I didn’t think I could honestly title the thread “Your chindogu ideas” because a chindogu by definition “must be, from a practical point of view, (almost) completely useless.” Neither can it be sold for profit, and there’s silly stuff that I wouldn’t mind buying if money weren’t an object (and if they really existed, of course).
My list:
A device that keeps my bed feeling soothingly nice and cool like the other side of the pillow. Not an A/C, because the parts of the bed in contact with my body warm up. Something that actually cools the bed itself. A refrigeration unit, I guess. If that’s not feasible, a giant mechanical spatula that flips the mattress and bedclothes over regularly so I get the cool side.
Realistically food-flavored gum for dieters. See, if it weren’t for CHEESE, I’d be a hell of a lot thinner. I can make do without meat, but if I go without cheese for a month I get the shakes. Brie- and camembert-flavored gum, please come and save me. Other people could chew Doritos gum, Sourdough Jack gum, filet mignon gum, etc.
Snappy comeback wetware implants. Fully indexed archive of 500,000 witty retorts, instantly beamed to my mouth whenever I’m harrassed by some jerk.
A device that will make it possible for me to fall instantly asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. I have a probably of my brain not shuting up and it makes it hard to fall asleep.
-Bondbirds, like in Mercedes Lackey’s books about the Hawkbrothers. I want a bird that talks to me in Mind Speech.
-Lightsabers.
-A chair that works your muscles so you can exercise and get fit just by sitting in it-there was one mentioned in a Star Wars novel. It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s just that I would prefer to be able to read while working out.
Wetware implants in general, I want to be able to access the web from anywhere, just by thinking about it. Also, that whole Matrix style downloading of knowledge would be cool.
Make that “Self Cleaning Holodecks” and I agree wholeheartedly. I mean, you know what MOST people would use it for. The Enterprise PA system must be sound alot like Kroger, “Cleanup in holodeck 6, bring mop, bucket and boots.”
Quark? Subtle? Must be mistaken. Though now that you mention it, I think I do remember him talking about how his has certain “settings” a little more lax than official Federation models.
I think he also mentioned installing the UberSqueegee 3000.
I would like the holodeck, too. But since that’s totally fantasy…
I’d like a small robot that follows my cats around and keeps them out of trouble. Don’t scratch that, get off the kitchen counter, use your litterbox, here’s more food… something that helps take care of their demands and lets me use my computer uninterrupted.
Speaking of robots, where are the robot-vacuums and dusters? One would think they could be built easily- use the home PC for the software, a long USB cable, and a non-tip base with articulated arms that can reach all points in the room.
I installed my first eReader (Mobipocket for PC) last night. Using it doesn’t feel more comfortable than reading a honking text file in WordPad, and reading an eBook (or any other large electronic document) is nowhere near as pleasurable or wieldy as holding a real book in my hands.
I wish someone would invent an eVolume: an electronic book-shaped appliance around 50 pages thick. The pages would be thin LCD or LED sheets, and there’d be a slot for a memory card or CD-ROM on which the eBook is stored. Insert the media, turn the book on, and the text is displayed on the “pages.” After turning the last page, the book jumps to the next appropriate section in the eBook file and displays the continuing text back on the first page.
I wand augmented tunable eyes, so that I can see in ultraviolet and infrared. According to a relatively-recent issue of Wired, this is close to reality.
How ‘bout “face lift in a pill”? Something that doesn’t necessarily make a 50 year old look twenty, but something that keeps you lookin’ decent and healthy.
Something that makes hair grow, like those old dolls where you lift the arm up and back down and hair comes out of the head. I wish I could just raise and lower my arm and have more hair.
Colour contacts that look natural with dark brown eyes.
How about a money tree? I wouldn’t mind having one in the backyard.
A fool-proof lie detector test that could be used by police and in the courts.
Like in the Matrix, where computers uploaded information to Neo and he instantly knew how to do certain things.
A computer with internet access “inside” my eyes so I could fool around online while at work. (It’s strictly forbidden.)
Easy and inexpensive cures for crippling diseases.
