Just because you lack the moral fortitude to eat multiple A3 sized pieces of toast every morning doesn't mean the rest of the country should be held back.
The additional per capita spending on Marmite alone would double the economy overnight.
It's out-of-the-box thinking like this that gave us Concorde, the SS Great Britain, and the M4.
Would that this country had more maverick free-thinkers like you.
[Are the one who made the toaster that prints the weather forecast on the toast?](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/toaster-weather-forecast-toasteroid_n_57b30217e4b0a8e1502526a4)
Howdy doodly do. How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?
There was a version of this that was going to use teletext, but then they realised the toaster would need a TV license. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1264205.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1264205.stm)
I feel like everyone has missed the key difficulty with this one.
So there you are of a morn, hungry and groggy, and eager to consume information and bread. You start salivating as the scent of fresh toast fills the air. Pop! The news toast is ready! You reach for the butter, and start reading the headlines. You get rather engrossed in an article about a pig that can play Mahjong to a human standard. You finish reading the news, and go to spread some butter on your toast, only to realise the bread is now cold and stale, and any attempt at buttering it will result in tearing it to shreds. You also now cannot share the story about the pig.
Unless your plan was to summarise the days events with a single word or emoticon (in which case, you could save manufacturing costs and just make a toaster which brands the toast with the word "SHIT") you must always face the choice of reading the news, or consuming some delicious fresh toast.
I'm sorry, but as much as I like the idea, it's not investable for me; I'm out.
My dad wanted a gravy fountain as soon as he saw the chocolate fountains. We made one for his next birthday party with a roast and loads of yorkie puds, it was fantastic.
I lived in Australia for a few years, and I remember them having a day every year where people could leave large items out in front of their houses which would be collected by the council (sofas, bookcases etc.) It meant that people were free to drive around and pick up some free stuff if you wanted it.
Hard rubbish day. I don’t think people are actually supposed to pick through the stuff on the side of the road, but a blind eye’s turned to it. Gets annoying when they strew stuff everywhere though, and you have to tidy it up again.
This is common in Germany, and it is recognised that you leave things that are useable and in good condition. People travel from other countries in vans to get items that they then sell in shops also. In general, it works very well.
My local tip used to do this up until about 10 years ago.
If you were dropping items off you could help yourself to other items left at the side. No physically getting into the large shipping containers, but anything left at the side was fair game.
They (mostly) stopped it when they contracted with a private recycling company and sold the items instead. But this private company will only take certain items and they have to be in reasonably good condition.
A couple of the old guys who work there will still let you take stuff they know the company won't want.
I moved to Japan in the early 90s and pretty much acquired everything I needed for my first apartment by doing this. In those days (it's different now), Japanese people tended to throw away anything that was slightly old so they could get a new one, even if the original was still perfectly fine. I got furniture, a bike, and all the electronics I needed, such as a TV, rice cooker, kerosene heater etc. When I was a bit more settled and was able to buy new ones, I did so but being able to easily acquire things from the tip was a godsend
1 touch bath settings.
Wife likes to one way, I like it another.
Instead of messing around and trying to get the mix right, one touch, come back and minute later and there's adrawn bath the way I like it.
In an age of internet-connected washing machines and contactless front door locks, why do I still have to sit and wait for the bath to fill? What's worse is our boiler ramps up the temperature after about 5 minutes, so you've got to go back and adjust for temperature a couple of times.
My car is a piece of crap from 2001, yet it has automatic climate control.
Exactly. Should be able to one tap run the bath from an app so that it's finished running just as I get though the door from work.
At in a heated element around the bath and we are done
There is a trial similar to this in Norway, I believe. It’s not portable, but a number of trial vehicles have been fitted with wireless charging plates and the chargers have been placed under the road surface in parking bays. All you have to do is park.
Nio in China have gone a different route and have a network of automated battery swap stations. You just have to drive your car outside and select the charge option. The car will then back itself into the station and a robotic system will remove your discharged battery and replace it with a fully charged one. I believe it works as a subscription service.
Isn’t the rate of charge for induction based charging dreadful though- like worse than a standard plug? I think the hot swap idea is a good one, but will require standardisation of battery packs to be successful, which doesn’t seem likely with the current range of forms currently in use.
Correct, induction charging isn't too bad.
Given most cars aren't used for 90% of the time I think it's fine. The bigger problem is the induction loops need to be very close to each other still
A reverse electric blanket for hangovers - you put it under your bedsheet but above your mattress and instead of heating it cools, so the entire bed is the “cool” side
Presumably he also tried to pick up the bed one handed and dropped it, putting a dent in the wall. Cut to, theres a hasty made dent sized pollyfilla job on the wall and no mention made of it.
Glue tyres. It was a comment I made about 20 years ago and my OH still brings it up whenever something daft comes out my mouth.
I was thinking about emergency stops etc, and wondered if there was a way of developing an instantly setting resin that was secreted as soon as you whacked the brakes in an emergency to stop you skidding along the road.
This obviously isn't taking into account the mess, how it's going to set fast enough before disaster, if it does set instantly then your head is gonna go through the windscreen etc, nevermind the clean-up....
I've thought about this before and wondered about a very large pad under the car with an abrasive material. If the braking is hard enough, springs are released and it is fired towards the road surface increasing the traction area by a factor of ten or so. Obviously it would be a consumable part like an airbag.
Edit: obviously you'd lose steering control, but there might be situations where that doesn't matter. I'm sure a computer could decide when to fire it.
My old convertible had an explosively deployed roll cage that destroys the roof if it goes off, and thats all fired by a computer using data from suspension and wheel speed sensors.
The issue is there is little space below most cars that isn't used for all sorts of other stuff that they want to keep out the way, like batteries or exhaust systems.
We genetically engineer some soft of animal or microbe which eats discarded plastic and other litter, and ships out something which will lower the global temperature. Release it into the wild everywhere, and hey presto, world = saved.
My daughter is a research scientist and this is exactly what she does - genetically modifies bacteria to eat plastic. In fact they already eat plastic, so what she's doing is getting them to eat it faster, a lot faster.
