Health
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Background: Sometimes, when playing tennis, one of the participants may wish to play a jaunty tune to raise the spirits of their partner (in a doubles match), or perhaps they may wish to play a mocking tune to demoralize their opponent. However, currently this is not possible, as holding a tennis racquet precludes the playing…
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Background: Procrastination consumes billions of hours of otherwise-productive work every year. If there was a way to even reclaim a tiny portion of this lost time and direct it toward useful pursuits, society would be immeasurably improved. The specific issue: In particular, now that Internet access is required for many types of legitimate work, it…
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The issue: It’s difficult for most animals to lose weight when delicious food is available at all time. Historically speaking, the problem in nature has always been one of not enough food. But we live in an era of decadence, and must make do. When going out to a restaurant, one often gets halfway through…
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Proposal: Here is an idea of admittedly limited utility: apply the principles of natural selection to a candy dish. First, one must acquire a variety of candies of various types. In this particular example, I have ordered them (left to right) from most-to-least desirable. (The rightmost item is a toothbrush, which is the universally-despited dentists’…
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Background: Food is delicious, and in the past, the main threat to survival was starvation rather than over-eating. But, times have changed! Please support our sponsors! Now, almost everyone gets fat. How can this issue be solved without hiring an unyielding personal trainer and chef for every single person? Proposal: One way to solve this problem…
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The issue: People frequently purchase exercise equipment, but then fail to actually use it after an initial period of excitement. Basic idea: If the equipment could somehow punish the user for lack of use, maybe it would get more use! The proposal in detail (3 parts): PART 1: (“The equipment needs to know if you are…
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The issue: There are a few diseases that are making a comeback, despite the fact that vaccines exist for them. Polio is an especially dire example. There are many reasons for this, some of which are: 1) In disease-free areas, these diseases are unknown and thus have no power to terrify. 2) In some remote…
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