Post-COVID Garage Cities

Idea: An electric car charging station consisting of dozens of 2-stall garages, where each car is charged indoors in privacy in it's own 2-stall garage. The car being charged is in one side of a garage, and "something to do" for around 40 minutes is in the other side of the garage. Examples of "stuff to do" include private movie theaters, barbers, dentists, Redbox movie rental machines, restaurant tables, hot tubs, etc. The "things to do" could be wheeled in on demand and ordered using a phone app. These 2-stall garage facilities could basically replace entire cities, and could slow down the transmission of the Coronavirus because they reduce or eliminate person-to-person contact, and they can be modified to implement virus protection measures more easily than normal stores/businesses (for example, an airproof plastic sheet could be placed between the customer's side of the garage and the business/service side of the garage). They could also help small businesses financially survive the Coronavirus because these businesses would no longer need a storefront or fixed location building which would require them to pay rent every month. Also, they could be a place for you to watch a sad movie where other people can't see you cry

Richie McLonis (Instagram: @richiemclonis Podcast: Hunting Rabbits)
Bill Morrison (Bill Morrison Website)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded by Broken Knuckle Studios over Skype

Bathroom Cleanliness Invention Ideas

Two ideas to help make public restrooms cleaner: 1) A camera inside a bathroom stall door which is mechanically connected to the door lock. It would slide completely inside the door (so it can't see anything) when the door is locked, and align with a hole in the door to view the stall when the door is unlocked, so it can see who made a mess in the stall as they leave the stall, and 2) half-globe-shaped devices which fold down over the two halves of a horseshoe-shaped toilet seat when the toilet seat is up (kind of like those half-globe things in hair salons that fold down over people's heads). The half-globe devices would clean the toilet seat by spraying it with water and then drying it off with an air blower

Sarah Wooley (Facebook: @sarah.s.wooley.7)
Justin Siekierka (Facebook: @justin.siekierka ComedyShow: Comedy at Liberty Street Brewing Company)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI

Privatized Roads

Idea/prediction: If a company like Tesla or Uber owns all of the cars instead of people owning cars, they will have a financial incentive to own the roads and keep the roads in good shape, because they would have to pay for damage to their massive fleet of cars due to potholes, etc. Also, they could remove "redundant roads" to save costs, because if it takes longer to deliver stuff to a place because the road on the most direct route no longer exists, that extra time doesn't cost much if the cars are all electric and self-driving

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 85

Mark Sweetman (Twitter: @MarkTSweetman TV Show: Ann Arbor Tonight)
Nick Leydorf (Twitter: @NickLeydorf Podcast: Free Consultation)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Modular Airplanes and Airplane Boarding Speedup Ideas

Ideas to speed up airplane boarding, including:
* Robots to lift bags straight up/down into the overhead bins of an airplane, so people don't stand in the aisle and block the line of other people who are boarding while they try to shove their bags into the overhead bins
* A modular airplane, where the top half (cockpit and cabin) can be removed, and i) replace the waiting area of the airport to eliminate the need for "boarding", and ii) when the plane lands and slams on it's brakes, slide off the front of the plane, land on wheels, and drive away (like a bus) onto the highway without slowing down
* Use high-tech transportation like modular airplanes and drones to create a more diverse transportation system, instead of repairing old roads and bridges

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 83

Naz Neen
Mike Geeter (Twitter: @OhMikeGeeter, Kevin Hart's "Hart in the City")
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Moral Selection

Idea: Environmental activism/engineering, where instead of trying to return nature to an arbitrary past before humans arrived, we use genetic engineering, technology, etc. to engineer the environment and the DNA of animals to make them experience more pleasure and less fear and suffering ("moral selection" as opposed to "natural selection" aka Darwinism). It's a way for humans to become "the best thing that ever happened to the universe". And it's the best option for finding meaning in life, because it's such a big task that it won't be solved/automated in many lifetimes, leaving everybody with nothing to do with the rest of their lives. Also, there are plenty of tasks for everybody (even dumb people) to do, like saving animals from freezing to death, gathering DNA samples of animals, etc.

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 82

Brent Von Kalamazoo (Twitter: @brentvonkzoo)
Greg Sharp (Twitter: @GregSharp)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Glasses That Make Cats Look Like Dogs

Idea: "Augmented reality" glasses that make dogs look like cats, or vice versa. Also maybe headphones, so the person who sees the cat as a dog can say a dog's name, and other people (and the cat) hear them say the cat's name. This technology would also allow everyone to live a lie, causing other people to see and hear them in a way that isn't real

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 81

Gerrit Elzinga (Twitter: @GerritElzinga Podcast: This Better Be Good)
David Sutherland (Twitter: @skrtskrtsuther1)
Diego Attanasio (Twitter: @DiegoComedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Life Guide App

Idea: An app that monitors what you're doing all day and uses artificial intelligence to give you advice, kind of like "an angel on your shoulder that also keeps you from being stupid". It can also go back into it's recorded history of your life, and show you a sequence of decisions that led to a bad outcome, to help you learn from your mistakes

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 80

Nick Earl (Twitter: @fakenickearl)
Amanda Brewington (Facebook: @amanda.brewington)
Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot Podcast: Cartoon Tonic)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Stay-At-Home Vacation Ideas

Rules for defining a "vacation", how travel isn't required for a vacation because (unlike migrating birds) location isn't one of our five senses, five ideas for new types of stay-at-home vacations (ranging from realistic to wildly futuristic)

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 80

Nick Earl (Twitter: @fakenickearl)
Amanda Brewington (Facebook: @amanda.brewington)
Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot Podcast: Cartoon Tonic)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Poop Roomba

