Creativity Wasted
669 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBrainstorming and sharing ideas is the funnest part of the creative process. We decided to skip the boring part of actually making stuff, and just do the fun part
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Comedian Valentine Murder Mystery (Pam Krugman)
April 21, 2024 05:29 - 15 minutes - 8.02 MBIdea: A murder mystery movie set at a Valentine's Day standup comedy and karaoke show where a male comic who's the love interest of the two female show-runners is murdered on stage by a cupid's arrow. Also: the physics of killing someone with a cupid's arrow; wondering about the mythological cupid's motivation; making your funeral fun instead of trying to maximizing how much people grieve for you; who in the local comedy scene would be cast in the movie Pam Krugman (facebook.com/pam.krugman...
DMs Sliders Restaurant (Brandon Birk)
April 14, 2024 07:15 - 13 minutes - 7.21 MBIdea: A restaurant that specializes in White Castle style sliders (which Brandon knows how to cook) and is themed around dirty jokes relating to "sliding into someone's DMs" and sexting, such as "DICK PICKles", ketchup packets labelled as "Sup?", and placemats with people's faces on them so you can get sauce all over them. Also: ordering the food via text using dirty talk and emojis; the wait staff could either "play it straight", talk dirty and use dirty jokes and puns, or act super offende...
Personalized AI Joke Writer (Yogi Singh)
April 07, 2024 06:34 - 10 minutes - 5.47 MBIdea: To train artificial intelligence (AI) based on your jokes (i.e. nobody else's jokes) and have it suggest new jokes for you based on your style. Also: incorporating audience reaction to your jokes in the AI training algorithm; configuring the AI to suggest jokes slightly outside of your usual style (for example, dirtier jokes); bad AI and privacy concerns on Netflix and social media; having AI generate smells based on audio/visual input, including fart smells based on the sound of the f...
Reprogrammable Rollercoaster (Tom Walma)
March 31, 2024 08:59 - 18 minutes - 9.99 MBIdea: A very long rollercoaster divided into 5 track segments, where each segment is it's own ride (with, for example, a jungle theme or a space theme), and the lines for the 5 rides criss-cross and get occasionally switched up, so you don't know which track segment of the rollercoaster you're gonna ride, and therefore you don't know how many hills or loops you'll experience. Also, the audio/visual/effects around the rollercoaster could be reprogrammed to instantly update/change the theme of...
The Skip Pan and Concert Periscope 2 (Skippy Rose)
March 24, 2024 04:52 - 15 minutes - 7.96 MBIdeas: A dustpan with a hand-powered pump/suction attachment to suck up the last line of dirt; a periscope for short people to use at concerts to see the stage. Also: preventing people from using the concert periscope upside-down for lewd voyeuristic purposes; sitting on someone's shoulders during a concert is a dick move; the joy of watching animals freak out during an eclipse and the despair of failing to see the Northern Lights in Michigan Niko Lukoff (linktr.ee/LaughYourLukoff) Justin H...
The Silver Tongue TV Series (Niko Lukoff)
March 17, 2024 09:47 - 20 minutes - 11.1 MBIdea: A gritty, realistic, HBO-style drama about an amoral social expert/negotiator/facilitator who works on contract to help solve problems for people or organizations, such as facilitating illegal commerce, helping a president avoid a scandal, helping someone get a date, etc. Also: avoiding the hacky network TV "genius protagonist" procedural format ("Lie to Me", "The Pretender", "Numb3rs", etc.) where the main character is too smart/powerful or making the main character's skill(s) relevan...
In 5 Hours Energy (Justin Hicks)
March 09, 2024 10:23 - 16 minutes - 8.71 MBIdea: A delayed-release pill or drink to give you energy in 5 hours so (for example) you can wake up with full energy instead of having to make coffee and wait for it to kick in. Also: it could also contain instant-release Melatonin to both help you sleep now and help you wake up later; springing up when you wake up like Bruce Willis in "Pulp Fiction" and sending the pet who was sleeping on your chest flying across the room; using it on your shared-custody kids so their energy kicks in short...
AI Robot Probation Supervisor and Caretaker (Tom Walma)
March 02, 2024 08:30 - 23 minutes - 12.3 MBIdea: To give prisoners the option to get out early if we amputate their arms (or put them in arm-locking exoskeletons) and give them AI robots to monitor them and care for them. Because if these robots of the near-future can do everything, not having arms would no longer be debilitating. Also: robots or exoskeletons with cameras and AI could monitor you while you're on probation, and detect, for example, if a white collar criminal tries to violate the terms of their probation by using a com...
Funeral 'Cause of Death' Guessing Games (Justin Siekierka)
February 25, 2024 09:21 - 19 minutes - 10.1 MBIdea: To withhold announcing the cause of someone's death until their funeral so people can try to guess the cause of death and win prize(s) (maybe even the inheritance). Also: 'cause of death' reveal presentations; the family could take a percentage of the bets to help pay for the funeral; a back-and-forth discussion on whether this would lead to less or more murder; being peer-pressured into having an interesting death; Tom's guess of Justin's cause of death almost already happened in a cl...
Bathroom "Night Light" Footprints and Toilet Light (Mark Hamilton)
February 17, 2024 06:47 - 7 minutes - 4.24 MBIdea: "Night lights" to help you go to the bathroom at night without turning on bright lights and fully waking you up, including both glow-in-the-dark footprints leading to the toilet and a glow-in-the-dark ring around the inside of the toilet. Also: questioning whether toilet night lights already exist in some form, possibly as a bidet with a light on it; the risk of an assassin moving the glow-in-the-dark footprints in order to lead someone to their doom Mark Hamilton (facebook.com/mgamar...
Everything on Hangers (Tom Walma)
February 10, 2024 22:45 - 19 minutes - 10.6 MBIdea: A tiny house where almost everything in the house (even furniture) is on hangers, and robots move the stuff on hangers across a series of interconnected racks/rods (including power lines that also function as hanger rods), so it can easily be stored in the ceiling or sent to a neighborhood warehouse to be stored and/or cleaned. Also: keeping bugs and pets on the ground from reaching your stuff; transporting stuff on power lines would prevent package thieves from stealing it; since ever...
Foul-Smelling Scented Candles (Morgan Sterling)
February 03, 2024 22:23 - 15 minutes - 8.44 MBIdea: Scented candles with scents that most people would find bad, but which you enjoy, such as gasoline, lawn clippings, Newports (which smell like home), etc. Also: a prank candle that smells like natural gas; using a foul-smelling scented candle to intentionally end a bad Netflix-and-Chill session; a scented candle made from belly button lint that sparkles when the small hairs ignite Brian Atkinson (https://brianacomedian.com facebook.com/BrianAcomedian) Amanda VK (instagram.com/amandavk...
The Sound of Mooses (C-Dub)
January 28, 2024 00:16 - 13 minutes - 7.3 MBIdea: A movie about evil mooses (sic), possibly a zombie-moose-infused remake of the movie The Sound of Music. Also: Cocaine Bear but with moose and pot; evil moose attacking a mall during Christmas; using AI to recreate old movies scenes but then having evil moose kill everybody; why Tom thinks that almost every movie made before 1984 sucks Brian Atkinson (https://brianacomedian.com facebook.com/BrianAcomedian) Amanda VK (instagram.com/amandavk_does_comedy) C-Dub (instagram.com/budsfromcdu...
Sexy Promiscuous 60-Year-Old Woman TV Series (Amanka VK)
January 20, 2024 13:38 - 16 minutes - 9.02 MBIdea: A TV show like Californication starring a senior-aged but still attractive and promiscuous protagonist, only in this case, it's a woman. Also: there should more female equivalents of a "silver fox" who's "still in the game" and "all the dudes still drool over"; an awkwardly long conversation about older actresses we find attractive and whether they'd be a good fits for the role, such as Jennifer Coolidge, Emma Thompson, Annette Bening, and Andie MacDowell; brainstorming a plot, such as...
Phlegm Flavorizer (Brian Atkinson)
January 14, 2024 03:36 - 16 minutes - 9.06 MBIdea: A product (Mucinex pill, nasal spray, etc.) that gives your phlegm a delicious flavor of your choosing when you have a cold. Also: causing Amanda to get more and more grossed out by the idea; romantic partners using complementary flavors before getting intimate; "hocking a loogie" and how dogs would want to lick it up if it was flavored Brian Atkinson (https://brianacomedian.com facebook.com/BrianAcomedian) Amanda VK (instagram.com/amandavk_does_comedy) C-Dub (instagram.com/budsfromc...
Trojan Horse Battering Ram (Tom Walma)
January 06, 2024 09:44 - 15 minutes - 8.14 MBIdea: A large battering ram for police to use to conduct raids where their body is safely inside the bulletproof battering ram. Also: a dog-like or centipede-like battering ram with robotic legs where one cop lays down inside of it; a multi-person parade-dragon-style battering ram where their upper bodies are inside of it and their lower bodies are protected by bulletproof boots and bulletproof hoop skirts; it could also be used for animal control, firefighters, or for camping inside of it; ...
Karaoke Social Media App (Tommy Cook)
December 31, 2023 06:20 - 13 minutes - 7.43 MBIdea: A social media app to show off and/or request karaoke or lip-syncing videos from your friends or from celebs. Also: paying people to help them overcome their shyness to do karaoke for you; the app could only allow the recipient to see the video once or only allow the singer to attempt the song once; wanting to see other people sing badly but not wanting to do it yourself Mark Hamilton (facebook.com/mgamarkhamilton instagram.com/markhamilton6352) Tommy Cook (instagram.com/tommycooklol ...
(Meno)Pause Pal (Angela Verges)
December 25, 2023 07:08 - 12 minutes - 10.9 MBIdea: A smart watch that monitors a menopausal woman's body and alerts her (and optionally her husband on his "Man-On-Pause" device) if her mood or body temperature is about to change. Also: things that bring on hot flashes; the device could include controls for (or it could automatically adjust) the temperature of a room or mattress, play calming music, etc.; a menopause-themed party game; a horror movie where social media accidentally causes the menstrual cycles of all the women of the wor...
Popcorn Straw (Mark Hamilton)
December 16, 2023 07:04 - 8 minutes - 7.32 MBIdea: A straw to use to suck up popcorn so you don't get butter or salt on your hands. Also: A romantic popcorn straw for two, which might accidentally create a competition for the popcorn that harms the relationship; accessories such as a popcorn shovel, a filter so you don't choke on the popcorn when sucking it through the straw, etc.; a popcorn straw helmet, which might cause the people sitting behind you to steal your popcorn Mark Hamilton (facebook.com/mgamarkhamilton instagram.com/mar...
Abolish The Nickel But Keep The Penny (Scott Sviland)
December 08, 2023 06:09 - 10 minutes - 5.58 MBIdea: For the US to save money by no longer making nickels, but to keep making pennies, because prices ending in .99 are cool, and you can just use five pennies instead of a nickel. Also: keeping pennies because Lincoln (who's on the penny) is better than Jefferson (who's on the nickel); getting annoyed by parking meters which require apps or don't take pennies; destroying Scott's pep by not agreeing with him about the nickel thing Shilpa Rege (facebook.com/shilparege instagram.com/shilpare...
Themed Boy-Girl Scouts (Tom Walma)
December 03, 2023 01:26 - 17 minutes - 14 MBIdea: To combine Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and then divide it into themes, such as apocalypse survival scouts, videogame/music/art/sport scouts, space scouts, mechanic scouts, etc. Also: an embarrassing childhood scout-related incident; teaching things in school vs. in scouts; laundering money and/or unloading counterfeit money by buying Girl Scout cookies Jason Thompson (instagram.com/jason_thompson_comedy youtube.com/@TAMMpON) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswal...
Loophole Finder App (Jason Thompson)
November 25, 2023 11:57 - 14 minutes - 7.85 MBIdea: An app to help you find loopholes to bypass rules, save money, commit crimes and avoid going to prison, etc. Also: you could either actively search for loopholes, or it could always run and use AI to be like a "devil on your shoulder" and suggest loopholes as you go about your day; letting you know if a loophole has been "closed" i.e. will no longer work; using loopholes to obtain medicinal THC for Crohn's disease; preparing to perform in possibly the worst idea for a standup comedy sh...
"I Get It" Augmented Reality Relationship Assistant (Sarah Marchi)
November 20, 2023 09:14 - 18 minutes - 9.43 MBIdea: An augmented-reality app that develops a personality model of your partner and constantly listens to and watches them, and uses AI to predict how to you should respond to their questions and to their emotional needs in order to keep them happy. Also: displaying a list of options of what you should do, along with percentage certainties of each option, and reasons why; your partner's AR glasses could be measuring their vitals (heart rate,, hormones, etc.) all day and transmitting it to y...
Weather Gambling (Calvin G Baker)
November 10, 2023 10:51 - 16 minutes - 13 MBIdea: An app for gambling on the weather. Also: a racing-themed gambling game on when a storm will arrive and a dart-themed gambling game on where lightning will strike; the mob corrupting the weatherman and causing him to lie during the weather forecast; predicting rainbows and a PSA warning people of the dangers of car accidents from watching rainbows while driving; elderly women dominating weather gambling by using weather-predicting birds and/or sensing the weather with their achy joints...
Remote Buffet (Tom Walma)
November 03, 2023 10:07 - 17 minutes - 14.9 MBIdea: A buffet where you order your food by watching a live video feed (while you're at a drive-thru or using an app) and telling a worker who's at the buffet what foods to grab. Also: using robots to scoop the food and/or deliver the food; having it count calories as they scoop, and using the remote buffet for all of your meals to ensure portion control to lose weight; drive-thru liquor stores using "growlers" and other refillable containers to buy the exact quantity of alcohol that you wan...
Brainstorming How To Clean Up A Dirty Joke (Todd Garvey)
October 26, 2023 04:13 - 10 minutes - 5.8 MBA brainstorming session on how to clean up a specific adult-themed bit/joke, and a discussion on whether it's even possible. Also: dirty metaphors/innuendo such as "the grand finale" and "the product of the interaction"; "seagulling" and dirty urban legends being made real; using Adam Sandler movies as a barometer of acceptable PG-13 dirtiness Lisa Green (instagram.com/lisagreencomedy facebook.com/depottowncomedy) Todd Garvey (facebook.com/todd.garvey.716) Rio Riojas (beacons.ai/drdecide co...
Performer Availiability-Booking App (Rio Riojas)
October 20, 2023 04:44 - 15 minutes - 8.07 MBIdea: An app for comedians/performers to coordinate with bookers to schedule gigs, where the performers list their avails in the app, and a set of show bookers (similar to those on "MCN" aka "Michigan Comics Network" on Facebook) browse through and select available performers to book them for their shows. Also: multiple bookers could see that a performer is available to perform on a given day, and the first one to choose them gets them, instantly removing their availability to other bookers ...
Tabletop Game AI Assistant (Lisa Green)
October 12, 2023 20:36 - 15 minutes - 13.4 MBIdea: An app which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assist (not replace) the dungeon master and possibly other players in "Dungeons & Dragons" (D&D) and other similar tabletop games. Also: helping the dungeon master by generating maps, NPCs, rooms, quests, etc. before the game and/or on-the-fly during the game, using configured settings, randomization, and the current state of the game (which the AI would know by listening to the game); explaining D&D to newbies (both in this podcast and...
