What do you think SHOULD have been invented by now?

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Yet again, I set the Sky box to record a programme, it says it's done it, but when I go to watch it, all that's been recorded is half an hour of over-run news.

Surely we must by now have the technology for the Sky box to know that the previous programme has gone on longer than it was scheduled for, and to wait until the programme I want has actually started before recording?

Likewise, it shouldn't need to record 5 minutes at the start and end of everything.

Drives me nuts!

Does anyone else have any things that they think "We MUST be able to do that by now!"? I don't so much mean things that we wish had been invented, just things that we think should have been.

A cure for the common cold.
A contraceptive for men.

at Omzlas

I could run a car for MONTHS on my arse.

Had a bit of a think,and I've decided that a machine that would wash me all over,wash my hair,then dry me would be fantastic. Then apply moisturising lotion all over to my awful itchy,dry skin. I have various disabilities and I find it exhausting just washing my hair,never mind having a shower as well,then drying and trying to reach awkward places with body lotion.

A machine that I can post clothes into and it will wash, dry press and fold them and deliver them into neat folded piles at the end of the day - I would pay THOUSANDS for this

I'll be right behind you in the queue. It's be worth every bloody penny.

A supplement to bring back natural hair colour. No more grey hair and we can all look youthful forever...from behind.

Oh and obviously

The Hover Board

and

The Flying Car

WE WERE PROMISED AS CHILDREN

And not the crap Hoverboards with wheels either

Sheer tights that do not snag, ladder or just disintegrate on the first wear.

Individual flight. How can this not be a thing yet? Sean Connery wore that flying suit how many decades ago - come on techy geeks!

A fully integrated public transport network.

Cures for all the horrible illness we can't cure yet.

Calorie free chocolate!!!!!

Surely we must by now have the technology for the Sky box to know that the previous programme has gone on longer than it was scheduled for, and to wait until the programme I want has actually started before recording?

The technology for that does exist. Back in the day of analogue TV, there would be a code embedded at the end of each programme. This meant that regional TV networks could provide local adverts.

A scentless cream like a moisturiser that stops body hair growing.

A combined power and data cable that just daisy chained from one device to the next so that your TV, hifi, DVD player, etc all just damn well worked and had no rats nest of cables behind the tv

Creams / gels that aren't freezing when they put them on you - for example the gel the sonographers use on your tummy when you are pregnant

An "is it safe to eat" device

A dust sucker upper for the house that just sits in a corner so no dust to clean up.
A fat dissolving cream that you rub on and instant thin.

Better dental treatment all round. Ideally something which can coat your teeth and stops you ever needing a filling but at the very least a better alternative to the drill and fillings that last for life. I often think dentistry is positively prehistoric still and does not seem to have moved on much since I was a child in the 60s.

Really about time it did!

Front doors that unlock with a fob like cars do.

In fact, all doors that unlock AND open with a fob, for when you have arms full of crap shopping.

A mug that doesn't stain, instantly makes any drink taste absolutely foul if it is taken by somebody who doesn't have permission to use it and sends out a homing signal so I know where to find it and who nicked it in the first place, rather than having to track it down on a windowsill of a classroom halfway across the site where its resident lifeform is on the point of attaining sentience.

Oh, and keeps drinks perfectly hot at the sound of 'Miss..' until I return to my desk.

BackforGood there are warmers available for that!

It is a thing. Tesla model X doors auto open as you approach or open as you're prepare to exit and they use tech (lidar) to gague how far they can open without hitting any neighbouring obstacles. They also close themselves if you want them to.

Wireless electricity. I hate wires and plugging stuff in. Everything else is wireless!!!

Oooh Bearsofar - I came on here just to say the exact same thing. I mean we have all this amazing personal technology...you can control your heating and lighting remotely, I can open my documents from any device but will the printer work for more than 5 minutes without a random problem or deciding that 25 copies of my document woukd be better than 1..no. Plus I know it's not out of ink I changed it this morning grrr!

A mute button for dc would be good.
Iirc years ago there was an advert that had a remote that muted and paused the dc.

Why are all tins not ring pulls. I can't use can openers they just break.

Microwaves without all the extra buttons (does ANYONE even understand the other buttons?)

Spaces in the skirting boards so you can sweep all your bits into there instead.

Self cleaning litter trays.

Things that should exist:

A Teleporter
A pill to stop the common cold dead (instead of it killing me)
A pill to absorb calories outside my body even after I've eaten a block of chocolate

Period Pain Relief
Cure for sore throats
Cure for runny noses
Cure for hiccups
Accurate weather forecasts

A smellasaurus. A device that can find the thing that smells bad such as a hidden dead mouse. It should also tell you if food could be safely eaten.

Kendodds idea of a dust suckerupper is great. Also the blow dry after shower. Lush.

A contraption to sort and store tupperwares, solving the perennial problem of non matching lids and boxes.

I'd really like a pause button I could use on the rest of the people in my house, so that when they all ask me for twenty things when we're rushing out the door, I might be able to do any one of the things before being asked another.