What's an idea you have that should be an actual thing?

Living wages in exchange for work.
- But if labour can afford to live, how will we minimise their ability to focus what little energy we leave them with at the end of their shift on improving their situation?
  Paying a living wage is a slippery slope that ends in things like healthcare, education and opportunities being available to all, and that'd make them more than just our bought and paid for production labour, that'd make them our rivals.
- Look at this guy over here. They want to contribute to society and not starve from it. Wild.

Instead of mandatory military service like some countries have, people should have mandatory public work for two years. Whether it be labor, clerical/administrative, etc, it could help young people learn a new skill, get guaranteed work to get the started, and could potentially save a ton in taxes. It would also create the opportunity to start getting caught up some things that keep getting swept under the rug like bridge maintenance , etc.
- We had something like that in Germany, if you opted out of military service, you had to do civil service instead, i.e. you had to work in an institution that provided some benefit to the general public.
  Most of those jobs were healthcare related, such as working in a hospital, as ambulance driver, kindergarten teacher, assisted living helper etc., or working in a supervisory rule for a company that employed people with disabilities to make sure they don't get injured in the workplace.
  Both my brother and I did it (they later scraped military service, and the civil service as a consequence), and it was really amazing. He went to work in a food factory where people with mental disabilities were employed to sort raw ingredients (think removing debris and washing fruit and vegetables for juice, yoghurt & pickling), I worked as a nurse in a hospital.
  Gave both of us a good twist for our careers, he moved on to study education for people with disabilities and now works as a special ed teacher for an integrative school, I went on to work in the development aid sector all across Africa and Central Asia for years.
  
  I read that as: They scrapped the whole thing as a consequence of you and your brother doing it? You must have been really bad.
  
  So what does Germany have now that they've scrapped it?
- Yeah. Similar to this I think junior high should have a bigger focus on being outside. Like one semester should be spend camping or something. It’s such a formative time and so many kids spend it scrolling through reels. There is something so real and unforgiving about Mother Nature that a 13 year old should really know about.
- the top 50% richest people should have
  The rest of people are already working these mandatory jobs.
  
  The rest of people are already working these mandatory jobs.
  Same type of work, sure, but the fruits of their labour are going towards shareholders. The point of public work is that it's for the public good.
- I’d include military service in that. But yes mandatory service for everyone.
  Edit. No exceptions if your mom / dad is a senator or anything… medical? Great there is tons of paperwork that needs to be done. Basically every one yeah.
- In my country mandatory military service, aka conscription, is used to take away men's freedoms, you can't travel, you can't work, you can't participate in politics, you can't go to hotels... Etc.. And it's all necessary for thé but not for me, meaning the generals and the minister's children don't go to the military unstead they go to a business school and start companies all over the world, with people's money.. of course

Phones should shoot landscape video even when they’re held vertically.
🤯
- The image sensor is square... it should just shoot 1:1 scale and let you crop it to an orientation later
  
  Most image sensors are not square, they are 4:3 or 16:9. Square sensors are typically used for more specialty applications.
  I agree it could be useful on a phone to have 1:1 sensors, but I would still support the direct recording to standard video resolutions and aspect ratios as otherwise encoder limitations will affect what video you can shoot.
- I used to have the moto g stylus, it did that. I loved it's camera. Too bad I bricked it by trying to downgrade it to unnecessarily install a custom rom.
- HOLY FUCK
  
  exactly

A robot goose with AI controlled steering
- Top comment, should be pinned. We need a gaggle of these. A gagglebyte.
- Shhh! Nobody tell them…

For me, there would be public holidays that celebrate social, cultural and scientific achievements.
A day of printing, the decoding of the human genome,... you know - real achievements, not only stories of some ancient folks being tortured to death and such.
- And voting? Always felt November 4th should be a paid holiday.
  Awesome idea, btw.
  
  Is that a voting day in some country?

Nonprofit versions of vital social tech. If I had the money sitting around, I'd love to start a nonprofit dating site/app. I met my wife on OKC in 2011 before it got bought up and enshittified. It was great and wasn't geared toward just keeping you engaged (they're soooooo bad now!). You'd probably have to gatekeep it with a small fee to disincentive bots, but with a relatively small investment, you could create something really useful for folks without preying on anyone's desperation.
Signal would be a good model for this sort of thing.
Edit: typos
- Actually... a Fediverse OK Cupid clone could totally be a thing... runs away to ponder
  
  I think this might want a clean sheet design. At least as I understand it, there are issues with privacy in the fediverse/activitypub vis-a-vis non-public messages. I think it's also an area where, in order to go the most good, you'd want simple signups and easy engagement (to say nothing of being able to trust that your info has been deleted when you delete it).
  Clearly, I'm here and I value the philosophical underpinnings of the fediverse, but I think it might not be the best fit for dating.
  That said, if you feel like you can solve those problems, you'd be doing a world of good if you're right.
  
