ANNOUNCEMENT OF EPISODE SPLIT, TeslaBot Household Usage Ideas

ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm splitting up the audio files of the first 88 podcast episodes by idea, so if you subscribe to the podcast using an app which downloads audio files (as opposed to streaming them), you might want to make sure that your podcast app doesn't download all of the new audio files of the first 88 episodes at the same time and fill up your phone

Also: Ideas on how to use a TeslaBot in your house, including taking care of your pets when you go on vacation, adjusting your bed covers or turning on/off a fan to help you sleep, doing laundry using a washboard and a bucket, attaching metal bars to your windows every night, doing your makeup in a moving car, gathering water from a hand-pump water well or a stream and emptying your compost toilet (so you don't need plumbing), etc.

Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Priority Text

Idea: A service which uses surveillance, state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI), and data from miscellaneous sources such as health trackers to monitor a loved one (usually an elderly parent) and provide you with enough data (via text) for you to know whether or not to worry about them. For example, if they send you a vague or ominous text message (such as "we need to talk"), the AI would figure out if the message is urgent (i.e. high priority), and color-code the message based on how urgent it is and/or delay notifying you that you received a non-urgent message if you're busy. It could also text you periodic health reports and/or risk reports (sorted from highest to lowest priority) and recommend actions to prevent emergencies from happening (for example, if it sees that your mom stumbled on a loose nail on a stair, it can understand that the loose nail is a hazard and recommend that you fix it before she trips and falls)

Thomas Stineman (Facebook: @thomas.z.stineman)
Justin Siekierka (Comedy Shows: Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co Rusted Crow Canton Village Theater)
Tom Walma (Web: creativitywasted.com Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Felicity Blue (Twitter: @FelFelBlue)

Mass Transit Sky Trams

Idea: To use "sky trams" (aka "aerial tramways" or "cable cars") for mass transit in the US. They could be used in several places, such as in the mountains, between skyscrapers, in the center of split highways, in Miami after Florida sinks underwater due to global warming, and in Alaska after the permasoft melts and turns the ground to mud. Also: self-driving cars syncing together to drive really close to each other at exactly the same speed and designed to be aerodynamic while tailgating each other; commuting via electric bicycle and the theft/vandalization of electric bikes and scooters

Nick Pizzuti (Facebook: @nick.pizzuti.73)
Chris Young (Web: chrisyoungcomic.com Comedy Special Video: Buoyant Mon)
Bryan Harrison (Podcast: @MoistDefinitelyPodcast)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Exercise Machine Videogame Controllers

Idea: Handles for an exercise machine (such as a treadmill, bicycle, rowing machine, or even free weights) which contain a game controller for XBox/Playstation/Steam to allow you to play A-list videogames while exercising. The handles could be swapped from exercise machine to exercise machine to allow you to perform a type of exercise which doesn't interfere with your gameplay at any given moment. The actual exercise (the pedaling of a bicycle, for example) wouldn't impact the gameplay, although maybe that feature could be added later as an enhancement. Also: gyms are like medieval torture; almost falling off the back of a treadmill when preparing to jump in a videogame; playing a videogame while exercising to improve your fitness training; nerdy details on Tom's prototype treadmill videogame controller and how exercise equipment manufacturers could incorporate videogames into their devices

Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Shallis M
Gus

Black GPS

Idea: A GPS system for your car which has special features for Black people and which has a strong voice personality, such as Samuel L. Jackson, who yells at you to ensure you don't ignore important warnings (like to avoid dangerous areas). Also: instead of warning you about speed traps, it'd warn you about "trap houses"; instead of warning you about a "disabled vehicle ahead", if you're approaching a broke ex's house, it'd warn you of a "disabled man ahead"; letting you know if cops are nearby; the GPS system could use a megaphone to yell at potential carjackers outside your car to scare them off

Dani HaHa (Instagram: @comedian_dani_haha Web: danihaha.com)
Jimmy Slims (Instagram: @jimmyslimscomedy Twitter: @jimmy_slims)
Tom Walma (Web: creativitywasted.com Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Drone Food Delivery To Moving Vehicles

Idea: To have drones deliver food to people in moving vehicles, such as cars stuck in traffic. Also: how some technology of today would seem insane and/or ridiculous to people in the past; holding out bags of food on hooks which people on trains can grab as the train drives by; having drones swap your normal helmet with a "beer helmet" while you're driving a motorcycle

Gimmy Cipriano (YouTube: ABitTooMuch)
Kara Coraci (Twitter: @KaraCoraci Web: crotchie.com)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

