I would like to see instant brain downloads. Just like in the Matrix. When you need to learn something fast, just call the operator: "Tank, I need a download for my CPA exam" "one CPA download coming right up." "bzzzz" done! Or better yet I can download all the fighting styles into my brain. Then I can be the world champion. But of course if everyone could download the information just as easily then would good would it be eh?

I would like to see a body suit that lets you fly, breath in outer space, breath under water, be invisible, and be super intellegent....this probably wont ever happen...but one can alwyas dream

A cure for the male ego!

Solar powered flying cars. Maybe that would eliminate the need for gasoline, roads, freeways and maybe even make them self repairing with a box of "whack".

A car that drives itself. If a car like this were invented it doesn't mean that the other kind wouldn't still me built. I know there are people who enjoy driving. I am not one of them.

One cheap and easy diagnostic tool for all medical conditions.

Cars that could run on only salt-water by just pouring some in a tank... no expensive preparation... hahah.

An injection that takes away all the lowsy emotions from someone to avoid trauma...

A shoe that makes you look much taller than you are, yet still looks like a small, stylish shoe. And it should be with every shoe, and you should be able to choose the height

As odd as it sounds I'd like for crimes that are committed to be recorded in a 1st person view from a device that is lodged in your brain. The device would record all 5 senses and when inserted into another person would give them a playback in full experience of what happened. It's kind of weird though because I wouldn't like seeing someone get murdered but I know there are some sick people out there or curious people and these event recordings could cost a lot of money and make people very rich. We wouldn't need movies anymore and people would be desensitized enough to REAL violence that they can enjoy watching that instead of fake violence, the acting would be great and the plot would be believable.

A pill your wife could take to make her more agreeable......."Ok, dear, you go fishing all week and when you come home every night supper will be waiting, have fun!" "Oh, you want to go to the car show,, that would be nice, you go and have a good time, Dear." "No, Honey, I will mow the yard, you go tinker on your car today." LOL<,,, yeah, right!

A maintence free computer that never crashes or locks up and starts with the desktop open the instant you turn it on. Oh yeah, and it comes with lifetime instant support with people on the other end who not only know how to fix your problems, but never ask you to repeat the steps you just finished telling them you already tried three times! A tall order I know, because in order to do all this, it couldn't have any Microsoft or Apple software or operating systems on it, which means we need to start from scratch. I expect this project to be done by the year 3000. Watch for our ad at the Superbowl half-time!

Healthy vegetarian food that everyone in the world would prefer to eat instead of animal based foods.

a current driven FTL drive that we could mount in submarines, and have starships within less than one year of discovery... something that would be able to be set for, down to 1 micro light second and up to 30K light years/jump, able to tour the whole local cluster of galaxies in real time

Believe it or not, there IS a guy working on PC downloads to the brain and brain uploads to the PC. Scary thought but he's already mastered having a computer chip inserted in himself to use a PC simply by thinking. It appeared in a show ridiculously called "How William Shatner Changed The World". The show is about how scientists have used ideas on the Star Trek shows to prompt new technologies.

The crime memory recording was on a sci-fi show (I believe Outer Limits but it may have been the new Twilight Zone or a similar show). The victim's last thoughts prior to their murder would be recorded and shown to the criminal from his perspective (as if he were the victim instead of the perpetrator) as a form of rehabilitation. There was also an episode of TNG that had something like this.

I'd love fatfree food that tastes better than the "real" thing!

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A washing machine that dries AND folds clothes!

A doohickey that is compatible with the thingamabob, the widget (even when it's out of whack), and the PC. See Cmerch's question: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view.php/76396

Cheap gasoline.

would just a plain effecient trunk sized cold fusion unit solve everything?

a beer holder on the back of tailgates so when you have a tailgate party you don't have to worry about it flipping off.

I would like to see a kind of thing invented that could pause time. It would be like a ball or something small with a button that you could press and BAM, time would just stop! I just know too many ways that would come in handy....

a portable anti gravity device that would enable evrything to fly. how about a portable nuclear device that do not poise radioactive hazards?

I would like to see the GOVERNMENT publish in plain language the bills and laws they propose, and then devise a method for voters to actually communicate their thoughts prior to the passage of the law. BTW- I'd also like to know why anyone would spend ten million dollars for a job that pays 1/4 million, and how they all manage to become multi-millionaires in six years.

