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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.
I've conditioned myself fully by this point to only use the clock on the stove as an indicator of whether my power has or has not gone out
Even just a capacitor to keep the time for 10 minutes or so. That would cover 99% of the power outages in my home
You don’t even need that. My microwave is wifi connected but still can’t keep time. Instead of using NTP like any appliances or industrial control system in the last decade+, it syncs to your phone time though an app.
Wtf.
Fuck IoT
All my homies hate IoT
Computers have CMOS batteries. They are pretty cheap. I don't know why they haven't been added yet.
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.
If you live in the US that sounds like something the FDA should be notified about. It's probably not legal to sell a hearing aid that can so easily be hijacked by another party, or if it is, it really shouldn't be. Either way, FDA regulates hearing aids so they are the ones to complain to.
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.
Hijacking this with my mini rant: GOOGLE if you provide me with three possible routes to my destination and I specifically select one... DON'T FUCKING CHANGE IT MID-DRIVE GODDAMMIT!
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.
This sounds like a Florida man headline waiting to happen
Warm white LEDs inside of coloured glass bulbs to make LED Christmas lights that don't look like gamer vomit.
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.
Would you settle for ill tempered sea bass?
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!
I didn’t know that was even still a thing. For years now on my iPhone I’ve just looked at the text transcriptions of my voicemail in my phone app.
RISUG is cheap, permanent, safe, reversible male birth control.
It was invented in 1979, and has not yet come to market.
Why the fuck don’t receipts just show up in my bank / credit card statements?
Do you want your bank to see everything you've purchased?
Even banks don’t want to see everything you’ve purchased. That opens them up to a whole new avenue of subpoenas from police trying to prove crimes. They already have entire legal compliance departments dedicated to fulfilling subpoenas for financial crimes. They don’t want even more responsibility.
A printer that works
Brother laser printers.
Stop wasting money on inkjet printers if you don't print regularly
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.
Wasn't this the central premise of Google Plus?
I guess strict nesting wasn't possible, but strictly enforcing nesting would be problematic: the bowling group might have acquaintances, friends, and your actual brother.
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.
Yeah, companies starting an obesity epidemic by pumping us full of government subsidized corn syrup, only to solve that by getting us reliant on an exorbitantly expensive drug that you have to inject every day. How I love capitalism.
Mainstream motherboards supported by Coreboot/more libre UEFI systems. Fuck AMI
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!
A bicycle that is as reliable as a car.
I bought a top of the line cargo ebike from a German manufacturer that cost half as much as a cheap new car. It needs scheduled maintenance every 2000km. After 5000km the entire drivetrain needed to be replaced, the front brake completely failed when temperatures dropped below freezing, the motor sometimes cut out due to a firmware bug in the controller and the suspension seatpost broke when I rode down a curb.
Imagine any car having safety-critical faults like that after 5000km.
Phone assistants responding to you in the same volume of voice you used to address them.
Five minute abs
If your ABS takes 5 minutes to react there may be an issue with your car.
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
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."
Do you actually need someone to help with that?
I just apply ear drops myself, are you sure they didn’t involve you in some kind of ear drop kink 🤔
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.