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Mankind is pretty awesome. We can fly helicopters on Mars, invent medicines for all sorts of illnesses and can record Taylor Swift concerts in HD so it can be paused in HD at any point. What a time to be alive.
Why then, has no-one invented a dishwasher spray arm that can be split into two so you can easily clear out the stray bits of rice or seeds that clog it up? Is it really beyond the collective global effort of engineers to come up with such a thing?
What else do you think should have been invented by now? (apart from hoverboards, obvs. Back to the Future lied).
A sunscreen pill.
Applying sun cream is massive PITA. and you always miss bits which you don’t notice until it’s too late.
A functioning classless political system.
Cure for tinnitus
People have invented sunscreen pills, the only problem is they don’t actually do anything
While some companies tout dietary supplements as a so-called sunscreen pill, the claims they make are false. In fact, the Food and Drug Administration issued a statement several years ago warning against these products and ordered the manufacturers to correct their advertising.
why don't we have dishwashers that clean everything in minutes rather than hours
Front doors that unlock the same way that car doors do, i.e. remotely by pressing a button. Every time I come home carrying too much stuff or it's raining...
These very much exist! Although with mine you don’t need to press a button, it just opens when I approach… (except if I’m on my bike, then the side gate unlocks instead 😂)Front doors that unlock the same way that car doors do, i.e. remotely by pressing a button.
A controller with a mute button that works on humans. 😉 😜
Anything promised by Maggie Philbin on Tomorrow's world in the 70s. I'm still waiting for my commuter flying car or jetpack Maggie!
An Allen key that doesn't land on the opposite side of the bike when I drop it.
they exist – go in any commercial kitchen and trays of dishes are washed in a few minutes.
Indeed. I worked in kitchens 30 odd years ago. Why can't i buy one that is for household use using the smae formfactor?
When I'm stuck in traffic or on a delayed train I do often wonder why they haven't invented teleportation yet.
why don’t we have dishwashers that clean everything in minutes rather than hours
The ones in commercial kitchens do, I know because I used to have a job loading/unloading one, in between making prawn cocktails, mopping the floor, making chocolate sundaes, and cleaning the chip fryer. I hated that job.
A thing to tell you if you've just made the same reply as someone did over half an hour ago.
I never really understood* why washing machines and dishwashers get dirty. They're literally 'you had one job,' to clean things.
(* - well, I do, but that's not the point, they shouldn't)
You don’t need 15 minute cycles at home… so stick with your 2 hour cycles that use far less electricity.
We made the mistake of setting the dishwasher at work to 'eco' one evening. It was still going when staff came in the following morning.
A terminate life switch inserted at birth that activates when acts against the general good of humanity are commited by the switch wearer.
Pain killers that are strong enough to actually work and continue to work on long term pain but don't cause nasty side effects - yes morphine, I am looking at you.
why don’t we have dishwashers that clean everything in minutes rather than hours
We do, the professional stuff cleans in a few minutes. The small single tray one i used in a butchers I worked at had a maximum time setting of 7 minutes, though it was usually set at about 1/2 that.
Quite expensive though at about £1k
eg-
This one has a wash cycle of 2 minutes
The breathalysing mobile phone - so after four pints you can only call taxis and ambulances, not ex-wives or girlfriends...
Microwave toaster.
Toast in seconds rather than the hours you waste watching that toast conveyor belt in hotels.
that toast conveyor belt in hotels.
Now there's a thing that needs to be un invented so hotels go back to using normal toasters that actually have a discernible effect on the colour and temperature of the bread you stick in them.
I wouldn't mind if someone invented a toaster sized for a standard slice of bread, instead of leaving an uncooked strip sticking out of the toaster (maybe I should post this isn the "things that annoy" thread instead).
On that theme,toasters* that last more than a year.
*that don't require a small bank loan.
I wouldn’t mind if someone invented a toaster sized for a standard slice of bread, instead of leaving an uncooked strip sticking out of the toaster
This one works for me (Panasonic breadmaker that make extra tall bread).
The breathalysing mobile phone – so after four pints you can only call taxis and ambulances, not ex-wives or girlfriends…
Actually genius level that, especially if it also filtered your social media posting at the same time
(and maybe stopped you replying to any polical threads here too)
Now there’s a thing that needs to be un invented so hotels go back to using normal toasters that actually have a discernible effect on the colour and temperature of the bread you stick in them.
There's nothing inherently wrong with those things, they just need to rotate them 180' so the controls can't be ****ed about with by cretins.
I feel a "Room 101" thread coming on.
Non-alcoholic drinks that taste exactly like their alcohol rich counterparts.
Hangover free alcohol.
I don’t care what the OP said. I want my goddamned hoverboard McFly!
Auto fit - A way to get in shape without exercise and eating as much crap as you like.
A cure for metastatic prostate cancer that doesn't involve taking energy sapping/soul destroying drugs every day
An effective deterrent for or technological intervention to behaving like a total and utter entitled/thoughtless/dangerous/inebriated [insert preferred insult] behind the wheel of a motorised vehicle.
A controller with a mute button that works on humans. 😉 😜
While I loved this idea I'd be just a teeny bit concerned that it would work its way into the wrong hands (i.e. someone that isn't me) and I would spend a lot of time on mute as a result and we would never ultimately resolve what car we are going to buy as every time I got the B of BMW or t of towing capacity I'd find Mrs dweller had put me on mute.
Mobile phone / car interface that actually prevents the driver from using their phone whilst driving. So many drivers on their phones whilst driving, it boils my p*ss.
Very much this.
There's two types - the ones with it in their laps taking (what they think are) subtle glances at their groin.
...and the ones with it in a holder, stuck right in their line of sight on the windscreen, who poke at it at every available opportunity. Just cos it's in a mount doesn't make it ok you ****er.
It must be possible to have a signal that the car puts out to stop the phone working. Maybe only satnav /map apps enabled.
Teleportation does kind of exist. A quantum superposition means a qubit can be in two states at the same time. Kind of depends how you interpret quantum theory but that’s my understanding.
Quantum computers don’t exist as usable items, yet. Still at the R&D stage. Hold on to your pants when/if that happens…
A mouse-proof toaster.
the ones with it in a holder, stuck right in their line of sight on the windscreen, who poke at it at every available opportunity. Just cos it’s in a mount doesn’t make it ok you ****.
Technically it is. It's utterly stupid of course, but it's legal.
It must be possible to have a signal that the car puts out to stop the phone working. Maybe only satnav /map apps enabled.
On mine it goes "voice only" and locks out whilst driving.
A simple tablet, or a 7 day course that will realign the brain chemistry and put the black dog to sleep for good.
A simple tablet, or a 7 day course that will realign the brain chemistry and put the black dog to sleep for good.
If only.
A pill for Donald Trump that would prevent him from lying.
A simple tablet, or a 7 day course that will realign the brain chemistry and put the black dog to sleep for good.
And another for PTSD. Both timely ideas today as another anniversary of a sudden and unexpected passing comes to a close.
Fusion power that wasn’t “almost but not quite ready to solve all our energy needs in the next ten to twenty years maybe, possibly not this way, but scientists are trying another method…” just make it frikkin work already!
A transmutation ray for radioactive things. Like the reverse microwave above except it sucks the instability out of various isotopes.
A universal translator for dogs and cats, if anything it will finally reveal what total £&¥€s cats are.
A pill for Donald Trump that would prevent him from lying.
Cyanide?
An undo button for bikes that can reverse either a crash or mechanical error.
We've got a dishwasher that washes in minutes , ME ! 👍👍👍👍
why don’t we have dishwashers that clean everything in minutes rather than hours
Why don't we have dishwashers that clean everything*?
* For clarity I mean "all the stuff you put in it" rather than literally everything, although the latter would be a convenient saving on housework effort.
We use a few commercial washers at our manufacturing site, they reach temps of around 80C, have a 90 second cycle and use caustic for washing stainless steel and plastic implements. The price point of home dishwashers doesn't include parts that can stand up to the abuse of the use of caustic traywash. We have a small hobart in one of area of the factory, a 30 foot long rotary mould washer and large washer that will fit a pallet in for washing cheese moulds and utensils. Everything comess out spotless but with the use of caustic liquids they do need specific training, wouldn't want to leave that to the general public!
We have a small hobart in one of area of the factory,
Hang on... A miniaturised city?
The solution to your dishwasher issue is a marvellous invention called the silicone spatula. Scrape the larger debris off your dishes into the bin before they go in the dishwasher.
A decent colour printer that doesn't take an age to start up and will also still print a black and white page even when it's complaining about having no cyan.
Closest thing to a hoverboard so far is a onewheel and I'm happy enough riding so I can wait a little while to be full MJF in Back to the Future.
An 'undo' button for real life that undid whatever stupid thing you just did in the last 30 seconds.
The solution to your dishwasher issue is a marvellous invention called the silicone spatula. Scrape the larger debris off your dishes into the bin before they go in the dishwasher.
i do. But I also have x3 teenage children.
Even better if there was a message generated that pin points exact position and reads ‘There’s the bastard’.
I had one of those, it went off whenever I went near it.
We used to have a washer dryer, where once it finished its wash cycle, it just cracked on a dried it too. Dirty washing in, Clean dry washing out.
Just need to add some form of folding and sorting element (that actually works).
Washing basket in one end, stacks of washing organised by person at the other.
with three daughters and a OH who is untidier than all of them put together, I would throw so much money at that.
Eldest is nearly old enough to be paid to do it, so thats good.
Self cleaning everything! House, clothes, car, bike etc. Cleaning stuff is just a massive and futile ball ache.
Nanobot clothing/body cleaning/hair styling. It's inconvenient having to bow to society's pressure of non-nudity and washing clothes, buying clothes, taking showers, getting haircuts, and removing the hair from my ears and nose. A full bodysuit of nanobots will constantly keep me covered in the latest fabulous hip fashions (approved by the sadly absent CFH). They will clean off the sweat and other crap. And carry out the necessary hair removal.
And an anti-acne ray gun. WTF do I have acne back in middle age? It's taking the ****ing piss!
A plug in interface that can replay what your eyes have seen.
Manners for the Dutch.