A cure? Just get married.

Re Education: Who thought it would be a good idea for one teacher to manage 30 kids ranging in ability from first grade to 10th grade? Some use computers while others are still using crayons. Ability is the only relevant criteria. Invent a rational school.

1.A telephone in which you can record a natural spoken welcoming message, so you don't have to speak out your name and the company you work for, everytime you answer the phone. The person on the other side wouldn't even notice, while it saves you valuble seconds. 2.A remote which cycles through your TV-channels automaticly, in a preset pace.

a home atm money machine..then i would have money when i ever i felt like it.

teleporter technically, I read that scientists have been successful in transporting a tiny microscopic piece of material over a small distance, so when I speak of a teleporter, I mean one capable of transporting humans and other large objects over large distances.

A device that would allow one to zap (not to kill of course)the most annoying people in traffic: the person going too slow in the left lane, the mom yelling at her kids and hogging the road with a big SUV (or worse a minivan with flames painted on the sides--saw that one this morning), and the yacking morons who are all over the road because they are on the phone (see Andy grit teeth and hear her blood come to a boil). Yeah, that would be a great invention. I feel much better now.

An affordable, practical, non-gasoline fueled automobile.

A squirrel fur nit removal device. I love squirrels but hate to see them suffer through all that scratching they do because of the small parasitical insects.

a teleportation device to anywhere in the world

Considering our current circumstances, a workable strategy for defeating a guerilla force. But a reliable, effective, safe, and workable renewable energy source would be nice too.

The next WII That you have a full body suit that's VR, and you are really in the game that way.

i'd like to see something that you can just click and boom your at that location. i'd also like to see a necklace that has secret slid out compartments for like little lipsticks.

i would like a clean yourself house, room apartment what ever, or better yet smart houses!

solution to pollution, and cure for AIDS.

A personal slave

A way that you can learn things extremely quickly without going to school and with minimum pain.

To answer seriously I would have to do a lot of research. Right now I would say that a cheap and complete cure for some desease would be right up there.

a extedo vibrator that starts the size of one of those compact tampons and gets up to 8 inches. yummy yummy

A device that would allow women to pee standing up. I don't have penis envy or anthing, just and incredibly small bladder and let me tell you, you run in to some nasty bathrooms on long road trips, and its hard to hover! Perhaps some sort of funnel type device?

A cigarette pack that comes with waterproof matches and a striker on the side =)

An easy to use Robo-Whore. Cool, huh?!

Zero calorie toffee.

An affordable device that you could stab in the ground wherever you are in the world, and it would produce unlimitless clean water. Yes, that would take some degree of actual magic to make it happen, but I think it'd be pretty good, and really help some people. They should do one for food too

Solar powered evil robo-sheep/bunnies. those boots that Spock used in Star Trek movie.

a button that you can press that will freeze the roads outside your school so that there will be more school cancelations.

A dream catcher. I would like a device to capture all the dreams (and nightmares) I have when I'm asleep.

I want someone to invent pill that you can take to make you have magic powers forever. Having magic powers can let you do anything. :D

A replicator like on Star Trek. Earl Grey - Hot!!

Mister Fusion (from Back to the Future 2). A personal portable Fusion power source. That would solve SO many problems. Another solution to the energy crisis: a genetically engineered plant, which has the same ability to generate electricity as an electric eel, but is powered by the sun, where the plants then naturally network themselves in series or parallel. Just plant a field and it'll turn into a giant solar power plant, for mere pennies. Room temperature superconductors, some carbon nanotube applications that require them to be manufactured better and more cheaply than anyone knows how to do. Let's see, how about a cure for aging? Nanotechnology or otherwise. Maybe a personal transmogrifier (like in Calvin and Hobbes's cardboard box...); you tell it how you'd like it to modify your body and it does it. How about something that allows you to download human (or even animal) memories, which would be high enough quality and reliable enough to be admissible as court evidence. That would be pretty revolutionary too. Quantum computers. We need some quantum computers. For the uninitiated, a quantum computer is a device which in theory, would have a computing power that is exponential with respect to the quantum computer's size. So you'd be able to solve exponentially computationally involved problems with a linear increase to the size of your computer. A brute force search would likely not be an obstacle - of course, it would make cryptography a moot point as the P vs. NP problem would be essentially irrelevant as breaking an n bit security problem even with an exponential-time algorithm would be done in linear order with respect to the size of your computer and so pretty much no key would be big enough to be secure, but think of the things that could be done with such a device! How about a way to boost human intelligence. So many stupid people! Everywhere I look, it's stupid people, all around me! There's got to be a cure for that! Aside from a grenade, that is.