  Idk, isn't something like OKC like... literally the opposite use case from what ActivityPub/The Fediverse was built to solve?
- https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa
  Now make it more popular lol
  
  Mist-Alovoa ‘lovoa, alovoa, Mmm
  They call me mista bombastic
  
  I've got it downloaded but haven't even opened it lol, I'd have to figure out how to make a dating profile and then I'd have to put a pic of me on the internet which I haven't done in 14yr lol.
  "What are your interests"
  "Fuck you mean right now? 'Cause I got megaADHD that shit changes sometimes.. I like long walks on the trails and overthinking questions.."
  
  Just as bad as Tinder = worthless compared to pre-MatchGroup OkCupid.

Copyright should go back to 14 years.
- Yep, that would encourage new ideas way more than the current system.
  Oh, and Disney should not be allowed to lobby for copyright law changes
- Also exclusivity deals should be treated as the monopolies they are.
- Ha, you have 14 upvotes right now, cool coincidence.

A button on the TV that would make the remote beep so you can find it
- That is a thing on the Nvidia Shield, actually!
  
  Finally! I've had this thought ever since I was a kid.
- Some Roku remotes support this. You issue the command from the mobile app

Turn-based King of the Hill RPG
- With lawn mowing minigame
  
  I want to see one of those Street Fighter smash up the car mini games, but it’s Bobby & you have to repeatedly kick someone in the nuts while screaming “DON’T TOUCH MY PURSE”.
- That's either stupid as hell or utterly brilliant. Either way, I want it.
- Is Ward one of the strongest party members you can get? I mean, he was a wizard even though he also refused the Caninus Spiritus.
- I'll tell you h'wat.

Parking lot lights, that are in/ on each space. That indicates if there is a space available…. Less driving around the lot looking for a space
- I have seen these in airport parking garages - green when the spot is empty, red when occupied and visible from the end of the aisle.
  What really blew my mind was seeing the exact same functionality for stalls in the restroom.
  
  Omg. Where???
- Most every mall in Asian countries I've visited has this system already. This may just be a North America being cheap problem.
  
  Some North American malls have them.
  The problem is that a lot of American malls are in decline and can barely afford to keep the escalators working, let alone install these lights.
- Many malls in Toronto have this. And as others have said, airports. Pearson International included.

When you get to baggage claim, if you then stand directly at the carousel blocking everyone's view for more than 10 seconds, trap door opens and a system of pneumatic tubes forcibly jettisons you to the furthest point away in the airport for you to walk back.
Stand back, wait for your luggage to appear, then approach and get your bag and step back to the perimeter.
To get my VC funding in 2024, id also pitch that it "has AI" which is just facial recognition and if you get jettisoned twice in the same year, the third time goes into a shark pit or scorpion pit.
- Best we can do is ill-tempered sea bass
  
  How about mutated sea bass?
  
  I'd make that deal with the Sharks. Sea bass today, sea urchins tommorow.
- Yes please!
- Since airspace is reserved for airport traffic, the furthest point is more than likely about 50k feet straight up.
  I'm ok with that.

You know how the FTC recently banned non-compete clauses (for non-senior roles)?
They should ban the, 'and other unspecified duties as required' clauses too.
- And forced arbitration should be invalidated.

If you don't put your shopping cart away, a turret on the roof of the grocery should just fucking shoot you.
If you play music on a speaker, on public transit, the bus driver should just fucking shoot you
- I love both of these ideas.

Prostitution legalized everywhere, with a clean and safe presentation. And nobody should judge people for it in neither side.

Is a functional government based on logic and compassion too much to ask/too cliché?
Renters rights legislation with enough teeth to make present and perspective landlords, both corporate and individual, think twice before not taking care of a property as though they lived there? (Yes, there are stories behind this one)
I guess a company that actually pays me what I'm worth (which I'm not even really looking for that much).
- Renters rights legislation with enough teeth to make present and perspective landlords, both corporate and individual, think twice before not taking care of a property as though they lived there? (
  Isn't it mostly an issue on the US side of the pond (and in other third worlds countries). I believe that most European countries have minimum standards regarding renter right, it's not perfect (and reality is that changing a furnace takes weeks). But every time I read about US feel likes dystopia.
  
