Creativity Wasted

Idea: a toy-sized drone to be used to fly drugs out of your car window if you get pulled over by the cops. Also: a retired police officer's thoughts on the idea, police falcons to chase the drones Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 12 Daniel Thomas (twitter.com/DanTComedy) Khurum Sheikh (facebook.com/khurum.sheikh) Andrew Magryta (twitter.com/AndrewMagryta) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalm...

Idea: restaurant tables containing touchscreens for ordering food, so you don't need menus (or waitresses). Also: bumping the touchscreen while eating, accidentally stabbing the touchscreen with a knife if it looks like food, khakis taking over your wardrobe and the khakiness seeping into your soul Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 11 Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining) Chris Lazar Tom Wa...

Idea: To intentionally eat uncooked chicken to get sick in order to lose weight. It would be normal uncooked chicken with cooking instructions on the package that leave it undercooked, and these instructions would justify charging twice the normal price. Also: a few other ridiculously unhealthy ideas for losing weight Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 11 Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining...

Idea: A professional baseball league where both men and women are equally represented on each team, and cheerleading counts towards the score of the game. Also: which other sports can women successfully compete against men, T-shirt cannons and mascot races between innings, barnstorming, Slamball and other failed sports leagues Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 11 Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dan...

Ten (mostly dumb) ideas to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus, including smelling bad on purpose to encourage social distancing, four ways to block particles being sneezed out or coughed up from spreading, two gadgets that prevent you from touching your face, an app which uses augmented reality glasses to highlight possibly-infected people to help you avoid them, "no-touch" bathrooms where you...

Idea: A blog to showcase the ridiculous excuses people give to comics (or other performers) when they don't want to go to their shows. Also: people repeatedly asking when you're performing and then never showing up, catching someone who made a BS excuse in their lie and then exploiting their guilt for free drinks, it probably won't break a performer's heart if you don't want to go to their show Ma...

Idea: A pill to quickly make you un-high if you have something important to do, like a job interview. Also: a failed attempt to counteract a high using other drugs, "Markus YOLO", speculation on futuristic Neuralink-style ways to get high or un-high Markus Olind (twitter.com/BeardVonMarkus, Comedy Special: "Gettin Off Comedy Series" on Amazon Prime) Ahmed Mansour (twitter.com/AMan5our) Tyler Sonni...

Idea: A washer/dryer combo consisting of only one machine, so you don't have to move clothes from the washer to the dryer. Note that these washer/dryer combos exist and are common overseas, but we heard that they don't work very well. Also: the joy of hang drying your clothes outdoors (if the outdoors isn't spoiled by smog), wearing latex so that you can wash and dry your clothes in the dishwasher...

Idea: Shock collars which shock cats when they're attacking birds, to keep pet cats from killing so many birds that the birds go extinct. The shock collars would use cameras and artificial intelligence to figure out when the cat is attacking a bird. The cameras could also provide fun cat-view video footage. The shock collars could also shock a mountain lion if it's eating the pet cat, to deter it...

Idea: An electric car charging station consisting of dozens of 2-stall garages, where each car is charged indoors in privacy in it's own 2-stall garage. The car being charged is in one side of a garage, and "something to do" for around 40 minutes is in the other side of the garage. Examples of "stuff to do" include private movie theaters, barbers, dentists, Redbox movie rental machines, restaurant...

Idea: If a movie or TV series was ruined by a bad ending or a poor actor, but was otherwise good, they could replace the bad part and re-release it (instead of remaking the entire thing from scratch). There could be a Netflix series for these "fixed" movies. They could also be re-released to theaters and/or re-submitted for awards Bill Morrison (https://billthecomedian.rocks) Richie McLonis (insta...

It's weird that the Ouija Board, an occult/spiritualist séance communication device, was marketed to kids by a major corporation (Hasbro) as a toy. Idea: why not also sell other witchcraft/satanist/voodoo items to kids as a kit? The kit could include items such as voodoo dolls, a pentagram on a Twister-like sheet, fake blood, about 40 fake candles, etc. Technology could also be used, such as weara...

Idea: An amusement park containing carnival-sized rides and small roller-coasters which are all powered by kids, either while they're riding the ride or while they're in line for the ride. They'd power the rides by pedaling, pulling on a rope, spinning a giant wheel, etc. The fact that they'd be contributing to the fun of other kids would provide a deeper level of contentment than just passively e...

Idea: A comedic zombie movie where the dead come back to life, in the order of the most recently dead (or most well preserved) first. The zombies act exactly like normal people (i.e. they don't eat brains), but they hold their old prejudices (racism, Puritanism, etc.), poor hygiene habits, etc. In the end, people slay hoards of zombies just because they're so annoying Originally from Creativity Wa...

A rant about poorly designed and/or pointless technology, such as voice recognition and smart homes. Also: smart light switches which fail to turn off the light, the smartest people in our society are working on dumb tech instead of important life-saving tech, an anecdote about a strobe light at a poker game Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 10 Steve Hansen (twitter.com/StevenRHansen) Cory...

Idea: An implantable medical device that detects when your heart stops, alerts a hospital, and then, instead of restarting your heart like a defibrillator/pacemaker, creates a cooling reaction in a cooling pad inside your body to cool nearby blood, and then the cooled blood is pumped through the body. This cooling slows cell death and gives you a few hours to be revived (like people who've drowned...

Idea: A daily affirmation mirror, which, when you look at yourself, makes you feel better about your disappointing appearance by saying "it's not your fault" (because hearing someone else say it is more convincing than just saying it to yourself). Also discussed: hacking the mirror to play mind games on a spouse, massage devices as "plausible deniability adult toys" Originally from Creativity Wast...

Idea: A TV show where people wear a brain altering helmet (as covered on the Radiolab episode "Nine-Volt Nirvana") which can temporarily induce terror, relaxation, enhanced learning ability, disabled morality, etc. Then, they'd be put in a scenario, such as putting someone in a haunted house and modifying their brain to induce terror, or testing a religious person by putting them in a stressful si...

Idea (NSFW): To use robotic prosthetics and other human enhancements to be better at sports, look good, have fun, and live longer. Also discussed: robotic genitals, cutting off your feet because your shoes always stink, how body enhancement tech will mean that you'll never have to give up on stupid dreams Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 9 Jeff Johnson Tom Stoner (facebook.com/zomgftw) Pa...

Idea: To replace all retail workers with UScans, RFID scanners, or other technology. Also discussed: using headphones in the grocery store, the small store "a**hole tax" for rude customers, break-dancing Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 9 Jeff Johnson Tom Stoner ( facebook.com/zomgftw ) Paul Pipitone ( facebook.com/paul.pipitone.5 ) Tom Walma ( twitter.com/thomaswalma )

Idea: Software for using a 3d-printer to make cosplay costumes, including software algorithms for specific comic book characters and for correct sizing of the costumes for obese people (and everybody else) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 9 Jeff Johnson Tom Stoner (facebook.com/zomgftw) Paul Pipitone (facebook.com/paul.pipitone.5) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Idea: An app to "peacock" your charitable acts/donations and other good deeds, to peer pressure other people into also doing good things. The app would display a peacock avatar on your social media which would be more or less flamboyant depending on how much good you do Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 8 Alex Bozinovic (twitter.com/truheroism) Jeff Ford Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining...

Idea: A science experiment to see which money denominations covered with which amounts of poop people will pick up off the ground. Also discussed: vegan poop, gut flora and/or pheromones in poop, philosophy degrees Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 8 Alex Bozinovic (twitter.com/truheroism) Jeff Ford Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Idea: A futuristic/sci-fi suit that gives your body muscles without exercising. Possibilities for how the suit would work include weighted clothing, electric shocks, and covering your body with shakeweights Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 8 Alex Bozinovic (twitter.com/truheroism) Jeff Ford Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Idea: A pill containing "dehydrated water" (oxygen?) to help you survive a Mad Max style desert apocalypse Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 8 Alex Bozinovic (twitter.com/truheroism) Jeff Ford Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)