I’d redesign the “travel” lids on disposable coffee cups. I spill coffee on myself practically every morning – and I do not consider myself a clumsy person; rather, I find the lids themselves at fault. (This morning, half of my coffee drenched my jacket. For once, I can say “Thank God it was raining.”)

Factors to take into consideration:
Environment-friendly production and disposal; and most important, overall production cost.

We would not want to increase the cost of our average Joe’s cup of coffee. The goal is for a solid solution – without having the end user noticing/paying for the difference in their wallet (except in the decrease of both their dry cleaning and detailing costs).

I was thinking something like a sliding lid; which one can find on your standard non-disposable travel mugs. Perhaps design it that the user can clean and reuse the lid? I actually started sketching my concept this morning.

All of these lids fail:
http://arts.sunydutchess.edu/peggy/peglid.html

“What will the future hold? Perhaps a lid that will prevent our mouths from getting burned from HOT coffee.” – I’ll settle for not ruining my corporate attire.

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I would redesign practically every remote control I’ve ever picked up. They are either slippery, don’t conform to the hand, buttons arranged illogically, buttons too small, buttons don’t give a responsive confirmation, can’t see buttons in low light, and if you drop them they explode into many pieces.

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The Baltimore baseball stadium. They built it a couple years ago, and it’s just not what I think it could have been. Put a top on it, to begin with…….

Thanks.
Dave Brown

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i wish i could redesign a mobile in which we can also watch t.v., local as well as international, through setlight. [Ed. Note: satellite?]

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I’d redesign every instrument in my home, including automobiles to change time twice a year.
It is a real pain in my home with all the electrical toys we have to twice a year — plus remembering which ones you didn’t change last time because you forgot how!

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The short-circuited wiring in the socialist brain.

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The one thing I would re-design is the intersection traffic light-sensing/-timing system.

Requirements would be to sense all types of vehicles; pedestrians, bicycles, horses, motorcycles, cars, trucks. And to have an intelligent networking system for adjusting the timing of adjacent, local and regional systems.

I hope someone is working on this; there are lots of man hours and natural resources being wasted as traffic increases.

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I would make tops to pill bottles easy to open for the older people, while still making it difficult for children.

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I would rebuild the interstate highway system to incorperate an underground pneumatic tube public and freight transportation system. Powered from fixed locations, vehicles would be light weight, collisions and weather would be avoided. I have basic plans, if anyone’s interested.

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Outside [intercom] speakers at most fast-food joints need to be designed to industrial standards. Most of them are garbled, damaged and/or unintelligable. The seeming trend to put the least English-knowledgable person on the order-taking end just compounds the problem. Why don’t fast-food places understand the cost and irritation of miscommunication, and thus repair or replace accordingly??

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The public skatepark in Lancaster, PA. The concrete is nice and smooth and the concept was good, but the park was poorly designed. There are only a few spots with good transition (radius).

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Redesign a pair of safety gloves to include a battery-powered LED flex circuit to operate on/off with movement of the hand. Provide light for highjway workers, utility workers, handicapped, and even rec. sports such as cycling and running.

Patent pending 12/11/04.

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I would redesign racquets of all kinds, according to my Patent # 5749574 “Collapsible Sports Racquet”

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I would redesign America’s courts. If anything ever needed a complete remake, it is this tangled, corrupt thing we call a “justice” system.

The first level would consist of trial judges who are elected by the people of the district in which the cases are being heard. Lawyers and pro se litigants would present cases much like they do today. All proceedings — from murder trials to traffic court — would be videotaped.

The second level would be the appellate division. No lawyers would be permitted here. A jury of twelve citizens (selected at random) would review cases presented in the trial courts. The actual litigants (or a litigant’s non-lawyer friend) would be alotted several minutes before the jury. He could argue the case, tell jokes, badmouth the judge, squall — whatever he thought would persuade the jury. The jury would sleep on it and render their decision the next day.

Naturally, they would award the prevailing party all costs and attorney fees, and the jury would be compensated by the loser — based on each juror’s taxable income from the previous year.

Now the first key to the plan’s success: The jury would leave the judge a “feedback” score for each case decided — sort of like an eBay transaction. At the end of the year, any judge whose feedback rating dropped below a certain level would be removed from office and permenantly barred from serving again.

The second key: The jury would assign “strikes” to any law that it believed to be inherently unfair or unconstitutional. After a law received three jury strikes it would be immediately stricken from the books. Whenever a law is stricken, the legislator who sponsored the law would also receive a strike. After a certain number of strikes he is out as well.

What do you think?

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The sand palm tree islands the Arabs are building should be on Lake Erie connecting to Cleveland Ohio to influence tourists

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