

Idea: For the US to save money by no longer making nickels, but to keep making pennies, because prices ending in .99 are cool, and you can just use five pennies instead of a nickel. Also: keeping pennies because Lincoln (who's on the penny) is better than Jefferson (who's on the nickel); getting annoyed by parking meters which require apps or don't take pennies; destroying Scott's pep by not agree...

Idea: To combine Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and then divide it into themes, such as apocalypse survival scouts, videogame/music/art/sport scouts, space scouts, mechanic scouts, etc. Also: an embarrassing childhood scout-related incident; teaching things in school vs. in scouts; laundering money and/or unloading counterfeit money by buying Girl Scout cookies Jason Thompson ( instagram.com/jason_tho...

Idea: An app to help you find loopholes to bypass rules, save money, commit crimes and avoid going to prison, etc. Also: you could either actively search for loopholes, or it could always run and use AI to be like a "devil on your shoulder" and suggest loopholes as you go about your day; letting you know if a loophole has been "closed" i.e. will no longer work; using loopholes...

Idea: An augmented-reality app that develops a personality model of your partner and constantly listens to and watches them, and uses AI to predict how to you should respond to their questions and to their emotional needs in order to keep them happy. Also: displaying a list of options of what you should do, along with percentage certainties of each option, and reasons why; your partner's AR glasse...

Idea: An app for gambling on the weather. Also: a racing-themed gambling game on when a storm will arrive and a dart-themed gambling game on where lightning will strike; the mob corrupting the weatherman and causing him to lie during the weather forecast; predicting rainbows and a PSA warning people of the dangers of car accidents from watching rainbows while driving; elderly women dominating weat...

Idea: A buffet where you order your food by watching a live video feed (while you're at a drive-thru or using an app) and telling a worker who's at the buffet what foods to grab. Also: using robots to scoop the food and/or deliver the food; having it count calories as they scoop, and using the remote buffet for all of your meals to ensure portion control to lose weight; drive-thru liquor stores us...

A brainstorming session on how to clean up a specific adult-themed bit/joke, and a discussion on whether it's even possible. Also: dirty metaphors/innuendo such as "the grand finale" and "the product of the interaction"; "seagulling" and dirty urban legends being made real; using Adam Sandler movies as a barometer of acceptable PG-13 dirtiness Lisa Green ( instagram.c...

Idea: An app for comedians/performers to coordinate with bookers to schedule gigs, where the performers list their avails in the app, and a set of show bookers (similar to those on "MCN" aka "Michigan Comics Network" on Facebook) browse through and select available performers to book them for their shows. Also: multiple bookers could see that a performer is available to perform...