Creativity Wasted

In the winter, a fridge takes warm air from inside the house which has been warmed by your heater, and cools it off again. In the summer, a fridge vents hot air into a house which you're trying to cool down with air conditioning. Why not position your fridge next to an outside wall, and use a vent/duct leading outdoors to either take in or vent out air (depending on the season) to save electricity...

Idea: A sci-fi movie, where, in the near future, an eccentric billionaire adventurer like Elon Musk leads the first mission to colonize a planet of a nearby star. They've figured out how to slow down aging via drugs and hibernation, so they age like 1/10 as fast as usual. So they can survive the entire 200-year journey, and still be young enough to have kids when they get there. But they can only...

Idea: Time machines that allow people to go back in time and prevent horrible crimes which would've occurred by peacefully interfering and preventing the crimes. But there might be some unexpected downsides... (Note: NSFW) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 64 Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy) Paul Pipitone (Facebook: @paul.pipitone.5) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at...

Idea: A belt or suit that you can wear to allow yourself to temporarily change into any shape you want, like another person, an animal, an animated company logo, or a literal "fly on the wall". Also: a discussion on "invisibility cloaks" (Note: NSFW) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 64 Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy) Paul Pipitone (Facebook: @paul.pipitone.5) Tom Walma (Twitter...

Exercising in a gym is selfishly controlling machines (i.e. exercise equipment) in a way that benefits nobody else, and therefore provides you no contentment. And even the selfish benefits aren't perceptible enough to motivate you to do it. Why not instead have a charity where you build tiny houses for exercise? You could make it convenient and build the tiny houses indoors in a gym-like building...

Because health/fitness fads and cults both have extremely loyal followings, why not combine them together and create a fitness cult? Plus, if you're gonna be a sleazy cult leader who seduces all of his followers (like they tend to do), this is a great theme for the cult, because your followers would be fit and wouldn't be sexually repressed religious zealots Originally from Creativity Wasted episo...

The three things men need to carry are phone, wallet, and keys. A sub-dermal microchip could eliminate 2 of those 3 things, and could also do other cool stuff, like store your customized settings for smart appliances. And security issues don't really matter because you're always carrying a cell phone anyway. The biggest downside is that somebody might cut it out of your body to steal it Originally...

A standup comedy contest where comics compete one-on-one in a tournament bracket. Each night, 8 comics compete in 3 rounds, until a winner for the night is declared. After 8 shows, the 8 past winners compete in the same fashion to declare an ultimate winner. The first two rounds of the night are decided by overall audience applause immediately after the two competing comics perform. The last round...

Idea: Fortune cookies which give you a bad fortune (for the sake of humor), such as "someone you love is gonna die soon", "you'll meet the woman of your dreams, but nightmares are also dreams", or a creepy picture of Bill Cosby's smiling face Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 62 Trebuchet (Twitter: @trebuchetlol YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCyvskJfWUhftv_pa7gREiRg) Scott Wilding (Twit...

Idea: A standup comedy show on the Internet using the standup comedy videogame "Comedy Night" and the videogame livestreaming website Twitch. The show (which will probably be called "Nerdy and Dirty") will have a lineup of real standup comics. The comics will appear as avatars in the "Comedy Night" videogame. On Twitch, they'll also appear as avatars, possibly with additional video of their real f...

Idea: A sitcom about a group of young juggalos (fans of the band "Insane Clown Posse", aka "ICP") growing up in the mid to late '90s. It would include things the wild and chaotic "Gathering of the Juggalos" concerts, backyard wrestling, and the political and pop culture context of ICP and the 1990s, such as music censorship, Columbine, and a feud with Eminem Originally from Creativity Wasted episo...

Idea: A pyramid or box-shaped structure that you put over a cat litterbox, which has an opening on the side for the cat to climb through to get to the litterbox. The opening contains a system of brushes to comb loose hairs (and dingleberries) off the cat as it leaves the litterbox. Hopefully the cat doesn't enjoy it so much that it brushes itself until it goes bald, or decides it doesn't need you...

