Creativity Wasted Podcast

Idea: To fly swarms of tiny AI drones w/bright lights into tornadoes so people can easily see the tornadoes for safety reasons Also: a line to show the projected path; people might go outside to see a pretty lit tornado (like bugs attracted to a bug light) creativitywasted.com/creativ…

Idea: Stock market gambling/trading in casinos (bc stock exchanges will soon be open 24hrs) at kiosks & a sports-betting-like ticket counter (earnings calls, inflation reports) Also: shared joy from nearby strangers when you hit a jackpot could now apply to something w/odds >50%

Idea: Shower Kettle: An audio alert that notifies you when the shower water has heated up and is ready for you to start showering (which can take over a minute in some cases). Also: attaching a dental water pik to a shower head, and (jokingly) using it as a bidet

Idea: Funeral homes that are only staffed by women (because men can't be trusted to not do lewd acts with dead bodies). Also: questioning whether it's normal for men to not care or worry about what happens to their body after they die; a large amount of dark humor and dad jokes

Idea: A movie about an old man and his dog who travel together and where the old man gains wisdom from a mushroom trip. Also: the dog talks to the man during his trip and has a pretty southern belle accent; script writing and taking script writing classes

Idea: Amazon Goats: Miniature goats that live in your house as pets & only need to be fed the boxes & packing materials from your Amazon deliveries Also: Amazon could use hay as packing, send you nutrition supplements & care info/notifications if you ordered one of their goats

Idea: Holograms that perform improv w/you so you can do improv if you don't have friends or it's too difficult to coordinate w/them The holograms could * be AI * be controlled remotely by a person * disguise a real person who's there * be things like horses that move around

A loose conversation about pranks, including Michela's style of pranking telemarkers which risks her getting SWAT'd Also: military pranks; prank software that tricks you into putting your head next to a PC to listen to it then ejects the CD tray into your face; pranking for good

Idea: To become a scam therapist for pet reptiles Also: a TV show like "The Dog Whisperer" for reptiles, but where you actually whisper to reptiles, with your head right next to an alligator's jaws; to hire a former reptile catcher w/career-ending injuries as a reptile therapist

Idea: A camera on a thumb glove that you wear while brushing/flossing which pairs to a tablet to show you live video of the inside of your mouth so you can see where you're failing to clean properly (stuck food, receding gums, etc.) so you don't develop a cavity there over time

Idea: Harnesses to keep kids strapped in seats on school busses for safety and to reduce misbehaving Also: you could put TV screens on backs of seats that pair to the kids' phones & don't turn on until they strap in; bus driver stories of kids fighting or misbehaving on the bus

Idea: A remote-driving system for school busses so the driver can casually and conveniently drive the bus from home Also: self-driving and remotely-driven cars like Waymo and how a bus could stop on the train tracks if it loses the Internet connection to the remote driver

Idea: "ButlerAI": An AI-powered hidden earpiece that helps you do better in important or awkward conversations, such as interviews, conversations w/police, fish-out-of-water social situations, etc. Also: it could shock you to stop you if you start saying something stupid

Idea: "Give & Take": A social/digital media site where when you post, you classify the post as either a) free b) meant for ppl to "take" selfish joy from it so they must pay for it c) a post that ppl earn micropayment/karma when they read/respond ("give" advice/effort/attention)

Idea: "Silver Screenings": Morning movies in theaters for senior citizens, including discounts and special accommodations (selling Werther's and prune juice as snacks, large-text subtitles, an intermission to explain the plot of the movie, defibrillators, bathroom breaks, etc.)

Idea: An A1 BBQ beef flavor of Ritz crackers Also: the risk of a brand losing it's high-class image if it has too many flavors; if you're gonna blow through a bunch of calories, you want more pleasure than plain crackers; the joy of eating foods in non-traditional combos or times

Idea: For restaurants to have enclosed private booths with a small table and a video screen with which to videochat w/someone in a chat booth at another restaurant Also: the walls of the private booths might need to be glass to discourage hanky-spanky in them

Idea: Side windows of a car that are actually video screens that disguise the driver by making them look like someone else to the people outside of the car Also: POCs could disguise themselves as white ladies to reduce the likelihood of being pulled over

Idea: A soccer-like sport played in weightlessness in a cylindrical court in a spacecraft. Players bounce off the walls and try to push a heavy medicine ball into the goal. Players include big strong people and tiny people who can be easily tossed around creativitywasted.com/creativ…

Idea: As inspired by the restaurants located above highways in Illinois, there should be groups of food trucks on some existing highway overpasses Also: the food trucks could hang banners over the highway for you to see on your way to work so then you eat dinner there after work

Idea: A pillow that reads your mind while you sleep and collects useful thoughts, such as invention ideas or jokes, so they can be obtained later Also: mind-reading gadgets such as a "Jedi mind trick" floating ball toy; wondering if jokes you find funny in your dreams make sense