Creativity Wasted

Idea: A robot to play sports with, to shoot hoops or play catch if you're alone, to help you practice or train better, or to fill an empty spot on a team. Also: the robot could help a non-athletic kid advance to a skill level where the other kids would want to play with them; using a robot to teach you to dance; the robot could be hollow to allow you to wear it like an exoskeleton and violate the...

Idea: A TV show where celebrities and rich people show their junk drawers, so you can see things about them that you don't normally see, such as whether they're messy, whether they own interesting rich people stuff or a larger quantity of normal people stuff, whether they pay people to keep their stuff organized, etc. Also: the TV show could also show stuff that celebs keep in other places (attics...

Idea: A wristwatch with a dedicated baby monitor with audio, video with zoom/scroll, and possibly other sensors, because if you're in bed or sitting on the couch, you don't want to have to get up or roll over to reach a baby monitor. Also: questioning whether baby monitors are really necessary (but still feeling compelled to use one); Apple brainwashing you into accepting electronics which don't a...

Idea: Tractors powered by sailboat-style sails instead of fossil fuels. Also: calculations of the power generated by sails vs. the power needs of different types of tractors; using a battery-powered tractor and charging it via a stationary windmill (or a windmill on top of the tractor); Tesla tractor conversion kits; questioning whether people would volunteer to farm your field for free if the tra...

Idea: Pants to wear when you eat dip (bean dip, french onion dip, etc.) which repel the dip if you spill it on them. Also: spraying PFOS/teflon on pants to make them "non-stick"; putting fleece on the inside of the pants to make them more comfortable but possibly so warm that they overheat your groin and make you infertile; a (fictional) traumatic childhood story about spilling dip on pa...

A comedic debate about which of four existing animal species (rat, raccoon, octopus, or crow) would be the first to develop human-level intelligence if humanity got wiped out. Also, if they all developed intelligence at about the same time, a debate about which would win in a mechanized inter-species world war. Also: raccoons have thumbs which they could use to wield tools; several nations have re...

Idea: A breakfast soup or stew, because there's no breakfast soup that we're aware of, and it sounds delicious. Also: a spicy breakfast that causes you to shit fire at 1:00 pm; "soupifying" a traditional breakfast; chicken waffle breakfast nachos; the absurd identity politics of drinking milk Jared Hibbs ( facebook.com/laughterlayover twitter.com/Hibbzilla ) Cam Honeyager ( instagram.com...

Idea: An NFT-based social media application where each person has a peacock avatar, and people (or charities) give them a "feather" as a reward for doing a good deed, and so the more good deeds they do, the more elaborate their peacock becomes, allowing them to show off (aka "to peacock") their good karma to their friends. Also: each feather would include information about the...

Idea: A special citizenship status with fun privileges which allow you act like an action movie hero and commandeer another person's car, and also maybe take people's food, swap clothing with them, cut in front of them in a line, etc. Also: you'd have to do a brave heroic act to become a Super Citizen; "Improving Citizens" who have to "clean up the messes" of the Super Citizens...

Idea: An app that you run when somebody's talking to you which listens to them and judges their intelligence level in order to help you determine whether or how to interact with them. Also: detecting personality traits such as abusiveness; questioning whether you'd run the app on yourself to determine your own intelligence level; using the app to identify a person from their voice if you forgot th...

Idea: Musical instruments such as drums, guitars, and saxophones which play themselves like a "self-playing piano" aka "player piano", and where you can't see the mechanism which is playing the instrument. Also: playing musical instruments using stick-and-gear contraptions, humanoid robots, metal balls falling in rhythm onto drums, etc.; replacing a deceased band member with a...

Idea: A high student exchange program where both kids being exchanged live in the US but in different situations (city vs. country, rich vs. poor, etc.). Also: meeting and living with different types of people would make kids more emotionally intelligent and less likely to be jerks; "prison in the pines"; boarding schools for misbehaving exchange students so you don't have to send them (...

