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Moral Selection

Animal Rights / Vegan, Environmentalism, Futuristic, Politics and Social Issue, SciFi, TechTom WalmaComment

Idea: Environmental activism/engineering, where instead of trying to return nature to an arbitrary past before humans arrived, we use genetic engineering, technology, etc. to engineer the environment and the DNA of animals to make them experience more pleasure and less fear and suffering ("moral selection" as opposed to "natural selection" aka Darwinism). It's a way for humans to become "the best thing that ever happened to the universe". And it's the best option for finding meaning in life, because it's such a big task that it won't be solved/automated in many lifetimes, leaving everybody with nothing to do with the rest of their lives. Also, there are plenty of tasks for everybody (even dumb people) to do, like saving animals from freezing to death, gathering DNA samples of animals, etc.

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 82

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Brent Von Kalamazoo (Twitter: @brentvonkzoo)
Greg Sharp (Twitter: @GregSharp)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Global Warming Apocalypse Party

Doomsday Prepping, Evil, Futuristic, Politics and Social IssueBrent Von KalamazooComment

Idea: Set a deadline to fix global warming emissions, and if we fail to meet the deadline, "calling it quits for civilization", and conducting a worldwide party for a couple years, or until the food runs out. That way, everybody gets a couple years of the highest quality living, instead of slow miserable decline towards a Mad Max hell

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 82

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Brent Von Kalamazoo (Twitter: @brentvonkzoo)
Greg Sharp (Twitter: @GregSharp)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Glasses That Make Cats Look Like Dogs

Clothing, Futuristic, Pets, Silliness, TechDiego AttanasioComment

Idea: "Augmented reality" glasses that make dogs look like cats, or vice versa. Also maybe headphones, so the person who sees the cat as a dog can say a dog's name, and other people (and the cat) hear them say the cat's name. This technology would also allow everyone to live a lie, causing other people to see and hear them in a way that isn't real

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 81

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Gerrit Elzinga (Twitter: @GerritElzinga Podcast: This Better Be Good)
David Sutherland (Twitter: @skrtskrtsuther1)
Diego Attanasio (Twitter: @DiegoComedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Life Guide App

App, Education, Futuristic, TechBryan DeuchlerComment

Idea: An app that monitors what you're doing all day and uses artificial intelligence to give you advice, kind of like "an angel on your shoulder that also keeps you from being stupid". It can also go back into it's recorded history of your life, and show you a sequence of decisions that led to a bad outcome, to help you learn from your mistakes

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 80

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Nick Earl (Twitter: @fakenickearl)
Amanda Brewington (Facebook: @amanda.brewington)
Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot Podcast: Cartoon Tonic)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Stay-At-Home Vacation Ideas

Event or Activity, Futuristic, Music, Robots, SciFi, TechTom WalmaComment

Rules for defining a "vacation", how travel isn't required for a vacation because (unlike migrating birds) location isn't one of our five senses, five ideas for new types of stay-at-home vacations (ranging from realistic to wildly futuristic)

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 80

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Nick Earl (Twitter: @fakenickearl)
Amanda Brewington (Facebook: @amanda.brewington)
Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot Podcast: Cartoon Tonic)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Modular Indoor/Outdoor Electric Flying Car

Drones, Environmentalism, Futuristic, Invention, Tech, CarsTom WalmaComment

Idea (NSFW): A single-person electric car whose chassis can switch between horizontal mode (like a motorcycle) and vertical mode (like a Segway). When in vertical mode, it would be thin enough to fit through an ordinary door, so you could drive it inside buildings and up and down elevators. Modular attachments would be available, such as an SUV-like "family compartment" or a quadcopter flying car attachment

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 76

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Matt Hamilton (Podcast Moist Definately)
Bryan Harrison (Podcast Moist Definately)
Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot)
Loyd Digg (Twitter: @LoydDigg)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Audio Parasite

Evil, SciFi, Body Augmentation, Futuristic, TechMatt HamiltonComment

Idea: An electronic device that digs into your ear like a parasite and broadcasts Matt's voice into your brain. Most people would prefer to READ people's minds, but Matt is a narcissist who wants the exact opposite. And he wants to do it to the entire world. The way to defeat him would be to broadcast his voice back to him with a slight delay like a "speech jammer"

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 76

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Matt Hamilton (Podcast Moist Definately)
Bryan Harrison (Podcast Moist Definately)
Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot)
Loyd Digg (Twitter: @LoydDigg)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Nuclear Powered Snow Machines

Environmentalism, Futuristic, TechTom WalmaComment

Idea: Launching steam created by nuclear power plants straight up into the air in cold areas such as Alaska or Antarctica, to make it snow onto land, to counteract sea rise due to glaciers melting and falling into the ocean

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 74

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Robert Schneider (Facebook: @thecommanderawesome Comedy Show: Comedy At The Comic Shop)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Futuristic Tiny Houses

Business Idea, Environmentalism, Futuristic, Invention, Tech, Tiny HousesTom WalmaComment

Tom's idea for a futuristic tiny house where most (or all) of your stuff is wheeled in and out by robots. The idea also solves gerrymandering, makes "universal basic income" feasible, solves the Flint Water Crisis, and gives people the freedom to escape their miserable 9-to-5 office jobs and live nomadic lives of leisure. But everyone opposes it because it involves sharing toilets