  Over here in Portugal there's the European legislation, but whether if it is enforced or not is another story. Some places get ridiculous, and I'd imagine that happens all over Europe too.
  
  I have been seeing reporting from and have had friends in Australia and New Zealand who have been sharing that it is actually much worse down there than it is in the US. Apparently in NZ most of the legislature is made up of landlords, so the laws are particularly egregious and abusive.

A law that prohibits labels from being too sticky that you can't reuse the packaging. For example, I should absolutely be able to easily peel off the labels from empty wine bottles and glass jars so I can reuse them.
- And one that prohibits "reduced to clear" labels from being too sticky so you can use sandwiches as gifts
- Or a more general "stickers must adhere stronger to themselves than to whatever they are stuck to".
  
  Stickers should have a greater sense of self worth and keep it together when people are trying to tear them apart.
- Please run for congress. Now.

Customer focused companies. A middle ground between non-profit and for profit.
- It's called a B Corp in the US. A public benefit company. It's for profit, but with a mission. Doctor Bronner's and Newman's Own are the two that come to mind.

Candidates for public office should be required to undergo a mental health assessment as part of the process of getting on the ballot, and those who score beyond (above or below, as may be relevant) particular thresholds are barred from seeking office.
I sincerely believe that there's no single thing we could do that would provide more benefit to the world than to get sociopaths and narcissists and megalomaniacs out of positions of power. Each and every one of the most notable and contentious politicians in the world today is, if you just take a step back and look at them honestly, blatantly profoundly mentally ill. Enough is enough.
- The idea itself is fine, but in practice it wouldn't work. The kind of people you are trying to screen out in the process would just study do give the responses of a passing assessment, probably with the help of heavily paid mental health professionals.
  Psicology is hard to test and prove, most of the things you are looking to test would not be visible in bloodwork or brainscans.
  
  Not to mention, who is in control of making the tests? Mental health/aptitude tests have had a history of being at least a little bit racist, kinda like the old 'intelligence' tests that were designed to prevent black people from voting.
- That'll just be used as a tool to discriminate against certain groups of people. If you standardize it to avoid any personal bias, then it'll be coachable/trainable and then people will work around it.
  Imo any random person should be able to run for office
- Skip the psych exam. Restore the “public servant” aspect.
  All assets are sold and the cash is placed in a trust that earns 1% interest. When you leave office you get your money back.
  24/7 audio and video coverage of your life as long as you are in office. The toilet is not filmed unless someone goes in with you. Other than that, your life is an open book.
  After you leave office, you can teach classes as long as your compensation is no more than the lowest-paid professor at the school that employs you. You can write books. Or you can enjoy your pension. No corporate jobs or partner positions at fancy law firms.
  
  So, we'd be governed by influencers?
- The minimum threshold is tricky. Sometimes due to alliance or political dynamic, a party/list struggle to reach 5%. But banning them from running again seems aggressive. An election even lost without any seat nor a public payment of the campaign fee, is a chance for a party to be heard and put back some issues in the debate. Look at the green who often do low score, but sometimes manage to win

I've got another one: make Mother's and Father's Days paid work holidays!
- And election day
  
  Just use the Swedish system, allow a few week of pre and mail voting, and election day is allways on a sunday.
  Every citizen is automatically reigistered for voting, and get a voting card sent home, you send that in to mail vote or to pre vote with a sealed envelope with your ballots.
  This means that you can even change your vote after mail or pre voting without compromising voter secrecy
  
  I'll take any extra holidays I can get. However, voting by mail is really the way to go. I used to be reluctant to vote, but mail ballots just make it too easy.

Voting days should be mandatory holidays
- Lots of countries vote on Sundays which solves that problem
  
  It skews the results towards christian-backed candidates - Sunday mass gets people out of their houses, clergy reminds them to vote and at least hints who they should vote for and they do on their way home.
- I'm 50 years old and for as long as I can remember voting days in my country are a national holiday from the lowest government post to the highest.
- But then we'd all get pissed the day before and be too hungover to go and vote
- That's a thing where I am from. Also, only day where alcohol cannot be sold, as you must do your duty sober. Fair compromise if you ask me: if I already know who I am voting for, I also had the prescience to buy my booze the night before :)
- Absolutely

Mandatory housing units over every strip mall and big box store in America.
Even just a few units. Hell a few mobile homes up there even would go a long way. Forced mixed use development.

I feel like you'd probably enjoy wandering through the halfbakery...
- Oh man I used to be a menace on there.
- Very cool website, thanks for sharing!

Good bluetooth earbuds that are Apple earbud shaped (or an approximation far enough away to not be sued.) There's litterally "airpods," "cheap shitty airpod knockoffs," and then the largest category "skullcandy types with the bullshit in ear inserts." There's plenty of quality ones in the skullcandy style, and idk if I just have a tight earussy but they do not fit in my holes.
- You should try out these so-called ear clip headphones (aka clip on buds). I got this pair at a thrift store for ~US$3 yesterday. They latch on to your ear on the outside and do not go deep into your ears. Great for tight earussies or for earussy periods.
  
  e a r u s s y
  
  Huh, never seen these! I might have to check these out, thanks!
- I love my Sennheisers they work really well and dont feel weird in my earussy
  
  I have a pair of the HD555s I love the sound quality of, but their buds look like the type I can't stand. I want to try em out but that's too much money for something that I think probably won't work for me and nobody I know has them to try.
- Get some foam tips. I hated in ears and now they're my favorite
- For 20 bucks at Walmart you can get a nice set of over the ear hook ones with a cord in between them and they have three different tiles of ear inserts and then another thing that sort of keeps them in place but is also a replaceable movable thing I don’t know how to describe it.
  They are loud enough that I keep the hearing protection set on my phone and last 12 hours per charge, which covers the drive to work, 10 hour shift, and the drive home.
  I was going to use them as a stopgap to better ones, but I am very pleasantly surprised, especially since they are Walmart brand.
  The tips have come off when I have them around my neck but not in my ears, but they aren’t designed for that, and it’s only happened twice working and once sleeping with them in
- That's why I like my galaxy beats live buds. They don't really sit in ear- mostly they sit just outside.

All billionaires in electric chairs.
- Is this like Robot Wars?
  
  Sure, that's one way we could go with it. To the death.

"nap" lol

Red Alert 2 remaster
- I'll just wait for OpenRA to integrate TS and RA2 into their enginge.
  
  I'm too much of a boomer sadly. I want a 1 to 1 remake
- I'm sure EA will do it justice
  
  That is a fear of mine lol. They did a good job with the first remaster but who knows if they'd keep it up
- could do ra 1&2 in a modern engine.

Retirement should be 45

Every airline seat should be fixed at the reclined position
- Nope, the recline function make almost zero comfort change for the occupant, but for the person behind it has huge impact.
  
  Why not make sure that both are comfortable? The issue is not the reclining seat. The issue is the space in between the seats. So, the issue is the airlines, not the passengers.
  
  But if you're also reclined doesn't that offset it?
  
  To be clear: I don't recline when there's someone behind me
  However
  As someone who gets lower back pains from sitting in an uncomfortable position for long, the recline function makes a huuuuuge impact. Recently rode a bus with no recline (and nobody behind me) and by the end of the 1.5 hour ride, I felt horrible.
  
  Comfort for both the reclinee and the person behind don't have to be mutually exclusive.
  
  It's just recliner theater, I tell ya!
- I disagree and most people who fly constantly are with me.
  I fly for work upwards of 4 times a month for 4 hour flights, the best flights are where no one reclines theor chair.
  If you're tall your already touching the seat in front.
  Then they recline you have that on top of your knees, and a chair in your face.
  
  quit your planet-destroying job
- Bunked sleeping buses like Vietnam should be more normalized too so you can lay down for long hauls.
- The recline is needed for overnight flights. On short haul, it's unnecessary indeed. I think some airline have ordered seats without recline already.

Also nationwide lead removal fund.
- *International
  
  Yeah but there's no real international authority for that, and how am I supposed to get my national government to join a treaty organization for that purpose when neither it nor any lower level of my government offer anything similar?

I think there should be pedestrian, bike routes separate from cars, like storefronts should face both ways, and the intersections with signals, but where practical should have bridges for the walkers, so they don't have to deal with the cars.
I also really want replicator tech, want to be able to use any input to get basically any output, at least in terms of materials. Throw in the trash, it is sorted into its component elements (safely) and then those can be combined to make clean water, salt water, building materials, whatever.
I want also a floor and walls that eat the dirt, and clothing fabric that can cool even in humidity.
- Paragraph one is kind of how the Vegas strip area is set up.

