Teleports
MSK I love the cloning gun idea but just think if that were true imagine how many Backstreet Boys would be running around this world? (Though I wouldn’t mind my own Kevin…)
What would happen to them once you didn’t like them anymore?
And what might happen to the real them?
not meaning to put a damper on things is just asking
I wish the entire internet had the AOL function where you can check to see if someone has opened your mail, and if they have not, you can choose to delete it. Brilliant.
I would also love a “reverse microwave.” And a microwave
clothes dryer (why hasn’t someone invented one?).
A calorie-killing pill, so I could eat anything I
want without consequences.
Nanites. You know, microscopic machines that could manufacture things on a molecualr level.
Waste and pollution would be altered into fabrics and materials that are useful.
Nanites in the bloodstream would be an excellent way to be cybernetic: invisible, those little critters would: remove toxins; help kill viruses and other foreign bodies; rework my nervous system and musculature to be stronger; faster, and better. Enough of them in my arms would enable me to mentally comand them to come to the surface of my skin, and form various tools or weapons, like the T1000
(The movie Virtuosity also shows some of what I’m thinking about).
They’re really working on microwave clothes dryers. The big stumbling block is all the metal in clothes (jeans rivets, snaps, buckles, buttons). They’ll probably figure it out one’a these days.
I want an undersea home, like the one in the movie “Hello Down There.”
*Annie-Xmas: And a microwave
clothes dryer (why hasn’t someone invented one?). *
Actually, I sometimes use my microwave for drying socks. Depending on how wet they are, I nuke them for 1-2 minutes, take them out (carefully, cuz they’re hot), and toss them around to let the water evaporate off. Then I repeat until they’re dry enought to wear.
i’ve dreamed up a couple things and seen them reach actuality stage. ferinstance: cross between old-fashioned jukebox and disk drive (back in the tedious days when information all got stored on floppies, and you had to keep loading and unloading them). TA-DA! meet the multi-CD changer. too bad i wasn’t the genius who actually got the patent. :: sigh ::
my latest wish: biologically-based lyposuction. develop some little cellular critter that cannot reproduce outside the test tube, can be injected into specific body sites, doesn’t migrate, eats around 50 or so fat cells, dies and gets purged from the body like any other regular waste product. anyone with a science background, feel free to take the idea and run with it. i only insist that i get a free treatment when you’ve got it all perfected.
Teleportation device.
Personal flying device.
A device that will take my not-mint-condition comics and baseball cards and restore them to mint.
I’m sure I can think of more, but that’ll do for now…
I’d settle for a teleporter and some good biological nanotech myself.
Teleporter is obvious (and chosen by lots of use already), but bionan (pardon me while I appreviate) could be even better. Clean out arteries, fix teeth and bones, get rid of dirt, keep those fat deposits under control – having a set of little “housekeepers” is just what I need.
That cool-ass device Montgomery Burns fabricated to block out the sun and bring darkness to the human race.
A magical ring which would transport me at will between this world and my own private planet somewhere millions of LYs away.
A patent for an Orbiting Magnetic Power Plant which would harness electricity by dragging large steel cables through the atmosphere generating unlimited, clean electricity.
The ability to mind-meld - sex would be preposterously pleasurable.
A license to kill.
Bag of Holding.
Bullet-proof legs.
Invisible glass.
Talking fingernails which would give me good advice and say, “Good Job, Buddy!” from time to time.
If you get tired of a clone, just put him/her back into the cloning machine for recycling.
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Absolutely nothing. Unless of course your clone overrides his/her programming and decides to “eliminate” the real person and assume their identity.
A really good quality, American made left-handed electric guitar for under $500.
An electric Dodge Viper w/ no performance loss.
I want a device that knows where every single thung I own is, and can beam it directly to me as I type it’s name on my keyboard
Here keys, c’mon keys, where are ya?
Credit where it’s due Bucky gave me a big smile.
By MagicalSilverKey:
Oh my god, please let this one come true. Name any price, I’ll pay it. Please, please, please!
Teleportation, spaceships, cloning, holodecks. And what gets me excited? A feline depilatory.
This one is a “must-have”, for all die hard Dopers, click the link http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23171
Aside from all the medical and sci-fi stuff mentioned before, I’d like a simple home shop laser saw. Goodness, its 2000 already, where the devil are they? I know there are industrial-size laser saws available, and have been for years. But can you get one at your local Home Depot? No…
Why? Is there a conspiracy among DeWalt, Porter-Cable, Delta, Dremel, etc. to get you to buy all kinds of specialized saws instead of one laser saw (which would work on all materials, would leave a nice clean cut with minimal waste, handle any size and shape piece, etc.), or is it because they can’t invent an idiot-proof guard (sorry, ‘near-idiot’ proof guard - idiots are too clever to thwarted in their ways).
I’d like to be able to shoot laser beams out of my eyes to strike down my enemies.
I want a tasp. It’s the ultimate pacifist weapon: direct stimulation of the pleasure centre of the brain from a distance. Disable your opponent with ecstasy…
(Also works on annoying yappy loserdogs like the ones across the street…)
I could use a landspeeder, as in Star Wars. And my own SSTO spacecraft, as well. And a citywide setup of puppeteer teleportation discs.
And some way to conveniently and securely remeber all the &^^%$#@ passwords I’m encumbered with!
But what I really want to know is, where’s my flying car?
Let’s hope those people over at Moller International http://www.moller.com/skycar/ get the FAA’s butts in gear and we get the automatic guidance system to go with it…
Rigardu, kaj vi ekvidos.
I want what every geeky 20-something guy wants. A teleporter to get to and from work or college without commuting, to travel to London or Sydney when I’m bored, or to explore the cosmos when I get sick of this planet. A machine that can exercise my body, especially my abs, while my mind relaxes in VR. A Heward’s Handy Haversack-like extradimensional pocket in my jacket. Little robot mice to clean up my apartment and keep track of where I put things. A portable data crystal containing all the books, music, and movies ever made in the past, present and future. Medical nanorobots in my blood stream carefully modifying my DNA to prevent aging, so that I live for about eight hundred years. Electronic intelligence amplification devices so that I can learn new languages in an hour, instantly remember any exact quotation by searching a database, or perform high-end superstring equations in my head. And, of course, a Japanese cybernetic razorgirl with genetically engineered cat’s eyes who genuinely loves me and with whom I share an unbreakable telepathic bond.