You can see this; a new turbine type concept invention; the "Gearturbine", power by barr, with retrodynamic dextrogiro vs levogiro effect, an non parasitic looses system, and over-unit engine. To see details: www.geocities.com/gearturbine

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Oohh. I'd want a holodeck. I can hardly wait to program it. Watch out Einstein here I come.

you know that robot on the jetsons that cleaned house .... i want one of her

Ice cream that BURNS fat.

A visor of some type that you wear over your eyes that allows you to see in different spectrums. Like Geordi LaForge or the Predator.

Telepathic location and communication.

A machine that you can plug your phone into that tells you when you're no longer on hold and a customer support representative has finally gotten on the line. In other words, it takes the realtime sound produced by your phone as its input, and can distinguish between a human voice saying 'your call is important to us, please stay on the line and a customer service representative will be with you momentarily', or elevator music, or even a stock market report, and an actual human being there.... and it would maybe keep your phone silent during the wait, and suddenly switch to speaker phone mode LOUD as soon as it gets through. That way you won't have to continuously listen to it. It's probably an appication for a neural network.

World peace. Idealistic, but that is what I would like to see "invented", practiced, established, etc.

A portable electronic device that be used to hear any TV at my local sports bar or horse racing parlor.

the cure for cancer.

a house phone that allows u to text message!

a backscratcher that actually works.

A lager that don't give you a hangover !!

a Time Machine

Something that could turn salt water in to normal water so theres no water shortage

I would like to see how my son acts at school, along with his classmates, teachers, etc. In other words, I would like access to a kind of monitor that allows me to watch my son at all times when he is at school. I know a lot of people will say that this is unfair due to privacy acts, but I would like to know both sides of the story when it comes to my son and school! And we both know that being there in person is not the same.

Perfect food in pills which supplies your nutrition requirement without making you fat.

I want a machine to record my dreams. That'd be sweet. So I could like...re-watch them.

I want a machine to record my dreams. That'd be sweet. So I could like...re-watch them.

We need a PV solar panel that will absorb all the light spectrum with 50% effiency and cheap to make.The current ones are 12%

I want a shrink ray. When you travel, you can get out of your car, blast it with a shrink ray at the airport, and stick it in your pocket. Then, when you land at your destination, you place it on the ground and restore it. You could mail your mom a new house, or shrink yourself and get Fedex'ed to Switzerland. (you wouldn't need much food at that tiny size).

A good president!!! That would be a new thing!!

A portable translator that will translate any language all over the world that works two ways between talking threw it and listening threw it and you can hear what the other person is saying, and they will understand what you are saying.

I would like to see some sort of media device with which somebody might dial up and view pornographic pictures in the comfort of his own home. I imagine, in the world of the future, every house having such a device and all such devices being interconnected by some sort of pornographic network. Ideally, this device should be no larger or harder to use than the average PC.

a mind reading device so i dont have to argue anymore

I would like to tap into the stratosphere for energy...like what Tesla had in mind. That was before they realized that source of energy could not be regulated and no one could make money off it.

A real brain gifted with artificial intelligence capable of ruling wisely the world.

A device that gets me off of Airbag!

A functional jet pack for traveling !

The thing in Hitchhikers' Guide that lets you shoot your thoughts directly into another person's mind. Imagine the uses: Dysfunctional families, teachers and students, psychotherapists and patients, political leaders, anybody who just doesn't get it. Although it could probably be put to evil uses too. Something that required mutual consent would be less problematic and dangerous. A device like this is something you might use for criminals and terrorists and fanatical extremists, to get them to see another person's point of view.

