Steal My Ideas, Please

It’s happened to me, it’s happened to my wife, maybe it’s happened to a lot of people. You take the pot off the stove and forget to turn the burner off. Generally, it’s no big deal … there’s nothing to catch fire. But wouldn’t it be safer to have burners that sense, “Hey, yo, there’s […]

Imagine how much the Web will be revolutionized (and I’m sure that others have) when search engines can search images. Still pictures. Videos. And sounds. Basically it’d be some phantasmadupercollossal tech that “looks” and “hears” incredibly fast, recognizes what it sees, labels and categorizes everything in its memory, and makes it all ready for instant […]

It’s kind of a popup desktop utility. You call up “Today’s Scoresheet.” Helped someone? Hurt someone? Check boxes. Double, triple check for double, triple points. Then some fancy graphics (gotta illustrate this*) and presto, your Instant Karma Meter tells you whether you’ve been bad or good, going to Heaven or Hell, […]

Holy freakin’ s-bomb. Think about this: When the day comes that machines master language, we’re all ego-doomed. Since anyone can implant a language chip in their brain (or at least in an earpiece), everybody can instantly find the best words. Then nothing will ever again believe that anyone is clever! No, it’s not you, babe, it’s your chip! Worse, […]

Sure, why not? Here’s a cartridge with Cheese Whiz. Here’s one with Instant Pudding in several “colors.” Or slip in the Marinara Module. Or the Ionizing Icing Applicator. You feed (pun intended) in sheets of edible “paper” — beef jerky pulp, pasta paper, flexible crackers (well, they’ll get “crackery” after they dry or baked, pliable cookie […]

I don’t understand commercials that make users of products look stupid. OK, it’s fine to postmodern and make fun of yourself (thereby engendering trust), but, hey, if it’s not funny and the user looks like a schmuck, well, why do I look like a schmuck and buy your product? First, tonight, I see a T-mobile ad […]

We’ve all sent complaints about products into the black hole of customer relations, never to return. But just suppose, whenever we did, our complaints were automatically added to a poll. Say I emailed, “My defroster failed!” The next person would see my comment, too, and be asked, “Did you also experience this?” No, she’s complains, ”There’s this weird clunking […]

It’s the Digg era, with popularity driving content on all sorts of sites. What I haven’t seen yet (of course, maybe you have) is a site that lets popularity make the evolve. Start with  50 categories of stuff. News, sports, humor, video, celebrity gossip, blogs, etc. Put whatever you like at the top, however many items […]

It’s only a matter of time. Technology advances. Star salaries keep rising. And legal rights expire. Then someone could re-animate in the most realistic way all the bygone stars. Greta Garbo. The Three Stooges. Write new material, and they’d “know” how to act it out. Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk. Max Headroom was only just a sniff of what’s […]

Here’s my second post for inventorspot.com: “Biking for Better Biceps: Brain Rep 2.” … And here’s a link to one of my favorite exercise gadget ideas: The Big Toe-Tappable Computer Keyboard! (Really have to illustrate that one!)

Who needs a bathroom scale? Nobody. Not when somebody makes and markets these handy Scale Shoes. Of course, for some people, who, how shall we say?, have trouble peering over their belts, the digital readout will have to speak. Or, since who wants everyone else to hear?, send a text message or email. Check the […]

What if … you had a very light spacecraft … OK, maybe it’s just a satellite with microchips … and suppose (yeah sure) they reallly could build a buckytube-walled space tube that’s 100 miles high … following me so far? … OK, we’ve got the outer part of our space elevator, but what’s to lift […]

If we’re headed toward keeping track of everything (see Google item below), more people will feel so stifled, they’ll want secrecy technology. They’ll want NOT to be know, NOT to be found. So imagine Hide & Sneak devices that lie to global positioning systems. By hacking, overriding, discombubulating, jamming, whatever … you’ll be able to tell […]

Everything will be cliche.

Seriously. As image screen gets thinner and lighter, first newspapers and magazines will get replaced by e-paper, which folds and unfolds and presents images in infinite formats. Then people will say, cool! I want to wear this stuff, and they’ll make clothing that displays any image you want. Your hat can show the Mona Lisa […]