This isn’t so much an idea as a testimonial. In high school, I had to give up golf because my knuckles would swell and my hands would hurt. Books and buzz suggested arthritis, or whatever I had, might be related to foods. After reading a book by a Dr. Marshall Mandel (searches aren’t turning up a title that Read More …
Let it be resolved: If anyone develops a sure-fire lie detector, whether an externally attached device, a drug, a form of hypnosis, a remote mind-reading scan, or a brain implant, no politician may vote to authorize its use on American citizens without first having submitted to such a lie detector and spilled every ounce of truth out of Read More …
Who says Jack can’t play and learn at the same time? Suppose balls and bats and hockey sticks were covered with vocabulary words. With definitions, of course. Casually, those words would work their ways into minds and conversations. Heck, maybe cover a whole playground with words, names and ideas worth learning. Those in some jokes for Read More …
There’s a National Smoke-Out Day, where people try not to smoke. How about one for driving cars? Sure it’s impossibly impractical (not enough mass transit to handle the crowds). But just the call for considering the sacrifice might help us all realize how demoralizingly dependent we all are on cars … and foster creative efforts Read More …
Want a picture-perfect snowman? Sure you could use a real carrot and assorted stones. But suppose you could freeze food-dye colored water to make even better features? Kind of like a Mr. Potato Head kit for snowmen (and women) with dissolvable, re-creatable parts, including lips, mustache and fangs. (Eyeballs can also be dropped in drinks Read More …
Advertisers want undivided attention, right? Subscribers want cheaper cable. So why not offer discount cable where the catch is some ads are always in view, in strips around the bottom of the screen. Worse, when you use the remote (trying to escape ads), some ads pop up and follow you temporarily. Maybe that second part belongs Read More …
If YouTube can sell to Google for $1.65 billion, how much would a site of short quality videos be worth? Imagine a conglomeration of the best bits from Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show, Late Night With David Letterman, and all sorts of sitcoms and cartoons. Not whole shows, just quick clips. Be fun to Read More …
You know you need to be told what to do. So call 1-900-GRANDMA. Press 1 to be told to get a job. Press 2 for her rap on keeping your pants on. Press 3 to be scolded for using sauce that comes in a jar. You suggest the rest …
Instead of executing killers, you send them to a remote island with no guards and no provisions. Good luck living off the land. Not exactly humane, but cheap. If they whack each other, well, that was meant to be their fate. If they don’t, maybe they learned something and deserve to live. Cruel and unusual punishment? No Read More …
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Once there was a Milkshake candy bar. I think it was your basic Milky Way like bar, a soft filling covered in harder chocolate. Bring it back, and carry the concept through. Instead of just tasting like a milkshake, make the inside so slurpable you can sip it with the included short fat straw. When Read More …
If you can’t eradicate the mosquitos or eliminate the disease, how about genetically engineering the power out of the disease? Create harmless nontoxic parasites that outbreed the bad kinds … and make them so they are treatable. I’ve also heard that some micro-organisms can transfer DNA, so maybe the innocuousness could prove contagious to the bad protozoans. Even Read More …
Want to join? Join the Army. Army ants. Aunt Millie’s pasta sauce. Never sausage a mess. Mesopotamia. Amiabilty would be the aim, but with all the confusion, you’d never be the same.
Disclaimers seem so formulaic, seems like you could build a form that generates disclaimers. It’d have a disclaimer, of course.
Or maybe it’s sonar. But if they ever develop tech for telling where underground mines are, maybe it can be applied to more suburban tasks, too, like detecting tree roots or gas lines or the former owner’s buried bullions.