Products that need to be invented

The DIY Pill Coater- I don’t know why in Og’s name some pills are coated and some pills aren’t but the non-coated ones are just AWFUL. They dissolve in your mouth, and leave a nasty bitter taste. That’s why I’m proposing a paint-on pill coat. Some sort of quick-drying gelatin, maybe, that you brush on like nail-polish. Thus, you can have your meds, and eat 'em, too.

The Porta-Pene for female hikers- You outdoorsy gals know the drill: You’re out in the middle of nature, when nature comes calling. You are forced to do awkward contortions in order to find a position where you can pee without getting all over yourself. In the end, you more likely than not are splattered with dirt and urine by the end of your ordeal.
Whereas boys can just pick a tree and let it fly.
So I’m proposing a sort of strap-on hose that lets you do your business standing up. You put on the Porta-Pene, insert the correct tubes into the correct orifices, and voila!, mess-free pee.

Eight-hour time-released caffeine pills. Take one, go to bed, in eight hours caffeine is released into your system. . .

There are already about a million types of these: http://pee-zees.tripod.com/

Searching for that led me to this: http://www.myconfinedspace.com/tag/healthpartners-petey-pee-cup-pokey-syringe/ which is just too good not to share . . .

A reverse microwave: Something that would make something cold in a minute, and frozen in five.

While your product needs to be made, have you tried covering the pill in a little bit of butter or something like it? Cover the taste and let it slide down your throat super easy.

I made a clever discovery when my son had to take nasty pills: soft bubblegum. You can wrap the pill in a paper-thin shell of gum so that’s so thin it’s almost transparent. That way it will dissolve when it hits the stomach. But it completely blocks the taste.

I’d be wary of such medicine coatings; many drugs are designed to dissolve in a controlled, specific manner (that nasty tasting quick-dissolving outer layer could be there to get a low level of medication into the bloodstream quickly, with later layers dissolving more slowly to safely raise the level), and adding your own coating would affect that controlled release, possibly making the medication ineffective or dangerous. It’d probably be okay for most OTC meds, but I’d hate to see people using it on antibiotics or something.

Universal login. There’s no reason 50 million websites each need to use their own registration system, requiring users to create and remember 50 million individual username/password combinations. I won’t bother registering at a place that requires it 99 times out of a hundred. So why not have one central system? Log in at one site, say google, and then replace all these millions of registration systems with a simple query - “Can we use your google login on this site?”

Edit: nevermind.

Wow, that’s awesome.

OpenId

There’s also bugmenot - I don’t know if the PTB like that site.

People kibble!

People with headset phones need a little light or a hat with a flag on it that tells others they are on the phone.

YES! I would eat Human Chow every day. Something perfectly nutritionally balanced, maybe different varieties for seniors, indoor humans, hairball control…

Ask and yee shall receive.

Ask and yee shall receive.

ETA: Beat to it.