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 73

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Louis Michael (Twitter: @LouTheSurgeon)
Nick Leydorf (Podcast: Free Consultation)
Matt Hamilton (Podcast: Moist Definately)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Recorded live at Crossroads Comedy Festival in Indianapolis

Quantum Leaping into Movies

Futuristic, Robots, SciFiMatt HamiltonComment

Matt wants to "quantum leap" into movies and experience the events of the movie as one of the characters. He also accidentally re-imagines several other plot points of the book "Ready Player One", which he'd never read because he considers it too nerdy. Tom proposes a gruesome, "mad science" way to approximate this idea in the real world

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 73

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Louis Michael (Twitter: @LouTheSurgeon)
Nick Leydorf (Podcast: Free Consultation)
Matt Hamilton (Podcast: Moist Definately)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Recorded live at Crossroads Comedy Festival in Indianapolis

Personality Bracelet

Futuristic, TechTed MossComment

Idea: A bracelet (or a hologram of a bracelet projected by a smart watch) which, when you shake someone's hand, (optionally) shows them your personality quiz results, and (mandatory, by law) shows them your criminal record. That way, when you meet new people, they instantly know if you're a good person or a bad person

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 72

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Alwin Sheriff (Twitter: @AlwinTheSheriff YouTube: @jerk4eternity)
Ted Moss (Twitter: @TedMossComedy)
Justin Siekierka (Facebook: @justin.siekierka)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Time Tube

Futuristic, SciFi, NSFWKevin SmithComment

Idea: A sci-fi device and Netflix-like video streaming service to allow you to watch video of the past, anywhere and any time throughout history. Although, maybe it should be limited to stuff that happened more than 200 years ago, so you don't need to live in Stepford-like tyrannical politeness because people could catch you lying and/or watching pornography

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 71

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Kevin Smith (Twitter: @CrassHeart Podcast: Crass & Heartless)
Jason Patterson (Facebook: Jason Patterson)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Baby Translator

Futuristic, Parenting, TechBryan HarrisonComment

A "baby translator" should be possible by now. Or at least a giant mother-scaring helmet that can analyze the baby's brain waves and figure out why it's crying, including where on its body a pain signal is coming from. Although this would lead to social pressure to use the brain-scanning helmet whenever out with the baby in public, such as on an airplane

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 69

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Daniel Kumapayi (Twitter: @Kumapayidk)
Bryan Harrison (Twitter: @DonnchaRedbeard Podcast: moistdefinitelypodcast.com)
Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Pet Talking Device

Pets, FuturisticJacob BarrComment

If they invented a device to allow dogs and cats to talk, they'd be better pets. Or they'd use their cuteness to steal jobs from beautiful people, and vote Republican

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 68

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Jeff Horste (Twitter: @jeffhorste Comedy Special: Kevin Hart Presents The Next Level - Jeff Horste)
Gimmy Cipriano (Twitter: @theRealGimmyC)
Jacob Barr (Twitter: @kidwiththehands)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

The Party Ship Sci-Fi Movie

Movie, Tech, FuturisticTom WalmaComment

A sci-fi movie, where, in the near future, an eccentric billionaire adventurer like Elon Musk leads the first mission to colonize a planet of a nearby star. They've figured out how to slow down aging via drugs and hibernation, so they age like 1/10 as fast as usual. So they can survive the entire 200-year journey, and still be young enough to have kids when they get there. But they can only hibernate for 90 days at a time. So every 90 days, they wake up, do a day of work, have an intense drug-fueled party, and then go back into hibernation before the hangover kicks in. So instead of space travel being logical and business-like and boring, it's the exact opposite, overflowing with fun and emotion and intense experiences. But will the people who signed up for a party be able to cope when things start to go wrong?

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Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy)
Paul Pipitone (Facebook: @paul.pipitone.5)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Crime-Erasing Time Machine

Tech, NSFW, Politics and Social Issue, FuturisticPaul PipitoneComment

Idea: Time machines that allow people to go back in time and prevent horrible crimes which would've occurred by peacefully interfering and preventing the crimes. But there might be some unexpected downsides... (Note: NSFW)

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 64

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Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy)
Paul Pipitone (Facebook: @paul.pipitone.5)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Shapeshifting Tech

NSFW, Tech, Futuristic, Body AugmentationAvery SommerfeldComment

Idea: A belt or suit that you can wear to allow yourself to temporarily change into any shape you want, like another person, an animal, an animated company logo, or a literal "fly on the wall". Also: a discussion on "invisibility cloaks" (Note: NSFW)

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 64

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Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy)
Paul Pipitone (Facebook: @paul.pipitone.5)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Benefits of Implantable Microchips

Tech, Body Augmentation, FuturisticJason AltComment

The three things men need to carry are phone, wallet, and keys. A sub-dermal microchip could eliminate 2 of those 3 things, and could also do other cool stuff, like store your customized settings for smart appliances. And security issues don't really matter because you're always carrying a cell phone anyway. The biggest downside is that somebody might cut it out of your body to steal it

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 63

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Jason Alt (Twitter: @JasonEAlt)
Nick Earl (Twitter: @fakenickearl)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit