* I want a compact brain scanner that could convert the electromagnetic activity in your brain into a realized multi-sensory (at least 3D visual that could feed into a 3D printer, and sound, and perhaps more) of what somebody is trying to imagine. For example, suppose you saw the guy who jacked your car and would recognize him anywhere and would recognize his voice, but you lack the artistic and vocal skills to recreate that image yourself which would allow somebody who knew the perp to ID him. With this tool, the image and sound could be directly plucked out of your brain without the witness having to have any personal skill.
* I want a little non-humanoid robot in my car that recharges from the generator while the car is running, pops out of a little door the size of your gas tank door when you park, gives your grimy windows and car exteriors a sponge bath (with an environmentally safe antifreeze fluid), wrings out the dirt on the ground, and then climbs back into its little door, closes the door and turns itself off. Basically a squeegee bot. The deluxe version would wax the car too.
* I want a mouth wash that she swish once that prevents you from ever getting cavities again (this technology is almost ready for prime time).
* I want bioengineered mythical and extinct creatures. Give me dragons. Give me winged micro-horses (cube-square scaling makes them impossible at full size). Give me unicorns. Give me three headed dogs. Give me dinosaurs. Give me dire wolves. Give me Thylacoleo. Give me reptiles with three functioning eyes like the ancestors of the tuatara had.
* I want a payment system that relies exclusively on your driver's license or ID without the need for credit cards, loyalty cards, gift cards, debit and ATM cards, tickets for events, etc. (I was a big fan going one step further with biometric ID methods, until I realized that if somebody hacks your biometric data, which is surprisingly easy to do, it is very hard to get a new one.)
* I want a key fob that glows if there is a human sized living being behind the door you are about to open, or around the corner in the dark alley that you are approaching, or behind the car next to yours in the parking lot at 2 a.m.
* I want a fire alarm that can tell the difference between burned popcorn in the microwave and a house fire.
* I want a game where the "ball" moves of its own power like a Golden Snitch.
* I want a suit or shield that magnetically deflects bullets like the one the cop from the future in Continuum has. Indeed, pretty much all of her gadgets are pretty cool.
* I want a podium that uses sound to identify any bullet fired in its vicinity, that upon hearing a shot has a laser pop out and fry the bullet in mid-flight in an instant before it can hit anyone.
* I want grocery stores that deliver ultra-fresh fish and meat by importing it live and then slaughtering it when a customer orders it (sort of like restaurant lobster tanks but generalized).
* I want a medium sized airship that can swoop down on a car wreck on an interstate highway during rush hour, take a date stamped high resolution holographic picture of the scene in more wavelengths than the human eye can see plus a sonar or radar scan to overcome line of sight issues in a mere instant, grab two or three crashed vehicles with giant claws, and then vacuum up all the spilled fluids and smaller debris, in a process that takes just a few minutes, after which it deposits the cars in an impound lot and takes on the next gridlock inducing traffic accident.
* I want a pipeline/tanker truck/tanker ship/tanker train additive that acts like a self-clotting agent that self-seals leaks upon exposure to air and then can easily be removed with some sort of filter when the fluid reaches its destination.
* I want a word processor with the compatibility of Microsoft Word but the design sensibilities of an Apple product that has all the options I want and none of the options that I don't want, without having to spend hours customizing the program and building templates.
* I want a laundry machine that I can load once, which then washes with an automatically selected ideal combination of the right kinds of detergent/fabric softener/bleach and then drys your clothes without having to be transferred to another machine (I've actually seen something close but so some reason they are very rare).
* I want a newspaper-like product accessible via a web browser that omits the kinds of stories I don't like, and priorities the stories that I do like in a way that aggregates all available versions of a breaking news story with novel content on the web (including linkable profiles to people mentioned, etc.) while eliminating duplication and purging outdated information.
