what things do you think SHOULD have been invented

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what things do you want somebody to invent?

a perpetual motion machine	3%	[ 3 ]
antigravity boots	7%	[ 7 ]
noiseless chainsaws	4%	[ 4 ]
self-tying shoes	6%	[ 6 ]
a real holodeck	7%	[ 7 ]
compact warp drive	3%	[ 3 ]
holographic surround sound in a box	5%	[ 5 ]
real flying magic carpets	6%	[ 6 ]
safe personal jetpacks	8%	[ 8 ]
real hoverboard	6%	[ 6 ]
calorie-free cholesterol-free fat	4%	[ 4 ]
a pill that does away with dookie	2%	[ 2 ]
a brain amplifier	6%	[ 6 ]
star-trek-style food replicator	7%	[ 7 ]
machine that kills earthquakes and storms	4%	[ 4 ]
real androids	5%	[ 5 ]
intelligent sexbots	4%	[ 4 ]
phonograph record optical scanner	2%	[ 2 ]
machine that automatically heals all disease	13%	[ 14 ]
portable houses	3%	[ 3 ]

Total votes : 106

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02 Jun 2018, 11:21 pm

quadraphonic or even quintophonic audio CDs, they actually were invented but never put into product form.

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03 Jun 2018, 12:21 am

auntblabby wrote:

quadraphonic or even quintophonic audio CDs, they actually were invented but never put into product form.

What are the benefits of those?

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03 Jun 2018, 12:28 am

Dylanperr wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

quadraphonic or even quintophonic audio CDs, they actually were invented but never put into product form.

What are the benefits of those?

for those of us who better appreciated canned music in multichannel form/surround sound, it would give us more of a musical experience "in the round" as it were. there is also another format called SACD which has up to 6 channels of sound, but it has not caught on due to poor marketing, a squandered opportunity. back to CDs- in the original standard as a subcategory of Redbook Audio CD encoding, was an allowance for quad or 4 channel sound, but that would have reduced maximum playing time to roughly 39 minutes and 26 seconds, which was judged inadequate for some uninterrupted classical works very important to Sony, namely Beethoven's 9th. so Sony prevailed upon its partner Phillips to stick with the 2-channel stereo format.

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03 Jun 2018, 1:24 pm

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A device similar to the memory-wipe device seen in the "Men In Black" films if you want someone to forget about you.

Wear sunglasses beforehand.

Hold up the device to the person's face with the device facing forward.

Say something before activating the device.

I would like that.

There are also things I'd wish to forget.

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03 Jun 2018, 1:27 pm

Our apartment is way too hot now with the heat wave. A common summer problem (although this is the first time it has occurred in May). In winter it tend to easily get too cold.
I would like for there to be a technology that allowed us to store excessive heat and use it when it's too cold inside, and likewise store excessive cold and release it when it's hot like now.

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03 Jun 2018, 2:35 pm

^^^I would like the ability to control the weather. There would be no more hurricanes & tornadoes & we wouldn't have to worry about global warming

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03 Jun 2018, 3:35 pm

Skilpadde wrote:

Our apartment is way too hot now with the heat wave. A common summer problem (although this is the first time it has occurred in May). In winter it tend to easily get too cold. I would like for there to be a technology that allowed us to store excessive heat and use it when it's too cold inside, and likewise store excessive cold and release it when it's hot like now.

they long have had heat storage technology, both old and new, at least in the short term- but cold storage would definitely be a boon.

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03 Jun 2018, 5:30 pm

Expanding on AuntBlabby's inventions:

Extract solo blues artists from the old field recordings and place them in Carnegie Hall backed by a chamber orchestra or rock band. The purists would tear me a new one for that but it'd be interesting to hear the old blues pioneers in different contexts.

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03 Jun 2018, 5:44 pm

redrobin62 wrote:

Expanding on AuntBlabby's inventions: Extract solo blues artists from the old field recordings and place them in Carnegie Hall backed by a chamber orchestra or rock band. The purists would tear me a new one for that but it'd be interesting to hear the old blues pioneers in different contexts.

something akin to that is being done, has been done for the last decade or so using advanced DSP algorithms, and is now in commercial products for everybody to use. one such product is ADX Trax Stems which soon is coming out for PC, has been a Mac product for about a year or so. the term for the process is "spectral source subtraction."

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03 Jun 2018, 11:25 pm

peanut butter that doesn't stick to the roof of your mouth and get stuck in the back of your throat.

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04 Feb 2019, 6:40 pm

Vertical take off and landing house. VTOL house.

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04 Feb 2019, 6:45 pm

Flying Battleship and Flying Submarine.

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04 Feb 2019, 6:53 pm

Noiseless vacuum cleaners.

Actually....

Soundless vacuum cleaner with built in Ipods and ear buds for you listen to music while you vacuum.

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04 Feb 2019, 9:45 pm

Dylanperr wrote:

Vertical take off and landing house. VTOL house.

what about that house in "UP"?

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23 Feb 2019, 1:35 am

auntblabby wrote:

Dylanperr wrote:

Vertical take off and landing house. VTOL house.

what about that house in "UP"?

No. Balloons freak me out most of the times.

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23 Feb 2019, 2:53 am

Dylanperr wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

Dylanperr wrote:

Vertical take off and landing house. VTOL house.

what about that house in "UP"?

No. Balloons freak me out most of the times.

the only thing i don't like about 'em is how loud they are when they pop.

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