My People, hear me!
And by 'my people', I mean 'people I hope don't hate me'.

I call upon your wonderous wisdom, as I need to come up with an idea for a design project for uni next year. I ask for your suggestions, of things you would like to see, or based on things that annoy or cause problems to you in everyday life.

Hopeful thanks in advance
PoD
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 23:31, 18 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I would like
a redesigned London underground transport system please
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 23:41, Reply)

Hmm
Would some sort of personal transport pod suffice? Or something that clears the system of other users when you are in it?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 23:44, Reply)

I've gazzed you.
With some actual good ideas I've got.
( Cawl, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 23:47, Reply)

And
I replied to you.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 23:49, Reply)

How about
a toilet with a built in sink above your legs so you can shit and puke at the same time.

One of these would have almost come in handy two weeks ago.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 23:49, Reply)

Spakka'
My solution to that: don't get drunk enough that you need such an arrangement.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 23:52, Reply)

@POD
It wasn't being drunk, I caught a stomach bug on my way back from Edinburgh. I didn't manage to puke but very nearly did.

I think these toilets with sinks would be popular in hospitals and student halls of residence.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 23:54, Reply)

True spakka'
Despite what I said, I got quite sick over the Edin-bash weekend, meaning it was quite good that I wasn't there in the end. I unfortunately was subjected to the double-discharge that we all hate so much.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 23:56, Reply)

@POD
Sorry to hear about that. I think I may have contracted the same as you.

I think one reason nobody designs innovative toilets is because good designers don't want to be associated with toilets and bad designers are too bad to think of anything original. This is why we need to set up the b3ta design academy. We're b3ta and we're not afraid of toilets!

Here are three more inventions I thought of:
• The 99p coin
• The sag-ometer. What this is is a means of measuring how saggy your norks have become. It's basically a tattoo of a boob that gets tatood on a boob. As the boob stretches, so does the tattoo (which starts to look like a saggy boob), so the tatoo measures how saggy the chesticles have become.
• A guitar-based input-device. Instead of pressing keys on a keyboard, pluck strings like you'd play a guitar.

Seeing that you're a guitar player, would the last one actually be useful, or would it be nothing more than a gimmick?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 29 Apr 2009, 0:07, Reply)

I already own a guitar that can be a midi controller and things spakka'
Just finished my last project which was a guitar chord teacher, looking to get away from the whole guitar thing next year.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 29 Apr 2009, 0:12, Reply)

A political system
that actually has smart people in charge who make correct decisions.

Possibly too hard.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 29 Apr 2009, 7:35, Reply)

a money tree?
they're always useful.

Either that or like... one of those pokey sticky things so that when you're stuck behind people who. walk. really. really. real. ly. damn. slow you can poke them in the knees - make them fall to the ground - walk over the top of their bodies and continue on your merry way!
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 29 Apr 2009, 7:48, Reply)

VC
You are the embodiment of altruism :)
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 29 Apr 2009, 8:13, Reply)

no3l
I'm also the embodiment of many other things - including modesty :D

Oh! an even better one! For when you're driving!

Instead of having JUST a horn - you get like this extendible arm thingo that shoots out of the dashboard to flip the bird when you press the car horn! and it'll stay up for like... 10 - 15 seconds after you finish beeping the car!

THEN - you can drive properly and express your rage without letting go of the wheel.

Now I really want one! Please Podders? Pretty Please? I'll let you have a motorboat and everything - oh wait. No. That's bert and Al I have to use that method of persuasion for.
Ummm - I'll give you a mahooooosive hug and fluffles?
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 29 Apr 2009, 8:28, Reply)

A GOOD sex toy for boys
I'm not sure what that would entail, but if you need any assistance in development or testing, I'm there for you.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 29 Apr 2009, 8:55, Reply)

I hope I havent missed this boat but
seeing as most of the world (including me) works on the phone and soon all but a select few will do also, can someone please invent some kind of rudeness detector built into the phone that sends out an electric shock which grows stronger as it remains unacknowledged?

I am certain the world would be a nicer place with such a device.

thanks
rafter
baz
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 29 Apr 2009, 14:11, Reply)

Lightweight, easily collapsible exhibition furniture
After today's struggle with a really small exhibition cupboard which packs down into a box which actually has a greater fucking volume than the cupboard when fully assembled AND weighs three metric fuckloads I, for one, would happily buy such a wondrous invention.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Wed 29 Apr 2009, 17:48, Reply)