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What's a product that you wish existed but doesn't?

133 replies

SmallGreenBabies · 31/12/2024 13:49

What's a product that you wish existed but doesn't?

For me it's a little contraption that attaches buttons that have fallen off back onto clothes really quickly/easily without sewing. I've bought things that claim to do this before, but they're rubbish. I have an aspiration to design something one day, I'm sure it would be possible to design a good one.

Maybe an entrepreneur will read this and design our ideas!

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squashyhat · 05/01/2025 22:12

LindorDoubleChoc · 05/01/2025 21:43

A robot that can peg washing on the line, or hang it on a clothes airer, check that it is drying and rotate it, put the smalls on the radiators to finish off, detect when everything's dry, pair the socks, fold or hang everything else on hangers as appropriate, take it upstairs and put it away tidily in the correct drawers and wardrobes.

You need a Norbot Grin

Jumborollers · 05/01/2025 22:18

RosesAndHellebores · 05/01/2025 22:05

Lost sock searcher.
LED tyre pressure gauge on the dashboard giving the exact oressures of each tyre

My car does that (gives exact tyre pressure for each tyre I mean, not searching for socks).

Offtothepanto · 05/01/2025 22:35

A rotating oven tray as there is always a hot spot.

CorsicaDreaming · 05/01/2025 22:38

@OhhYoureSpikey - have you tried Magnesium Citrate? I find it really helps sleeping through the 4:30am wake up blip. Plus HRT. And a v small dose of amitryptyline (which I'm actually on for chronic back pain/ sciatic pain, but has an amazing sleep bonus too - it's a v small dose, but really helps sleeping through- not sure if they will prescribe for sleep issues primarily or not, though)

WinterFoxes · 05/01/2025 22:43

Drops that you put in your eyes that form a gel over your pupil to give perfect20 20 vision with no astigmatism.
Dreamed of them since childhood. Soft contacts are the closest thing but they dry your eyes and don't really exist if you are ling and short sighted and also have astigmatism.

Mittens67 · 05/01/2025 22:46

Bullshit spray that you could keep in your pocket and spray into the face of liars to convert their utter bollocks into truth.

Might be a tall order.

RosesAndHellebores · 05/01/2025 23:46

CorsicaDreaming · 05/01/2025 22:38

@OhhYoureSpikey - have you tried Magnesium Citrate? I find it really helps sleeping through the 4:30am wake up blip. Plus HRT. And a v small dose of amitryptyline (which I'm actually on for chronic back pain/ sciatic pain, but has an amazing sleep bonus too - it's a v small dose, but really helps sleeping through- not sure if they will prescribe for sleep issues primarily or not, though)

They will prescribe amitryptiline for sleep. I have it.

AlllSeeingEye · 05/01/2025 23:51

Automatic wipers for my glasses, lol

ManchesterLu · 05/01/2025 23:53

OhhYoureSpikey · 31/12/2024 15:02

A pill that gives you optimal nutrition and that fills you up. I am so fed up of thinking what to cook, then cooking, being moaned at ‘because I don’t want that, loading the dishwasher, unloading the dishwasher. I just really don’t enjoy food anymore because it’s all just such hard work.

I’d love something, maybe a magical acupressure presser/button/band or something, so that you could just magically have an amazing sleep.
I’m knackered, fed up waking up at 4:30am unable to get back to sleep or tossing and turning until 2am. The rationed prescription of Zopiclone I get from the GP is awful. It makes you zonk out but leaves you feeling like crap, and it can’t be taken often due to addiction issues.

A mirror that can scan you and tell you what items to buy that go together so I don’t constantly look like I’m dressed from a jumble sale.

The food pill sounds absolutely amazing!

To be honest, I'm sure something like that could be made into a shake or something.

RatRatPig · 05/01/2025 23:54

Tupperware that holds 4 biscuits and has a lid attached, like this (discontinued 😭)

What's a product that you wish existed but doesn't?
Wibblywobblybobbly · 05/01/2025 23:55

A volume control for small children to go with the magic bedtime device mentioned upthread.

SerenityNowInsanityLater · 05/01/2025 23:56

A memory scrubber like the one from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

sloecat · 05/01/2025 23:58

A human sized dryer at the swimming pool as I hate wrestling my damp self into clothes.
A headphone socket/bluetooth at every seat in the cinema so you don’t have to listen to people eating popcorn and rustling sweet bags through the whole film.
Same for the theatre.

IdaPrentice · 06/01/2025 00:01

A cure for colds. Not just suppressing symptoms but an actual cure. Can you imagine? No more runny / blocked nose, cough and feeling generally crap. Ever again (sigh)

IdaPrentice · 06/01/2025 00:03

Ooh, I've thought of another one - as my cat is sitting on my lap at this moment. A magic treatment that means pets don't leave hairs everywhere.

Enough4me · 06/01/2025 00:03

A scanner that can tell if tumours are low or high risk, which can be used to burn the cells in such a way that the body reabsorbs them for disposal as wee.

YourChirpyFatball · 06/01/2025 00:08

A bath that has the ability to sense when you've gained weight, then beeps and asks "Do you wish to remove this 1/2/3 pounds?" You reply "Yes please" and off it goes down the plug hole. 😍

JessicafelloffTheKnappett · 06/01/2025 00:09

Oh I think I've over thought this... my first thought was a self cleaning house. Perhaps too aspirational, but oh so nice!!

GellerYeller · 06/01/2025 00:09

sloecat · 05/01/2025 23:58

A human sized dryer at the swimming pool as I hate wrestling my damp self into clothes.
A headphone socket/bluetooth at every seat in the cinema so you don’t have to listen to people eating popcorn and rustling sweet bags through the whole film.
Same for the theatre.

Don’t they have dryers like that at places like Centre Parcs? I’m sure I’ve been in one. Love your headphone idea.

creamsnugjumper · 06/01/2025 00:10

Ok so this is maybe the least lighthearted one!!

But I've always wanted to invent a pain machine that I can plug into other people so when I got to the GP in crippling agony from endometriosis or a kidney stone on the move when they say on and scale of 1-10

I can simply just plug them in for a little feel...

Same with period pain, labour.. in fact any pain across all sexes so when my DH stubs his toe I can actually feel what he thinks warrants and afternoon snooze 🤣

Love the other suggestions and AI is coming soon where you put your measurements onto an online shop and all the clothes are modelled on you, it's about 18 months away.

lemonchops111 · 06/01/2025 00:15

RosesAndHellebores · 05/01/2025 22:05

Lost sock searcher.
LED tyre pressure gauge on the dashboard giving the exact oressures of each tyre

my car shows each tyres pressure on the dashboard… Kia Sportage

JessicafelloffTheKnappett · 06/01/2025 00:15

GellerYeller · 06/01/2025 00:09

Don’t they have dryers like that at places like Centre Parcs? I’m sure I’ve been in one. Love your headphone idea.

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I've seen this whole body drying machines at a water park somewhere in the Continent - possibly Portugal 🤔

Seldomseen · 06/01/2025 00:18

Central locking - but for my house, not a car. One press of a remote key button when I'm standing outside my house and hey presto! All the windows and doors would be locked. Eliminates that nagging feeling that I've left the back door unlocked when I nip to the shops.

comeondover · 06/01/2025 00:23

I've invented something like this in my head many times. It really surprises me that car manufacturers haven't improved the basic sun visor in all this time.

lemonchops111 · 06/01/2025 00:24

I would like some sort of device or way of never having to dust… it’s so pointless