"if only I had.." inventions yet not invented..

John Cutler wrote:

I know there was a recent film that used the same idea, but I’ve said for years that I’d like to have a remote control that works on children.

If they’re arguing - no problem - just push the mute button!

Now!!!!!

Claudia Alvis wrote:


I could also use a meat/dairy-detector for vegans/vegetarians. Every time I go to the supermarket I end up spending hours reading all the ingredients of most products, like the vegetarian soup made with chicken stock

Amy Duncan wrote:



You mean you didn't know a chicken was a vegetable?

Amy

Claudia Alvis wrote:

Ha, no. I meant those products that you can't possible know they have animal-based products until you read the tiny print **coughs**Campbell's**coughs**, as if it wasn't a big deal. That's actually my pet peeve.

Henrik Pipoyan wrote:

You eat as much as you wish, but it's the machine that gains weight. If you want to lose weight, you just go on translating; the machine exercises for you, and you lose weight.

I'd also like to have a sleepper. When you receive an urgent project at midnight, and you're too sleepy to do it, you send the machine to sleep for you, and you go on translating (of course if the contrary isn't possible).

[Edited at 2007-06-22 18:38]

Amy Duncan wrote:


Well, I used to be a vegetarian and people would ask me, "Do you eat fish and chicken?" And I'd say, "Well, as far as I know, a fish or a chicken isn't a vegetable." And they would stare at me blankly. It's this kind of mentality that thinks there's no problem with putting a little "beef powder" in your "vegetarian" ramen!

Amy

JaneTranslates wrote:

I need a device that will set off an alarm in my head to warn me that the question I'm about to ask will be considered stupid by the other person. For instance, I was under the impression that there are many different types of vegan/vegetarian/meatless diets: Some people consume absolutely no animal products, some will consume milk products but not eggs (including caviar) or flesh, some do eat eggs but not flesh, and some eat fish and/or fowl but not red meat.

I don't know what the correct terminology for each type or degree is, but I wasn't aware that it was an offence or a sign of ignorance to ask someone how strict a vegetarian he or she is. Someone please educate me? (Oops, that alarm is going off in my head!)

I'm not being sarcastic; I really would like to know.

Marianela Melleda wrote:

I can't read without my eyeglasses, but I always forget where I left them, so sometimes I spend a lot of time trying to find them. I run up ad down my home looking for them and I would love that there is a kind of alarm they could carry - let's say printed in their frames maybe - , so that when I need them they could answer a phone call, or a click from a kind of remote control with a ring or sound.

Maybe someone already invented something like this and I don't know. Please tell me where to buy it!!

Amy Duncan wrote:
but as far as I know, anyone who actually eats AN ANIMAL (chicken, fish, whatever) is not a vegetarian. Maybe someone else has more info...this could be a whole new thread!

francesca battaglia wrote:
As for me..i'd like to have an automatic car. You get in, fix your destination on the navigator and relax, waiting to arrive. no need to drive, no accidents risk (it will be superintelligent..)..

Harry Bornemann wrote:


This does exist, actually. It is called "taxi".

Concerning other inventions, I am not choosey: any invention which would quickly make me rich would do..