What Is There Left To Invent?

[Gilbey]

The 20th century has witnessed some of the most radical inventions that has forever changed our lifestyle. From the advent of electricity, to communication systems of the telegraph and telephone, transportation systems from horses to motorcars to flight that revolutionized the world in the past 100 years than any other time in the past. The space age in the 60's was but a sci-fi dream of the golden era turned reality that brought man to the moon and beyond. Life has never been easier. Convenience made living conditions more comfortable than ever.

Today's information age is an extension of existing technology to a higher plane. High tech gadgets like cell phones (now Iphones) once fictionalized by Star Trek are now excessively available to everyone. The world has never been smaller and more united than ever.

So what else do we need invented today?

A time machine perhaps to bring back our present technology to the golden era? What a dream that would be for the loungers.

 

[MrNewportCustom]

I guess we'll find out tomorrow.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

In 1899, then Patent Commissioner, Charles H. Duell reportedly announced that "everything that can be invented has been invented." Obviously, he is wrong. - from Patent Law Blog

That's 1899!


Lee

 

[Samsa]

A marketable car that does not need to use gasoline.

 

[HungaryTom]

Matches - with heads on their opposite end!:eusa_doh:

 

[scotrace]

A vacuum cleaner that features some sort of safe biological dirt digesting critters inside.

Recently invented and can't be ready soon enough: wireless electrically powered appliances. Why we're still fussing with power cords on stuff is mystifying.

 

[LizzieMaine]

A no-drip tea bag.

Soap that doesn't melt in the soap dish.

Self-repairing window screens.

Non-bunching feather pillows

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Matches - with heads on their opposite end!:eusa_doh:

Turn the box around.

A no-drip tea bag.

Soap that doesn't melt in the soap dish.

Self-repairing window screens.

Non-bunching feather pillows

I'm wondering how we can seal a tea bag without actually sealing it.
My oldest sister makes her own soap, and she's pretty close to acheiving that.
That is something we definitely need! Especially those of us with cats.
Some rancher will need to talk to his ducks about that one.


Lee

 

[Foofoogal]

I can think of a ton of things that need inventing like something to put on walls better than sheetrock.
I have an invention and even called a patent attorney but chickened out telling my invention as I didn't want them to steal it. lol
Tried for years to figure out how to bring it to market and who to approach with it.
Everytime I see that Great American Invention show or whatever I get mad.
I invented shaving cream for ladies a long time before someone else did. Missed that boat. :eusa_doh:

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

Virtual reality room. "Go anywhere and never leave your home!"

You can get THESE and the soap won't melt and it isn't slippery.

 

[Benny Holiday]

1. A cure for cancer and motor neurone diseases/damage
2. Living tissue regeneration
3. Electron neutrino-antineutrino space drive
4. Solid free-form fabricators - think of a tri-D fax machine that will enable people to manufacture everything from tableware to machine parts in their own homes from a computer design.
5. Cold plasma airfcraft defensive/cloaking shields
6. Applied anti-gravity in a vector field
7. Tri-D virtual reality simulation via atom lasers
8. Electric paper
9. Formcrete, a pliable construction matrix that can be shaped by electric fields before a hardening agent is added to the mixture
10. Silicon neuron network

 

[gluegungeisha]

I would say an in-car hot dog cooker and bun warmer...
but that's already been done.

 

[Diamondback]

Speaking of cars:

A temporal-displacement conversion package, like on a certain stainless gullwing owned by one Dr. Emmett Brown...lol preferably one that doesn't need radioactive materials for a 1.21-gigawatt power-source.

 

[Feng_Li]

A functional system of government funded by an easily comprehensible tax code.

 

[Diamondback]

A functional system of government funded by an easily comprehensible tax code.

We had that--then the politicians got a hold of it. (This is NOT political, I'm blaming them ALL equally.)

 

[MrNewportCustom]

I would say an in-car hot dog cooker and bun warmer...
but that's already been done.

What was it they said on South Park? Oh yeah! "Simpsons did it!!"

Homer also had a slushie machine, disco ball, fog machine, microwave, and goodness knows what else. lol


Lee

 

[Bebop]

A way of training dogs to pick up their own poop and put it in the trash would make me a very satisfied dog owner.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

That's following a train of thought.

A toilet seat that goes back down after my dad or husband finishes in there.
I am currently in a clinical trial to test a vaccine that will prevent the spread of a horrible world-wide disease, if it works. That might be more along the lines of development rather than invention.

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Taking the train to the next stop . . .

A bathroom sink and counter that wipe themselves dry after my nephew or older brother have shaved or turned on the water for any reason.


Lee

 

[Diamondback]

A toilet seat that goes back down after my dad or husband finishes in there.

Shouldn't be too hard with some judiciously-placed heavy springs and a pressure-plate on the floor...

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Here's a few things I'm working on...

- an electric dog polisher

- a fur lined sink

- a gasoline powered turtleneck sweater

(with apologies to Steve Martin c.1980) lol

-dixon cannon