Things I wish existed
A collection of random inventions
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3 min readNov 22, 2014
- A Gmail-native way to sign documents attached in emails
- “30 day” / “one month” curricula for everything I want to learn, including but not limited to: how to animate, how to do a headstand, how to design a logo, how to play the guitar…
- Pantone colored phone cases
- A carwash-like “toothbrush”
- Chrome plugin that allows you to hover over an address in-browser to see how long it takes to get there from your location
- Deck of cards with drawing prompts to use on the train
- A tool that visualizes the change history of any site in a timeline or as a .gif
- Conveyor belt dimsum
- Scrunchlets: Scrunchies that look like bracelets
- Print your own yoga mats
- Dimsum food trucks
- “Download other people’s travel itineraries”
- A restaurant that functions like Chopped (Everyday the chef gets a different basket of surprise ingredients and has to improvise dishes out of them)
- Stop motion video capture of a site as I’m coding it, to replay as a .gif
- Clothing that makes it feel like being in a personally air conditioned bubble in the hot summer months
- Clothing that makes it feel like being in a personally heated air bubble in the cold winter months
- iPhone stencil templates printed on post-it notes
- An app with which I can monitor all of my credit card / airline points
- An app that will make recommendations on how to maximize my credit card / airline points
- A way to overlay a Tinder-like interface on top of any discovery/search experience, e.g. for apartment hunting, font selection, browsing and pinning things on Pinterest
- A 3D printer for clothing
- A digital catalog of my closet
- Drawing coaches available via text
- A health insurance plan that is not ridiculously hard to understand
- A repository of design case studies, a la Behance or Dribbble, but with structured, narrative back stories
- A contact management app that reminds me when I should catch up with whom
- An easy DIY way to digitize or transcribe all of my written journals
- A tunnel that connects my front door to my office
- Shampoo that will curl my hair
- Cheap ink cartridges
- Headphones that look like macarons
- A camera that can capture smells
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