30
January
Improving Training Wheels for Kids’ Bikes. Why are training wheels so simple and extremely archaic? They make your child too dependent on them. The goal should be to get the child to not be scared when they are removed. Best way to do this might be to perhaps make the child unaware that they are [...]
30
January
Improving Movie Theaters. Movie Theater marquis do not make it easy to see what’s playing and at what time. If I am driving by, and want to see a movie, I do not know the showtimes. They should make the marquis bigger, clearer and guaranteed to be easy to read from a passing car. Also…Single screen [...]
30
January
Preventing Cereal Crumbs at the Bottom of the Cereal Box. That last bowl of cereal sometimes is nothing more than a mixture of sugar, crumbs, some cereal pieces and little else. With my concept, the cereal bag can have a drain at the bottom, which allows small particles to fall through a perforated bottom into a second [...]
30
January
Umbrellas need improving. First improvement: I am always losing umbrellas. I check them in coat check, put them in an umbrella stand or whatever. And the rain stops and I forget them. I think a handle should come off easily, so that it can be put around your wrist as a reminder that you left [...]
30
January
13th Floor? Why are there no 13th floors in buildings? It doesn’t make sense that with so many superstitions, that this one should have such a big effect. I understand the dogma of superstition. I know people who pull buttons when passing cemetaries. Or step on planes with their right feet first (I do this, [...]
30
January
Bathrooms. Why do women always have to wait on line for a bathroom? Women’s rooms should have twice as many toilets. Or maybe the stalls and sinks should be unisex, and the urinals for the men in another area of the bathroom?
30
January
Please Use Other Door. Hassle: It is amazingly frustrating that you walk into a store or an office building, and you come upon double doors, one of which is locked. And why do some doors open out when they clearly should open in (or visa versa). Solution: Replace any locked door with a window, take off [...]