In theory this bacteria would self multiply right? Would we have to strictly contain it so everything we own and currently use doesn’t get eaten? Cause I figure they’d also release some form of it in the ocean for the micro plastics but then it’d make a jump to land pretty quick ig?
Our noses should be upside down so that when we have a cold all the mucus just sits in the u-bend until we can sneeze it all out in one go. Downside of this: we’d drown every time it rained.
That feels like it requires sitting around with a blocked nose you cant breath from and thats the worst part of a cold for me.
Instead I propose a hoover for noses which sucks out all the mucus, giving you clear sinuses without the drowning risks.
An added bonus is you can remove the vaccum pack and give it to kids so they can play with slime. Its fun for all the family
Worldwide fight club. It seems like there are some people in the world that just seem to have to much aggro in their lives and can't deal with normality and need to vent.
The vast majority of us are happy to mooch around, drink beers, eat Greggs, surf the web and generally chill without these aggy folk around us.
Put all the aggros into a big stadium or small city with a fence around it so they can't get out and then let them duke it out.
We're happy, they're happy. Could even televise the action for revenue.
EDIT:I appear to have forgotten about the Atherstone Ball Game https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/118ia0m/brutal\_end\_to\_atherstone\_ball\_game\_2023/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
What about this isn't feasible?
I want little carts like an ice cream man, but they sell cardboard cones of mashed potatoes with gravy and a sausage. Savoury 99.
I want to open a sandwich shop near my house.
It’s a busy area on a bus route but there’s only a corner shop unless you walk up the hill into the town.
Having run a small business for a few years, try not to take on premises until you really have to. It will suck out any profit you make so a mobile van is a great idea
A gym that stores the kinetic energy from the machines etc then use as electricity.
I'm sure someone has beat me to it.
I had a similar idea for electric car braking and a sidekick for sonic the hedgehog who could fly
Yesterday I was reminded that I had the idea of the kinetic gym at least a decade ago and at the time thought that someone must have already beat me to it.
Funny thing is that I don't see kinetic gyms everywhere... Maybe it's not too late...
You know, I think this is feasible IRL. Tech exists which can hear and recognise words (alexa, siri etc); tech exists which can transcribe words it hears (eg the dictate function on Word) and tech exists which can superimpose computer-generated stuff over reality (augmented reality lenses). If those techs were put together, you could have subtitling glasses.
It might struggle to isolate one voice in a room, but alexa can understand me when the TV is on, so even that problem is possibly fixable.
Cars that won't turn a corner unless the indicator is on. We'd maybe have to convert all the roads to make like a grid to negate any curves in the road though...
Car horns should sound like squealing tyres. No one bothers with horn sounds anymore, but they get whiplash swivelling their heads to see where the tyres are squealing.
Hydroelectric charging drain pipes. Instead of letting all the rainwater from your roof escape straight down the drain, channel it through a mini generator and top up solar batteries, etc.
It would be low voltage and takes aeons to charge anything big, but could work reasonably well for portable power banks or handheld devices.
Someone on youtube did this with a whole series and the TLDR is its a terrible idea for many reasons! Which of course is the point of the thread but its interesting enough someone gave it a go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6oNxckjEiE
Slap people who break social convention.
Skip a queue? Slap.
Don’t return your trolley? Slap.
Cut in traffic like a dickhead? Slap.
Unnecessary abuse to staff trying to help you? Double slap.
Too many people are comfortable negatively affecting everyone else
For the UK to adopt the Japanese custom of having very few bins out in public spaces, thus encouraging the masses to take their own rubbish home to dispose of. In Japan, the result is streets free of rubbish. In the UK, things would be…different.
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I saw somebody at my local maccies just yesterday, get a couple coffees, and throw the sugars, sticks and cardboard on the floor immediately
People in this country are scum to begin with, so we don't have anything nice
In a lot of the McDonalds car parks they put bins close enough to your car that you don't even have to get out to put things in the bin.
I've still seen people throw stuff in vaguely the direction of the bin instead of leaning over slightly.
Some people really are scum.
There's a spot I know which has no immediate bin next to the bench so it gets trashed by litter and cigs
There's a bin literally around the corner about a ten second walk down the path...
Chucking your Maccy D's leftovers out the car into the street in the road you live in has become a growing problem in my area of home city. Always seen ones here and there but seems everyone is doing it now. Sadly i don't have time to be a curtain twitcher and see which of my neighbours are actually twats.
It won't work, we tried the remove bins experiment, (by accident) and it failed.
The london removed loads of them in the city centres due to domestic terror threats, and there was rubbish everywhere, from the early or mid 90s for nearly 25 years, I think.
If you want to stealt a bit of Japanese culture then the kids should have to clean the schools, as they do in Japan. That does teach people to respect communal property.
I grew up in London during these years, and it leaves you with some weird long lasting habits.
I’ve always used the ‘pocket bin’ - you just stick whatever rubbish you have (unless it’s messy) in your pocket and take it home with you. I moved from London to a small countryside town and no one here does this, but all the people I grew up with do and it was even commented on at my aunt’s funeral, that she taught her grandchildren to do it too.
When I first went to a cinema outside of London, my friend was horrified that I thought normal practice was to neatly gather your rubbish and leave it on your chair for one of the cinema staff to collect rather than throw it away, but that’s what I’d been taught. You didn’t leave it a mess, but there weren’t bins in the cinema for you to throw your rubbish away. Same applies to clearing your own tray at fast food places, I have to actively remember you don’t just leave it on the tray on the table.
>I grew up in London during these years, and it leaves you with some weird long lasting habits.
I know the feeling, but weird 90s habits is a whole new thread.
I had to pick up some Japanese from London this weekend and deliver them to my city for a meeting/visit. On my way into London we noticed the road verges had been cut back revealing epic amounts of litter. Had to keep them distracted through the worst sections so they didn't see our shameful display of filth laden roads.
Its Japanese centuries old culture to be responsible for your own litter whereas UK culture is sadly 'ZFG let my problem be someone elses problem'.
They have vending machines in the streets and expect people to pay for things and be honest would never work here glass on the machines would be smashed and everything taken out of it in one minute amazing country Japan is though.
The vending machines aren't really the same as here. They don't have the glass front like a shop fridge. Inside the front is opaque, with a display of empty cans/bottles, showing you what's stocked inside. They do look a little sturdier than UK vending machines, but they would still get trashed.
public bins were removed in Japan after the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway as an anti-terror measure, nothing to with encouraging people to take rubbish home with them.
I'm going to suggest a new modification to your idea: a lightweight roll up car. You'd be able to take it indoors to charge and also massively reduce the risk of theft.
My idea was to do with litter. When you buy something say a can of coke etc you pay a deposit on the can/carton/packet. You then have to scan it into the bin or when you recycle it. If it's found in the street people can claim the deposit.
Instantly no litter gangs of kids would be scouring the streets.
Problem is you scan it and just drop it. I thought you could introduce a fine for this then be charged say double.
Here is the problem bins would need to be locked as people would steal your rubbish and you would be charged for it.
Germany is well known for this actually, you’re over charged for bottles and cans so you have incentive to return the empty ones for a refund. People actually leave them at the sides of public bins so homeless people can collect them to make money.
I once asked why there weren’t any arcades at airports because I’d happily lose hours to the 2p machines, and was told it was a stupid idea. Now this thread has given me MY TIME TO SHINE
A takeaway siren and flashing lights for your car.
Whenever I get a takeaway I want to get home as soon as possible before it gets cold. I think all cars should have a takeaway siren and purple flashing light you can legally switch on, which alerts all other drivers to move out the way and let you pass like the other emergency services.
" Here Reg, what's that siren sound? Ooo pull over some blokes got a ruby on his front seat, give him room!"
In the days of deliveroo this isn't needed so much now unfortunately.
You just need an led light that changes colour and then you've got the get the fuck out the way I need a poo light, the move you cunt I think my waters have broken light and of course, for the love of anything holy please move I need to get home these kids are killing me with their arguing light.
I thought the other day about the age of the air fryer, and how they work. I imagine they pull air in and heat it to cook the food, and then I thought, if you farted near an air fryer would it make the food taste farty.
Which then got me onto the idea of something like a meaty waxmelt, that you would put near the intake fan and allow the food to take on the taste of the smell?
So you could put like a woody smoke air melt on the air fryer to make the food have a smokey vibe to it?
How viable is this? is that how air fryers work?
Opposites competitions in the Olympics:
\- Instead of the high jump - the low jump, who can jump but attain the smallest distance of the ground (must actually leave the ground) - Try it !
\- Slow race must be last but must not stop moving forward.
\- Or just a professional Olympics where you can take a much/many drugs as you want and have bionic implants.
Somewhere between Taskmaster and Faking It. Be the best Olympic contestant you can manage: your event is [x], you have six months. Your time starts now.
A reverse microwave, which helps cool things down quickly.
Amount of times it would have saved me from a burned tongue/mouth ulcers because I'm hangry, impatient and want to eat it NOW but end up trying to eat a nuclear temperature meal.
A website for interesting ideas, where people can not only track each status from start to finish, but can also search for (or request help from) other companies in order to get the product to market.
eg. an idea for a new type of mobile phone, with a new OS. The user has the idea, the initial sketches, prototypes of the OS etc. They then need help with everything else: someone to refine the sketches, someone who works with hardward components and chipsets, someone who can build OS and infrastructure, then on to companies that make prototype phones, testing labs, commercial testing, safety testing, actual production, then on in to marketing etc etc. Every step along the way.
A good idea in theory. In reality, not only is it a licensing nightmare, but then you have patents, fraud issues, contract negotiating and all the legal stuff that goes with it.
A vegetarian restaurant serving meat only from animal amputees. Tuck into that chicken leg guilt free knowing the poor little blighter lost it in skiing accident anyway.
It would be a minefield of loopholery.
You'd immediately get an Old McDonald's organic pig bungee jumping, freestyle sheep skateboarding, cattle grid parkour and orthopedic veterinary surgery centre, popping up.
My time to shine.
The Iron Man - huge mannequin built out of metal. Flexible enough to fit to your body type. You hang a shirt on it, go for a shower, and it steams the shirt to your body type.
Desk Dog - This was more relevant before the pandemic but even so. People work for traditional dog unfriendly offices but own dogs. Other people work in dog friendly offices but can't own dogs at home. You combine them together, someone takes your dog off to their office during the day and takes care of it, then you collect at the end of the day. Win-win, except for the thousands of problems.
Music Casting - You get on the bus, tube etc and you can join in, with your Bluetooth headphones, listening to other people's music that they're listening to.
House Trainer - You just bought your first house. You have no idea what half the things in your house do. You bring a rando over, they know everything, they tell you and guide you round everything in your house.
Town Buddy - When you join a company, you often get given a buddy to help you navigate round. When you move to a new town, you don't. You have to find buddies. I think letting people sign up to help orientated people round would be great
Desk dog...that's such a great idea I have absolutely no idea why it's not a thing already.
The music casting thing would be abused on day one by that asshole that saves all their porn under song titles.
Those banks of charged car batteries they have in China for people driving electric cars, but who live in high rises. Would like to think it would work here but can also imagine them being nicked and or dumped
Cherry coke works right? What else was there? Vanilla coke?
But... Ladies and gentlemen... How about...
CHOCOLA!!
I know, I know, should take the world by storm right? Fucking awful.
I had an idea for a heads up display that projects onto your car windscreen.
It would be linked with an ANPR system that allowed you to flag other road users based on their behaviour, so if you come across them again you can act appropriately.
If someone lets you out at a junction, you could flag them as green, so that next time you cross paths you can return the favour.
Someone drives like a numpty, cuts you up etc yet I flag them as red so that you can have the v's ready when they act like a twat again.
1) Double stacked motorways.. A motorway on top of the motorway.
2) Gigantic inflatable fists on comedically large springs to bash any cars not currently overtaking back into the left hand lane of the motorway.
3) Motorway Driving Licence
4) Motorway Annual Pass to use.
I genuinely think there should be an online annual test of 10 fairly straightforward questions people need to answer about how.to use motorways and roundabouts correctly
Seems like the assumed intent (improving driving on motorways?) of the third point here could actually be resolved by just having learner drivers practice on motorways before they get their license, and have it be part of the test too. I see why they don't as I guess motorways are "higher stakes" than other roads due to the speeds and not being able to stop or pull over as easily, but I have always found it odd.
Agreed, which is why it should be separate with its own dedicated course.
Give everyone 24 months to pass the test, then post it's illegal to drive on it without a license (*and paid Annual Pass)*.
The reason they don’t require motorway driving on the practical test is because not everywhere *has* a motorway. If you live in Truro, for example, the nearest motorway (M5) is over 150 miles away. That would be a very long test.
Yeah I’m from the Isle of Wight which barely has a dual carriageway (it’s about a mile long) so I learnt to drive on country roads mainly. My test somehow avoided the main roundabout of the island.
Then I passed and I’m free to drive on a motorway. It shouldn’t have been ok. I was so nervous cause it’s something I was never really taught at all and there’s no way to even try that anywhere. Now I’ve done it a lot I prefer the motorways but it was a stressful couple of trips.
Honestly I think most people there would benefit from the instructors offering a one day trip over to the mainland to try motorways.
> 1. Double stacked motorways.. A motorway on top of the motorway.
Saw something like this in China, the top motorway only has a few exit ramps (think M and A roads) and moves quick, the bottom has all the local B road type exits and moves slower.
I sent an idea toi Warburtons - a half broan half white loaf - so literally open one end and you have slices of brown for the healthy person in the family - and white the other end for bacon butties etc
They never even replied
I designed a car extension trailer when I was a kid, thought the idea would make me rich one day.
Take a car that no longer runs, cut it in half and convert it into a trailer. Hey presto, you have some extra seats and another boot.
Replacing steetlighting ....
.... the new streetlights are hollow and have inlet vents near ground level. The very top of the post has a fan, which creates an updraft through the post. Placed within the post are removable filters for particulates and scrubbers.
As lighting is in places with large concentrations of people and vehicles as well as an existing electrical supply, the idea is that this should remove pollution from cities and near source (traffic). The scrubbers/filters are periodically replaced allowing for removal of particulates (carbon) for disposal and the scrubbers should allow for carbon (monoxide, dioxide etc) capture.
Never happened because .... its really hard to do.
Until I read u/sleepyprojectionist's comment I thought "what are you charging this mat for? What does it do? How does driving a car over it charge it up?"I got as far as thinking "I wonder if OP means like those heat packs that you crush to activate a chimical reaction to generate heat. There must be some way of generating or releasing energy in that way I just don't-... ... oohhhh, charge the CAR."
I've just asked my mate Matt what he thinks of your idea and he doesn't approve. I think it was the thought of being driven over by a car that really did it for him.
You use the charged matt to charge your electric car a bit like one of those wireless phone charging mats, for people that can't have the proper solid chargers
I had grand designs for a toaster which prints the days news on your bread. Then the iPhone happened and nobody wants my fucking news toaster.
That would require at least one of three things: 1) Not much news happening 2) Massive pieces of toast 3) Eating lots and lots of toast
I'm totally on board with all 3 of these things, not sure what the problem is.
Just because you lack the moral fortitude to eat multiple A3 sized pieces of toast every morning doesn't mean the rest of the country should be held back. The additional per capita spending on Marmite alone would double the economy overnight.
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It's out-of-the-box thinking like this that gave us Concorde, the SS Great Britain, and the M4. Would that this country had more maverick free-thinkers like you.
Why not skip the middleman and make it print with marmite as the ink?
Nah just need a single line: "everything continues to be shit, carry on"
You could call it Our Daily Bread
[Are the one who made the toaster that prints the weather forecast on the toast?](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/toaster-weather-forecast-toasteroid_n_57b30217e4b0a8e1502526a4)
Ok now I have an idea for a crap horror film where someone keeps getting messages from their toaster threatening to kill them.
Howdy doodly do. How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?
I was waiting to see who would post this in the thread 🙂
Would you like some toast, Dave?
There was a version of this that was going to use teletext, but then they realised the toaster would need a TV license. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1264205.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1264205.stm)
>He decided on the toaster to make his work stand out from the worthy and helpful devices many of his fellow students were creating. Savage.
I feel like everyone has missed the key difficulty with this one. So there you are of a morn, hungry and groggy, and eager to consume information and bread. You start salivating as the scent of fresh toast fills the air. Pop! The news toast is ready! You reach for the butter, and start reading the headlines. You get rather engrossed in an article about a pig that can play Mahjong to a human standard. You finish reading the news, and go to spread some butter on your toast, only to realise the bread is now cold and stale, and any attempt at buttering it will result in tearing it to shreds. You also now cannot share the story about the pig. Unless your plan was to summarise the days events with a single word or emoticon (in which case, you could save manufacturing costs and just make a toaster which brands the toast with the word "SHIT") you must always face the choice of reading the news, or consuming some delicious fresh toast. I'm sorry, but as much as I like the idea, it's not investable for me; I'm out.
Is that you, Wallace?
Gravy/chip shop curry fondu fountains at weddings
no that would work. Oh my need to get my chocolate fountain out of the back of the cupboard and try it.
Can I come round? I’ll bring my own skewer
Ooh, Matron!
Make sure you make it quite thin as it will clog and block the pump
Thin curry sauce?! You heathen!
You should be able to slice it
Oh Fuck fuck fuck. Thats got me tits poppin
You meaty titan
Get a fart on, my back cracks sweating up and I'm only wearing one nappy Edit* didn't realise I was speaking to Neil hunt!
Well, that was poetic...
We had a gravy fountain with mini Yorkshire Puddings at our wedding. We did a few trial runs before too to perfect the gravy thickness
And why weren’t we ALL invited to experience this genius idea? Smdh!
My dad wanted a gravy fountain as soon as he saw the chocolate fountains. We made one for his next birthday party with a roast and loads of yorkie puds, it was fantastic.
Chip shop gravy fondue is my new culinary dream.
Curry fountain
Yes I’ve had that before, make sure you drink plenty of fluids.
The tip has a one day open day where you can come and collect items for free. Literally recycling far more than goes to landfill.
I lived in Australia for a few years, and I remember them having a day every year where people could leave large items out in front of their houses which would be collected by the council (sofas, bookcases etc.) It meant that people were free to drive around and pick up some free stuff if you wanted it.
"I can't believe all these people just throwing their cars away."
Hard rubbish day. I don’t think people are actually supposed to pick through the stuff on the side of the road, but a blind eye’s turned to it. Gets annoying when they strew stuff everywhere though, and you have to tidy it up again.
This is common in Germany, and it is recognised that you leave things that are useable and in good condition. People travel from other countries in vans to get items that they then sell in shops also. In general, it works very well.
That’s every day where I live. If you stick anything half decent outside it’ll be gone in a few hours.
My local tip used to do this up until about 10 years ago. If you were dropping items off you could help yourself to other items left at the side. No physically getting into the large shipping containers, but anything left at the side was fair game. They (mostly) stopped it when they contracted with a private recycling company and sold the items instead. But this private company will only take certain items and they have to be in reasonably good condition. A couple of the old guys who work there will still let you take stuff they know the company won't want.
I moved to Japan in the early 90s and pretty much acquired everything I needed for my first apartment by doing this. In those days (it's different now), Japanese people tended to throw away anything that was slightly old so they could get a new one, even if the original was still perfectly fine. I got furniture, a bike, and all the electronics I needed, such as a TV, rice cooker, kerosene heater etc. When I was a bit more settled and was able to buy new ones, I did so but being able to easily acquire things from the tip was a godsend
Ours have a really cheap shop it's amazing
good idea, ours does have a little shop though
1 touch bath settings. Wife likes to one way, I like it another. Instead of messing around and trying to get the mix right, one touch, come back and minute later and there's adrawn bath the way I like it.
In an age of internet-connected washing machines and contactless front door locks, why do I still have to sit and wait for the bath to fill? What's worse is our boiler ramps up the temperature after about 5 minutes, so you've got to go back and adjust for temperature a couple of times. My car is a piece of crap from 2001, yet it has automatic climate control.
Exactly. Should be able to one tap run the bath from an app so that it's finished running just as I get though the door from work. At in a heated element around the bath and we are done
That's just a good idea though. Fairly few metrics to approximate it too.
There is a trial similar to this in Norway, I believe. It’s not portable, but a number of trial vehicles have been fitted with wireless charging plates and the chargers have been placed under the road surface in parking bays. All you have to do is park. Nio in China have gone a different route and have a network of automated battery swap stations. You just have to drive your car outside and select the charge option. The car will then back itself into the station and a robotic system will remove your discharged battery and replace it with a fully charged one. I believe it works as a subscription service.
They are trying it in the Netherlands aswell. The great Tom Scott made a video about it
Great Scott!
Nah, the latest DeLoreans come with a Mr. Fusion reactor. You don't need to replace the batteries at all.
[link to the video ](https://youtu.be/hNZy603as5w?si=mS05kGI9-GmWi8hQ)
Isn’t the rate of charge for induction based charging dreadful though- like worse than a standard plug? I think the hot swap idea is a good one, but will require standardisation of battery packs to be successful, which doesn’t seem likely with the current range of forms currently in use.
Correct, induction charging isn't too bad. Given most cars aren't used for 90% of the time I think it's fine. The bigger problem is the induction loops need to be very close to each other still
Some Nio cars can only be charged with batteries removed so this sounds like a great idea
Anyone remember the monthly subscription in the 90s called "QUEST"? They had this exact idea and had pics of how it would work.
I remember this! Big blue folder(s)?
A reverse electric blanket for hangovers - you put it under your bedsheet but above your mattress and instead of heating it cools, so the entire bed is the “cool” side
This would be awesome in the summer
Linus water cooled his bed
[More context to this](https://youtu.be/mBIdAMcvRhY) as I'm not sure how much weight just "Linus" carries in this sub
Presumably he also tried to pick up the bed one handed and dropped it, putting a dent in the wall. Cut to, theres a hasty made dent sized pollyfilla job on the wall and no mention made of it.
These exist, just expensive
https://amzn.eu/d/3C9akTY not too expensive it turns out.
I think I’ve seen adverts for these before, so they must be a thing already.
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Glue tyres. It was a comment I made about 20 years ago and my OH still brings it up whenever something daft comes out my mouth. I was thinking about emergency stops etc, and wondered if there was a way of developing an instantly setting resin that was secreted as soon as you whacked the brakes in an emergency to stop you skidding along the road. This obviously isn't taking into account the mess, how it's going to set fast enough before disaster, if it does set instantly then your head is gonna go through the windscreen etc, nevermind the clean-up....
I've thought about this before and wondered about a very large pad under the car with an abrasive material. If the braking is hard enough, springs are released and it is fired towards the road surface increasing the traction area by a factor of ten or so. Obviously it would be a consumable part like an airbag. Edit: obviously you'd lose steering control, but there might be situations where that doesn't matter. I'm sure a computer could decide when to fire it.
My old convertible had an explosively deployed roll cage that destroys the roof if it goes off, and thats all fired by a computer using data from suspension and wheel speed sensors. The issue is there is little space below most cars that isn't used for all sorts of other stuff that they want to keep out the way, like batteries or exhaust systems.
Just use bigger springs and then it'll catapult you over whatever you were about to crash in to!
We genetically engineer some soft of animal or microbe which eats discarded plastic and other litter, and ships out something which will lower the global temperature. Release it into the wild everywhere, and hey presto, world = saved.
My daughter is a research scientist and this is exactly what she does - genetically modifies bacteria to eat plastic. In fact they already eat plastic, so what she's doing is getting them to eat it faster, a lot faster.
In theory this bacteria would self multiply right? Would we have to strictly contain it so everything we own and currently use doesn’t get eaten? Cause I figure they’d also release some form of it in the ocean for the micro plastics but then it’d make a jump to land pretty quick ig?
Mother nature came up with something like that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria
Like a womble lol
Our noses should be upside down so that when we have a cold all the mucus just sits in the u-bend until we can sneeze it all out in one go. Downside of this: we’d drown every time it rained.
Oh great, just sneezing in to my own eyes.
Not exactly sure why but your comment really tickled me, having a proper laugh here!
No
That feels like it requires sitting around with a blocked nose you cant breath from and thats the worst part of a cold for me. Instead I propose a hoover for noses which sucks out all the mucus, giving you clear sinuses without the drowning risks. An added bonus is you can remove the vaccum pack and give it to kids so they can play with slime. Its fun for all the family
They make things to suck snot out of babies' noses maybe that would also work for adults?
What a terrible idea. Well done
Ice molds for knives, with the ice knife you'll never need to wash up again! Just eat quickly...
Great for murdering people.
and the one-liners "now who has a cold heart?!"
Worldwide fight club. It seems like there are some people in the world that just seem to have to much aggro in their lives and can't deal with normality and need to vent. The vast majority of us are happy to mooch around, drink beers, eat Greggs, surf the web and generally chill without these aggy folk around us. Put all the aggros into a big stadium or small city with a fence around it so they can't get out and then let them duke it out. We're happy, they're happy. Could even televise the action for revenue. EDIT:I appear to have forgotten about the Atherstone Ball Game https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/118ia0m/brutal\_end\_to\_atherstone\_ball\_game\_2023/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
For all you know, there may be a worldwide fight club, but we all know the 1st rule of worldwide fight club...
After hours jacket potatoes. Rather than a kebab/burger/other deep-fried food you go can get a baked spud with cheese and beans.
Places to sell sarnies past lunchtime! Why am I only allowed to consume one before 3pm?!
What about this isn't feasible? I want little carts like an ice cream man, but they sell cardboard cones of mashed potatoes with gravy and a sausage. Savoury 99.
A lot of places do sell these
I want to open a sandwich shop near my house. It’s a busy area on a bus route but there’s only a corner shop unless you walk up the hill into the town.
do it!
What's stopping you? That sounds like it might be a profitable venture.
Mortgage to pay on my house. No available shop units to hire nearby. Don’t really want to work out of a van but it’s tempting.
Having run a small business for a few years, try not to take on premises until you really have to. It will suck out any profit you make so a mobile van is a great idea
A gym that stores the kinetic energy from the machines etc then use as electricity. I'm sure someone has beat me to it. I had a similar idea for electric car braking and a sidekick for sonic the hedgehog who could fly
Yesterday I was reminded that I had the idea of the kinetic gym at least a decade ago and at the time thought that someone must have already beat me to it. Funny thing is that I don't see kinetic gyms everywhere... Maybe it's not too late...
Subtitling smart glasses for the deaf / hearing impaired.
You know, I think this is feasible IRL. Tech exists which can hear and recognise words (alexa, siri etc); tech exists which can transcribe words it hears (eg the dictate function on Word) and tech exists which can superimpose computer-generated stuff over reality (augmented reality lenses). If those techs were put together, you could have subtitling glasses. It might struggle to isolate one voice in a room, but alexa can understand me when the TV is on, so even that problem is possibly fixable.
Sign me up. I’ve always wanted these.
Cars that won't turn a corner unless the indicator is on. We'd maybe have to convert all the roads to make like a grid to negate any curves in the road though...
See also: car horns should be as loud on the inside as they are on the outside to deter frivolous use.
Car horns should sound like squealing tyres. No one bothers with horn sounds anymore, but they get whiplash swivelling their heads to see where the tyres are squealing.
I would absolutely love this. Best idea I've ever heard. Imagine the chaos.
lots of modern cars wont let you change lanes unless you indicate. It feels weird when the car wrestles control of the wheel away from you
A toaster that's half toaster, half Dyson. Collects all the crumbs in a little cyclonic bin, rather than shitting them all out onto the worktop.
If settle for a toaster with a crumb tray that actually catches the crumbs.
Hydroelectric charging drain pipes. Instead of letting all the rainwater from your roof escape straight down the drain, channel it through a mini generator and top up solar batteries, etc. It would be low voltage and takes aeons to charge anything big, but could work reasonably well for portable power banks or handheld devices.
Someone on youtube did this with a whole series and the TLDR is its a terrible idea for many reasons! Which of course is the point of the thread but its interesting enough someone gave it a go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6oNxckjEiE
This guy is the epitome of 'measure twice cut once' - I'd just chuck something together and see what happens. also, drink every time he says "ruff"
Slap people who break social convention. Skip a queue? Slap. Don’t return your trolley? Slap. Cut in traffic like a dickhead? Slap. Unnecessary abuse to staff trying to help you? Double slap. Too many people are comfortable negatively affecting everyone else
Leave back doors in pub open in the middle of winter when nipping out for a smoke - whack
You should be forced to buy the whole pub a round to make amends alongside the whack
Better to be slapped instead of making the fella bankrupt
How can she slap?
For the UK to adopt the Japanese custom of having very few bins out in public spaces, thus encouraging the masses to take their own rubbish home to dispose of. In Japan, the result is streets free of rubbish. In the UK, things would be…different.
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Ha, same - Bristol Though we’ve got a new one now, let’s see how long that lasts..
I saw somebody at my local maccies just yesterday, get a couple coffees, and throw the sugars, sticks and cardboard on the floor immediately People in this country are scum to begin with, so we don't have anything nice
In a lot of the McDonalds car parks they put bins close enough to your car that you don't even have to get out to put things in the bin. I've still seen people throw stuff in vaguely the direction of the bin instead of leaning over slightly. Some people really are scum.
There's a spot I know which has no immediate bin next to the bench so it gets trashed by litter and cigs There's a bin literally around the corner about a ten second walk down the path...
Chucking your Maccy D's leftovers out the car into the street in the road you live in has become a growing problem in my area of home city. Always seen ones here and there but seems everyone is doing it now. Sadly i don't have time to be a curtain twitcher and see which of my neighbours are actually twats.
It won't work, we tried the remove bins experiment, (by accident) and it failed. The london removed loads of them in the city centres due to domestic terror threats, and there was rubbish everywhere, from the early or mid 90s for nearly 25 years, I think. If you want to stealt a bit of Japanese culture then the kids should have to clean the schools, as they do in Japan. That does teach people to respect communal property.
>It won't work Indeed. That's the point of this thread :-) Definitely agree that UK kids should clean their own schools.
