What are some "no brainer" inventions or features that just haven't made it to the consumer yet?

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Batteries inside of stove/microwave/coffee machine/etc. with the sole purpose of keeping the time from resetting when it loses power.

Hearing aids that don’t auto connect to whatever my neighbors are playing on Bluetooth. Also hearing aids with a Bluetooth block list

Seriously I’m fucking losing my mind over this. 3 times in under 10 minutes last night my hearing aids stopped playing the tv I was listening to to play the Bluetooth that my neighbors or their kids were listening to. Suddenly mid conversation with my wife about it, bam, music.

Any maps app that, when you set a route, lets you decide "don't give me any directions until I get to X step" and/or "don't give any directions after X step". I dont like hearing the navigation when I don't need it, and that would save me from having to open or close the navigation while I'm still driving.

Nice try but I'm keeping my even more instant instant noodles to myself.

I'll give you a hint though, the secret is in being ok with pumping boiling water into your stomach.

It's been almost 27 years since the first Austin Powers movie and the world still doesn't have any sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.

Warm white LEDs inside of coloured glass bulbs to make LED Christmas lights that don't look like gamer vomit.

A better voicemail.

I just re-watched the introduction of the first iPhone, and one thing that stood out to me was this "visual voicemail" thing they showed. To this day I still just get an SMS if someone leaves a message, and then have to call my voicemail and listen to recordings one by one. That's still the norm for standard phone contracts here afaik, it's ridiculous!

RISUG is cheap, permanent, safe, reversible male birth control.

It was invented in 1979, and has not yet come to market.

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Phone assistants responding to you in the same volume of voice you used to address them.

Nested Tags for contacts. Ability to add sub tags like Friends/BowlingGroup or Acquaintance/LocalChurchContact

I seriously don’t understand what’s difficult to tag contacts like this and ability to use them to message a group. It’s a serious no-brainer feature but not to be found anywhere.

The up coming weight loss drugs. I'm moderately over weight and been fighting it 20 years.

Having some help there would be a god send for a lot of people and I'm slightly optimistic on this round of drugs.

useful implementation of AI silo'd to the applicable function.

some examples:

• "rename these images with X pattern, add their description to the meta data"

• "correctly capitalize all the names in my address book and tag them by how i know them"

• "show me how much i spent on fast food last month"

• actually good and useful autocorrect / spell check

• find all the emails about Jane's wedding next year and let me know where we are with the planning

• find me an app for windows desktop that does XYZ

edit to clarify: I know there are algos and LLMs that do this, but I don't want a "machine" that does all of them, I want a machine that only does each one really well.

Microwaves that use directed or reflected waves and to better direct or target energy to specific spots in food. Thermal vision in microwaves and more automated time/power controls.

Why are we still just blasting waves on a spinning dish as high as we can? Like we can pinpoint microwaves for devices with our routers, but we can do it for inside a controlled environment in a box?!

This is my evidence if someone tries to patent this and lock people out of making cool products that I said it here first!

Mainstream motherboards supported by Coreboot/more libre UEFI systems. Fuck AMI

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Five minute abs

Being able to get pinged for a new message in a group chat bit mute the consecutive messages from that chat until you check it.

I like to be part of multiple chats like for my game server if there is an issue I want to be alerted from my guardians. Usually the channel is quite for days and days until someone says something then it's pings after pings as people reply while I'm commuting home and it interrupts my music

Non rebellious printer

Baby wristlet with heartbeat sensor (this one will make you go proper crazy)

Car that breaks down as soon as you buy it

'cause fuck cars.

I remember helping a friend apply eardrops to his ears due to earwax buildup and thinking "man if these vials had long bendy straw-like tubes then he wouldn't need someone to lean over his ear applying drops like someone applying cookie flavoring to a cookie."

Drunk mode for phone. It holds all purchases in a limbo state and pops up with a list to approve or deny at noon the next day.

It also redirects any communication with your ex to an AI bot for the evening.

E2EE phone calls, anyone ?!

I thought a very low and compact version of a bench to do floor presses would exist but I have never found one, maybe I'm not using the right keywords. Just a short, narrow sturdy piece of equipment to lay on to get my back off the floor just enough to get some range of motion.

East to setup Voice driven home automation systems.

Sure we have homeseer and home automation, both good tools, and sure we have plug-ins with Alexa, but none of these tools sell their own Alexa like device so I can be cloud free.

Draino for gutters!

Some sort of device to remove the heads from the ruling class

That one thing, with the whatchamacallit that does that super useful thing…

You know…