Idea: A robotic, Roomba-like device to clean up dog poop in your yard, so you don't have to pick it up. We also discuss women using poop in acts of revenge, "code brown", simulated pregnancy in adult robots, and shooting dog poop into tiny pieces with high-powered water jets built into sprinkler systems

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 79

Chris Miller (Twitter: @poolsideghoul)
Tom Swan (Twitter: @GreatLksComedy greatlakescomedy.com)
Teena Green
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Modular Indoor/Outdoor Electric Flying Car

Idea (NSFW): A single-person electric car whose chassis can switch between horizontal mode (like a motorcycle) and vertical mode (like a Segway). When in vertical mode, it would be thin enough to fit through an ordinary door, so you could drive it inside buildings and up and down elevators. Modular attachments would be available, such as an SUV-like "family compartment" or a quadcopter flying car attachment

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 76

Matt Hamilton (Podcast Moist Definately)
Bryan Harrison (Podcast Moist Definately)
Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot)
Loyd Digg (Twitter: @LoydDigg)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Audio Parasite

Idea: An electronic device that digs into your ear like a parasite and broadcasts Matt's voice into your brain. Most people would prefer to READ people's minds, but Matt is a narcissist who wants the exact opposite. And he wants to do it to the entire world. The way to defeat him would be to broadcast his voice back to him with a slight delay like a "speech jammer"

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 76

Matt Hamilton (Podcast Moist Definately)
Bryan Harrison (Podcast Moist Definately)
Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot)
Loyd Digg (Twitter: @LoydDigg)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Nuclear Powered Snow Machines

Idea: Launching steam created by nuclear power plants straight up into the air in cold areas such as Alaska or Antarctica, to make it snow onto land, to counteract sea rise due to glaciers melting and falling into the ocean

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 74

Robert Schneider (Facebook: @thecommanderawesome Comedy Show: Comedy At The Comic Shop)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Futuristic Tiny Houses

Tom's idea for a futuristic tiny house where most (or all) of your stuff is wheeled in and out by robots. The idea also solves gerrymandering, makes "universal basic income" feasible, solves the Flint Water Crisis, and gives people the freedom to escape their miserable 9-to-5 office jobs and live nomadic lives of leisure. But everyone opposes it because it involves sharing toilets

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 73

Louis Michael (Twitter: @LouTheSurgeon)
Nick Leydorf (Podcast: Free Consultation)
Matt Hamilton (Podcast: Moist Definately)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Recorded live at Crossroads Comedy Festival in Indianapolis

Individually Adjustable Window Blinds

Tom thinks that window blinds are designed wrong, because when they are half open, they expose your groin to your neighbors and block your eyes from seeing out the window. He'd like individually-adjustable window blinds controlled by an app, that way you can choose what you can see (and which body parts to expose)

Adam Walsh (Knuckleheads Comedy: IG: @khcomedy313 Twitter: @KnuckleheadsC)
Steve Kaz (IG: @kazthecomic)
Brandon Ponke (IG: @bponke Twitter: @BPonke)
Dale Murdock (IG: @dalelerious)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI

Personality Bracelet

Idea: A bracelet (or a hologram of a bracelet projected by a smart watch) which, when you shake someone's hand, (optionally) shows them your personality quiz results, and (mandatory, by law) shows them your criminal record. That way, when you meet new people, they instantly know if you're a good person or a bad person

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 72

Alwin Sheriff (Twitter: @AlwinTheSheriff YouTube: @jerk4eternity)
Ted Moss (Twitter: @TedMossComedy)
Justin Siekierka (Facebook: @justin.siekierka)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

No Hot Shower Water Until You Floss

Tom didn't floss. He bought a water pik, and he still didn't floss. He bought a water pik to go into his shower, and he still doesn't floss. So he thinks there should be an app to detect that you use the shower water pik, and if you don't use it, it blocks you from having hot water in the shower. That way, maybe he'll finally floss

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 70

Derek Brand (Instagram: @brand9470)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Baby Translator

A "baby translator" should be possible by now. Or at least a giant mother-scaring helmet that can analyze the baby's brain waves and figure out why it's crying, including where on its body a pain signal is coming from. Although this would lead to social pressure to use the brain-scanning helmet whenever out with the baby in public, such as on an airplane

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 69

Daniel Kumapayi (Twitter: @Kumapayidk)
Bryan Harrison (Twitter: @DonnchaRedbeard Podcast: moistdefinitelypodcast.com)
Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Street Justice

An app or electronic device to help you humiliate or take revenge upon rude or reckless drivers. Also, should we have different car horns for different emotions, and/or eliminate the car horn?

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 68

Jeff Horste (Twitter: @jeffhorste Comedy Special: Kevin Hart Presents The Next Level - Jeff Horste)
Gimmy Cipriano (Twitter: @theRealGimmyC)
Jacob Barr (Twitter: @kidwiththehands)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Litbit

A wearable electronic device to help you keep track of your alcohol consumption. Not for health reasons. Just for bragging rights

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 68

Jeff Horste (Twitter: @jeffhorste Comedy Special: Kevin Hart Presents The Next Level - Jeff Horste)
Gimmy Cipriano (Twitter: @theRealGimmyC)
Jacob Barr (Twitter: @kidwiththehands)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Cinderella App

Idea: An app which allows parents to remotely shut off a tail-light on their teenage kid's car if the kid stays out too late. That way, if the kid's gonna be out too late, he better stay sober, because he's at a high risk of getting pulled over

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 65

Dustin "Lee" (not real name, by request)
Scott Fischer (Instagram: @scottimscott)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit