What everyday hassle do you wish someone would invent a solution for?

[CopperKettle83]

Leaving partners and children themselves out of it 😄 — what’s one thing that repeatedly wastes your time, costs you money or drives you mad?

Something you dealt with this week would be ideal. What would you want a product, app or device to actually do for you?

Have you bought anything to solve it already? What was still missing?

I’m exploring potential product ideas, so this is market research. There’s nothing being sold here.

This. There is nothing as soul destroying as flossing

Having to poop and pee on flights is such a pain! Especially if not in an aisle seat. When your seat neighbours are all asleep and / or plugged into wired headphones...

I try to do the same, but the first item makes the whole thing collapse, at some point the milk feels like it needs a lie down, and the cartons don't quite fit the bag, leaving empty space at the side for the sides to fold further into. Aaaaarrrgghhh!!!!

Special knickers…

I have heard good things on here about water flossers, which sound more pleasant (even fun?) than regular flossing. But my dentist says they are an add-on, not a substitute for flossing. Strewth.

I don't understand this newfangled thing. Is a coverless duvet not just... A quilt?

Something that stops your hair from growing.

That is something I've wished for for many years.

A voice activated AI assistant for Microsoft. So if I need the borders to change I can just say ‘make the borders wider’ or if I need all the fonts changed ‘make the body size 12 but the heads two sizes bigger and bold’.

So I don’t have to faff around all the time

Something that I can point at noisy phones, tablets etc that will instantly lock their volume on zero unless / until the user puts headphones on.

I don’t want noise-cancelling headphones, I’d be too worried about missing something important. I just want to be able to stop device noise.

Something to organise tradesmen, you put in what you need doing and it decides who is the most appropriate and cost effective, and books them into a slot in your calendar.

Drying myself after a shower. Would like a hot air cabinet to step into.

Could you tell me please how to link ChatGPT to your email? I love this idea!

This is a great idea!

I use the paid version of ChatGPT but I basically asked it if I could link my email accounts and it told me how to do it.

I have a bedside teasmaid for this - best £70 I’ve ever spent

A device that would block people from making phone calls on buses.

A hammer?
If only.

A small supermarket trolley that clips on to a pushchair. Walking to the supermarket is better for my bank balance, waistline and the environment. I can generally fit what I need to buy in the bottom of the pushchair and a small rucksack. It's just getting around the supermarket that's an issue.

you could try this 😂https://amzn.eu/d/04PwfKWx

A big rubbish chute that magically sorts the recycling and delivers it to the kerbside without me having to rifle through it all like a tramp looking for food.

Thank you 🙏🏻

In addition to using a smaller needle to pick up stitches, there are a couple of easyish ways to insert lifelines in your knitting.

If you are using Addi interchangeable needles you can replace the cords with these. Then the lifeline can be added automatically as you knit, in whatever rows you like.

Alternatively you can use a tapestry needle to thread a length of fine yarn or thread through the stitches which are actually on the needle of any row as soon as you’ve knitted it. It’s much easier than threading it through a row lower down, and is the method I use if I’m knitting complicated lace.

Do this every few rows, and leave them in for as long as you like, so perhaps you have five on the go at once. It’s an insurance in case you make a mistake. If you do it regularly then it makes counting your rows much easier, too.

I thought many Addi interchangeables had a hole in the needle part so you could put a thread in that which would be knitted in as you work the row, but t’tinternet isn’t offering me that as a solution.

You might be onto something here!

Laser?