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What invention do you need in your life?

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MachinicianMagician · 21/01/2019 12:41

What product do you wish existed that could make your life easier?

For me it would be an automatic hair styler - select an image of the hairstyle you want and it automatically styles it for you! My hair consistently looks like a wet mop....I can barely even do a ponytail...

Can be as ridiculous or pragmatic as you like!

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Pascha · 21/01/2019 18:21

I'd like a grocery shopping putter-awayer and also a fridge organiser and thrower-outer of manky bits of courgette and wangy carrots so I don't have to deal with the mess.

iklboo · 21/01/2019 20:42

A replicator like in Star Trek. Shout at a wall and voila! Tea, Earl Grey, hot just delivered immediately.

I'd be a passive aggressive replicator.

'How hot? Give us a clue. Just hot enough you can slurp it? Scald your gob hot? What? I'm a replicator not a bloody Bajoran!' Grin

Birdsgottafly · 21/01/2019 20:48

iklboo, aka the male Holly, in Red Dwarf.

Mine's simple a small sticker on my glasses and a tracker for them on my phone. I can never find them when I take them off.

I like the full body air dryer on Blade Runner, as well, though, but if I had one, I probably couldn't afford to run it.

Disfordarkchocolate · 21/01/2019 20:52

I like a new way of cleaning your teeth. Some sort of amazing mouthwash that removed debris and plaque so you didn't have to brush your teeth at all. It's horrible when your really tired and brushing your teeth wakes you up.

dodofofo · 21/01/2019 20:54

@Mercedes519 that would be a nightmare for me- especially when my brain would be thinking of what I REAAAAAALLY want to say to certain people Grin

treaclesoda · 21/01/2019 20:59

Self cleaning glasses. I have long eyelashes and need to wear glasses. They are permanently filthy because my eyelashes sweep up and down the glass all day long.

Would also quite like detachable limbs, so that I never wake up with the feeling of having slept awkwardly and given myself a numb leg.

DeaflySilence · 21/01/2019 21:22

"Actually, a sort of mouth guard shaped thing I could bite and it would clean my teeth without the horrible sensations of an electric toothbrush and interdental brushes."

You mean like this one www.amabrush.com/, @CigarsofthePharoahs?

ShirazSavedMySanity · 21/01/2019 21:25

I’d like a tablet to take (preferably chewable) that acts as a SPF 50 sun cream for 24 hours.

Take a tablet, you’re protected all day, no greasy cream, missed patches, sunburn, atguementa with DC to put sun cream on etc

DukeOfEarlGrey · 21/01/2019 21:45

I have always longed for a get-me-to-bed machine. I click my fingers and am not just home, but home with makeup removed, teeth cleaned, pyjamas on and in bed. Sadly I once longed for this at 3am after big nights out with my friends... now I just want it of a week night to save me the commute...

April2020mom · 21/01/2019 21:45

A personal assistant. I’d also appreciate a diary to manage all of our activities and appointments. Also could be used to record contact information. Any required information on the appointment would be jotted down.

Witchend · 21/01/2019 22:36

When the children were younger something that pinched their energy and gave it to parents.
Now they're older something that makes the hour between when they go to bed and I should be in bed go about 1/4 as fast.

kateandme · 22/01/2019 04:38

to get to destinations from my room to the place.stop the anxiety,problems etc.

reeter skeeters from harry potters thing where she or other talk and her wand/quill writes it for her

some type pf device that id aay might fit to my eye so it could follow or see where I want to click so I can be hand free.oh so I guess it would have to have some kind of hand attatchments to do the typing :/

WaterBird · 22/01/2019 05:02

I'd love it if everyone, regardless of where they lived, had equal access to all books/music/movies around the world, although I know there might then be resulting economic repercussions.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 22/01/2019 08:57

Not really an invention as such, but since turning 50 I've wondered why ice-cold plunge pools are not a standard feature of bedrooms.

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 22/01/2019 11:36

Can I have a money making machine please, I'd be happy with a tree. I'd look after it. Promise 😉

Cheekylittlenumber · 22/01/2019 11:40

Search engine for my house.

You would call out ‘google, where are my keys’ and a magic laser beam would instantly find them.

Cheekylittlenumber · 22/01/2019 11:42

Also, a device that scans the food items in your freezer/fridge/cupboards and that’s linked to an App that generates deliscious yet simple recipes using things you have in your kitchen.

ByeGermsByeWorries · 22/01/2019 12:00

A deposit chute in the home that you can put your kids in that deposits them at school Grin

CigarsofthePharoahs · 22/01/2019 12:12

www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=%23&ved=2ahUKEwjGpuGnrYHgAhUkSBUIHWROB_AQwqsBMAB6BAgOEAU&usg=AOvVaw0VTJzWxrN8ZFOD4xbU2nov
One of our desired inventions is on the way! Wish I had somewhere to put it.

I really want that tooth cleaning thingy upthread.

Chewinggumwalk · 22/01/2019 12:26

The hoverboards we were promised by “back to the future 2”. How I would love to soar high and fast above the snake of traffic yelling, “sayonara, bitches!”

Widgeon · 22/01/2019 13:33

A big flush in the house, so instead of cleaning/washing up etc, you could pull the flush.

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