what things do you think SHOULD have been invented

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Reminds me of that seeming tragedy, that turned into a real laughable scandal, in the news a few years ago.

That yuppie couple that got all of that sympathy and news coverage a few years ago when they claimed that their little son had been accidently carried off into the sky by an oversized party balloon. The authorities launched a search of the surrounding California mountains. The kid was found alive and well in the parents' basement or something. And it turned out to be a hoax perpetrated by the parents.

In fact it was a lot like that current thing in the news about that actor who just recently staged that fake hate crime attack on himself.

The newsmedia showed pictures of the little boy standing next to the balloon in question. The balloon was much bigger than the kid, but..

But years before I had gone through a phase of having an aspie obsession with zeppelins, and dirigibles. Did a lot of reading about volume of gas vs payload in dirigible designs back in the day. So by the time of the story I could tell that the balloon in the newspaper picture was too small to have enough lift to carry the child standing next to it in the same picture. Bigger than the kid, but not enough bigger to have the kid as its payload. I coulda scooped everyone by writing a letter to the editor about it. Darn!

Intelligence is sexy, but the idea of intelligent sexbots seems kind of creepy.

I think Rome should of invented steam power that we could of had more advanced technology.

A submarine that can go 20000 leagues under the sea like it did in the Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.

Memory removal like in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

The oceans are not 60,000 miles deep. This could only happen on Jupiter or Saturn.

A league is three miles.

a portable device that when you place it inside an old jalopy, it cancels out all the noise inside the passenger compartment.

I don't know how to do the multiple quotes, but here are some comments:

For mechanical whales see Christopher Moore's "Fluke." Although just that sentence is a bit of a spoiler.

For portable houses: these are called tents. (no offense here to the homeless; I am just an avid wilderness traveler and can live in them for months.)

And I truly did not realize that 20,000 leagues under the sea reference distance traveled horizontally and not vertically. Is that the case? Did anyone know how deep the ocean was when Verne wrote that book?

What I personally would settle for now, in terms of inventions, is something that would relieve neurogenic pain.