Is that a good reason to not have this?
Many people accept their limitations and would welcome a backup. The kid could wear the device whenever it was dressed. And I suspect that there’s as many stressed and overworked people involved as careless ones
Hydrogen gas specifically, in a vessel surrounded by electric sparks.
I have no data on this, but I would guess that most deaths due to a baby being left in a car are not due to the parent “forgetting” that the baby is in the back seat, but deliberately leaving them in the car because they’ll “only be gone for a couple of minutes”. People who think that way are probably not going to even own a baby-temperature-monitor, let alone use one consistently.
Perhaps the baby monitor for the car could be integrated with the cell network or a system like OnStar. It could call/text a set of phone numbers when needed to send out an alert. That way the system could be active always and wouldn’t require the driver to remember something like a wrist strap.
A personal short-range tractor beam. For retrieving smallish things (cell phone, can of soda, keys) from across the room, on high shelves, on the floor, etc.
That is incorrect. Most child hot car deaths are not due to parents deliberately leaving them in the car. A parent would not typically intentionally leave a baby in a hot car, not even for a few minutes.
I’ve read about a number of these cases (they are easy to find on Google), and frequently they are because something in the parent’s routine has changed (like they are not the one who usually drives the baby to day care) and they literally skip the step where they drop the baby off.
Here’s one [in]famous case:
And here are some statistics:
That’s the #1 thing I think. With enough clean, cheap energy, a LOT of other stuff becomes feasible that isn’t right now, as well as the more conventional uses.
Barring that, I’d say even more significant advances in solar panel technology and off-line energy storage would be very welcome.
While we’re at it with genetically-engineered foods, let’s find the proteins that give cashews their flavor, and splice those genes into peanuts. Much easier to grow, harvest, and process, and therefore cheaper, than real cashews, but much tastier than peanuts.
The biggest problem with painkillers, that isn’t likely to be overcome, is addiction.
Thank you. There’s a aura of “these must be horrible stupid people for this to happen” around this that sounds a lot like “I’m better than them”
That’s a bad effect.
The other major problem with painkillers, semi-related, is that they can let you do things you otherwise would not, thereby causing yourself more harm due to the mask pain signals.
Narcotics, like like morphine, oxycodone, and fentanyl, function by attaching to opioid receptors located in the brain and spinal cord. When taken in therapeutic doses, they offer significant pain relief, and may also create a feeling of euphoria (what addicts crave). However, the line between a dose that alleviates pain and one that causes euphoria or, worse, leads to death (often due to respiratory failure) is extremely thin. The narrow therapeutic window of narcotic analgesics is the primary danger.
Ha… it takes 10 minutes for me to donate.
And then it takes me 20 minutes to recuperate.
I have an illogical fear of seeing blood. A phobia, I guess. I still donate when I have the opportunity, but I prep the nurse: “I am a fainter, do not let me see the blood”.
Fortunately the people who run the blood donations have seen it all, and know how to deal with me.
My eye doctor has that. It doesn’t give an exact prescription but it comes pretty close and drastically cuts down the amount of “Which is better, this or that?” you have to go through
Way back in 1975 I worked in a kitchen where they installed a conveyor dishwasher. No individual trays, the conveyor was basically a moving tray. They may make shorter ones, but the one in that kitchen was about 20 feet long. Way too big to fit into many kitchens.
Maybe I’m misremembering, but I thought automated umpires were in testing in some minor league and were going to be implemented in the majors soon. The machines would not actually replace umpires, since umpires have other tasks than to just call balls and strikes.
We need to invent a battery that harnesses your kinetic movement to provide a charge to your phone. Even if it just slows battery drain, it’d be useful to extend the life of your device.
More efficient desalinization would be really a boon for large numbers of people.
But a lot of countries with advanced tech labs (US, Germany, Japan, etc.) don’t have a dire need for it and countries with a big need and have the money (Saudi Arabia) have so much money that they don’t push the envelope all that much. Poor, dry nations just get left in the dust, so to speak.
Maybe a slow moving drum-type conveyor, which would have the advantage of not only being more compact but the place where you put in the dirty dishes would be at the same level as the place where you take out clean dishes. With an ultrasonic scrubbing section.
The invention I was instructed to design is a sort of light-throttle. What it would do is stabilize the light coming in your car windows so that when you are driving down a forested road in early morning or late afternoon, you are not hammered with the strobe effect of sun and shadow through he trees. I am still working on it.