I remember something about a self-cooling drink can – an extra pressure volume that was used to cool the drink when it was opened ?? I can’t find anything now, but the internet is so full of stuff about cold drinks, I can’t see anything.
Most phones have WiFi, and some have WiFi sharing. The missing link is the bit where it’s available for and restricted to emergency calling.
What’s the typical range if you use your phone as a WiFi hotspot?
I’d like to see invented a beach blanket equipped with a zipper around the edge that zips up to become a private changing chamber, but otherwise is just a beach blanket.
I use my phone as a wi-fi hotspot at home and it covers the entire house and basement (1200 sqft each). I can go out into the yard about 60-80 feet from the house before I lose signal.
Wow, that’s impressive, I didn’t realize that. Then I retract my comment that we’d need significant hardware improvement before a phone-to-phone mesh network could be useful.
My wife was following me on the road one day, and had left her phone in my car. I was able to call her because her car’s bluetooth picked up the signal from her phone in my car.
They are totally a thing already. Many manufacturers.
I say, why stop at dryers? Why not turn your shower into something akin to a car wash for people. Just step inside and an automated sprayer sprays you down with soap, and then rinses you off, and then you step out into the nice, warm, air dryer.
How about a shower that sprays dry cleaning fluid? Perhaps something could be invented so that afterwards, you get ironed as well – very useful for those incipient wrinkles as one gets older!
Silent velcro.
Two of my Tivos can do it.
They’d have to have a receiver as well as a transmitter, and almost certainly an RF receiver since if IR worked, you’d probably be able to see the remote in the first place.
Unless they have some other uses for bi-directional communication, it seems like a waste of money. Most people aren’t going to lose their remote so often that they’re willing to pay extra for the feature.
Those bluetooth tracker tile things (usually used for keys) are getting pretty small, you could epoxy one to the back of your remote. Then it’s just “Alexa, find my remote” or whatever, and it beeps at you.
But a lot of the problem is just that remotes are almost invariably black, and you don’t watch TV with bright lights on. For newer remotes in standard shapes like the Samsung & Alexa remotes I have, you can get brightly colored even fluorescent covers that resolve most of the problem.
Some of the lasers can even distinguish between certain genders and species of mosquitos based on wing flapping patterns, so they only kill the female of the species that cause malaria and don’t kill the male mosquitos or other species of them.
I’m not sure that this is a great marketing feature. I unashamedly wish death upon any motherfucker in the vicinity that intends to stab me, drink my blood, and leave me with an annoying itch, malaria or not.
I feel like I’ve seen something very similar to this on Shark Tank.
Ah, no it was the Shower Toga. Similar concept though.
Yes, that’s what I was about to suggest, I saw it on a rerun a couple of weeks ago. It’s a slightly different concept - it converts into a bag, so I guess you carry clean clothes in it to the beach or to some dirty job, use it to cover up while showering, then turn it back into a bag for your dirty clothes.
Tile makes those-little buttons that stick to objects, then can be pinged to find them. Great products-changed my life after a traumatic brain injury caused me to misplace things constantly. Tile brand makes the sticky button shape, a thin flat credit card shape for your wallet as well as tag styles for key rings, dog collars, etc. Tile usually has good promotions going most of the time. I have 8 that I use.
Since recordable voice chips have been around for quite awhile, I think it’s long past time that someone came out with a personalized electronic bicycle horn. You could program it with different announcements like “On your left!” or “Get outta my way!”
It has do to one better - it needs to hijack the headphones of the oblivious brain dead walkers on the path so they actually hear the message. No, it has to do two better - it then must clearly explain to the brain dead walker what “on your left!” actually means. No, it takes too long. And they’ll still shoot dirty looks at you. Best to just buzz them and at least earn that dirty look honestly.