Oh, snap! Very good repartee.
As for my trivial problem, I have to second the finding glasses. I do this about every other night: Remove contacts. Become practically blind. Forget where glasses are. Go searching. Ask SO. (they are always in one of three places. But then I have to go searching in each place).
Mmm…can’t think of anything else at the moment, but if I do, I’ll be back.
Drink trays? They’re not that great, but they’re better than nothing.
Eeee-zackly. Good work, Colophon.
Not quite an invention… but it would make more sense to me if women’s pants were sized by actual measurements rather than a seemingly random number. There should be a standard… It’s rediculous. One brand’s size “0” is another brand’s “4”.
Or they should label them as they do men’s pants: Waist and inseam measurements… though from my observation not all 30/32’s are alike either.
That iritates me. :mad: We need a standard!
I wish someone would invent tangle-proof headphone wires. I wrap mine around my CD player, but by the time I take it out of my gym bag the next day, they’ve fallen off and are all wrapped together like some headphone orgy went on. I spent good money on those things - I’d like to not spend 5 minutes untangling and untwisting them every day.
I’m right with you here. So, a simple remote device, and you key in your “losties” to ring, like a phone, when you can’t find them. Tv remote and keys could have an easily attachable beepy ringer; glasses more problematic, small chip attached that would label you as Muy Stupido prone. I’m willing to live with that, though, cause it’s the morning I tend to lose track of glasses. Could detach it as the day goes on.
Let’s call it The Assiminator, master tool for essential items prone to misplacement.
A one-hand, combination key board and mouse which will work with one’s non-dominant hand. 
It also needs to automatically lock the door into the room. And fetch a box of tissues.
Err… you mean like this? Or this? Or this? Or possibly even this? Do they not have these where you are? 
Those things are called cup carriers (check here) and they always use them at ballparks and a lot of times at take-outs.
Have you looked into the Belkin Nostromo n52 game pad ?
Bill just recently prevailed in a long-running patent dispute over the FAT. I think this will spur other entities to come up with a better mousetrap.
Mine: My dog’s food has an additive to reduce the size of her poo.
Why isn’t there a human food additive that eliminates the need to wipe?
Looks like more than one person has the same idea.
A beeper for the remote control, like they have on telephones. You’d press a button on the TV or DVD player or whatever and the remote control would beep so that you could find it.
A full-body Orgasmatron. Is that asking too much?
I’m sure I’ve seen earphones where the cable winds up onto a reel to stop this happening. Of course, then you have to spend time reeling and unreeling them…
If you have problems with those round laces, try an alternative knot tying technique. I prefer “Ian’s Secure Shoelace Knot”, from a website that is more evidence that for any weird little bit of knowledge, there’s a site out there devoted totally to it.
Just ran for several miles last night with my Nikes tied in that fashion. The annoying round laces never once loosened up.
I just checked Google, and there are about a thousand of them. :smack: I guess I just never looked that closely in the store.
I’d like to see a remote control battery door that can’t be separated from the device. Some mysterious person keeps discarding ours and the batteries fall out. Why -why- why?
Maybe this is just something that happens with my family.
A non-tangling phone cord. I’ve bitched about this for decades.
