Underage Indicator

Idea: A visual indicator that a woman is underage so you don't accidentally hit on her. Also: steroid-filled chickens that might make women grow up quicker and also beat you up, comedians telling dirty jokes when there are kids in the audience, the possibility of using a weird disappearing birthmark as an underage indicator

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 28

Robert Johnson (Twitter: @blackrob2006)
DC Bradley (Instagram: @dcbradleyonig)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Tech Ideas for Racial Equality

Idea: Three tech-based ideas for transforming society in a way which would lead to more racial equality, including a new grade-school teaching system ("Teach or Die"), a new low-cost futuristic type of housing ("Stuff-On-Demand Housing"), and a new architectural/city-planning framework ("Garage Cities") which would encourage low-cost and flexible entrepreneurship and would also reduce the spread of COVID-19 and other airborne diseases

Jason Gilleran (Instagram: @hardgcomedy)
Dave Crumbley (Instagram: @davecrumbley)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio

Drone-Propelled Rollerskating VR Game

Idea: A virtual reality videogame where the main character uses a handheld helicopter drone to propel himself/herself around on roller skates and chop up enemies. Also: VR for exercise, changing the stereotype of a "gamer", movement in VR that won't make you feel sick like walking or running often does

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 27

Felicity Blue (Twitter: @FelFelBlue)
Sai Dharmarajan aka "Sai-D" (Twitter: @saidee27)
Michael Dinkelis (Twitter: @MichaelDinkelis)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Backwards Time Travel

Idea: A weird way to approximate backwards time travel in video games and possibly the real world. Also: the "Back to the Future" disappearing photo, memory manipulation and trans-cranial direct-current stimulation, delayed remembering of externally-stored memories, the perils of living in the past, the "satanic panic" of the 80s, Wild West bar fights

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 26

Steve Hansen (Twitter: @StevenRHansen)
Branden Milsk (Twitter: @BrandenMilsk)
Joey Derderian (Instagram: @derderianjoey)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Just-In-Time Tiny Houses

Idea: Houses where most of the furniture and possessions are wheeled in and out on demand by small Roomba-sized robots. Also: getting rid of the idea of "themed rooms" like "bedroom" and "bathroom", the elimination of house chores, wheelable toilets with privacy snuggies, sharing appliances and select items with neighbors and with strangers on the global shipping grid, moving without packing and how it could lead to civil war

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 24

Samantha Rager (Twitter: @SGRager)
Max Sheldrick (Instagram: @maxsheldrick)
Teena Green (Twitter: @TeenaMGreen)
Jeewan Gill (Facebook: @jeewan.gill.5)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Modular Skyscraper City Part 2

Idea: A futuristic city made out of movable cubes which can be made to be ultra-lightweight using a vacuum in the upper stories, allowing the buildings to be up to 3 miles high, to fly, and to control the weather (make it rain and stop tornadoes)

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 22

Kerry McCabe (Facebook: @kerryalanmccabe)
Megan Cottington (Instagram: @megtasticmeg)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Steve Gay (Twitter: @sgaytwo)
Recorded at Hard Knocks Grill in Jackson, MI

Shoplifting-Based Economy

Idea: A weird and possibly accidentally evil idea for a futuristic economy where shoplifting is not only no longer a crime, it's actually a completely acceptable method of commerce

Scott Gaughan ("Free Netflix Online" Podcast)
Diego Attanasio (Twitter: @DiegoComedy)
Kevin Key (Instagram: @kevinjokeskey)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Modular Skyscraper City

Idea: A futuristic city which is a single large building made out of a 3D grid of cubes of living/working space which can be added, removed, and shuffled around on demand. Also: eliminating the concept of "landlord" (and Trump's source of income), moving without having to pack, elevators are vertical roads that can be maintained by the city, Wile E. Coyote walls and steampunk themed neighborhoods

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 20

Joel Fragomeni (Podcast: joelradio.net)
Branden Milsk (Twitter: @BrandenMilsk)
Sophia Spagnuolo (Twitter: @SophiaZada)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded live at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Space Soccer

Idea: A soccer-like sport played in a cylindrical court in the weightlessness of space (inside a spacecraft). The goals would be on each side of the cylindrical court, and players would bounce off the walls like pinballs and try to push a heavy medicine ball into the goal. A team would consist of a diverse group of people, including big strong people and tiny gymnastic people which can be easily tossed around by their teammates. Also: early NFL team purchase prices vs. current value, it could maybe be played in the "vomit comet" airplanes

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 18

Seth Resler (Twitter: @SethResler)
Mike Rich (Facebook: @IAmNumbr4)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Restaurant Touchscreen Tables

Idea: restaurant tables containing touchscreens for ordering food, so you don't need menus (or waitresses). Also: bumping the touchscreen while eating, accidentally stabbing the touchscreen with a knife if it looks like food, khakis taking over your wardrobe and the khakiness seeping into your soul

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 11

Dan Turco (Twitter: @Dansplaining)
Chris Lazar
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Brain Altering Helmet TV Show

Idea: A TV show where people wear a brain altering helmet (as covered on the Radiolab episode "Nine-Volt Nirvana") which can temporarily induce terror, relaxation, enhanced learning ability, disabled morality, etc. Then, they'd be put in a scenario, such as putting someone in a haunted house and modifying their brain to induce terror, or testing a religious person by putting them in a stressful situation and shutting off their sense of morality, just to see what will happen

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 9

Jeff Johnson
Tom Stoner (Facebook: @zomgftw)
Paul Pipitone (Facebook: @paul.pipitone.5)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Body Enhancement

Idea (NSFW): To use robotic prosthetics and other human enhancements to be better at sports, look good, have fun, and live longer. Also discussed: robotic genitals, cutting off your feet because your shoes always stink, how body enhancement tech will mean that you'll never have to give up on stupid dreams

