h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Having just spoken elsewhere about a flakey and yummy pastry, ... I want a time and distance teleporter to aquire a warm and fluffy 'beaver-tail'

I would like to have underwear that incorporated activated charcoal.
Thus in a single blow, one could disarm even the most fearsome and noxious of bottom burp fumes ever reaching a wife or girlyfriends nose, ensuring a peaceful and harmonious atmos whilst allowing the continued drinking of beer and ingestion industrial sized curry portions................

You mean, something like this:

http://www.flat-d.com/technology1.html

New device to save planet from climnate change:
http://www.physorg.com/news135003243.html

Where will the bags go?

>>Where will the bags go?<<

You would burn the methane - use it as biofuel. Methane is about
twenty times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. So
the bags would be reused. The particular bags in the link were used
as part of a study that showed methane emissions from cows
(flatulence) could be reduced by changing the cattle feed. I
suppose it would be equivalent to going from a high bean to a low
bean diet for humans...

>>I
suppose it would be equivalent to going from a high bean to a low
bean diet for humans...

Although if you were consuming more beans and less beef, we'd need fewer cows and so methane emissions would reduce overall. Plus there would be fewer rainforests removed to make grazing land. So the message is, eat to fart and save the planet.

No, more beans means more chilli con carne, which implies more beef.

Pants with a magnetic strip, so that if you drop your keys, they will be drawn to them.

I'd like a 'search' function on the entire contents of my house. So, for example, when I need to find a lost remote control, the main computer will tell me where it is.

There's a horrid little thing called an RFID tag. Radio Frequency Identifier. This gives off a small radio signal when "pinged" that returns a unique ID. Kinda like a radio wave barcode. Now, if you were to start putting these into the packaging for food, and a reader that formed a mesh/grid over the top of the trolley, you'd be able to "read" the items as they went in, and out.

Failing that, what they could, and probably should do is install barcode readers into the handles of trolleys, and scales into the bottom of them. Scan your goods as you put them in, or out. Like the self service tills that are cropping up everywhere, the scales would check that you've actually put in what you scanned and nothing more.

But, the best part of this would be stopping parents with lazy kids from putting them in the trolleys instead of making the podgy little blighters walk occassionally. I understand kids get tired, and admit I used to love riding in the trolley as a kid, but if your 4 year old looks like they're approaching a coronary, make the bleep exercise.

Can we have some kind of force field thingy that cyclists can wear to stop insects flying into helmets, mouths and beards? Please? Ta very much.

And eyes.

I mean, we've got eyes, but I'd like something to prevent insects getting into them when I'm out on my bike. I can put a cotton scarf over my mouth, but I don't think it's a good idea to cover my eyes.

Glasses don't help either.

However, as I am not a racing cyclist, as swl seems to be, and only roll along at a very sedentary rate, this problem doesn't really bother me much.

>>Glasses don't help either.

Do you have wraparounds?

Wrap around glasses for cycling are a deitysend.

*google for goggles*


~jwf~

Go to the nearest shop if you need goggles that fit over prescription eyeglasses.

A toaster that opens right out so you can get the crumbs out of the bottom and everywhere else so they don't smell burnt when you switch it on.

I've been looking into divided plates with well-fitting lids for freezer-to-microwave for my hubby because he's at home for lunch and can't cook, nor does he have the time to cook. There are some reasonable ones out there but they are all plastic. Has no one thought of making china ones yet?

American space-age glass manufacturers
Pyrex and Corningware offer a variety
of freezer to microwave bowls, pans,
plates and storage vessels.

I use their pie-plates as dinner plates.
Being glass they are very easy to clean
and easy to check for cleanliness. The
deep dish ones are great for stews and
curries. Haven't found a covered version
of their pie-plates yet though.



~jwf~