* I want a food ordering/delivery app that works like a Pandora radio station, starting with a few seed preferences and then evolving to learn your preferences over time while randomizing what you will eat on any given day and inserting novel options similar to things you have liked in the past, to give you some variety. It would have "meal" or "snack" buttons that you could choose from, would consider time of day and your recent history of orders, would flash its top choice which you could thumb up or down, and then automatically order your foot with a linked credit card account from the food providers delivery service or a third party delivery service based upon whatever option was better, tip appropriately and direct the food to be delivered to where ever you happen to be at the moment. Optional features could activate pre-set types of dietary restrictions or styles of diets (e.g. South Beach, low fat, Kosher, vegetarian, vegan, etc.).
* I want a water-proof, shatter resistant Kindle and phone.
* I want a Roomba-like robot that not only mows the lawn, but also fertilizes it, aerates it, edges, and waters the lawn, even if you lawn has steep slopes and shallow ditches and shrubs and trees and flower gardens in the way.
* I want an emissions testing service that comes to you instead of requiring you to come to the vehicle.
* I want a small drone that intentionally crashed into tree branches hard enough to knock off snow that could break the branches but gently enough not to break the branches itself, that could deal with block after block of trees so people wouldn't have to go out and shake the trees or hit them with brooms during spring and autumn snow storms. It should be capable of working in rather high winds.
* I want the equivalent of top of the line TV dinners that don't have to be refrigerated until they are cooked and can be heated up in a microwave.
* I want an alcohol substitute that can be taken by people who are pregnant, or nursing, or on prescription drugs that aren't compatible with alcohol, that still helps people loosen up and relax and still tastes good.
* I want a small microwave oven that can be folded up and put in a backpack to take with you camping that has its own high energy density power source.
* I want a pill you could take every month or three that gives your gut bacteria a tune up that makes it optimal compared to whatever you have going on at the time in your digestive tract.
* I want a device similar to a birth control implant that could be implanted under your skin for prescription opioid users and heroin addicts that would automatically release naloxone into the system of the person with the implant in the event that the narcotics in the person's system reached life threatening overdose levels. A similar deliver system could be used in lieu of an epipen that would deliver epineprine into the system of someone with a life threatening allergy when it senses biomarkers in someone's body that signal that a severe allergic reaction is in progress.
* I want a lab on a credit card style device the size of a pack of cards with a needle on the end that could be plunged into someone's blood stream to determine what kind of venom or poison or drug OD was in a person's system in just a few seconds so that a first responder or trained amateur could determine which of a portfolio of anti-venoms and poison antidotes that come in a kit with the diagnostic tool that responder should administer to the person at risk and in what dose. These kits could be positioned in public places in a manner similar to automated external defibrillators are today at places like stadiums, airports, first responder vehicles and so on.
* I want a substance that could be delivered by syringe or a tranquilizer dart type contraption that rather the rendering someone unconscious would be milder and simply chemically suppress anger, fear, rage and similar intense emotions that are likely to lead to violence or self-harm, while reducing the risk of death from an overdose of the substance.
* I want a gun-like device that would go behind the front grill of a police car that would shoot a strong, very hard to remove (without the right specialized chemical solvent) adhesive covered GPS tracking device at a vehicle in front of the police car that it was pursuing so that the car in question could be located even if it eluded pursuit or the police car called off the chase to protect innocent bystanders. A handheld version could be made available to police and security personnel to track fleeing individuals. The impacts would be designed to not be noticeable to the person being pursued in the heat of their flight. Similar devices could also be useful for military forward observers tagging enemy vehicles or personnel for strikes by smart ordinance of some kind.
* I want shirts with a coating that automatically release deodorant into your armpits when you sweat, and similar automatic release stink neutralizer chemicals for shoes.
* I want a trout sized drone that a fisherman could drop into a lake or river that would roam around and identify the most promising fishing spots that would report back to a smart phone app. A variant of the drone/app pair could be used for search and rescue by lifeguards or other first responders in the event of a suspected drowning or if there was a suspected body underwater that needed to be retrieved.