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 9

Jeff Johnson
Tom Stoner (Facebook: @zomgftw)
Paul Pipitone (Facebook: @paul.pipitone.5)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Elevated Roads

Idea: All roads/driveways/parking should be elevated, to allow animals to roam free, and for people to live in harmony with nature on the ground. Although it might ruin the fun of rollercoasters

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 6

Amy Probst (Instagram: @amydetroitrockcity)
Ted Moss (Twitter: @TedMossComedy Podcast: TEDTALKS2much)
Anthony Slanda (Twitter: @Runfromcheney)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Replacement Body / Replacement Brain

Idea: In the 1950s, a Russian scientist was able to attach a dog's head onto another dog's body, and it survived for a few weeks. We should be able to do much better now. So if a person is terminally ill, we should attach their brain/head to a machine (i.e. replacement body) to get maybe a few months of extra life, and attach the body to a machine (i.e. replacement brain). The head/brain can live a little longer and have fun in virtual reality games, and the body can be used for medical testing, without worrying about causing suffering. Over time, as the technology gets better, the head can live longer and longer, to the point where maybe everyone who is old and/or has minor health problems will choose to do it, even if not terminally ill

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 3

Greg Shur
DC Bradley (Instagram: @dcbradleyonig)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Future Car

Idea: A single-person electric car/vehicle that's skinny enough to drive through a door into a house or building (so you no longer need a garage, and you can go fast down hallways at work). It can orient itself both horizontally like a motorcycle and vertically like a Segway, and travel up and down elevator shafts instead of using elevators.

Also, the privacy of having your own transportation vehicle is important, because at least one day of your life you'll probably shart your pants, and you don't want to prolong your humiliation by taking public transportation back to your house

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 1

Ted Moss (Twitter: @TedMossComedy Podcast: TEDTALKS2much)
Josh Bowab
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Joey's Comedy Club

Smart Shock Collars for Cats (To Save Birds)

Idea: Shock collars which shock cats when they're attacking birds, to keep pet cats from killing so many birds that the birds go extinct. The shock collars would use cameras and artificial intelligence to figure out when the cat is attacking a bird. The cameras could also provide fun cat-view video footage. The shock collars could also shock a mountain lion if it's eating the pet cat, to deter the mountain lion from killing and eating future cats

Sarah Wooley (Facebook: @sarah.s.wooley.7)
Justin Siekierka (Facebook: @justin.siekierka ComedyShow: Comedy at Liberty Street Brewing Company)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI

Post-COVID Garage Cities

Idea: An electric car charging station consisting of dozens of 2-stall garages, where each car is charged indoors in privacy in it's own 2-stall garage. The car being charged is in one side of a garage, and "something to do" for around 40 minutes is in the other side of the garage. Examples of "stuff to do" include private movie theaters, barbers, dentists, Redbox movie rental machines, restaurant tables, hot tubs, etc. The "things to do" could be wheeled in on demand and ordered using a phone app. These 2-stall garage facilities could basically replace entire cities, and could slow down the transmission of the Coronavirus because they reduce or eliminate person-to-person contact, and they can be modified to implement virus protection measures more easily than normal stores/businesses (for example, an airproof plastic sheet could be placed between the customer's side of the garage and the business/service side of the garage). They could also help small businesses financially survive the Coronavirus because these businesses would no longer need a storefront or fixed location building which would require them to pay rent every month. Also, they could be a place for you to watch a sad movie where other people can't see you cry

Richie McLonis (Instagram: @richiemclonis Podcast: Hunting Rabbits)
Bill Morrison (Bill Morrison Website)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded by Broken Knuckle Studios over Skype

Apocalypse Tiny Houses

Tom's obsession with "black balls" (author Nick Bostrom's metaphor for future technologies that could end humanity) gives him the idea for tiny houses which are built to withstand apocalyptic disasters, such as virus outbreaks or nuclear/meteor firestorms. Since they're mobile, you can drive them into apocalypse testing facilities, such as a "car wash that uses fire instead of water", to make sure they actually work

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 86

Kurt Brown (Twitter: @KurtBrownTown)
Justin Siekierka (Facebook: @justin.siekierka)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Privatized Roads

Idea/prediction: If a company like Tesla or Uber owns all of the cars instead of people owning cars, they will have a financial incentive to own the roads and keep the roads in good shape, because they would have to pay for damage to their massive fleet of cars due to potholes, etc. Also, they could remove "redundant roads" to save costs, because if it takes longer to deliver stuff to a place because the road on the most direct route no longer exists, that extra time doesn't cost much if the cars are all electric and self-driving

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 85

Mark Sweetman (Twitter: @MarkTSweetman TV Show: Ann Arbor Tonight)
Nick Leydorf (Twitter: @NickLeydorf Podcast: Free Consultation)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Modular Airplanes and Airplane Boarding Speedup Ideas

Ideas to speed up airplane boarding, including:
* Robots to lift bags straight up/down into the overhead bins of an airplane, so people don't stand in the aisle and block the line of other people who are boarding while they try to shove their bags into the overhead bins
* A modular airplane, where the top half (cockpit and cabin) can be removed, and i) replace the waiting area of the airport to eliminate the need for "boarding", and ii) when the plane lands and slams on it's brakes, slide off the front of the plane, land on wheels, and drive away (like a bus) onto the highway without slowing down
* Use high-tech transportation like modular airplanes and drones to create a more diverse transportation system, instead of repairing old roads and bridges

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 83

Naz Neen
Mike Geeter (Twitter: @OhMikeGeeter, Kevin Hart's "Hart in the City")
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit