Creativity Wasted

Idea: A single-person electric car/vehicle that's skinny enough to drive through a door into a house or building (so you no longer need a garage, and you can go fast down hallways at work). It can orient itself both horizontally like a motorcycle and vertically like a Segway, and travel up and down elevator shafts instead of using elevators. Also, the privacy of having your own transportation vehi...

Idea: A (fictional, satirical) website for connecting terminally ill people who wish to die with serial killers who wish to kill them. The goal would be to solve the problems of unwanted end-of-life suffering, and of healthy people being killed. It would be similar to an online dating website, and would help people find a compatible match based on criteria such as the method of execution, location...

Two ideas to help make public restrooms cleaner: 1) A camera inside a bathroom stall door which is mechanically connected to the door lock. It would slide completely inside the door (so it can't see anything) when the door is locked, and align with a hole in the door to view the stall when the door is unlocked, so it can see who made a mess in the stall as they leave the stall, and 2) half-globe-s...

Idea: A sponge or tampon that you insert into your butt to absorb poop, so you can conveniently remove the poop without sitting on the toilet or making any noise. Also: the "dirty tulip", hospital bedpans and how you quickly become incontinent if you don't use your rectal/bowel muscles Sarah Wooley (facebook.com/sarah.s.wooley.7) Justin Siekierka (facebook.com/justin.siekierka ComedyShow: facebook...

Idea: Nets to catch apples which fall out of apple trees, so they don't land on the ground, in which case they can't legally be sold in stores. The nets could also be used to catch deer who wander into the apple orchard trying to eat the apples Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 88 Stu McCallister (twitter.com/StuMcCallister Podcast: soundcloud.com/lmnopodcast) Sal Demilio (twitter.com/SALL...

Idea: A "fast casual" Chipotle-like restaurant for breakfast food (like a breakfast buffet, but with someone standing between you and the food, making you late for work). Or a drive-thru where the breakfast food as squeezed into a portable "breakfast brick" that you can eat in your car Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 88 Stu McCallister (twitter.com/StuMcCallister Podcast: https://soundcl...

Idea: A random sports fan watching a live game in their house is contacted via webcam or smart TV, and given the task of being the referee and making a call in the game. This'll make watching the game exciting because people get a chance to affect the game, but it might destroy your Nana's life if Nana makes a bad call and angers everyone in the community Originally from Creativity Wasted episode...

Idea: A book detailing the author's conversations with God, where the author plays the character of a naive simpleton, and God gives him simple advise on life and how the world works. It'll have an irreverent and humorous bent, despite the misleading title, so people dying of cancer will buy the book seeking emotional comfort and instead find dick jokes Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 88...

Idea: Community events based on a theme (such as clothes, electronics, baby stuff, food, etc.) where people in the community get together to sell, donate, recycle, make, repair, customize, mentor/teach, etc., all based on that particular theme. Kind of like a flea market, recycling center, repair/customization shop, etc. all in one. The goals are to make charity and recycling more convenient and e...

A rant about Facebook and a desire to make it easier and more convenient for people to make and view custom personal web pages, instead of using a (possibly evil) corporation as a social middleman Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 87 Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Camila Ballario (twitter.com/CamilaBallario...

Idea: To Release multiple versions of the same movie idea at about the same time, using different visionary directors (Quentin Tarantino, Alfonso Cuarón, Wes Anderson, etc.), and giving them creative control to make their own versions of the movie Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 87 Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyan...

Idea: An app/service to send social media messages to people on your behalf after you die, so you can get your revenge and/or say constructive things that you don't have the courage to say, and avoid dealing with the consequences. It could make money by charging you if you a) change your mind and don't want to send a message, or b) are on your deathbed and want to see other people's afterlife mess...

Idea: A Shazam-like app to identify bird species by listening to them. It could give you info about the birds, including the species name, interesting trivia, how rare they are, whether it is legal to shoot them, and recipes for eating them Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 87 Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon)...

Idea: "House wraps", which are kind of like car wraps, which would be much cheaper than expensive new siding, and could even look like siding, in which case you could also wear yoga pants that look like jeans and live a total lie Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 87 Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Camila Ball...

Tom's obsession with "black balls" (author Nick Bostrom's metaphor for future technologies that could end humanity)gives him the idea for tiny houses which are built to withstand apocalyptic disasters, such as virus outbreaks or nuclear/meteor firestorms. Since they're mobile, you can drive them into apocalypse testing facilities, such as a "car wash that uses fire instead of water", to make sure...

Idea: A Jurassic Park parody, where instead of the eccentric billionaire cloning dinosaurs (who run amok in a park and kill people), he clones dead professional wrestlers from the 1980s (who also run amok in a park and start killing people). Yokozuna stomps on the ground and causes the water in the cup to shake, The Ultimate Warrior shakes the fence and breaks loose, Macho Man is the dilophosaurus...

Idea: Canoe-shaped sauce/condiment containers which are wide enough for dipping chicken wings. Also, Tom is mocked for not knowing the color of ranch dressing Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 86 Kurt Brown (twitter.com/KurtBrownTown) Justin Siekierka (facebook.com/justin.siekierka) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Idea: A repellent spray to keep neighborhood cats out of your yard, so that they don't defecate in your flower pots. Environmentally-friendly alternative solutions are also discussed, such as dogs, and helping the "cat ladies" get dates so they don't try to fill the gaping holes in their souls with cats Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 86 Kurt Brown (twitter.com/KurtBrownTown) Justin Siek...

A bunch of ideas to make beds better, such as * Side-walls to lean against to support your midsection so you don't have to stuff a pillow in front of your stomach to hold in your gut fat * Split-bed tents which mimic the gradual light and temperature reduction of night-time and hold in the sounds of snoring and smells of night-time flatulence so you don't annoy your spouse * A mini under-bed panic...

Idea: An app to hire a stand-in if you don't want to go to a funeral, but you feel socially obligated to attend. They could sign your name in the funeral guest book, pretend to be you (except when talking to the handful of other people at the funeral who know you), listen to and/or record other people's conversations to give you info to use in future social situations, etc. Originally from Creativ...

Idea/prediction: If a company like Tesla or Uber owns all of the cars instead of people owning cars, they will have a financial incentive to own the roads and keep the roads in good shape, because they would have to pay for damage to their massive fleet of cars due to potholes, etc. Also, they could remove "redundant roads" to save costs, because if it takes longer to deliver stuff to a place beca...

Idea: There are too many tiny communities (Grosse Pointe Farms, Grosse Point Shores, Gross Pointe Woods, City of Gross Pointe) which each have to pay for their own local government services, like libraries, fire departments, etc. which could easily be shared between neighboring communities. Perhaps there could be a softball game between two neighboring local governments, where the loser's governme...

Idea: A way to "fix the internet" by putting blogs, animations, and all of the miscellaneous stuff of the Internet inside a YouTube-like window, because nobody wants to go to wwww.someguyswebsite.com, and because YouTube's recommendations, subscriptions, top videos of the day list, view counts, etc. allow discovery of new content and for content to "go viral", and because a YouTube-like ad system...

Idea: An app to fat-shame you, or shame you in some other way, to motivate you to lose weight or improve yourself. It could also provide motivational/instructional advice, such as "Today's diet plan: don't eat". It could be location-aware and insult you if you walk into a fast food restaurant. You could anonymously hire childhood bullies, family members, or celebrities to send audio of customized...

Idea: An online dating site for people trying to lose weight, because "The Biggest Loser" is the most successful TV reality show for creating real-life married couples, and because "the couples who lose weight together stay together". The site could match local people like Tinder, and get them to work out together in the same gym, because the military shows that shared perseverance through a hards...