A fully functional space station capable of housing our overflow. Or, barring that, a method for colonizing other planets. Sooner or later, it really will be “too late” if we can’t get our species off this rock.
I want an instant travel machine, ala Quantum Leap, but without the going back in time and without the put things right that once went wrong stuff.
I want to be able get off work on Friday, hit a button and arrive in Aruba in time for the sunset. Forgot my swimsuit! I’ll be right back, watch my drink? Hit a button arrive back in my own home.
No need for a hotel room.
immortality pills
Teletransporter (so I can go have lunch with my family in France during my break.)
A rain or water making machine for drought striken areas
A cure for sleep, or maybe just something to make it optional.
It isn’t that I don’t enjoy sleeping, but if it wasn’t compulsory, I’d do a lot less of it.
A business time machine and magic server dust. (ala the IBM commercials)
Just give me a five-minute “rewind” so I can go give that luser a good thunking before they enter a job devouring 89% of the CPU cycles for five hours and 3 GB of disk. Five minutes…that’s all I ask.
A cure for the common pimple.
Hair type replacements-so that the hair on my head would grow out red and curly and thick, instead of straight and dark brown and limp.
Mangetout I want the opposite - a cure for being awake. Something that enables me to fall asleep on demand.
Yeah, but if you didn’t get tired, would you still want to sleep every night?
A toilet seat for men’s rooms that is pneumatically controlled and goes back up when not in use. I can’t believe no one is marketing this…
Automatic sandwiches!
I second this!
Not exactly sure what you mean by this, but to my goggling surprise I saw frozen peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the grocery store yesterday.
Robot maids that look like attractive women.
Flying Cars
Cheap Space Travel
Cheap Cold Fusion- with this, we could also replace all of oil’s uses in the chemical industry, and all you need to make oil is energy and a hydrocarbon source.
Animatronic hair gel with little nanorobots that will constantly move your hair around in a pattern you can program with a remote control.
A guy I know has that, except he’s not in control of it because it’s a magical combination of grease and lice.
The ability to switch off the human habit of getting used to things/getting bored with things.
[crunch]
[munch munch munch]
Got milk?
Hundreds and hundreds of mindless Jolene Blalock clones.
i’m waiting for someone to engineer an amoeba-type critter that:
[ul]* cannot reproduce itself
- has limited mobility capabilities
- eats 10-20 fat cells and then either dies or returns to its point of original insertion so it can be removed.[/ul]
i’m thinking these little guys will be the best thing since lyposuction. they get injected into the body in carefully measured, spaced and placed locations, and start munching. fat cells are removed, so they can’t keep reproducing themselves. critters aren’t too mobile and can’t reproduce, so they can’t run amok in places where they don’t belong in your body. and they have a limited lifespan, so they shouldn’t pose a long-term threat
i’ll even settle for nanites, if someone wants to engineer teeny tiny fat-harvesting bots.
hell, i’ll give up the patent rights if you just put me at the head of the line for the process (once it’s been thoroughly tested and approved, of course).
lachesis