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What's the best invention that's not been invented yet?

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:37, archived)
Time Machine

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:37, archived)
Teleporter

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:37, archived)
Replicator

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:37, archived)
Mind Bleach

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:38, archived)
Replicator,
Holodeck
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:38, archived)
Holodeck would be awesome
but who would clean it after it's used as a cyber-brothel?
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:39, archived)
Geek

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:41, archived)
yeah right you wouldn't leave a holodeck if you had one.

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:44, archived)
I'm not saying that
But the fact that your contribution was lifted directly from star trek makes you a sweaty faced wheezing nerd.
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:50, archived)
Calling me names to disguise your true feelings?

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:55, archived)
I only hit you because I love you

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:57, archived)
Robotic women with realistic vaginas whose tits get hot and they play the accordion

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:38, archived)
Not been to Japan then?

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:38, archived)
Well they've got robot women that look like corpses
And a robot that walks and plays the trumpet

I'm waiting for all the pervert technologies to be combined
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:39, archived)
I'll bet you are!

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:42, archived)
Haha,
I was talking to somebody about this yesterday when I mentioned realdoll, and the person I spoke to said that in Japan there are dolls that cost upt o $100,000, and these japanese business men buy homes for their dolls to live in.
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:40, archived)
Thats exaclty what I was thinking of.

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:42, archived)
The plans are afoot.
I just need to sort out a problem with the mammary heaters and we're all set.
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:38, archived)
Make little pockets and then people can put those disposable hand warmers inside.

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:39, archived)
Just stick a hot water bottle behind each one
I don't mind if they're slightly rubbery. And leak water.
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:39, archived)
Bluestar is really a robot?
This explains everything
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:41, archived)
The problem is when we were tuning her speech patterns, the linguistics tape got swapped for some Chubby Brown.
Hence, the phonomenal amount of swearing.
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:43, archived)
I just thought you were designing a killbot

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:44, archived)
GET FUCKED

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:48, archived)
Pfft

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:52, archived)
The Karraffedler Peyingtoo Automatic

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:38, archived)
I once tried to make perpetual motion
I spent about a month making prototypes and everything.
Didn't work though :-(
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:38, archived)
(1) Take cat
(2) Butter some toast
(3) Fasten toast to cat (butter side up)
(4) Drop cat and toast from small height
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:40, archived)
YES!

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:40, archived)
It doesn't work
The cat sits down and licks the butter off of the toast
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:42, archived)
It has to stop hovering long enough to break the physics paradox first.

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:44, archived)
haha

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:42, archived)
you forgot
(5) adjust vertical hold position by adding butter or removing limbs from the cat.
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:44, archived)
Fine tuning can be achieved by simply brushing the cat.

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:46, archived)
food replicator

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:38, archived)
virtual reality game that you plug into your brain

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:39, archived)
engines that run on only air and are actually efficient and small.

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:39, archived)
Why cant somebody make an engine that runs on water ?
water can be split into two components, hydrogen and oxygen, both of which are combustable, surely somebody can make a hydrogen-oxygen engine.
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:42, archived)
I saw an engine on Mythbusters that just gives off water
drinkable water, too.
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:44, archived)
we can do that.
it's a piece of piss.

Now explain to me the methods used to get Hydrogen in the first place?
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:46, archived)
Coersion, guilt and fire.

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:47, archived)
you're right about the third one.
more or less.
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:48, archived)
That was the first I thought of
and then I got chemically confused and remembered why I work in an office.
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:51, archived)
The powers of persuasion. Or harsh language.

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:48, archived)
If we could harness the righteous indignation
of FotE campaigners, there might be enough energy....
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:49, archived)
We could burn their sandals at the very least.
For shits and giggles, if nothing more.
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:50, archived)
I recall we did it in physics once.
it was an electrical process to seperate the water onto the two parts.
I think it involved a 'H' shaped test tube, and the gasess were collected in the vertical tubes of the 'H'. And electrodes were applied at teh bottom of the verticals of the 'H'. One gas colelcted on the anode side, and the other gas collected on teh cathode side.
The gasses were proven by burning them and observing their reactions. One has a squeaky pop, cant remember which it was.
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:49, archived)
Hydrogen, isn't it?

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:52, archived)
yeah.
electrolysis. It kind of needs electricity. which needs fossil fuels. bit of a catch-22 really.

Also, it only works at small scale. At large scale (ie to fuel any significant number of cars on the roads) you have to do catalytic cracking of hydrocarbons. Which a) needs hydrocarbons in the first place just as a raw material, so why not just burn them and b) is carried out at about 1000 degrees C, which kind of uses a lot of energy and has a bit of a wee carbon footprint.

the whole concept is fundamentally fucked, but that's never stopped people before.
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:57, archived)
robotigers.

(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:39, archived)
Lathery bathtime hoverboots

/Comma moment
(, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:43, archived)