They have these in Amsterdam. Each room comes with its own maid.
- Quite pricey, though. And the maids are a bit clingy.

put all the health sensors in wireless earpiece rather than a watch.
- Eh, way more comfortable to wear a watch than an earpiece / headpiece imo
  
  if its an either or I can see that. of course many people use an earpiece anyway when they use a phone. Its a rare site for me to see someone on the phone with it up to their ear. Heck its more often I see (and hear) the folks using speakerphone.

Mozilla should make a search engine.
I know they will lose all that sweet google revenue.
- Governments should support them to encourage a free and open internet, if Google wins a complete monopoly we all lose.
  We don't have to go far back to see an example of what a browser monopoly will look like, just look at IE6...

Tie more positive things to the federal minimum wage, for example tax brackets and retirement fund contribution limits. They go up every single year, so the government will either have to keep raising the minimum wage or go on the record to justify why the ratio is wrong.
- Also, the “raise it to $15 per hour” minimum wage debate has been going on for so long that the $15 is now outdated. If the debate started again today, the number would realistically be closer to $25-$30 per hour.
  And if you just got upset because you’re making $30 per hour and don’t want to be equated with minimum wage, then maybe you need to consider how much you could be making if minimum wage were higher. Here’s a hint: You’d be making much more than $30 per hour.
- How about a Maximum Wage instead of Minimum. And that is tied to some overall average like GDP or something, I dunno. And all the excess goes into infrastructure and benefits that directly help people. Free healthcare, free mass transit, food, UBI, etc.
  And we create a new system that ranks people and businesses on their overall benefit to society. Then the billionaire mindset people can compete to be the best, but it actually helps us all instead of hurts us all. Like, a Karma or Upvote esque system or something. I dunno. Anything besides hoarding wealth.

Craggles™
Sandles for the crag allowing belayers to quickly slip them on and off. Toe area capped with light armour and good rubber soles for scrambling. Of course they have accessory loops for quickly attaching to bags for multi-pitch, Gone are the days of sore feet from belaying in climbing shoes, toe damage from catching a whip in flip-flops, or holding up your climbing partner by trying to find your approach shoes and a spot to put them on.

git send-xmpp & darcs send --xmpp for realtime, decentralized collaborative patches. The extensibility could fix the UX issues with patches by email & wouldn’t require accounts on someone else’s server or using the severely flawed ‘pull request’ model.

Wrecking ball duels!
- Ever heard of Overwatch?

There's this suit of useful little programs called Microsoft PowerToys, I always thought it should include a tool that allows you to quickly swap the contents of monitors around in multi-monitor setups.
e.g. move all open windows from monitor 1 to monitor 2 and vice-versa, while retaining their (approximate) position.
This may already be a thing, I haven't really checked.
- That's only useful though if someone looking for this function also happens to be looking for a tiling window manager. I assume most people needing this don't want a tiling window manager.
- Kde plasma does almost everything you can imagine
  
  I use KDE Plasma on a regular basis but I'm not aware of that being a feature. Maybe you can do it with virtual desktops, though.

Bloodborne remaster and on PC
(Pls miyazaki I beg you!)

Automation AI replacing CEOs

German take: Parking on the side of the road and on sidewalks should just be banned.
Its legality is based on a single court case from the 1950's where a judge decided that it should be a legal use of public space, because it's necessary and useful for motorizing the country. The justfication is obsolete. It's not enshrined in any laws. The traffic law specifically forbids it, with exceptions.
Yet it's practiced everywhere and even where parked cars block sidewalks, police simply don't enforce the law.
"But where should I park?"
You should have thought of that before buying a car.
"But what about rural areas where you need a car to live?"
No problem here, just park it on your turnip field.
- So drive rural into your turnip field and get the bus into town from your turnip field?
- It's honestly so weird that you can just take up public space with your dumb-ass car, that is not even in use 99% of the time.

A society based on mutual aid :3
And also bluetooth earbuds without touch controls

Capsule hotels
- CHEAP capsule hotels. We have a couple here in London but they charge the same as the budget hotels, completely missing the point.
  
  Part of the problem is that a lot of hotel and other property owners don't want cheap capsule hotels.