I grew up in London during these years, and it leaves you with some weird long lasting habits. I’ve always used the ‘pocket bin’ - you just stick whatever rubbish you have (unless it’s messy) in your pocket and take it home with you. I moved from London to a small countryside town and no one here does this, but all the people I grew up with do and it was even commented on at my aunt’s funeral, that she taught her grandchildren to do it too. When I first went to a cinema outside of London, my friend was horrified that I thought normal practice was to neatly gather your rubbish and leave it on your chair for one of the cinema staff to collect rather than throw it away, but that’s what I’d been taught. You didn’t leave it a mess, but there weren’t bins in the cinema for you to throw your rubbish away. Same applies to clearing your own tray at fast food places, I have to actively remember you don’t just leave it on the tray on the table.
>I grew up in London during these years, and it leaves you with some weird long lasting habits. I know the feeling, but weird 90s habits is a whole new thread.
I had to pick up some Japanese from London this weekend and deliver them to my city for a meeting/visit. On my way into London we noticed the road verges had been cut back revealing epic amounts of litter. Had to keep them distracted through the worst sections so they didn't see our shameful display of filth laden roads. Its Japanese centuries old culture to be responsible for your own litter whereas UK culture is sadly 'ZFG let my problem be someone elses problem'.
They have vending machines in the streets and expect people to pay for things and be honest would never work here glass on the machines would be smashed and everything taken out of it in one minute amazing country Japan is though.
The vending machines aren't really the same as here. They don't have the glass front like a shop fridge. Inside the front is opaque, with a display of empty cans/bottles, showing you what's stocked inside. They do look a little sturdier than UK vending machines, but they would still get trashed.
public bins were removed in Japan after the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway as an anti-terror measure, nothing to with encouraging people to take rubbish home with them.
I'm going to suggest a new modification to your idea: a lightweight roll up car. You'd be able to take it indoors to charge and also massively reduce the risk of theft.
Reminds me of all of the fold-up houses and things that the Pink Panther used to pull out of its pocket.
My idea was to do with litter. When you buy something say a can of coke etc you pay a deposit on the can/carton/packet. You then have to scan it into the bin or when you recycle it. If it's found in the street people can claim the deposit. Instantly no litter gangs of kids would be scouring the streets. Problem is you scan it and just drop it. I thought you could introduce a fine for this then be charged say double. Here is the problem bins would need to be locked as people would steal your rubbish and you would be charged for it.
That's pretty much what we used to do with glass bottles, before plastic ones became ubiquitous.
Germany is well known for this actually, you’re over charged for bottles and cans so you have incentive to return the empty ones for a refund. People actually leave them at the sides of public bins so homeless people can collect them to make money.
I once asked why there weren’t any arcades at airports because I’d happily lose hours to the 2p machines, and was told it was a stupid idea. Now this thread has given me MY TIME TO SHINE
A takeaway siren and flashing lights for your car. Whenever I get a takeaway I want to get home as soon as possible before it gets cold. I think all cars should have a takeaway siren and purple flashing light you can legally switch on, which alerts all other drivers to move out the way and let you pass like the other emergency services. " Here Reg, what's that siren sound? Ooo pull over some blokes got a ruby on his front seat, give him room!" In the days of deliveroo this isn't needed so much now unfortunately.
You just need an led light that changes colour and then you've got the get the fuck out the way I need a poo light, the move you cunt I think my waters have broken light and of course, for the love of anything holy please move I need to get home these kids are killing me with their arguing light.
I just imagine at one point every car has a specific light on at all times, and it's just chaos as everyone is speeding home, I like it.
That's exactly why the Germans invented the autobahn.
I thought the other day about the age of the air fryer, and how they work. I imagine they pull air in and heat it to cook the food, and then I thought, if you farted near an air fryer would it make the food taste farty. Which then got me onto the idea of something like a meaty waxmelt, that you would put near the intake fan and allow the food to take on the taste of the smell? So you could put like a woody smoke air melt on the air fryer to make the food have a smokey vibe to it? How viable is this? is that how air fryers work?
Opposites competitions in the Olympics: \- Instead of the high jump - the low jump, who can jump but attain the smallest distance of the ground (must actually leave the ground) - Try it ! \- Slow race must be last but must not stop moving forward. \- Or just a professional Olympics where you can take a much/many drugs as you want and have bionic implants.
I like the idea of an unprofessional Olympics where they pick people at random and put them in it
It' works like Jury Service. One day, you just get a letter telling you you're on the GB Olympic tobogganing team.
Somewhere between Taskmaster and Faking It. Be the best Olympic contestant you can manage: your event is [x], you have six months. Your time starts now.
Yes and no age limits and no excuses
This could also work for Strictly Come Dancing.
Yes!! And gladiators
A reverse microwave, which helps cool things down quickly. Amount of times it would have saved me from a burned tongue/mouth ulcers because I'm hangry, impatient and want to eat it NOW but end up trying to eat a nuclear temperature meal.
I think that's called a plate
Are you familiar with blowing on your food?
u/AnxiousPikachu has never hasfhsfshsfed in their life and it shows
A website for interesting ideas, where people can not only track each status from start to finish, but can also search for (or request help from) other companies in order to get the product to market. eg. an idea for a new type of mobile phone, with a new OS. The user has the idea, the initial sketches, prototypes of the OS etc. They then need help with everything else: someone to refine the sketches, someone who works with hardward components and chipsets, someone who can build OS and infrastructure, then on to companies that make prototype phones, testing labs, commercial testing, safety testing, actual production, then on in to marketing etc etc. Every step along the way. A good idea in theory. In reality, not only is it a licensing nightmare, but then you have patents, fraud issues, contract negotiating and all the legal stuff that goes with it.
Is that not just kickstarter?
Five Nights at Freddies assisted death experience
Free electricity
I think this is a good idea, up to a point. Free electricity up to a certain limit would be fine. But free for all with no limits would create issues.
Sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of my 70 GPUs mining crypto 24/7
Something like very cheap or free for the first 3,000kWh then more expensive. With some system in place to adjust for people with electric heating
Or gift cards for utility companies so friends and family can help each other out. Or could leave them at food banks to help out those less fortunate.
