Dehydrated water that you keep in the freezer. Just add water.
I would like to stick to stupid ideas, and not the silly impossible joke ideas, please.
My brothers all think my new exercise device is a waste of time and a dumb idea, but I see it as a novel idea, and it has transformed my life in less than 6 months. I am convinced it could do $100,000,000 in annual sales. Lack of a fabrication shop and the funds to have it done have put the project into a state of limbo. I am debating whether to forget about the patent and start posting videos or hold out a little longer in case someone comes along with resources I don’t have.
Developing polymers of deceptive texture and odor; fake turds to smuggle drugs.
An improvement on the chemistry-based Ludovic Technique, essentially just a pharmaceutical truncheon, would be the application of AI and nanotechnology.
Nanobots are already being developed to clean the arteries, mend detached retinas, even maintain and regulate glandular secretions. Let’s apply them to behavioral health. Predictive AI plus microsecond analysis of mood changes, as when you’re about to take an unwise risk in traffic or crack an inappropriate joke at work, thwarted with a loud “DON’T!”
Way back in the 70’s , I actually saw an ad that did this.
In the back pages of a cheap porno magazine, there was an ad with lots of exclamation points promising that you will improve your sexual performance by taking one little pill!
“These Placebo pills are guaranteed!!!
They work with the scientific “Placebo effect”, a medical technique tested by doctors at famous universities!!!”
Order your Placebo Pills today!!!
Those little grip strength trainers… rig one up so as you squeeze it starts a small weighted flywheel spinning which also generates power. Put a usb port on the side and you have a portable hand powered phone charger.
I used to have two spring-type clothespins that I had glued together at the handles. One clothespin would be clipped to the AC vent in my car and then the other would hold a candy bar so it would stay cool. I did this because I found that putting a candy bar anywhere else would let it get soft, or even melted. (This was back when we had bench seats and no console.) It worked pretty well even if the vent was just blowing air.
I’m sure we could make a much nicer one using a 3D printer.
Mine’s a sort of 21st century pager. Just a keyboard and minimal text-based screen and the ability to send and receive SMS texts.
Market it toward tween and teen parents who want the ability to communicate with their children without setting them loose with an internet enabled phone. (even “dumb” phones have browsers these days)
Some sort of smell adapter for the internet. A device that holds thousands of small samples of odor compounds that are triggered by some sort of code that activates the right combination to represent a smell. I thought maybe it could be used for recipes or restaurants, or even sites that sell soaps, air fresheners, candles, etc. But really it would just be used for porn.
I used to have a little LED emergency flashlight with a crank handle to generate the power. It also had a USB port. It barely worked as a flashlight, sucked as an emergency phone charger.
Topless Barber Shops. I figured they would be money making machines. Someone opened one in Vegas and proved me right.
Barbershops with booze are not unheard of in places where topless is a bit much for local tastes.
I saw that China has developed flying cars that right now are only affordable for the rich. I think that this is a really dumb idea for the general public (or anyone, for that matter) and can only imagine the total mayhem that would ensue if the ordinary Joe owned them.
I’ve been buying 29 length jeans for as long as I can remember.
How is greatly reducing the number of millionaires a dumb idea?
I once ordered a gin and tonic on a JetBlue flight, and I was given a packet of powdered lime flavoring with it instead of an actual lime wedge. And @Czarcasm already established that alcohol powder exists. And it probably wouldn’t be hard to get the quinine flavor of the tonic in powder form. Just combine all those, and you’ve got a powdered gin and tonic. Just add water! (you wouldn’t get the carbonation, though). It would be like Kool-Aid packets for adults.
I bet airlines would love the idea. Rather than stocking a bunch of mini liquor bottles and mixers, they could just stock a bunch of cocktail packets the passengers could mix with water.
See, I thought the gimmick with homeopathy was that they water down the medicine like crazy, and claim that so diluting the medicine makes it work so good you guys oh my gosh.
What I had in mind was watering down not medicine — not even watering down vitamins, or even milk — but just watering down, uh, water? Or maybe just some food coloring?
Not a trace amount of medicine left over: we end with zero, because we proudly start with zero; that’s our promise to you, the consumer.
Flying taxis; not really meant for perspnal ownership. Soon to be flying computer-flown taxis.
Lotta companies in USA & Europe pursuing the same dream. More slowly and extensively of course.
Youtube is full of vids of rich Chinese driving very badly. Getting them into automated overgrown quadcopter deathtraps might be an improvement in their survival rate.
That’s actually illegal nowadays. Maybe homeopathy is a way to skirt the issue, IDK.
Before they were banned, there was actually a product called “Obecalp.”