AIBU to ask you what dream product you'd design?

[CharlotteBMumsnet]

Hi there,

You may or may not know that a few years ago, Mumsnet users helped Dreams create the ‘Mumsnet Mattress’ by telling them exactly what they wanted from a mattress. A group of Mumsnet users were involved all the way through, from developing the concept to the final product arriving in the store.

We want to work with brands to make more ‘Mumsnet’ products that make parents’ lives easier, and that’s where we’d like your help please. Where do you think there’s a gap in the market for the perfect...what? Is it the perfect nursing bra? Or maternity jeans? Or family-friendly car? What haven’t we thought of that doesn’t exist yet?!

Whatever product you think could be improved (or created) to make your life easier, please tell us below and we’ll do what we can to try and make it a reality.

Thanks - MNHQ

A machine that washes all colours and types of clothes at once, dries them and irons them. Open the door and they’re ready to put away!

Probably asking too much with that one...

Electric walls.
Hate plugs and all the wires dangling around.
Wish we could just put our electrics in the room and sync them to an electric power point built into the wall.

@HalfSizeMe Asda’s toaster fits in full slices of Warburtons toasty loaf (though you have to put the bread in in landscape mode but crust to crust perfection). direct.asda.com/george/home/kettles-toasters/4-slice-toaster-black/050255082,default,pd.html

While we're taking toasters, I'd invent one with a dial that has 3 settings: "light", "medium" and "dark". Instead of every toaster I've ever owned which has 20 settings, the first of which is "edible" and the other 19 are all "burnt to a fucking cinder."

Some sort of gadget that allows making up of upper bunk/loft beds without barking knuckles, trapping fingers between mattress and rail, and having to lift your own body weight when tucking the sheet under the mattress.

To add to that, something for getting fitted sheets under the heavier mattresses.

Spectacles that don't steam up when you go from one ambient temperature to another.

There are anti fog lotions/sprays that stop this @chocolateteapot20

And @ConferencePear

@3luckystars

Tesla do this (I can understand why cars aren't like it tbh)

Something like a sling, but that keeps the baby propped up on my shoulder (anyone else's baby happiest there?) @Potatopia

A ring sling may work...is it a v young baby?

@Superlooper yay!! That's exactly what I meant!!!
Thank you.

Self-heating soft, heavily padded hat. Warmth is the only thing that relieves my horrendous migraines.

@Souperlouper, which spray does that, please?

Uh-huh. Tried just about all of them. Maybe it's just my breathing or something....

www.selectspecs.com/guides/how-to/stop-glasses-fogging-up/

Loads of different ones..can't recommend one, sorry, but I had a friend who was a cook and used a cream you rub on...lasted about a week for her before she had to reapply. I don't know the brand she used

Great ideas here. I've seen this in posh board rooms but I'd love to be able to push a button and all the curtains/blinds in the house would open/close.

#firstworldproblems

Just pockets in all dresses. It's not much to ask.

An app that I can feed all the current bullshitty buzzwords from work into and it comes up with coherent speeches and statements.

Thank you @Souperlouper

A key fob that opens my front door when I click it, just like I do for my car.

A factor 50 tablet. You take it in the morning and you're protected all day. No sticky slimy sun cream.

YY TiddlesUpATree! No faffing around applying and reapplying and worrying that you've missed a bit or sweated it off or washed it off going for a swim. Plus so much better for the environment as no more need for all those plastic bottles, tubes, spray attachments etc.

An app that I can feed all the current bullshitty buzzwords from work into and it comes up with coherent speeches and statements.

I'd like a slightly different version on my TV/iPhone/Tablet - one that contains a bullshit detector. Whenever a politician tells an outright lie, it changes his/her voice to that of a 5-year-old - like the adults on the Haribo ads.

Imagine someone's booming, blustering voice changing to that of a 5-year-old when he boldly states nonsense like "We will have 50,000 more nurses, who will be working in 40 new hospitals" or "We hold all of the cards - this will be the easiest deal in history..."

A kitchen bin for recycling that's big enough to not need emptying daily but small enough to fit in the kitchen and doesn't cost the earth or have fiddly bits that break easily

a machine that you use with your hand moving it, once only to go over your surfaces and floor,and its then saved to its memory.and then forever more it can clean your surfaces and floor itself!too much?too out there?

A washer dryer that actually dries the clothes in less than three attempts