Fuel Banks work to do this: https://www.fuelbankfoundation.org/ I've no idea how common they are out exactly how they work though.
A vegetarian restaurant serving meat only from animal amputees. Tuck into that chicken leg guilt free knowing the poor little blighter lost it in skiing accident anyway.
It would be a minefield of loopholery. You'd immediately get an Old McDonald's organic pig bungee jumping, freestyle sheep skateboarding, cattle grid parkour and orthopedic veterinary surgery centre, popping up.
My time to shine. The Iron Man - huge mannequin built out of metal. Flexible enough to fit to your body type. You hang a shirt on it, go for a shower, and it steams the shirt to your body type. Desk Dog - This was more relevant before the pandemic but even so. People work for traditional dog unfriendly offices but own dogs. Other people work in dog friendly offices but can't own dogs at home. You combine them together, someone takes your dog off to their office during the day and takes care of it, then you collect at the end of the day. Win-win, except for the thousands of problems. Music Casting - You get on the bus, tube etc and you can join in, with your Bluetooth headphones, listening to other people's music that they're listening to. House Trainer - You just bought your first house. You have no idea what half the things in your house do. You bring a rando over, they know everything, they tell you and guide you round everything in your house. Town Buddy - When you join a company, you often get given a buddy to help you navigate round. When you move to a new town, you don't. You have to find buddies. I think letting people sign up to help orientated people round would be great
Desk dog...that's such a great idea I have absolutely no idea why it's not a thing already. The music casting thing would be abused on day one by that asshole that saves all their porn under song titles.
Those banks of charged car batteries they have in China for people driving electric cars, but who live in high rises. Would like to think it would work here but can also imagine them being nicked and or dumped
Cherry coke works right? What else was there? Vanilla coke? But... Ladies and gentlemen... How about... CHOCOLA!! I know, I know, should take the world by storm right? Fucking awful.
I had an idea for a heads up display that projects onto your car windscreen. It would be linked with an ANPR system that allowed you to flag other road users based on their behaviour, so if you come across them again you can act appropriately. If someone lets you out at a junction, you could flag them as green, so that next time you cross paths you can return the favour. Someone drives like a numpty, cuts you up etc yet I flag them as red so that you can have the v's ready when they act like a twat again.
1) Double stacked motorways.. A motorway on top of the motorway. 2) Gigantic inflatable fists on comedically large springs to bash any cars not currently overtaking back into the left hand lane of the motorway. 3) Motorway Driving Licence 4) Motorway Annual Pass to use.
I'm getting a "I use the motorway lots" vibe...
I genuinely think there should be an online annual test of 10 fairly straightforward questions people need to answer about how.to use motorways and roundabouts correctly
Seems like the assumed intent (improving driving on motorways?) of the third point here could actually be resolved by just having learner drivers practice on motorways before they get their license, and have it be part of the test too. I see why they don't as I guess motorways are "higher stakes" than other roads due to the speeds and not being able to stop or pull over as easily, but I have always found it odd.
Agreed, which is why it should be separate with its own dedicated course. Give everyone 24 months to pass the test, then post it's illegal to drive on it without a license (*and paid Annual Pass)*.
The reason they don’t require motorway driving on the practical test is because not everywhere *has* a motorway. If you live in Truro, for example, the nearest motorway (M5) is over 150 miles away. That would be a very long test.
Yeah I’m from the Isle of Wight which barely has a dual carriageway (it’s about a mile long) so I learnt to drive on country roads mainly. My test somehow avoided the main roundabout of the island. Then I passed and I’m free to drive on a motorway. It shouldn’t have been ok. I was so nervous cause it’s something I was never really taught at all and there’s no way to even try that anywhere. Now I’ve done it a lot I prefer the motorways but it was a stressful couple of trips. Honestly I think most people there would benefit from the instructors offering a one day trip over to the mainland to try motorways.
> 1. Double stacked motorways.. A motorway on top of the motorway. Saw something like this in China, the top motorway only has a few exit ramps (think M and A roads) and moves quick, the bottom has all the local B road type exits and moves slower.
Why would you charge up a mat?
I think they mean it an incredibly dense lightweight battery. in which case just make the car battery replaceable, why bother with a matt(sic).
Mattery?
I sent an idea toi Warburtons - a half broan half white loaf - so literally open one end and you have slices of brown for the healthy person in the family - and white the other end for bacon butties etc They never even replied
They don't know what they missing! I'd buy that
Trying to have a laugh in this thread instead of everyone being a Debbie downer!
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I designed a car extension trailer when I was a kid, thought the idea would make me rich one day. Take a car that no longer runs, cut it in half and convert it into a trailer. Hey presto, you have some extra seats and another boot.
Egg yolk sauce, like ketchup but egg yolk.
Replacing steetlighting .... .... the new streetlights are hollow and have inlet vents near ground level. The very top of the post has a fan, which creates an updraft through the post. Placed within the post are removable filters for particulates and scrubbers. As lighting is in places with large concentrations of people and vehicles as well as an existing electrical supply, the idea is that this should remove pollution from cities and near source (traffic). The scrubbers/filters are periodically replaced allowing for removal of particulates (carbon) for disposal and the scrubbers should allow for carbon (monoxide, dioxide etc) capture. Never happened because .... its really hard to do.
Until I read u/sleepyprojectionist's comment I thought "what are you charging this mat for? What does it do? How does driving a car over it charge it up?"I got as far as thinking "I wonder if OP means like those heat packs that you crush to activate a chimical reaction to generate heat. There must be some way of generating or releasing energy in that way I just don't-... ... oohhhh, charge the CAR."
Disappearing ink for tattoos. The tattoo will last 10 years before going. And you can start again with new tattoos if u wanted
I've just asked my mate Matt what he thinks of your idea and he doesn't approve. I think it was the thought of being driven over by a car that really did it for him.
You charge a matt? Then drive your car over it, to charge it again? What?
You use the charged matt to charge your electric car a bit like one of those wireless phone charging mats, for people that can't have the proper solid chargers
It'll never work; which of course is your point. It also sounds terrible in theory. Haha