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Creativity Wasted

Tom Walma

Brainstorming and sharing ideas is the funnest part of the creative process. We decided to skip the boring part of actually making stuff, and just do the fun part

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  • 20 episodes
  • Updated July 27
  • Explicit

Episodes20

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  • July 13 · 12 min

    Restaurant Private Videochat Booths (Nicole Gilbert)

    Idea: For restaurants to have enclosed private booths with a small table and a video screen on which to videochat with someone in another videochat booth at another restaurant (usually in a different city)

  • July 6 · 14 min

    Driver-Disguising Car Windows (Chris Young)

    Idea: Side windows of a car (and maybe also windshield) that are not actually windows, and instead are actually video screens that disguise the driver by making them look like someone else to the people outside of the car

  • June 28 · 10 min

    Overpass Food Trucks (Tom Walma)

    Idea: As inspired by the restaurants located above highways in Illinois, there should be groups of food trucks on some existing highway overpasses

  • June 20 · 11 min

    Dream Catching Pillow (Chris Young)

    Idea: A pillow that reads your mind while you sleep and collects and filters out useful thoughts, such as invention ideas or good jokes, so they can be obtained later instead of being forgotten

  • June 5 · 11 min

    Shark Attack VR Fitness Goggles (Erik Bauer)

    Idea: Swim goggles to wear while exercising that use VR or augmented reality to make it look like you're being chased by a shark (or zombie or clown or whatever) to scare you to make you run or swim faster

  • May 28 · 14 min

    Clown Busses (James River)

    Idea: To see how many clowns fit in a school bus and/or for clown cars/busses to be used for public transportation

  • May 20 · 22 min

    Loud Bike Horn (Donovan Tesin)

    Idea: A horn for bicycles which is less rude than a normal bike horn but also louder than a normal bike horn to get drivers to better notice the bicyclist for safety reasons

  • May 13 · 20 min

    Boomer Ring Rotary Cell Phone (Sherry Hoenicke)

    Idea: A cell phone that is used exactly like an old-fashioned cordless phone or rotary phone so boomers who don't understand cell phones can still use the phone in nursing homes without land lines

  • May 4 · 8 min

    Unibrow Story (Lucky Lee)

    An episode where the idea was a short story about a woman with a unibrow, but we mostly forgot to talk about the story and instead comedically riffed about unibrows the entire time

  • April 28 · 15 min

    Hi-Tech Neighborhood Watch (Tom Walma)

    Idea: Mini local surveillance networks where people in a neighborhood share access to their outdoor cameras with each other and use state-of-the-art software to detect gunshots, follow people from camera to camera, etc.

  • April 20 · 17 min

    Slower Lawn Growth Ideas (Norman Dwayne)

    Brainstorming ideas to slow lawn growth so you don't have to mow the lawn as often, such as pouring coffee on it, having weedwackers that come out of the ground, shocking the grass with freezing cold water, etc.

  • April 13 · 19 min

    IRL Chat Finder App (Rishabh Heer)

    Idea: An app in which you electronically connect with (or match with) nearby strangers when you're in a public social venue (like a bar) so then you can more easily physically approach them to chat, make friends, flirt, etc.

  • March 27 · 14 min

    Tornado Lights (Tom Walma)

    Idea: To fly swarms of tiny drones with bright lights on them into tornadoes so people can easily see the tornadoes for safety reasons

  • March 23 · 8 min

    Alliance of Lazy Substitute Teachers (Melissa Brandt)

    Idea: For substitute teachers to work together to leverage the teacher shortage to pressure schools to let them show videos or do easy teaching instead of having to quickly learn complex lesson plans

  • March 15 · 13 min

    Nose Ring Prank (Heather VanGheluwe)

    A prank idea that Heather is planning for this year's April Fools Day, which is to trick her husband into thinking she got a nose ring

  • March 8 · 21 min

    Stadium Cable Cars and Ferris Wheels (Tom Walma)

    Idea: To build cheap sports stadiums with no upper deck and instead to surround the stadium with machines or rides to lift people up to view the game, such as cable cars, Ferris wheels, swing set swings that go straight up and down, etc.