International House of Toilets (Tom Walma)
October 04, 2023 09:46 - 13 minutes - 7.07 MBIdea: A commercialized bathroom that contains different types of toilets from around the world (bidets, pit toilets, etc.), so you can try them out before traveling or before buying one, and to allow foreigners to use a familiar type of toilet. Also: extra clothes for the case of mishaps, such as a knee snapping and causing you to fall into a pit toilet; an "assport" as a souvenir with stamps indicating which nation's toilets you've successfully used; the World War 2 challenge; a "gravy enem...
Drive-Thru Buffet (Sean Francis)
September 27, 2023 23:19 - 14 minutes - 7.9 MBIdea: A drive-thru buffet where your car sits on a moving track inside a building (like an automatic car wash), you stick your arm out the car window and grab food as your car slowly moves by the buffet tables, and your car (with you and the food inside) is weighed to see how much food you grabbed to determine how much to charge you. Also: backing up and crashing if you missed a food that you want; "coal rolling" to pepper the food with exhaust; tweaks to make the idea a little more practica...
HackGPT (Rachel Santos)
September 20, 2023 20:49 - 15 minutes - 12.7 MBIdea: An app for comedians which uses AI to analyze recordings of their sets and split it into separate jokes, rate the audience reaction to each joke, and create tags (hashtags, not "joke tags") to organize the jokes into broad categories, such as "parenting" or "dating". Also: creating a profile for a comedy venue of how well different types of jokes (by tag) do there, to help comics tweak their sets to accommodate the venue before ever performing there; using AI-based profiles of comics t...
Kink Compatibility Checks in Dating Apps (Johnny Santos)
September 13, 2023 06:44 - 9 minutes - 5.13 MBIdea: A dating app that only shows you people who share the same kinks/fetishes or at least would tolerate your kinks/fetishes. Also: admitting other embarrassing things in dating profiles, like STDs or financial debt; a kink tolerance sliding scale in the app, like to tolerate their extreme kink, they have to make lots of money; setting chores or qualifications for your partner to "unlock" their kink like in a videogame; ruining the fun of the idea by comparing dating sites to tax prep site...
Weapons For Animals (James River)
September 08, 2023 08:07 - 13 minutes - 7.22 MBIdea: To put smart gun turrets in nature areas (and possibly also arm the animals) to protect the animals from people and from invasive species. Also: lazy panda bears as picky Roman dictators; giving bees BB guns and/or hiding machine guns inside beehives; showing jungle animals Andrew Tate videos and then giving them guns just to watch the world burn; inheriting the family business of creating dragons and watering it down to giving bees pocket knives Sean Francis (facebook.com/seanfrancis...
Drone Charging Network 2 (Tom Walma)
September 01, 2023 18:56 - 29 minutes - 25.1 MBIdea: A nationwide grid of volunteer drone enthusiasts who set up their homes as "drone charging stations", so cellular/satellite-controlled hobby drones can hop across the country from house to house, while the person piloting the drone is doing so from the convenience of their own house. Also: kits for setting up your house as a drone charging station, either in your garage or your attic; shipping the drones across areas without any charging stations, or swapping control of drones with oth...
Fusion (Available Ingredients Recipe App) (David Lesneiski)
August 24, 2023 03:31 - 20 minutes - 11.6 MBIdea: An app that can quickly get a list of foods in your house and find recipes that can be made using those foods, including serious recipes, recipes that are a fusion of different types of cuisine, and even weird life-hack-style recipes. Also: using your phone to scan your cupboards to get the available ingredient list, including estimates of how much of the ingredient you have left and expiration dates; finding recipes where you need one or two additional ingredients before you go grocer...
Funeral Brigade (Jon King)
August 18, 2023 18:47 - 17 minutes - 15.5 MBIdea: A service to hire entertainers (celebs, magicians, etc.) for your funeral or a funeral of a loved one, so the funeral is less sad and has more of the feel of a social gathering that celebrates the life of the deceased. Also: secretly hiring celebrity actors to pretend that they were your friend; inappropriate laughter at a funeral; funeral pranks, such as hiring the "Weekend at Bernie's" actors or having the Publisher's Clearing House barge into the funeral and then say that they can't...
AI Restaurant Picker App (Chris Young)
August 09, 2023 13:54 - 18 minutes - 10.3 MBIdea: An app that each member of a group who're gonna eat together have on their phone, which collects everyone's food preferences, dietary restrictions, restaurant ratings, recent food orders, etc. and uses AI, randomization, info from restaurants (possibly even real-time info, like how busy they are), etc. to pick a restaurant to eat at or order from. Also: avoiding the age-old stalemate of "where do you wanna go", "I don't know, where do you wanna go"; having the app pick the restaurant c...
Completely Serious Movie (Tom Walma)
August 01, 2023 05:08 - 21 minutes - 11.1 MBIdea: A dark comedy movie where a young couple who are both improv actors pull a series of increasingly complex pranks on each other until one gets the other to help commit a real murder by tricking them into thinking it's just a prank. Also: how North Korea hired pranksters and tricked them into murdering Kim Jong Un's brother; whether or not to leave the audience guessing; eating cereal-like baby food snacks because they're half the calories of Cheerios and the other "healthy" cereals Nil...
Adventures of Allison Short Cartoons (Allison Armstrong)
July 24, 2023 05:14 - 14 minutes - 7.33 MBIdea: Short cartoons based on mostly-autobiographical weird, funny, or interesting things that happened in Allison's life, such as her and a friend getting hissed at by a goth after almost running her over with their car and then saying "Oh my God, there would've been paint everywhere!!!", and her getting picked up like a baby and carried out of a mosh pit by a guardian angel skinhead. Also: making cartoons out of stories that don't work as standup comedy; goths, emo concerts, vampires, and ...
Phone Glasses Detection And Text Size Adjustment 2 (Nicole Melnyk)
July 19, 2023 09:09 - 20 minutes - 10.4 MBIdea: An app or setting for your smart phone to detect whether you're wearing glasses and adjust the text size accordingly, so you don't have to manually go to settings to increase the text size to read the phone in bed at night after taking off your glasses. Also: automatically changing the font type (not just the font size) when you take off your glasses so you can see it better (or to be funner and less formal); fake spoiler pranks, and reading plots of books and movies on Wikipedia so yo...
City Socks (Niles Nowak)
July 15, 2023 06:48 - 15 minutes - 7.92 MBIdea: Vending machines in cities that contain socks and other cheap items that you might occasionally need due to weather or other scenarios when you're out on the town, such as socks (if your feet got wet from stepping in a puddle or something), sticks of deodorant ("City Sticks), hairbrushes and dry shampoo, sunblock, tampons, etc. Also: putting a baby blue silhouette of your city's skyline on the socks; you could re-use the Japanese used-panty vending machines; questioning whether there w...
Prison Labor Household Robots (Tom Walma)
July 07, 2023 12:46 - 21 minutes - 11.2 MBIdea: To have partially-automated robots in your house that can be controlled remotely by prisoners located in a prison, who can supervise the robot doing chores most of the time, and take over when the robot "gets stuck" or has problems. Also: security concerns, such as blocking out addresses on envelopes on the prisoner's video feed, having the robot only work when the homeowner is not home, etc.; kinky homeowner-robot-prisoner scenarios; using the prison labor household robots to help the...
Tinder For Pets (Tyler Caldwell)
June 28, 2023 08:55 - 23 minutes - 15.1 MBIdea: An app for pet owners to connect directly (peer-to-peer) for pet meetups, primarily for pet "hookups", but also pet sitting, pet adoption, pet play dates, sharing pet products, and other pet-related activities. Also: ideas for involving the pet in the "date" selection process, including teaching pets to "swipe right", pet tumescence meters, and using smell-o-vision for pheromones; inter-species hookups and catfishing; tech billionaires, the "Zuck spectrum", and dogs in VR; using sci-fi...
Dream Recording Pillow (Dominic Maniscalchi)
June 21, 2023 06:08 - 16 minutes - 8.32 MBIdea: A pillow that records your dreams so you can watch them later. Also: using it to steal people's secrets; the chore of sifting through dream recordings; using it to detect that a nightmare is in progress and then having a real world machine grab your feet to scare you; if two heads are on the pillow at the same time, maybe they could they enter each others dreams, in which case if a cockroach is on the pillow, you could enter the cockroach's dream and find mold inside the wall of your h...
90s Land / Historical Concept Societies 2 (Dan Brittain)
June 14, 2023 08:35 - 9 minutes - 5.34 MBIdea: A community kind of like the Amish but where technology and culture is based on the 1990s (or some other time period), but they still have up-to-date medical technology. Also: bartering with the Amish; Napster, beepers, and giant "Saved By the Bell" cell phones; dividing the entire world into self-sufficient societies based on different technological eras for robustness in case a major disaster like a super-volcano occurs Kim Cook (https://kimcookcomedy.com) Dan Brittain (facebook.com...
Dog-Themed Standup Comedy Show (Kim Cook)
June 05, 2023 07:52 - 7 minutes - 4.2 MBIdea: A standup comedy show where comics and the audience can bring their dogs, and the topic of most or all of the standup comedy is centered around dogs. Also: the Comedy Castle bringing service dogs to comedy shows to train them to behave in a chaotic environment; adopting dogs to drunk audience members who'd wake up the next morning with a hangover and a surprise of a new pet dog; a service dog barking at a comedian during a comedy contest and causing him to win; other experimental comed...
Sickness Commercials (Tom Walma)
May 31, 2023 02:39 - 12 minutes - 6.61 MBIdea: To use a futuristic Neuralink-style brain implant to make you briefly feel a disease when you watch the corresponding drug commercial on TV, to help you self-diagnose whether or not you have the disease. Also: making you feel worse if you have Covid or a transmittable disease to dissuade you from leaving the house and spreading it; making you feel the pain of a starving person or a relative of a victim of gun violence during a charity commercial or PSA; giving people universal basic in...
Wearable Airbags (Dan Brittain)
May 23, 2023 20:54 - 15 minutes - 8.36 MBIdea: Airbags embedded into clothing to protect you from getting injured from slipping and falling, and maybe also motorcycle accidents and other scenarios. Also: an airbag for a helmet that puffs out like an afro; the brutality of car airbags; a special helmet or shield to protect your face and teeth; distrust of dentistry and the cost of getting new implantable teeth Kim Cook (https://kimcookcomedy.com) Dan Brittain (facebook.com/danbrittaincomedy youtube.com/@danbrittaincomedy2301) Jasun...
Calorie Counting Device (Kim Cook)
May 16, 2023 10:28 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MBIdea: A wearable device, like an Apple Watch or patch, that is somehow able to count the calories of the food you eat without any effort on your part, because keeping a food diary, even with an app, is annoying and time consuming. Also: using a combination of sensors and devices to estimate your calorie intake, including the Apple Watch to measure your blood sugar, some sort of implantable device in your stomach or nasal cavity, and a smart toilet to weigh and/or analyze your poop; using a "...
Alcohol Test Probe (Jasun Pierpoint)
May 08, 2023 05:58 - 11 minutes - 6.43 MBIdea: A portable test probe to test alcohol at bars for alcohol percentage, accuracy of ingredients, hygiene, etc. Also: using the test probe for other things, such as to test people for STDs; bars might get rowdier if bartenders can no longer get away with watering down drinks; helping prevent people from accidentally drinking drinks which contain more alcohol than they expected; calculating how much of the drink you can consume and still be sober enough to drive in 3 hours Kim Cook (https...