Idea: A podcast where a group of people of a variety of ages rate and discuss old movies, music, etc., and only discuss whether it "holds up", i.e. whether they enjoyed it when watching/listening the week before the podcast was recorded. Any discussion which isn't relevant to how much they enjoyed it (such as historical importance, critical accolades, etc.) would be interrupted. Unlike virtually a...

Idea: A watch which can project a holographic image above it (like in Star Wars). Attaching a small glass pyramid above the watch can simulate a hologram, but be careful not to forget that it's there and puncture yourself while wiping Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 61 Chris Karpinski (Twitter: @ComedyDadKzoo) Jay Stapes (Twitter: @jstapes_says) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded...

Idea: A device to cancel out loud, vibrating bass from nearby cars when you're at a stoplight or stuck in a traffic jam. And maybe also wirelessly lock the person's car doors so they don't get out and attack you if they figure out that you silenced their music Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 61 Chris Karpinski (Twitter: @ComedyDadKzoo) Jay Stapes (Twitter: @jstapes_says) Tom Walma (Twitt...

Idea: A web site to allow professionals (scientists, engineers, business leaders) or groups of professionals to make and share predictions about the future, including prediction algorithms (which are based on other predictions and where the predicted outcome changes week to week as new information is received). There would be snapshots of the prediction algorithms, so you can see how the predictio...

Idea: "Truman Show"-like television shows, each of which follows somebody throughout their entire life without their knowledge, but for educational purposes, such as to show obese people how thin people shop for groceries Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 60 Robert Jenkins (Twitter: @RobJComedy) Brent Von Kalamazoo(Twitter: @brentvonkzoo) Patrick Fowler (Twitter: @DontCallMePat) Tom Walma...

Idea: An epic 3-year-long nationwide military parade led by Trump, who'd be in a luxury, platinum zeppelin, which would occupy Trump's attention until his presidency is over Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 60 Robert Jenkins (Twitter: @RobJComedy) Brent Von Kalamazoo(Twitter: @brentvonkzoo) Patrick Fowler (Twitter: @DontCallMePat) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detr...

Idea: A 3-part plan to prevent school shootings: a) early childhood therapy, b) a "school shooter exchange program" which puts bullied white high-school boys in inner-city schools to "show them what real bullying is like", and c) legalized prostitution. Also: teachers using fake names when doing standup comedy, maybe the only people who should have guns are the people who don't want guns, why the...

Parades where you create a parade float for a semi-random dead person from your family or your community, intended to be a better way than graveyards to ensure that everyone gets remembered; could either be done yearly, or when removing the graveyard that the person is buried in (because of global warming sea rise, for example). Also: the crazy plot of the movie "How High", flooded graveyard zombi...

Urban farms in shipping-container sized flower pots which fit in semi-trucks/trains/etc. That way, you can transport them to "farming factories" in both the spring to plant the crops and the fall to harvest them, so you don't have to farm inefficiently with human hands. You could also transport them into buildings to protect them from crop-destroying weather, and put them in suburban yards instead...

A house which can tip, spin, or "dance" to collect all of the junk (such as children's toys) in one area to make it easier to clean Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 59 Ryan Allen (Twitter: @ryanallen92) Chris Young (Twitter: @chrisyoungcomic) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

A service for homeowners to rent a device which helps match small household items like Tupperware containers and pairs of socks, and also contains a 3-D printer to print or repair missing or broken items. It also can shame you for wanting to create matching items for gross old stuff Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 59 Ryan Allen (Twitter: @ryanallen92) Chris Young (Twitter: @chrisyoungcom...

A little Jetsons-style robot which follows you around and loudly reports lies which it detects based on facial expressions, tone of voice, and also Internet data. However, you can't configure it to ignore your lies, and people could hack it to falsely report lies and destroy people's relationships. And psychopaths can use it to improve their lying skills Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 5...

The futuristic tiny house idea from previous podcast episodes which uses robots to wheel in and out all of your stuff on demand could also wheel in Glade Plug-in-style scents and release them into the air in sync with your television. That way you could have "Smell-O-Vision" without the nuisance of having to constantly buy and replace dozens of scent plugins/cartridges Originally from Creativity W...