Creativity Wasted

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)

Idea (NSFW): An app to barter or trade chores and menial tasks with people in your neighborhood, because some people might find some tasks more or less annoying than other people. Tasks that can be bartered/traded include walking the dog, helping you when you're sick or drugged out, popping zits on your back, small talk, foreplay, etc. Also: doing a bunch of small tasks in exchange for a big task,...

Idea (NSFW): To use genetic engineering to combine plants with animals or people, so they can be your pets/friends/partners, can let you know if they need water or nutrients to grow better, or can be easily cloned and made into a plant army to take over the world. Also: plant fetishes, coconut trees killing more people than sharks, the machismo of plants taking pain without screaming Avery Sommerf...

Idea: A low budget sci-fi movie where bees are genetically modified to attack people and explode. The bees only attack people if they 1) talk, 2) walk, or 3) use tools i.e. use their hands to do stuff. So people have to find silly and weird ways to survive without doing these three things Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 7 Mike Flynn (twitter.com/flikemynn) Christian Royce (twitter.com/Ch...

Idea: A social media app like Tinder but for women to use their physical attractiveness to find male friends Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 7 Mike Flynn (twitter.com/flikemynn) Christian Royce (twitter.com/ChristianRoyce) Alan Black (twitter.com/alanblah) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Idea (NSFW): A dishwasher-friendly tube that you poop through, so the poop comes out clean and you don't have to wipe. Available in multiple sizes. Bag and fun Play-Doh-like shape attachments also available Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 7 Mike Flynn (twitter.com/flikemynn) Christian Royce (twitter.com/ChristianRoyce) Alan Black (twitter.com/alanblah) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Idea (NSFW): A social media app to connect people with "enablers", who help "enable" an addiction, vice, or anything else (except violence), including mundane things such as collecting flamingo wind chimes Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 7 Mike Flynn (twitter.com/flikemynn) Christian Royce (twitter.com/ChristianRoyce) Alan Black (twitter.com/alanblah) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Idea (NSFW): A golf course filled with nature that looks like human anatomy (cactuses that looks like dicks, trees with lumps that look like butts, sand dunes shaped like the female body, etc.). The caddies would use a bunch of silly adult golf puns ("if you hook your shaft you could get lost in the bush", "there's a ball washer available after you complete the back 9", etc.) Originally from Creat...

Idea: A sitcom about a mechanic, featuring all of the weird things about being a mechanic in a car dealership, such as people leaving weird things in their car (guns, soiled undies, drugs, etc.), people's dumb failed attempts to fix their own cars, and how it's somehow still allowed for them to display pictures of nude women in the workspace Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 6 Amy Probst (...

Idea: A device (the "honky") that makes different car horn sounds to communicate different things, like "look out", "excuse me", "screw you", or "my bad". Also, maybe configurable text on the front/rear or your car that says "move over" Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 6 Amy Probst (instagram.com/amydetroitrockcity) Ted Moss (twitter.com/TedMossComedy Podcast: https://TEDTALKS2much.com) A...

Idea: All roads/driveways/parking should be elevated, to allow animals to roam free, and for people to live in harmony with nature on the ground. Although it might ruin the fun of rollercoasters Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 6 Amy Probst (instagram.com/amydetroitrockcity) Ted Moss (twitter.com/TedMossComedy Podcast: https://TEDTALKS2much.com) Anthony Slanda (twitter.com/Runfromcheney)...

Idea: A house where the entire floor of every room consists of stairs. It would be cleverly designed to eliminate the need for hallways and to utilize vertical space, i.e. the ceiling of the entire room (i.e. over the toilet, kitchen sink, bed, etc) doesn't need to be 8 foot high, and instead the rooms above can be lowered, possibly allowing 4 stories worth of rooms to be contained in the space of...

Idea: A dating site which integrates with other websites, so you can see a potential date's Netflix viewing history, song listening history, or political/news interests (if they chose to expose this information). This type of information is likely more accurate than typical dating site questionnaires Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 5 Branden Milsk (twitter.com/BrandenMilsk) Jeff Johnson...