Amateur Inventors Share Products We'd Buy If They Were Real
The technological revolution has given humanity some amazing innovations. And since technology exists to make like easier, it's fun to dream about inventions that could take the mundane out of life.
RocketRaccoon96 asked, What would you definitely buy if it existed?
Submissions have been edited for clarity, context, and profanity.
Pretty sure these exist, but yeah, definitely worth the money.
A comfy always-cold pillow.
Honestly, 100% this. Also bagels that only have seeds on one side, sup with that?
Double-sided Frosted Mini-Wheats! Why has this never been a thing?!
For those times your Chipotle burrito needs two tortillas...
Edible sticky tape - great for keeping tortillas and other wraps together.
This is the future of computer-brain interfaces.
I'd buy instant knowledge. Something that took someone years to study would take me a matter of seconds to learn.
How much would that cost though?
Here's some Millennial realness.
I probably wouldn't be able to afford whatever it is.
Considering being teleported would actually kill you...
A wormhole device. I don't trust teleporters.
This would be enormously helpful.
Sleep ray. That insomnia has got me again.
I think we call these "interns."
A robot that did my job for me but I still got my paycheck.???????
Ain't this the dream.
A washing machine that you put all the laundry in and press go then go back and it's dry and folded.
Everyone needs a Grandpa Rick.
Portal gun.
Total future tech: the starship Enterprise is self-cleaning.
A house that cleans itself. Press a button and voila it's clean.
Chances are if you need to the shell, you're not the one in first place.
A blue shell. I want to find out who's in first place in this world.
3-D printers are the precursors to food replicators... can't wait.
A real-life copy and paste machine so I can have unlimited food.
Why not a pill that contains essential nutrients, and just skip the food altogether?
A pill that you take after you eat that would convert your food to the right nutritional balance in your stomach.
There's so much to know, and not enough brain in which to store it all.
More ram for my brain.
I'd settle for a printer that's easy to figure out how to use.
A printer that f_cking works.
So, a magic wand.
Matter manipulator. I'm talking those things that can take goop and turn it into food, or turn a human into a dinosaur or something. Could you imagine?
To get to the future, you just have to travel really fast. Backward time travel is (probably) impossible. Science!
Time machine.
Here's a scary thought: Times Square filled with people on hoverboards.
Definitely the hoverboard from "Back to the Future."
Believe it or not, research indicates that this may indeed be possible.
Dream recording machine, so I could watch them back like a movie. I have really awesome dreams sometimes and I would love to experience them again.
Wanna jump off the bandwagon? Then keep reading!
U/lit3rallyuseless asked: What doesn't deserve the hate it gets?
​Film and media are probably the biggest contender for being hated on randomly. It may seem harmless, but not always deserved.
Actors are people too!
Actors who played characters that people didn't like.
Really if you hated the character then the actor did a good job (assuming that was the role).
The best cartoons.
nice day summer GIF by PBS KIDSGiphyChild cartoons. Some are actually really good, even as an adult.
I feel like watching cartoons aimed at generally a younger audience allows for you to be reminded of some life lessons, I know I forget some things, or didn't realise others, or it at least partially renews my awareness of something I should still like or appreciate
This doesn't deserve awards, it's just my opinion that is apparently shared by many.
This man did nothing wrong.
Guy Fieri, he literally is the nicest person in the world but since he looks like he was electrocuted by mountain dew people want to saw his head off.
Even before that, I was witness to his other charitable work. A few years back, Santa Rosa was hit by some terrible fires and he showed up at a few shelters and personally cooked up and served some killer buffet food. No cameras, no massive team of PR, just a dude with an assistant to keep him on schedule to hit up other shelters in the area. Guy Fieri legit earned a lot of respect in my book for that.
You know who DEFINITELY doesn’t deserve hate? Animals. They’re just living their best lives, and need to be left alone.​
The best cats.
Black cats.
We got a black cat for the first time last year. I've since formulated the theory that black cats might get some of their reputation from the fact that people can't see them well in the dark and so they seemingly appear out of nowhere and they might be instinctually cautious because they know people have a tendency to kick them while walking in the dark. Our black cat is the sweetest cat I've ever known.
They get a bad rep.
Discovery Sharks GIF by Shark WeekGiphySharks. They are beautiful, complex creatures, deserving of respect and, like any wild animal should be left alone in their natural habitat, but they get this reputation as vicious bloodthirsty monsters. This is only because every shark attack is news, and only then because they are so rare. More people are killed EVERY DAY by mosquitoes than sharks kill in a year.
Any apex predator that has remained evolutionarily unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, whose existance predates TREES, is deserving or our respect and admiration. Shine on, you crazy cartlaginous fish, shine on.
So cute too!
Opossums. They're neat little critters. They eat tons of ticks that carry Lyme disease, (mostly) don't carry rabies because their body temp is too low, and they're the only marsupial native to North America! They get a bad rap because their first defense is to hiss and bare teeth, but failing that, they just play dead.
If you don't have the predisposition to hate them, you'll find they're pretty cute too.
E: this is about /opossums/, the north American species.
Kiwis, I feel for you, but this comment isn't about your possums.
​Hating on other people for just living their lives also seems to be a big contender for things that don’t deserve to be hated on.
This is so true.
Unemployed people. A lot of people genuinely are looking for work and did not want to lose their last job/it was beyond their control (like a layoff) but they get so much hate and called lazy by most people. I know too many unemployed people that are actually really trying hard. They definitely aren't lazy. (Not saying lazy unemployed people don't exist, but to be fair, so do lazy employed people too lol)
Leave the weather man alone!
Fox Raining GIF by Family GuyGiphyMeteorologists. They try their best to predict the weather based on patterns, models, and data. They're not perfect because predicting the weather is insanely difficult. When they get it wrong, I think we should go easy on them. It was probably an outlier result almost no one could have foreseen.
I've seen people get angry over the meteorologists for getting it right. Like they control the weather - it is their fault we are having rain, that kind of BS. Never made sense to me, but hey, I have plenty of relatives I clashed with growing up.
Please stop being d*cks to these people.
Customer service associates.
I hate when customers think that I, the minimum wage person forced to sit there and listen to them yell, am personally responsible for every policy they disagree with. Like, ma'am, if I had that much power and influence, I wouldn't be sitting here on a Saturday evening serving you.
Wholesome and necessary.
People don't deserve hate they give themselves when they are not doing too good at the moment.
I'm in a weird place and I didn't know I needed to read this. Thanks buddy.
If you haven't heard it from anyone else today, I'm proud of you.
It seems like people hate on things simply because they think they're meant to hate them. But you can always be the change and make an effort to stop being an a**hole about certain things.
No matter what though, sometimes haters gonna hate