We waved goodbye to Northern Rock, Tony Blair and the Pyrenean ibex, but we also said “how do you do” to Facebook, The X-Factor and a new species of slug (Selenochlamys Ysbryda) that was discovered in Cardiff.
But what we really want to know is what the next 10 years has in store.
If it were up to Remedy we’d like to see:
The square sausage
Evenly fried every time and no chasing them around the pan.
The Apple iDream
Designed in California – now you can re-live the dream.
Self-pairing socks:
You lose them, they find each other – brilliant!
And how about…
– The ‘life-rewind’ button is launched (to un-say stupid things)
– The Royal Mint brings out a 99p coin
– Someone invents a cheddar that lowers cholesterol
– Edible carrier bags introduced – no more eco-guilt, or bags for life
– Digital wallpaper. You want to change the pattern? Push a button!
– A dunking biscuit is designed with perfect absorbency potential
– Wireless power hits the market – no more spaghetti behind your computer
– Force-fields as standard on cars – doesn’t matter how bad your parking is
– The animal translator means Patch can tell you exactly what he wants for tea
– The personal teleporter becomes reality – leave work 5.30, arrive home 5.30.
Now tell us what you’d like invented or re-imagined:
If your idea makes us chuckle or say “I want one of those – NOW!”
you could win a shiny new copy of Schott’s Almanac 2010.
We have 5 copies to give away before the end of January.
How to enter:
Leave your answer as a response to this blog post (see below).
Make sure you include your name and email address.
The 5 ideas that we like the most win - simple!
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2. Remedy Creative will not pass on your details to any third party without your prior consent, but your name will be shown on our blog.
3. The judges’ decision is final.
4. The closing date is 31st January 2010.
Completely wireless audio visual systems. Go back to Imperial measurement - funny how when we went metric everything doubled in price?
Posted on: January 12, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Could we have please;
Hover shoes - long promised by ‘Look & Learn’
Mobile phone with built in breathalyser, likewise internet access that forbids navigation when over the limit and sending emails.
Extended life for dogs and other house pets
Cryogenic suspension sorted out so next recession you can just pause for the whole phase and come out for the good times only! This would also be great for bypassing the dark part of teenage development. (Just a thought, it might also solve above request, pop dog in before going to work and take out on return?)
A decent alternative to shaving that can be done safely while driving.
Posted on: January 12, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Square sausages are actually available just over Hadrian’s Wall and have been for a very long time. I cannot understand why these practical savouries have not been sold in the South though?
Please find the following link all about the ‘Lorne sausage’ http://www.aboutaberdeen.com/lornesausage.php - a delightful start to the day!
Posted on: January 13, 2010 at 11:27 am
Flying cars and airborne road network.
Remote control for wife with large mute button (sorry - very bad I know but I would buy one if it came on the market)
Similar remote for children so they do as they are told first time everytime.
Cigarettes and alcohol that are not bad for you or do not make you feel bad afterwards.
Mind control of others making them buy stuff from me - they should do anyway!
Elimination of all things agressive, evil and generally nasty (excluding Nan from The Catherine Tate Show).
New cheap clean means of energy available to all in order to save the planet.
If none of the above become available a genie in a bottle will do. I would not waste a wish on square sausages - cylindryical burgers maybe.
Posted on: January 13, 2010 at 2:21 pm
I havent got time for all this blogging nonsense. Can’t you lot just lay back and fantasise? It always works when done properly and is a lot cheaper than all these proposed inventions. Nick, you can even blot out the wife totally (although I have never tried that).
Anyway, I have to go now and get more of Ben Kweller. It’s the first time I have seen him and I’m sure I am his biggest fan now.
PS Your web site is the dogs.
Posted on: January 13, 2010 at 3:19 pm
In the humble opinion of this sasanach, the Scottish square sausage is merely a brick of bully beef posing under a different name. Interesting debate, when is a sausage not a sausage? As soon as a sausage loses it’s sausage shape, does it stop being a sausage at all? A bit like a circular cheese triangle?!
Anyway, what about – a packet of inexhaustible Rolos?
Posted on: January 13, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Getting an air flight when you don’t have to be at the airport a day in advance.
Watching football where players can stay on their feet and not cheat their fellow professionals.
Having a breakfast time radio presenter who isn’t ginger and thinks that he has to bellow at his audience.
Going to see the boat race, when the same two teams haven’t got to the final.
For the security situation in the world to get so much safer, that we do not have to be screened like criminals before we get on a plane.
I loved the earlier comment about the teleporter. Of course, you would still get problems, like when there is a power cut, and only half of you gets home. Or you dial in the wrong co-ordinates and end up in Bootle.
Being able to eat something without reading in the paper the next day that its going to kill you.
Having a visible lie detector in the House of Commons when speeches are being made.
Posted on: January 13, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Having spent 3 hours shredding paper today, I’d like a personal incinerator that doesn’t require me to spend ages carefully feeding things through a tiny gap and then leave me with mounds of shreddings.
Posted on: January 13, 2010 at 6:33 pm
Self TIming Eggs:
Eggs with shells that change colour when they are perfectly soft boiled.
Just a bit of genetical modification…
Posted on: January 27, 2010 at 10:26 am