Creativity Wasted

Idea: An electronic device that digs into your ear like a parasite and broadcasts Matt's voice into your brain. Most people would prefer to READ people's minds, but Matt is a narcissist who wants the exact opposite. And he wants to do it to the entire world. The way to defeat him would be to broadcast his voice back to him with a slight delay, like a "speech jammer" Originally from Creativity Wast...

Idea: A service that delivers you customized candy/rewards inside clear locked boxes which you can't open until you meet your exercise goals, as determined by your Fitbit (or fitness tracker). Or you can choose for the rewards to be "mystery boxes", including possible cash prizes, but if you don't exercise enough to unlock the box within a few weeks, you have to ship it back, not knowing if you wo...

Idea (NSFW): A service where the entire cast of a sitcom come to your house and perform the sitcom for you, either as dinner party entertainment, or in your bedroom while you lay in bed and try to sleep Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 75 Ken Witzgall (Twitter: @KenWitzgall42) Scott Gaughan (Facebook: @scott.gone) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Idea: A device called the "Chivalry Device" which holds open your car door and "locks" it in one place, so elderly or disabled people can use the car door to help them stand up, and also hold open the door if you're parked on a hill. Hopefully it doesn't fail so that the car door is stuck open, because you might get pulled over for that Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 75 Ken Witzgall (Tw...

Idea: Carrying around a small apple tree could help you relieve stress, and build up your arm muscles. But don't mess with the guy with the Avocado Buddy, because avocados are better throwing weapons Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 75 Ken Witzgall (Twitter: @KenWitzgall42) Scott Gaughan (Facebook: @scott.gone) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

A Freaky-Friday-type bodyswap scenario to help combat racism, and how Tom's futuristic head-in-a-jar scenario could actually make it possible Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 74 Robert Schneider (Facebook: @thecommanderawesome Comedy Show: facebook.com/comedyatthecomicshop) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Idea: An inflatable clown which can be slid either through a mail slot in a front door, or slid under the door, and once inside, inflates like an auto-inflatable raft, to be nearly human-sized, to scare people Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 74 Robert Schneider (Facebook: @thecommanderawesome Comedy Show: facebook.com/comedyatthecomicshop) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Po...

Idea: Launching steam created by nuclear power plants straight up into the air in cold areas such as Alaska or Antarctica, to make it snow onto land, to counteract sea rise due to glaciers melting and falling into the ocean Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 74 Robert Schneider (Facebook: @thecommanderawesome Comedy Show: facebook.com/comedyatthecomicshop) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)...

Idea: An app with the supernatural, comic-book-like ability to punch telemarketers through the phone as revenge for annoying you. Since most of them are located overseas and outside the jurisdiction of US criminal courts, there probably wouldn't be any legal ramifications Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 74 Robert Schneider (Facebook: @thecommanderawesome Comedy Show: facebook.com/comedya...

Tom's idea for a futuristic tiny house where most (or all) of your stuff is wheeled in and out by robots. The idea also solves gerrymandering, makes "universal basic income" feasible, solves the Flint Water Crisis, and gives people the freedom to escape their miserable 9-to-5 office jobs and live nomadic lives of leisure. But everyone opposes it because it involves sharing toilets Originally from...

Matt wants to "quantum leap" into movies and experience the events of the movie as one of the characters. He also accidentally re-imagines several other plot points of the book "Ready Player One", which he'd never read because he considers it too nerdy. Tom proposes a gruesome, "mad science" way to approximate this idea in the real world Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 73 Louis Michael (...

Louis accidentally locked himself out of his AirBnB. He then used YouTube lockpicking tutorials to break into his AirBnB, which was so easy, he succeeded on his first try. This incident inspired his idea, which is an app to help you find wealthy people in nearby AirBnBs to burglarize Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 73 Louis Michael (Twitter: @LouTheSurgeon) Nick Leydorf (Podcast: anchor....

Idea: A restaurant which would serve ordinary people's leftovers to pretentious rich people. The fact that they serve leftovers is not a secret, it is it's selling point Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 72 Alwin Sheriff (Twitter: @AlwinTheSheriff YouTube: @jerk4eternity) Ted Moss (Twitter: @TedMossComedy) Justin Siekierka (Facebook: @justin.siekierka) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Rec...

An idea for a type of futuristic house which would inadvertently solve the Flint Water Crisis Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 72 Alwin Sheriff (Twitter: @AlwinTheSheriff YouTube: @jerk4eternity) Ted Moss (Twitter: @TedMossComedy) Justin Siekierka (Facebook: @justin.siekierka) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Idea: A bracelet (or a hologram of a bracelet projected by a smart watch) which, when you shake someone's hand, (optionally) shows them your personality quiz results, and (mandatory, by law) shows them your criminal record. That way, when you meet new people, they instantly know if you're a good person or a bad person Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 72 Alwin Sheriff (Twitter: @AlwinTheSh...

Idea: A dating app where people who previously dated someone provide feedback and rating(s) that you can see in the dating app before you date them. The app will match people up based on these ratings provided by their previous dates Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 72 Alwin Sheriff (Twitter: @AlwinTheSheriff YouTube: @jerk4eternity) Ted Moss (Twitter: @TedMossComedy) Justin Siekierka (Fa...

A simple community-based technological innovation to help people lose weight, stop drinking, or resist other temptations that they don't otherwise have enough willpower to resist Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 71 Kevin Smith (Twitter: @CrassHeart Podcast: soundcloud.com/user-66991264) Jason Patterson (Facebook: @jason.patterson.77964) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcas...

Idea: A special pillowcase which contains a pouch to hold a condom, to use as a backup if you forgot to carry one in your wallet or keep one elsewhere in your house. Also, a great gift to awkwardly give your child on the day they move out of the house when starting college Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 71 Kevin Smith (Twitter: @CrassHeart Podcast: soundcloud.com/user-66991264) Jason Pa...

Idea: A sci-fi device and Netflix-like video streaming service to allow you to watch video of the past, anywhere and any time throughout history. Although, maybe it should be limited to stuff that happened more than 200 years ago, so you don't need to live in Stepford-like tyrannical politeness because people could catch you lying and/or watching pornography Originally from Creativity Wasted episo...

Window blinds are designed wrong, because when they are half open, they expose your groin to your neighbors and block your eyes from seeing out the window. There should be individually-adjustable window blinds controlled by an app, that way you can choose what you can see (and which body parts to expose) Brandon Ponke (IG: @bponke Twitter: @BPonke) Adam Walsh (Knuckleheads Comedy: IG: @khcomedy313...

Idea: Cars don't need batteries. Brakelights can be LED lights with batteries built into the bulb. The speedometer and console (except the fuel gauge) can be a phone app. The electricity needed to start the car (i.e. ignition) can be obtained by electric car charging stations which are being added to parking spots. Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 70 Derek Brand (Instagram: @brand9470) To...

Tom didn't floss. He bought a water pik, and he still didn't floss. He bought a water pik to go into his shower, and he still doesn't floss. So he thinks there should be an app to detect that you use the shower water pik, and if you don't use it, it blocks you from having hot water in the shower. That way, maybe he'll finally floss Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 70 Derek Brand (Instagra...

Idea: A change is needed to the criminal justice system to prevent the "Twinkie Defense" and other ridiculous criminal defenses, because sometimes they succeed. Or maybe it's a good thing that criminals try to use dumb excuses Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 70 Derek Brand (Instagram: @brand9470) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Idea: A baseball-width air hose to attach to the back of an oscillating fan, where the air hose leads to a cool basement or to cool night-time outdoor air (possibly using the same hole on the side of your house as the "bug disposal hole" from the previous idea) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 69 Daniel Kumapayi (Twitter: @Kumapayidk) Bryan Harrison (Twitter: @DonnchaRedbeard Podcast: moi...

Idea: A small hole in the side of your house or in a window to use to conveniently and humanely eject bugs from your house which you catch using a handheld "bug sucker" device Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 69 Daniel Kumapayi (Twitter: @Kumapayidk) Bryan Harrison (Twitter: @DonnchaRedbeard Podcast: moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Tom Walma (Twitter: @tho...