GoZebos and Snap-In Windows

Idea: Gazebos and other structures (yurts, sunbathing pods, dune buggies, pontoon boats) which can be converted between "open-air structures" and "enclosed shelter-providing structures" by snapping in/out modular clear plastic windows. The idea is, instead of living in a "house", to instead live most of your life in the open air, and only enclose yourself "indoors" (i.e. within walls and windows) for brief moments of shelter, such as sleeping, avoiding cold or rainy weather, using the bathroom, etc. Also: robots transporting most of your stuff between the structures and a neighborhood warehouse on-demand; the increased danger of bear attacks; a music festival where people construct small temporary shelters around the stage and live there for days or weeks

Dave Wellfare (The AM Mayhem Podcast with Mojo and Dave)
Justin Siekierka (Comedy Shows: Liberty Street Brewing Co Rusted Crow Canton Village Theater)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Ice Dogs (Robotic Medical Rescue Dogs)

Idea: To use Boston Dynamics robotic dogs to save the lives of people whose hearts have stopped by jumping on their chests and rapidly cooling their bodies, thus giving rescuers an extra hour or two to revive them. Also: "ice dogs" roaming the neighborhood looking for medical emergencies and, in the meantime, serving as police dogs and package delivery dogs; the risk of "ice dogs" sticking to your body like a frozen flagpole; robotic "hot dogs" to prevent malfunctioning "ice dogs" from freezing healthy people to death

Matt Harper (Twitter: @MattHarperJokes Podcast: Another Episode Twitch: @mattopoly83)
Brett Mercer (Twitter: @brettmercer_ Podcast: Big Time Garbage Twitch and Web: @Brettmercer)
Johnny Mocny (Twitter: @JohnnyMocny Podcast and Web: @wearemoviespod)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Covid-Era Wedding DJ In A Box

Idea: A DJ-in-a-box for a Covid-era wedding (or other social event). It'd be extremely cheap because the socially-distanced event would only have around 10 people in attendance and therefore wouldn't justify the cost of a normal human DJ. It'd consist of an oscillating fan with some laser pointers taped to it, a pack of three "smart light bulbs" to put around the venue, and a Spotify playlist which you say is customized but is actually the same playlist for every wedding. Also: a self-hating DJ; optional add-ons like a holographic DJ, a celebrity Cameo for a wedding toast, and an entire wedding-in-a-box; a sad single person ordering a DJ-in-a-box to use alone in his apartment

Matt Harper (Twitter: @MattHarperJokes Podcast: Another Episode Twitch: @mattopoly83)
Brett Mercer (Twitter: @brettmercer_ Podcast: Big Time Garbage Twitch and Web: @Brettmercer)
Johnny Mocny (Twitter: @JohnnyMocny Podcast and Web: @wearemoviespod)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Virtual Commute

Idea: A virtual-reality simulation of your daily commute to work, to help make you feel like your life has returned to post-Covid normalcy. You'll get the sensation of moving a couple hundred feet every few minutes, just like a real commute. You can simulate driving inconveniences such as stressful traffic jams (by locking the virtual-reality helmet onto your head until you're late logging onto your real work computer), cracked windshields (the crack appears to slowly grow on the VR headset's screen until you pay $65 in real money to get it repaired), and lifespan-reducing smog (by breathing through a pipe which is hooked up to your furnace). There could also be a bus simulation for kids to simulate their daily commute to school, which could include a gadget that throws real spitballs at them to simulate being bullied on a real bus

Joe Bates (Twitter: @JoeBatesComedy Comedy Album: Joe Bates Joe Bates Joe Bates by Joe Bates)
Jason Alt (Twitter: @JasonEAlt)
Joseph Johnson (Twitter: @JJohnsonComedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Drone Charging Network

Idea: A kit for toy drone enthusiasts to convert an attic vent to a "drone doggy-door" and put a grid of wireless drone charging stations in their attic. They could then register their house as a "drone charging station" to create a nationwide "drone charging network", thus allowing people to gradually fly toy drones (which are connected to the cell phone network) across the country

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 57

Melanie Gresham (Twitter: @mel_gresham)
Adam West (Facebook: @adam.west.73307)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Electronic Wedding Ring

Idea: An electronic wedding ring that can log when and where you take it off, to prevent cheaters from taking off their wedding rings. Although, if sunspots knock out the GPS satellites, it'd be like "Cheater Christmas". And in the future, when most people have "augmented reality" glasses, the glasses could augment how other people see the married person, to either make them appear uglier or hide them behind a "digital burka" so people aren't attracted to them

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 56

Jacqui Marpa (Twitter: @JacquiMarpa)
Amanda Brewington (Facebook: @amanda.brewington)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Futuristic Chore-Free House