Idea: To put electronics into ladders to tell you if it's safe to climb them and to call an ambulance if you fall off. Also: a built-in breathalyzer; rungs that fold down to prevent you from climbing up too high if the ladder determines it's unsafe; ladder add-on/extension devices such as stakes to stick into the dirt or "snake arms" on the top of the ladder to wrap around a tree branch...

Idea: A restaurant which intentionally serves you a different meal than what you ordered. The food you receive will be in the same general category/family as what you ordered (i.e. if you order a soup, they bring you a different soup; if you order a vegan dish, they bring you a different vegan dish). The food will be high quality and will not be pre-cooked. Also: after they've served you, they'll...

Idea: A (satirical) app or web service to identify Internet trolls and help you legally commit acts of vengeance upon them, such as legalized "swatting" and leaving flaming bags of poo at their door. Also: debating whether responding to a troll with anger and hate makes you a troll, or whether only the person who "threw the first punch" should be considered a troll; an alternat...

Idea: To make sitcoms in the style of the 1980s or 1990s (containing audience cheers, laugh tracks, etc.) in which the main character(s) are serial killers. Examples could be "Manson Family Matters", "Perfect Stranglers", "HH Holmes Improvement", and "Buried With Children". Also: a show about murderous pets or puppets; a show which uses CGI to allow grown-up...

Idea: To put recyclables and/or trash in reusable balls which would roll down a chute into an outdoor trash bin to be collected automatically. Also: you wouldn't need to "take out the trash"; third-world slums could put their trash in the trash balls and then throw them into the river to be caught by Boyan Slot's famous plastic pollution-catching machines (i.e. instead of just collecting...

Idea: A movie where evil rich people create a secret gambling ring to bet on fights between species of animals, like a gorilla vs. a grizzly bear. In the movie, the rich people would get their comeuppance and get killed by the animals. Also: debating with friends on who'd win in fights between animals or between animals and people, such as "who'd win: 20 squirrels vs. a guy wearing an acorn s...

A brainstorming session on how to prevent or dissuade elderly parents who are too old to safely drive from driving, including practical ideas such as grocery delivery and virtual family videoconferencing, and also silly ideas such breaking the heater in their car, surrounding their house with a moat, and having them wear a "life collar" which shocks them if they leave the yard and which...

Idea: For a business who places you on hold to connect you to another person who's also waiting on hold, so you can complain about the company together, become friends, and/or figure out each other's tech support problems. Also: you could try to anger the other person on hold to get them to hang up and you move up in the hold queue; lonely old people could volunteer to chat with people who're on h...

Idea: A box to cover your bed from your neck down (like you're sleeping in a matchbox or in a coffin which is missing the head part of the coffin lid). You'd put a 2nd layer of bed covers on top of the "bed box" and tuck them in around your shoulders to put your body in an airtight cacoon while you sleep. The main purpose is to allow you to let your house cool down to be super cold at ni...

Episode Notes Idea: A chain of restaurants where every table is live-streamed on the Internet to allow people watching at home to eavesdrop on their conversations, pay for their food and/or drinks, give them likes, chat/gossip with other eavesdroppers who're watching the same table, and (in some cases) send messages to interact with the people eating at the restaurant. Also: watching first dates,...

Episode Notes Idea: A card given to retail workers once a year, where if the retail worker gives the card to a rude customer, they can insult, yell at, curse at, and/or humiliate the customer for 30 seconds without consequence (i.e. without getting fired). Also: tracking rude customers who receive "F You Cards" in a government database (i.e. the Chinese "social credit score" bu...

Episode Notes Idea: A workshop similar to Build-A-Bear but where you build a mattress. The mattress would be super-customized with different combinations of materials (feathers, springs, memory foam, etc.), different firmness settings, etc. Also: you could test it for comfort as you build it; you could make it a "smart mattress" containing electronics and software, which could get a viru...

Episode Notes Idea: For street light poles to have LIDAR sensors and to use AI (artificial intelligence) to detect deer in the dark and then shine a spotlight on the deer to help drivers see them and thus avoid hitting them. The AI would prevent falsely detecting deer and erroneously turning on the spotlight all the time, unlike crappy motion lights for your house which turn on all the time when t...