View Full Version : Inventions you would like to see......
grumpyoldb
29-10-2008, 22:23
A TV that automatically reduces the volume when the ads, or sky news come on.
Noisy feckers.
A TV that automatically reduces the volume when the ads, or sky news come on.
Noisy feckers.
Seconded. One time on the radio, someone asked why the volume was so high on the adverts. The "expert" waffled about this and that (mostly to do with Peak Mod level). It wasn't until he mentioned the word 'compression' that the penny dropped. The b*stards wind it up for the ads; less dynamic range !
I'd like to add a device in the same vein. A recorder that skips the adverts when recording a programme. It can be done with ease, too!
MontyPlumbs
30-10-2008, 00:31
Seconded. One time on the radio, someone asked why the volume was so high on the adverts. The "expert" waffled about this and that (mostly to do with Peak Mod level). It wasn't until he mentioned the word 'compression' that the penny dropped. The b*stards wind it up for the ads; less dynamic range !
I'd like to add a device in the same vein. A recorder that skips the adverts when recording a programme. It can be done with ease, too!
Didn't videoplus miss out the adverts? I'm sure sky PVR does to (I dn't actually know - just guessing!)
metimmee
30-10-2008, 01:41
Didn't videoplus miss out the adverts? I'm sure sky PVR does to (I dn't actually know - just guessing!)
Advertisers are understandably against TV companies embedding this information for obvious reasons. I believe Tivo would overlay a textual advert while fast forwarding through adverts.
There is no built in mechanism to jump adverts in Sky+ other than the fast-forward button which, I am sure, is less accurate than it used to be....or maybe I am out of practice.
PVRisthefuture
30-10-2008, 01:54
Water or air powered cars.
zola403uk
30-10-2008, 08:30
Yep it has to be a teleporter!! :PDT_Xtremez_30:................. :PDT_Xtremez_30:
Scaley brat
30-10-2008, 09:03
Soft jellylike tubes on top of pile cream tubes, those hard plastic ones make your eyes water...... allegedly !! :S
Or teleporters..... :PDT_Xtremez_28:
sausage2
30-10-2008, 09:09
A mute button fitted to birds heads.
A mute button fitted to birds heads.
Are we talking pink and fluffy or flying feathered types here? Works just as well either way. :PDT_Xtremez_28: Self replenishing Grolsch bottles would be nice....
Chilliboy
30-10-2008, 10:14
Holodecks......interactive porn movies!
A time travel device to correct or take missed opportunities!
Fantastic, hot meals in an instant.
Rich women who want to wine and dine you before ripping your clothes off and having their wicked way with you, then taking care of you for the rest of your life (maybe).
Cars that never need servicing - or the bills!
sid the squid
30-10-2008, 12:17
similar to the tv adverts thing, something that can have the same volume for the music and dialogue on dvd's instead of you having to turn down your system when the fecking music comes on ~!:PDT_Xtremez_06:
Electronic stuff (TV, video, HiFi, etc), that can be serviced (at a low price) when it goes wrong and not thrown away.
Cars with easily-replaced parts & panels.
An Operating system for a PC that works first time.
Electronic stuff (TV, video, HiFi, etc), that can be serviced (at a low price) when it goes wrong and not thrown away.
Cars with easily-replaced parts & panels.
An Operating system for a PC that works first time.
Jeez - cloud-cuckoo land or what!!! :PDT_Xtremez_31:
Jeez - cloud-cuckoo land or what!!! :PDT_Xtremez_31:
I'm not so sure. Cars were made with the panels bolted on (Citroen).
TVs were made with plug-in modules (Philips)
I'm not sure about the Operating system, but Linux was mentioned to me.
Some years ago, there was a retired engineer in Cannock who demonstrated an engine that ran on water. Sadly, he died not long thereafter.
A remote control to control women.
Scaley brat
30-10-2008, 12:35
Some years ago, there was a retired engineer in Cannock who demonstrated an engine that ran on water. Sadly, he died not long thereafter.
That's the norm..... apparently water driven engine's are extremely toxic and kill their owners :PDT_Xtremez_42:
If you had a water powered engine, how would someone fare trying to top themselves with a pipe off the exhaust into the car.....
Would they have to stay inside till they drowned or were steamed to death ! :PDT_Xtremez_31:
Imagine it. Each car capable of becoming an personal sauna. Armies of fat naked people driving up the motorways trying to lose weight :PDT_Xtremez_34::PDT_Xtremez_15:
needsabiggerfuse
30-10-2008, 13:26
A remote control to control women.
S'all ready been done ... Just add £100 to her purse - press the red button - she automatically phones a friend to organise a shopping trip - one full day of silence follows - Bliss
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Vim_Fuego
30-10-2008, 13:26
I would like a brewery, in conjunction with a boffin, to invent a beer/lager that actuallys causes you to lose weight when you drink it and not give you a baby roo in the pouch and a C cup...
Then we would be abled to stand up...pat the belly and annouce to the wife that we are off down the pub as we are putting on a couple of pounds and need to drink it off...
The same wish applies for any food that gives me pleasure eg DMC, 2am burgers, anything that if you rub it on paper it makes it go see-through and hot curry...
Talk Wrench
30-10-2008, 13:30
I would like a brewery, in conjunction with a boffin, to invent a beer/lager that actuallys causes you to lose weight when you drink it and not give you a baby roo in the pouch and a C cup...
Then we would be abled to stand up...pat the belly and annouce to the wife that we are off down the pub as we are putting on a couple of pounds and need to drink it off...
Nah, become an alco-bulimic alzheimers sufferer just be like me Vim.:PDT_Xtremez_19: Drink loads and then throw up. And then forget that you've done it.
Keeps the weight off!!!!!
TW
zola403uk
30-10-2008, 13:53
X Box without ring of death ha. :PDT_Xtremez_06:
Someone to actually answer the phone when ringing the desk at ACOS Manning !!
bigsteviej
30-10-2008, 14:56
a fully waterproof mp3 player!!
i love swimming but it aint half boring!!
if you could listen to your tunes whilst going up and down the lane at the gym then the 100 lengths would breeze by! i think they do one where you can make it splash proof, ie to protect it at the beach etc! but not one where you can actually use it underwater as such!!
ps i copyright this idea, but i'm up for discussion is someone has the £und$
rest have risen above me
30-10-2008, 15:41
a fully waterproof mp3 player!!
i love swimming but it aint half boring!!
if you could listen to your tunes whilst going up and down the lane at the gym then the 100 lengths would breeze by! i think they do one where you can make it splash proof, ie to protect it at the beach etc! but not one where you can actually use it underwater as such!!
ps i copyright this idea, but i'm up for discussion is someone has the £und$
That was on the gadget show a couple of weeks ago. Miss Perry was looking good in a swimsuit so didn't get much info on the player...lol
Edit (I googled a link for you http://www.swimmer.co.uk/swimp3.php to help you honest and not on a hope for a suzy Perry in a swim suit picture...honest)
I would like a device that allows aircrew to admit that they are wrong. We all know they want to admit leaving it switched in standby or that perhaps they didn't have to pull that 9.2G turn after all but they can't. So a little box that when pointed at them allows them to get past the Cranwell brainwashing would be good.
Gingerburd
30-10-2008, 16:12
Self replenishing wine bottles
A chip to put in men's brains to make them forget that they hate shopping and that makes them always rememeber to put the soddin loo seat down
Downsizer
30-10-2008, 16:19
A list thread stopping device...
A chip to put in women's brains to make them hate shopping and that makes them always rememeber to put the soddin loo seat up.
Scaley brat
30-10-2008, 17:00
A chip to put in men's brains to make them forget that they hate shopping and that makes them always rememeber to put the soddin loo seat down
A chip that electrocutes birds that leave the lid down ....... :PDT_Xtremez_15:
As a kid I found peeing on the seat a few times resulted in it being left up !! :PDT_Xtremez_14:
Like the teleporter, love the diet beer/curry/kebab combo. For me it would have to be world where all people can live in harmony, peace and love..........or an automatic face lift machine that makes me look younger after several diet lagers!! Ooh! Ooh! or a beer goggle machine that actually lets you see the real thing when you've had loads of diet lager!!
Something to stop the same people posting 3 or 4 times in a thread that reads like a list......
MingMong
31-10-2008, 00:57
Something to stop the same people posting 3 or 4 times in a thread that reads like a list......
We have one of those, it's called the lock button!
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