Airport lounges where the seats are just like on the plane, with little spots for luggage to the side. Then people just get up and board in order, putting your stuff right above or in front of you. If you're late, you board last. No more airline rat race.
- Why do people care when they get on a plane?
  
  Because checking a bag became a premium feature you have to pay for. So now they’re trying to be first/early to compete for the overhead bag space, which there’s not enough of for everyone. A lot of people have anxiety about traveling and it’s not just the fear of heights or dwelling on the dangers of flying, a lot of it is based on the loss of control of their lives for those few hours. The sooner you’re in your seat with your carryon above your head, the sooner you’re back in control and can relax a little.

I'd like citizenship swapping services. Some people just don't wanna stay stuck to their country of birth, especially if renouncing that citizenship is literally impossible (I'm Moroccan, and according to Moroccan law I'll stay that way to my own detriment, even if I get another citizenship which thankfully is possible).
- I bring this up regularly. Trading a doctor for a doctor seems like a fair enough trade & many folks want mobility. The irony of “if you don’t like it here, then leave” being met with your & other nations making it exceedingly difficult to do that. I know several folks would love to have my US passport but where I am at, I would get a lot more value & ease in having a local passport form entry to nearby countries, to visa woes + residency, to opening accounts (dealing with the IRS+SEC means many, many places refuse service), dual pricing, & actually getting some semblence of integration.
  
  Wiser words have never been said.

A cool idea I've had for a long time (or rather a dream) was a truly private and good suit auf office programs like Microsoft 356 but with privacy and the customor in mind. No anti-consumer things generally.
- This exists. https://www.libreoffice.org/ Great stuff 👍
  
  Collaborative editing in real time?
  
  Libreoffice has some great tools but when you use Excel and Word for 8 hours a day and then switch to calc or writer it can be really frustrating. LibreOffice also lacks collaboration, as mentioned by Tehdastehdas

Global peace and security.

I've rented an airbnb for a few hours when i had a long layover. Some hotels have day rates. There's an app - hotels by day or something like that.
- I was going to say that yeah, you can actually get even motels and some hotels at hourly rates, usually in high crime areas with rampant prostitution.

All gamepads that have it having a BAXY control scheme. That's B right, A down, X left, Y up for the buttons on the right side of the gamepad. I can't tell you how many times I have pressed the wrong buttons when playing certain games all because the 3rd party switch controller I have uses ABYX or because I don't remember where the symbols are on a PlayStation controller. Dreamcast and original Xbox had their shit together with how they used BAXY for their controllers and to this day I may shit on Microsoft, but not on the BAXY control scheme on their gamepads.
- What makes BAXY the right way?
  
  Purely preference. That, and I've spent about a million times more time on an xbox360 than just about any other console in existence, so it's what I personally consider the best way. If you or someone you know uses any other way, that's your deal, but I just can't retrain myself to like any other format.
  
  The Super Nintendo Standard

Someone else actually not only had but went and made my one big idea - https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/30/22460964/vilnius-lithuania-portal-poland-connection-pandemic. The jury’s still out on whether it was a good idea.
- There's been one in Ireland I think, that was closed down because a porn actress went there
  
  The Dublin-NYC one's reopened now with automated blurring out of a bunch of stuff.
  
  I heard that they (used to?) have public TV channels in Tokyo that show CCTV views from around the city, so of course you could tune at any time of night to see a salaryman (on the phone to his “Man-in-the-chair”) carefully manoeuvre himself into view and start whacking off.

Headphones with an internal MicroSD slot or at least lots of internal storage to locally play back music.

Settling civil disputes with dueling.

Free gender neutral public toilets, everywhere.
- Everywhere? Where will we put all the existing things? You can't turn the whole world in to just toilets, that's taking the piss!

There should be a Bluetooth headpiece (over ear preferably) that has normal functions, but ALSO will replicate the "Note to self" feature, where you tap the main button, and say "note to self" then say what you want the note to be, and have it sent to your email. That alone would be a "killer product" for me. I miss this so much.

Hotels not using carpet in their rooms.
- This is a noise reduction thing. It’s the same reason apartments only do hardwood on the ground floor. Your downstairs neighbors don’t want to listen to you moving around, and carpet is a great insulator and cushion.
  
  Maybe. Though, there are a lot of solutions to dampen noise while using hard flooring.
  (I also know plenty of apartments/condos in my area that use both or just hard flooring in my area)