Game things that urgently need to get invented
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Something that repels wasps and other biting insects away from anything they’re not welcome at.
A device that stops dog walkers allowing their dogs to shit where children play. Nowt like casting a picnic blanket amidst a flock of turds. Maybe some bizarre hybrid of a sign, and a sense of civic responsibility. Nah, too far fetched.
A naturally occurring ingredient that browns like milk, thickens like cream, is delicious like butter, but doesn’t trigger allergies.
A frozen time stasis chamber that preserves food fresh for all eternity, or pauses pets so that you can keep them without committing to being home.
Time goggles, much like the ones in A View from the Hill, but without the macabre Jamesean consequences.
A DNA recoder, that allows you to design your own body, on a daily basis. Change hair colour, grow gills, whatever. Works in the allotment too, bacon plants!
An instant sober pill. Drink the night away, then take two pills with a Donner kebab and you’re instantly fresh and clear headed, ready to drive home or prep for surgery.
A temporal post office, where you can mail things back, or forward, to when you really need them.
An internal space embiggener. A device that lets you reconfigure your home without the constraint of actual available space.
A device that stops dog walkers allowing their dogs to shit where children play. Nowt like casting a picnic blanket amidst a flock of turds. Maybe some bizarre hybrid of a sign, and a sense of civic responsibility. Nah, too far fetched.
A naturally occurring ingredient that browns like milk, thickens like cream, is delicious like butter, but doesn’t trigger allergies.
A frozen time stasis chamber that preserves food fresh for all eternity, or pauses pets so that you can keep them without committing to being home.
Time goggles, much like the ones in A View from the Hill, but without the macabre Jamesean consequences.
A DNA recoder, that allows you to design your own body, on a daily basis. Change hair colour, grow gills, whatever. Works in the allotment too, bacon plants!
An instant sober pill. Drink the night away, then take two pills with a Donner kebab and you’re instantly fresh and clear headed, ready to drive home or prep for surgery.
A temporal post office, where you can mail things back, or forward, to when you really need them.
An internal space embiggener. A device that lets you reconfigure your home without the constraint of actual available space.
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A standardized unit of measure that defines:
-danger level associated with a particular activity/decision/statement. (The GigaPeril)
-hunger level (KiloStarve)
-how fun/depressing something is. (The MegaWhee)
-personal aggravation level. (The KiloScream)
-attractiveness quantification for particular body parts. (Name TBD)
-danger level associated with a particular activity/decision/statement. (The GigaPeril)
-hunger level (KiloStarve)
-how fun/depressing something is. (The MegaWhee)
-personal aggravation level. (The KiloScream)
-attractiveness quantification for particular body parts. (Name TBD)
A way to edit our posts so that we don't exceed the two-posts-in-a-row limit.
Oh, wait, we already have that!
Thank you for the reply! I was just wondering. I think we do try to limit the "game" threads, but after reading this one, it didn't seem to be as much a game as just a regular discussion. No worries.
(And if we limited our discussions to only those with "information-value", half our content would disappear!
)
Oh, wait, we already have that!
{{{{{avro}}}}} no offense taken at all! I thought it's not a discussion nor a topic with any "information-value" but rather something in the general direction of a spam and fooling around thread and so I decided to play it safe (pardon the pun). Feel free to edit the cathegorisation
Thank you for the reply! I was just wondering. I think we do try to limit the "game" threads, but after reading this one, it didn't seem to be as much a game as just a regular discussion. No worries.
(And if we limited our discussions to only those with "information-value", half our content would disappear!
)
^ and presumably all of the Briefing Room 
Such a device is worthless!
Now BBS fonts that expressed sarcasm, humour, OCD twitching, or aggravation....THAT is awaiting invention.
A form of Bigotry that disadvantages and ostracises lying, thieving, scheming people instead of lifting them to high office in financial and political organizations.
...what's it's currently used for (discrimination by type of meatbag) is ridiculous. Good grief humans, learn to use the tools correctly.
...what's it's currently used for (discrimination by type of meatbag) is ridiculous. Good grief humans, learn to use the tools correctly.
Glasses that let the wearer see what people with colorblindness see, so people will stop asking me what color things are for 30 minutes every time the subject of my colorblindness comes up.
A device/procedure that corrects left-eye dominance for right-handed people, and vice versa.
A program that autoconverts 3- or 5-view drawings or jpegs into a 3-D model (Maybe this exists already?)
I'd have said meme-bomb technology (a virus or somesuch that attacks you only if you believe certain ideas, such as "using human shields is an acceptable tactic" or "the Earth is less than 10000 years old"), but that would be too easy to abuse.
A device/procedure that corrects left-eye dominance for right-handed people, and vice versa.
A program that autoconverts 3- or 5-view drawings or jpegs into a 3-D model (Maybe this exists already?)
I'd have said meme-bomb technology (a virus or somesuch that attacks you only if you believe certain ideas, such as "using human shields is an acceptable tactic" or "the Earth is less than 10000 years old"), but that would be too easy to abuse.
Send them this link: http://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/colour-blindness-experience-it/
Turns out its just patches on glasses: http://www.shotspot.co.uk/?page_id=810
Solidworks (neat program!!) can do it....and even machine it in metal: https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/92213
Ah, that would be Reverse Trolling. It's more of a skill than technology... http://trollacademy.wikia.com/wiki/Reverse_Trolling
For example: https://memebase.cheezburger.com/artoftrolling/tag/reverse-troll
Cleverbot is also good at it: http://www.cleverbot.com/
Widely available sugar-free doughnuts. Especially the vanilla cream variety. I would kill for that right now.
Someone else said replicator, making things from energy. But the energy cost would be high. So...
A matter converter. Garbage in, food out. Broken plastics in, new plastic items out, Metal scrap in, ingots out. Two birds, one stone.
I was about to say that the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company has underwater breathing available but I just noticed they've run out of it atm. Still, maybe you find a superpower that fits part of your needs: https://www.superherosupplies.com/collections/superpowers
Definitely one of my favourite shops =) And they ship abroad as well.
We Germans are working on it as well and have had a few minor successes already.
A nice invention would be thought-controlled glasses that change strength and focus instantly according to one's current needs. No more changing of glasses or turning your head like a charmed snake trying to find the correct spot to look through on multifocal glasses.
And a sticking plaster with which you can type would also be nice (managed to cut 2 fingertips yesterday in a little domestic accident and keep hitting several keys at a time)
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