Great scientific breakthroughs we are still waiting for

[Barnet Seagull]

Shoes like them ones in the wizard of oz where she goes home easily, just like that. But i wouldn't want heels, and what if they took you to her home? That would be shit wouldn't it. Ok so some magic shoes which let you go where you want to in an instant without causing any medical defects, halucinary or otherwise, not to Kansas and certainly no witches or munchkins or dwarf things.

 

[desprateseagull]

Technology and science move at a breathtaking pace. But there are still some things we've not yet conquered. Allow me to kick this off and feel free to join in with your own...

1. Engineering cup-a-soups such that the granules all disolve is still a distant dream it seems. How often, despite much vigorous stirring, do we arrive at the bottom of the drinking vessel only to find a sludge of powder. "Ah, that's why it tasted so weak", we think to ourselves around this time.

try putting in the water first,,

 

[desprateseagull]

other ideas-

a cashier whistle (like for dogs), for when shop queues get too long..

rustle free crisp bags, for cinemas (its called a box!)

capital punishment for people flouting the 'cash only' or '5 items' tills..

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

a tube of super glue that you can actually get the bloody top off

 

[Rangdo]

A non-drip squeezy ketchup bottle that doesn't do nothing when you squeeze it, so you squeeze it some more, still nothing, so you squeeze it some more, still nothing, then when you squeeze it a bit more it smothers your dinner, half the table and the opposite wall.

 

[dougdeep]

Harveys flavoured lollies.

 

[withdeanwombat]

Cure for diabetes.

Sadly,there is only one cure for diabetes.

 

[withdeanwombat]

a blow up football stadium

The anti terrorist squad read all these notice boards.Run!


NOW!!!!

 

[withdeanwombat]

Retractable Testicles! Store safely when not using.

Trouble is,when one puts something in a safe place,one can never find said thing in the unlikely event of needing it.


Well,this one can't.

 

[withdeanwombat]

The instant disintegrate and reform on the dark side of the moon anti caravan ray gun.

The Jobsworth disconboobulator.

The cake you CAN have and eat too.

8,11,19,26,38,43.--- tomorrows lottery numbers.


The invisible defend the Albions goal power field,plus de-luxe unseeable forwards to augment the striker we've been going to get since 1903.

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

A time machine.

I don't ask for much

 

[Trufflehound]

other ideas-

rustle free crisp bags, for cinemas (its called a box!)

That's already been invented over here. When you buy a bag of crisps in a Pathé cinema in Holland, the staff are required to open it for you, tip the contents into a box, and to hand you that instead of the bag.

Double the packaging, but it does cut down the sound...

 

[Lammy]

I had a really good one but now I've finished reading the others I've forgotton it

 

[eastlondonseagull]

The automatic get-the-washing-inerer for when you're out at work and it's starts bloody raining.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Ill second that

I'll third that Diabetes needs a cure.

 

[CHAPPERS]

A kazoo that you can put up your bum so when you fart it makes that noise.

 

[Trufflehound]

A kazoo that you can put up your bum so when you fart it makes that noise.

They already have those - have you never been to Bangkok?!

 

[CHAPPERS]

They already have those - have you never been to Bangkok?!

No, but it sounds like I need to go.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I simply rest in mourning evenings with the thought of Beardonauts. They have fleshy digits on the tips of titanium forms and miniscule pincers that each have soft 70s soul in their speakers to alleviate the unharrowed horror of the fringes on my face. They'll have a crabby infestigation and deliver answers in a baker's dozen of my days.

 

[chip]

I'll third that Diabetes needs a cure.

I seem to remember that you had to stop drinking because of retinopathy. I have been working with some endocrinologists and diabetologists recently and came accross an interesting paper in the Journal of Diabetic Medicine (abstract below). It seems like alcohol could actually be beneficial in reducing HbA1c. Some very promising stem cell results have also been published recently by the Harvard group, don't hold your breath though unless you are a mouse

The effect of alcohol on blood glucose in Type 1 diabetes - metabolic modelling and integration in a decision support system

Abstract: We have recently shown, in studies with patients with Type 1 (insulin dependent) diabetes, that alcohol intake at 21:00 h significantly reduced blood glucose values after 10/12 h, compared with control studies with no alcohol.

Hypothesis: We hypothesised that this was due to the following effects of alcohol: (1) alcohol metabolism increases NADH, leading to a reduction in hepatic gluconeogenesis; (2) increased glycogen phosphorylase activity depletes hepatic glycogen stores; (3) after the alcohol is metabolised, hepatic insulin sensitivity is increased, leading to the restoration of glycogen stores and reduction in blood glucose levels; and (4) consequently, after several hours, glycogen stores and insulin sensitivity return to normal.