It looks like this topic was brought up in 2008. I think it’s time it was revisited.
A couch cover that stays on the couch. I keep our couch and loveseat covered because that’s where the dogs can usually be found. I’ve tried covers specifically made for dogs, blankets, sheets, actual couch covers but with all of them, I am constantly adjusting and retucking. I must spend a total of an hour every day doing this. It drives me crazy. It also needs to be easily washed and dried and easy to put on.
A clothes dryer where the vent outlet is somewhere accessible.
A de-pickler for cucumbers, for when you’ve turned too many of your cucumbers into pickles and the Mrs. announces she wants fresh cucumber slices on her salad.
A de-pickler would be handy for turning alcoholics back into normal drinkers too, and about as possible as the cucumber one. .
Honestly, any appliance where things you’re supposed to clear regularly are accessible. I was recently trying to diagnose a problem with my dishwasher, and one suggested fix was to clean the filters, which you’re apparently supposed to do regularly. Except the filter was placed on the very bottom of the dishwasher, at the very back, and held on by four small screws that were very hard to remove. We ended up having to have a small child crawl halfway into the thing to get those screws out!
Testify!
If you ever get tired of going by Q-t-M, I think The De-pickler would be a socko moniker!
Sounds like an arch-enemy for the Condiment King.
^ You made my day!
Seat belts that actually retract.
A smartphone keyboard app that detects accidental touches. Just delay closing the keyborad for a short period, and then don’t close it if the person keeps on typing.
You’ve all heard of stents, those little springy tubes a surgeon can put into a coronary artery by remote control to forestall having to do a full-scale bypass surgery. Why can’t somebody make one for prostates?
I want some enterprising genetic engineer to produce a critter that is basically a stomach and a tooth. You feed it, and it produces ivory. It’s purpose is to make ivory so plentiful, and so cheap, that elephant-poaching becomes unprofitable.
Seat belts that don’t get caught in the car door.
The shoulder belt needs to come out of the seat itself (up near the headrest) and not off the doorframe where it cuts your frickin’ throat.
Mrs. L remarked tonight that our Subaru’s often fail to retract. My bro said one time he thought it was an issue with Japanese cars. I’ve noticed they don’t always retract on our Korean car, too. Pick as many as you need (I realize some people have multiple cars and may have mixed results).
A compartment in your car to keep your pizza or fast-food warm on the drive home.
An anti-microwave, that would rapidly cool or freeze food or drinks in like 30 seconds
Here you go:
Seat belts that are designed for people with breasts.
Teleportation. Think of a place you want to be, and bingo you are there.
Yeah, I know. I might have to wait a bit.
Seatbelts that are constructed of a couple dozen 1mm Kevlar cords loosely woven into a tube, with no buckle: you put the belt into a metal hook (sort of like a one-and-a-half-turn corkscrew) that holds it securely without any mechanical parts, and the tube flattens out where it lays on you (I absolutely despise the edges of seatbelts, and those fleece things always have to be slid into place).