Idea: A nearly empty house where almost everything is wheeled in and out by robots. Things like toilets would be cleaned in a neighborhood warehouse when they're wheeled out. Services such as cooking and laundry would also be offered by the neighborhood so you don't have to do it and also you don't need to own the appliances. Also: The silly self-cleaning house from the TV sitcom Home Improvement

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 56

Jacqui Marpa (Twitter: @JacquiMarpa)
Amanda Brewington (Facebook: @amanda.brewington)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Invisibility And Avatar Cloak

Idea: If cameras continuously record what one side of your body sees, and then flexible, clothing-like screens on the other side of your body display the recorded video in real-time (or if you were inside a cylinder of solid, curved monitors), you'd look invisible. But you don't have to just display what was captured by the cameras. You could display the image of another (smaller) person walking and moving in the same way you are, with that person's image surrounded by the video captured by the cameras, so the remainder of your body which is not displaying the other person's image would appear invisible

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 53

Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News)
"Spruce Rice" (Twitter: @LordBluntsWorth)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Self-Driving Delivery Cars Without Human Safety Features

Idea: After you go shopping, you'll leave in a self-driving one-person car which has human safety features, and your purchased items would go into a self-driving delivery car which is cheap because it doesn't need airbags or safety features required for transporting people. The self-driving delivery car might combine multiple deliveries in one trip like Uber carpooling, and might not arrive at your house as quickly as you do

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 53

Mark Sweetman (Twitter: @MarkTSweetman, @A2Tonight)
Doug Glidden (Facebook: @doug.glidden.7)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Futuristic Tiny Houses vs. Universal Basic Income

Idea: Tom thinks his futuristic (and cheap) tiny house idea is a better idea than having a "universal basic income", and his futuristic tiny houses would also eliminate house chores, allow you to move instantly without packing your stuff, give you time to pursue your dreams, and even solve infrastructure problems like the Flint Water Crisis. He sees them as giving you true freedom (as opposed to the current system of wage slavery), but his podcast guests see them as a sterile prison

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 52

Nolan Reilly (Instagram: @kzquarantineking)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Scare-eolas

Idea: Holograms of horror movie villains that women can project out of their nipples to scare off creepy guys who stare at their breasts. Also: using the holograms to project clothes to allow you to be nude in public; holograms for men (cree-penis, i.e. "creepiness"); questioning whether "Naked Mile" nude runs still occur at colleges; accidentally training babies to suckle on serial killers' faces

James Couture (Instagram: @secretbeefcake)
Justin Siekierka (Liberty Street Brewing Co Comedy Show)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Virtual-Only Experiences With Real Human Guides

A bunch of ideas for virtual (i.e. Zoom/Skype) entertainment experiences with real human guides, where the experiences would be impossible to do in-person in the real world (as opposed to "Amazon Explore", which is virtual versions of real-world experiences). Examples include virtual tours of historical places and historical disasters, virtual tours of real-world places with "inappropriate" tour guides (such as comedians), video-drone tours of real world places which are off-limits to tourists (the moon, parts of the Grand Canyon, etc.), and real world events/games where the person participating virtually plays a role of a team (for example, being a lookout in a heist)

Joel Fragomeni (Podcast Joel Radio)
Sai-D (Twitter: @saidee27)
Matti Yaari (Facebook: @myaari)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

XBox Live But Without Kids

Idea: "XBox Live" without kids, so you don't have to deal with kids screaming into microphones, acting like jerks for no reason, ruining teams by being not good or too good, and otherwise being annoying. Also: longing for the "Children of Men" movie to be real; racist slurs being rampant in online first-person shooter games

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 48

Nick Pizzuti (Facebook: @nick.pizzuti.73)
Kyle Forsyth (Twitter: @IAmKyleForsyth)
Ashley Stommen (Instagram: @ashleystommen)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Social Toy Drones

Idea (NSFW, dark humor): Flying a toy drone with a videocamera on it is like playing a videogame where nothing fun happens. A videodrone would be much funner if it had a speaker and a screen to show your face, that way you could do social things with real people and other videodrones. Examples include games like hide-and-seek, guided sky tours, drone charging "forts", kids using the drones to play together outside when their parents make them stay inside, playing with animals using apps that make animal noises, etc. Also: controlling a drone with your mind so that you feel like an actual bird

Listen to the entire episode #47 here (which also contains 3 additional ideas):

Kevin Smith (Podcast: Crass&Heartless)
Josh Harmon (Twitter: @harmonjoshua01)
Tim Hill (Twitter: @TimHill007)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit