Is there anything that you wish you had invented? / LJWorld.com

Asked at Hy-Vee, 4000 W. Sixth St. on May 7, 2009

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“I wish I would have invented the ShamWow because I could have the money from it.”

— Dustin Sullivan, unemployed, Lawrence

“E-mail … I’m so good at it.”

— Laura Bittenbender, library page, Lawrence

“The Post-it note. I use them every day.”

— Kathy Neet, hospital volunteer, Lawrence

“The digital camera. It’s revolutionized so many people’s lives.”

— Noah Benham, ninth-grader, Lawrence

The cutting edge: Kansas inventor’s Knork makes way to Lawrence

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RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 1 month ago

The internet, but Al Gore beat me to it.

RoeDapple 4 years, 1 month ago

Wish I had copyrighted the phrase,"But wait, there's more!"

xbusguy 4 years, 1 month ago

The Easy Button.... Now who could say no to that one... "If you call in 20 minutes, (because we can't do this all day) you will get 2 easy buttons for the price of one " CALL NOW 1-800-EASY

ohjayhawk 4 years, 1 month ago

The Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator

radiohawk 4 years, 1 month ago

Velcro

snap_pop_no_crackle 4 years, 1 month ago

The Klondike Bar.

xbusguy 4 years, 1 month ago

autie, don't know about prospector, but I tried to 'X' the empty..... but failed

jonas_opines 4 years, 1 month ago

I'd like to build a car that runs on partisan bickering and denial.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 1 month ago

jonas, How do you get it to float?

tangential_reasoners_anonymous 4 years, 1 month ago

Actually, I'm more of a "reinventing" sort.

salad 4 years, 1 month ago

RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Anonymous) says…

"The internet, but Al Gore beat me to it."

I guess I wish I'd invented the process by which you repeat a lie or half-truth enough times that it eventually becomes accepted truth, but Karl Rove beat me to it.

And for the record, Al Gore NEVER claimed to have invented the internet.

newsreader 4 years, 1 month ago

RedBox or Coin-Star

trinity 4 years, 1 month ago

lip gloss that your hair doesn't stick to in a strong wind? add that to your list md :)

a surefire cure for cancer or aids. (if we're thinking of things that haven't been invented yet) mostly I wish that my parents or grandparents had invented something amazing, then I'd be reaping the benefits.

Aileen Dingus 4 years, 1 month ago

The pet rock. That guy made like a million bucks.

I'm still working on my "Jump to conclusions" mat.

RoeDapple 4 years, 1 month ago

Not much of an inventor......

Wish I had found Bill Gates under a rock and raised him as my own.......

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 1 month ago

Bucket O' Margaritas.

Actually, I'm just tickled pink that someone invented them.

MeAndFannieLou 4 years, 1 month ago

Transmogrifier.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 1 month ago

"Transmogrifier" - MeAndFannieLou

Pope Petrus beat you to it?

motomom 4 years, 1 month ago

luggage with those little wheels on it

sgtwolverine 4 years, 1 month ago

The iPod. Or Photoshop. (Or Photoshop for the iPod Touch!)

Starlight 4 years, 1 month ago

Practical fusion power generation. Unless it has to be something that exists, in which case I'd say the personal computer.

gontek 4 years, 1 month ago

neuticles

gontek 4 years, 1 month ago

Opti-Grab

tangential_reasoners_anonymous 4 years, 1 month ago

Language... verse and curse.

OzChicklet 4 years, 1 month ago

Solar or wind powered oil rigs...yet to be invented!

MeAndFannieLou 4 years, 1 month ago

Saying that you took the initiative in creating something is not the same as saying that you invented it - if it were, then the anti-Gore crowd wouldn't consistently change it. It's like the anti-choicers consistently and deliberately misquoting Margaret Sanger as saying "we wouldn't want word to get out" when what she really said was "we wouldn't want word to go out" - which changes the meaning significantly (if you don't want word to get out then you're trying to keep a secret but if you don't want word to go out you're trying to prevent misinformation).

salad 4 years, 1 month ago

Esq2eB (Anonymous) says…

Salad: “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the legislation that made the internet possible.”

-fixed

snap_pop_no_crackle 4 years, 1 month ago

I wish I'd invented the carbon credit that doubles as TP.

jonas_opines 4 years, 1 month ago

RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Anonymous) says…

jonas, "How do you get it to float?"

All the hot air, of course.

beatrice 4 years, 1 month ago

Can I just say, sliced bread isn't an invention!

Yet we hear it all the time -- "Greatest invention since sliced bread." Well, excuse me, but it is the bread slicer that is the invention, not the sliced bread itself. So there. Now, can we stop repeating this nonsense.

To answer the question: the bread slicer.

Then, of course, the toaster.