Things you'd like inventing that haven't been invented yet

[Accy cyclist]

Water doesn't conduct electricity. It's the impurities that do.

If those impurities could be extracted would we have safe electricity and water mixing?🤔

 

[classic33]

This one is an absolute winner!

I have just watched my daughter attempting to hold a plate of toast, eat the toast and at the same time operate her life support system (a. k.a mobile phone).
So why not make a plate with a built in phone holder?
Dragons Den, here we come........

Something like this?

 

[Seevio]

If those impurities could be extracted would we have safe electricity and water mixing?🤔

Yes. Distilled water doesn't conduct electricity.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Yes. Distilled water doesn't conduct electricity.

So, if say someone was brave enough to lie in a bath of distilled water and drop their plugged in electric heater in the water they wouldn't be electrocuted?🤔

 

[Blue Hills]

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I saw these at Blackburn's King George's Hall in 1978.

yep, i remember those ads as a kid - someone to much outrage* recently came up with something similar using an app.
* fake exaggerated in my view for despite a tech revolution in the intervening decades the app was no more showing you someone's flesh than the old Xray specs.

 

[Blue Hills]

So, if say someone was brave enough to lie in a bath of distilled water and drop their plugged in electric heater in the water they wouldn't be electrocuted?🤔

Dangerous line of thought accy - unless you'd like to start a thread where folks suggest daring experiments for you.

 

[Blue Hills]

Electricity that isn't conducted by water, or water that doesn't conduct electricity would be nice. Is that possible in the foreseeable future? 🤔

Electricity that doesn't conduct money/is free.
Dangerous job this future-watching - you may be old enough, as I am, to remember being told that nuclear power would generate so much electricity so efficiently that it wouldn't be worth metering it.
I think we may have been told this under a glowing school poster of the historic British breakthrough of Calder Hall, which became Sellafield.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Dangerous line of thought accy - unless you'd like to start a thread where folks suggest daring experiments for you.

Like Duncan Dares you mean?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Cars seem to have every device available these days at the press of a button or key fob. When I wash my car with that soapy brush thingy, I find that the bottom halves of the wheels, as the car was parked during washing, are cleaner than the top halves. I'd like to drive or push if I could the car forward during the £2 for 6 minutes wash, so I could get to the top halves, but If I did my washing time would be greatly reduced.🧐 I'd say it's about time cars had a 'move a few feet forward so you can wash the whole wheel fully' device installed, either set in the car for before washing, or workable by the key fob during washing.🤔

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Simple solution don't wash your car that's what rain in for.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

So, if say someone was brave enough to lie in a bath of distilled water and drop their plugged in electric heater in the water they wouldn't be electrocuted?🤔

You are forgetting the big impurity sitting in the bath

 

[Threevok]

Something like this?
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Mrs V uses her (open) glasses case.

 

[lazybloke]

You are forgetting the big impurity sitting in the bath

What has CC taught us today ?
Ming and Accy create impurities in the bath.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I'd like someone to invent tarmac that absorbs and stores the sun's heat/UV rays, solar panel style. During this hot weather spell all that power/energy could be stored/absorbed by the tarmac, then released come the freezing cold days, thus preventing the roads and pavements needing salt/grit to keep them safe.🤔

 

[Bonefish Blues]

A punchy/slappy thing that automatically comes out of the side of someone's computer and does the necessary to illustrate to them that they are being a dick.