Moving sidewalks. I constantly wanted moving sidewalks in summer camp. Thought they just made sense.
I had an idea for some sort of drinking device that would change the flavor of the water inside to whatever flavor you chose.
Somehow I thought, and it really seemed to make sense at the time, that the problem with the 5 1/4 " floppy disks was that they were square (obviously I was a good kid, because if I had opened one up, I would have seen otherwise). I figured that square meant you could get an exact measurement of the sides. But if it was a circle then you could never get an exact measurement of the surface area (I guess because of the irrational nature of pi), always allowing you more room to put a little bit more on the disk. Made sense at the time.
A shoot 'em up type video game in which you controlled the action as if you were looking through the protagonist’s eyes! Apparently, the pinnacle of my imaginary technology peaked at Castle Wolfenstein.
[sub]Well, that and personal jet-packs so practical they’d eliminate cars altogether.[/sub]
A more personalized mass transit system - like little tram cars just big enough for 4 people or so. You get in put in your destination and it would calculate the best route on a track system.
High speed trains - I guess were getting to that now.
I always wished for, and still do, something a bit odd. I call them molecular cubes. They would be small glass cubes about 1 inch on all sides, that would be translucent. You would be able to “Capture” anything in them for later use. Like i could put my car in there, and then transfer to wherever I would like, and then by some mechanism, have the object contained therein return to its original shape, size, etc.
In other words, I think it would be cool to shrink stuff.
How funny, I also wanted this. I think it was from watching The Jetsons.
I also wanted a record player for cars, so you could play your records in a car. Only rich* people had 8-track players in their cars, so I figured record players for cars would bring music on demand to us common folk.
*as determined by a five year old’s view of “rich”
Flyin’ Cars
Time Travel
Computer Simulations
30 hour work week
Grass that stopped growing at the height you would have cut it
Housepaint and carpet that self-maintained its newness forever
Chicago to Grandma’s house (275 miles) in the blink of an eye
Video telephone
Colonies on the moon
Less pollution
No asthma
Food, clothing and shelter for everyone who wanted it
Heh. I did the very same thing when I was a kid. Of course, I also made the “Di-di-di-di-di” noise from The Bionic Woman when I ran.
And that’s what I wanted when I was a kid. To be the Bionic Woman. Or at the very least have a bionic arm. I truly thought that by the time I was an adult that sort of thing would be readily available to whoever wanted to become bionic.
A school book I had at one point in early elementary school (84’ or 85’ )said we’d get those, and I’m still waiting for them. Especially since I grew up to be someone who hates to drive. Of course, the book also said we’d run out of fossil fuels within 30 years, which is the figure I’m still hearing people use nearly two decades later…
I also wanted driveways and walkways that would not allow snow to stick to them- and still be affordable. I’ve been a snow-hater most of my life
Transporters, ala Star Trek. My dad is from Massachusetts and my mom is from Louisiana. Where to live was a constant battle when I was a kid, which nearly caused my parents to divorce a couple of times. I wanted us to be able to live wherever we wanted to, visit both families without driving for 3 days, and go to school in Alief, Texas where my friends (and the good schools) were.
