Memory & learning enhancement pills. Or even better direct knowledge downloading.
A program/device that can monitor my tastes, in things like music and fiction and art and food and so on; then sort though the millions of options to find all the thing’s I’d like, but will never have the time or opportunity to find. There’s not enough time in the world to personally try everything.
A method of fixing hair at a desired length, so it never needs to be cut. it’s possible in theory; it’s not like I need to shave my body hair to keep it from growing three feet long.
The Brain Tivo. So as I go through my daily life and feel the need to replay something I just experienced, I can just backtrack a bit and re-view or re-hear it. I’d also like a huge “hard drive” where I can indefinately store certain conversations, life experiences, etc. to relive them.
An easy way to determine which electrical switches/outlets/fixtures are controlled by a particular circuit breaker. I spent the better part of two hours yesterday running from my attic to my basement with circuit tester in hand, trying to narrow down the right breaker that controlled the circuit I was working on. As it turns out, one circuit in the attic, one outlet in the master bedroom, the dining room ceiling fixture, and an exterior receptacle were all on one breaker. The hell? Multiply by 24 breakers, and it’ll take me years to figure it all out. This was only really necessary because the knucklehead I bought my house from this summer didn’t have anything labeled in the panel, yet he had lived there for 20 years. How do you live like that?
You need a friend and a pair of those FRS walkie talkies. Have the friend go from outlet to outlet while you flip circuit breakers and write down the results. Then, don’t lose the paper you wrote it all down on. Another useful trick is to plug in a boombox or something noisy to the problematic outlet so you can tell when it goes on/off. But this approach still requires a lot of climbing up and down from the basement.
A lot of these things have already been invented. For instance:
Such a box comes free with nearly every food purchase.
While the remote to find stickers attacked to lost stuff has a basic design flaw, I wish TVs came with a button to help locate the remote. This would be really helpful in light of the fact that most new TVs won’t work without a remote. We already have that feature on cordless phones.
I’d love to have an IMDB function on DVDs and even broadcast TV – Click on an actor’s image on the screen and get their entire filmography displayed.