A foot- or knee-operated page turner for piano music. I kid you not, it is so difficult to get the page turned while you're playing that I memorize almost everything just to avoid the awkwardness.

Here's one I've been dreaming up; A solar-powered bluetooth {baseball-style}hat. with a directional microphone in the bill, and secret service-style earpieces on each side, so it will also be a stereo headset for MP3 style cellphones.

A Live real woman robot who has sex just like humans and can give an oral exactly like humans. This device would be useful to bothe horny guys who can't get women and guys who have small penis's and can't have sex with any woman 'coz of their small size. The robot should have a vagina and an ass and some lips and should look like a human, with the least amount of electric shock for those that are in danger when penetration occurs. Minimum electric shock can be a fetish for some especially if u like static all up on ur balls or penis( 0.02 Volts P.D) would be efficient enough i guess.

I would just about give anything to have a smallish punched- hole in all of my 'plastic:' credit cards, driver's license, and the like. Plus, have a 'miniature' drivers license or equivalent ID on it. That would mean no need for TWO pieces to 'hand over': 'the type of card and its 'number' and 'my picture!' I believe it would be more efficient to have these on my KEYCHAIN to flip through and 'offer up.' (Some grocers already have store-identifiers for their customer discounts!) Plus, it might encourage people to only use one or two 'credit cards' nee debit/credit on that keychain. Maybe even my bank's ATM? Each could be easily removable and/or replaced with 'that day's' needs? As a female, it would take out the following multiple steps: 1. Open my purse 2. Take out my wallet. 3. Open my wallet. 4. Rifle through all the slots to find 'the right one.' 5. Then, take my picture ID from another compartment (windowed of course!). 6. While keeping a close eye on both these important-to-me documents, I ... 7. Put my wallet back in the purse. OR hold it, perhaps clumsily, depending on what else is being held in my arms! 8. Close my purse. The store/whatever transaction goes through ... THEN the whole process of replacing these items is repeated ... backwards, after I've opened my purse once again. Hell, I wouldn't care if these laminated 'flat-cigar-shapes' are larger ... or smaller ... or cost me, the consumer, for the privilege of having them! What about security? Mmmm: good one. How about a little chip in each? Or a thumbprint device? Or ... hey ... YOU are the inventor, I assume, asking for our 'needs,' right?

1. Molecular scanners with a 10 light year range. (not only good for NASA, but wipes out smuggling of anything, missing persons, lost items, good for doctors to check you out, find Osama, CSIs, etc. 2. Dr. Who's "Targus" 3. Force field and anti gravity field generators. 4. In blood nano-bots, to help with healing and immune system. 5. Replicators. 6. Transporters that can teleport over a 10 AU distance in an instant.

i would like a hover car that you make for me Decoydummy@aol.com

Hey guys think about this. A small machine that could automatically slip on your condom for u. U stick you penis inside this small, medium or large hole and with a little vacuum pressure, its on ya before u know it. U won't even have a chance to loose you boner if u tried to do it yourself.

something like eyetaps, only custom fit for eyesight. the world NEEDS cyborgs ~all hail the singularity!!~

A nano fabricator that's self-powered and completely portable! It is capable of producing objects that are larger than itself! A voice stress analysis of the person speaking on the news so the public can always tell when they are telling the truth or not! Each time george speaks we would know immediately if he speaks truthfully! A micro power source that is completely safe and pollution free with power transmission capability without wires included!It would be smaller than an ipod and inexpensive!

a device that could read and right onto human brains, it can read everything from thought to memories and so on, and it can write things like karate lessons to a flying lessons and books.

A bed that turns into a little cube so that it can fit in your pocket. then when ur tired just hit a little button on the cube and POP instant bed... p.s. same with a fridge!!

Portable Teleportation

I would like to see someone invent a legislator who repeals laws which aren't necessary.

The all-in-one card.. all your crdt cards your medical card your driving lcns ect. in one card .....as to scurity.. the card would only have like codes and when you swipe it through the machine it will open the required file, like in hospital it will only show the medical files, in a grocery it will only allow money to be with drawn after a finger print is recognised .... oh one last thing.... it's updatable.. you can delete, add and edit all the data it has.... like when you get a discount card or when you change your bank that will drastically reduce the amount of plastic you have in your wallet, purse.