There are mechanical toilet seats you only have to give the lid a gentle push, and it slowly goes down without any noise or thud.
You can get one of those Japanese toilets that does just about everything for you. The top-of-the-line models have a motion sensor for automatic lid and an internal fan that keeps the stank inside the toilet and a heated seat and a built in bidet and a pricetag that will resolve that blockage.
Yes!
I also want an alarm that lets me finish my current dream before waking me up, but only if it’s a nice dream.
I have one of those sleep trackers and supposedly there’s a feature where you can set an alarm to wake you up during a period of light sleep only; I haven’t tried it. But in terms of distinguishing a bad dream from a good one, I think you need a mama cat: cat comforts kitten having bad dream - Google Search
Thank you for that, Boo. It’s been a while since I looked. Some of those new techniques look very promising. Someday soon maybe I’ll have a smartwatch that can tell me my blood glucose level. 
if so, that’d be a much better (simpler) solution than my tattoo idea.
I was pleasantly surprised as well. Two years ago there was only one when I was still doing home nursing visits and now there are quite a few and even more amazing ones in developed and on the horizon, which bodes well for the price inching down and them evolving to be even more reliable, like insulin pumps have become.
And when I’m goddess of the world, all insurance and healthcare payor systems will cheerfully authorize them.
It came around in 2012, but it is mostly for the military and police.
Long ago, on a TV quiz show (What’s My Line, I think), they did a segment where the panelists speculated on future inventions. Henry Morgan said, with devices getting smaller every year, we’d soon replace barbers with a little device that would roam around your head to measure each hair and trim it to the right length.
I’ve seen a lot of sub-miniature gadgets, but not that one.
A simple LED flashlight that turns either on or off with the same pushbutton.
Instead, so many of them have this ostensibly well-meaning but annoying feature of a sequence of OFF, Bright, Dim, Strobe whereby cycling the switch a nanosecond too fast or slow means one has to cycle the thing through the sequence of operation when all you wanted to do was just turn the damn thing on, then off.
My barber has been replaced by a fairly small device that wanders around my head periodically guided by a non-artificial semi-intelligent processor with measurement feedback using dual electromagnetic sensory receptors.
I thought it would be helpful to have a double mute button on a tv remote: the upper button toggles between the “action” setting (explosions, screeching tires, dramatic music at the middle level) and the “dialog” setting (highest volume, so you can hear what they are saying); the lower button toggles between “mute” (which you may set to a low level above silent) and the “action” setting; if the volume is above “action”, the lower button takes it to the “mute” level; if the volume is below “action”, the upper button takes it to “dialog”.
I have dozens of them.
You don’t wanna know how long I spent squinting at your post, trying to figure out what on earth you meant.
Before or after the magic vape cartridges?
A means of “opting out” of background music on TV shows and/or YouTube videos, other forms of media. Stream the content, click “disable music,” Bob’s your uncle. There’s a YouTuber I watch whose videos are informative, but half the time annoying punk rock music is playing over his narration, and I have a hard enough time understanding him due to his thick Lincolnshire accent.
A means of “opting out” of weather-related interruptions during TV broadcasts. While I feel for the people of Bunghole County, Illinois, which is a part of the KMOV (St. Louis) viewing area, during severe weather issues, they’re 250 miles from me and their weather problems are not mine.
A friend of mine has diabetes and has used a Continuous Glucose Monitor for several years. It sends a reading to his cell phone every 5 minutes. An app on his phone displays the current reading and a graph of the last 24 hours. The phone also blares an alarm when the current reading falls outside of his preset safe zone, so he doesn’t even need to check the phone very often. He only needs to poke for a blood test when the meter needs to be recalibrated; I think that’s once a week.
Glad that it is working so well for him. Sounds like he has the technology mastered.
Yes, pedestrians seem to have a universal instinct to move into the path of an approaching bicycle. Very strange.
The invention I’d like is a windscreen for bikes, to stop insects constantly smacking into your face when riding in summer.
Googling ‘bicycle windscreen’ pulls up almost too many to count.
I actually never thought of looking! The majority seem to be designed to protect kids in child seats, though. There’s also a few goofy-looking contraptions meant to keep rain off commuters.
Does your friend live in a state where it is illegal to touch his phone while he is driving? One of my friends got a traffic ticket…