As I have migrated through my half century of life, I have often been struck by the things that we need but don't have.  I wouldn't mind getting rich off of the fruits of my thought processes, but I'd be happy just to have some of what I think we really need.  After all there are people making money by inventing and marketing things that we don't need, like the pet rock, for instance.  I've actually had a few fruitful thoughts before but I apparently articulated them a little to loud, in the midst of too many people, and from out of the blue, my ideas ended up on the marketplace shelves, and no money landed in my pockets.  I was once at a dog show and wished out loud that I had a stroller type contraption in which to carry my two tiny, but very heavy, Miniature Pinscher dogs.  Before I knew it, dog strollers were being sold from within the pages of Dog Fancy magazine, and soon, were on the shelves of pet supply stores.  If I can give someone a great idea to make something that I can actually use, I'm happy.  So here is a list of things that I would invent if I knew how to do it.




1.  A love seat sized computer chair.  Why do we need a double seated piece of office furniture?  The reasons are simple.  Parents can spend more time with their children, nurturing them, while they do work, or play on the computer.  Helping that same child with homework would be so much easier if only there was another seat in front of the computer screen.  Pet owners like me could spend extra time with Fideax or Fluffy (who are always clamoring to get up in my lap as I attempt to do homework).  My Miniature Pinscher, Sam would love nothing better than to curl up next to me, as I attempt to do online accounting, but my old computer chair, while comfortable, is definitely a one seater.  My legs just aren't long enough to provide a flat, unsloped, surface on which he can lie as I am sitting in perfect typing position in front of the keyboard.  A love seat on wheels, would be perfect.  And while we are at it, how about, lets put cup holders on our new chair.  Someone, please make one.  I don't need a leather one.........I'd actually prefer a pretty fabric covered one, with some padding in the seat.  I sit in front of the computer a lot and I could use a little luxury. 


2.  We need an alarm clock with a remote shut off for people like my daughter and sister who just can't seem to get the hang of waking up to an alarm clock, without hitting snooze and going back to sleep.  My idea calls for a wireless pressure pad that needs to be placed some distance from the alarm clock.......under the bathroom floor mat would be a perfect place.  In my experience, once I've had to stagger to that room to perform my morning rituals, I'm sufficiently awake to realize that morning has arrived and isn't going to go away, no matter how much I want it to.   The idea is that the alarm will not shut off unless a lot of pressure is placed on this pad, therefore, the only way to achieve peace and quiet is to get up and shuffle off to the bathroom and stand on it.  I think it would be a great selling item on college campuses.


3.  I would love to have a slightly modified version of a hospital bed table.  The one I'd like to modify is that table that rolls on wheels, the top of which hangs across the bed so that a patient can have easy access to his magazines and other necessary items, plus provides a place on which to put his dinner tray.   Go into any hospital room....they all have them.  I need one modified for use with my laptop, school books etc. for while I'm studying in the living room.  What I would want is a drawer for pens and pencils, tic tacs, and other sundry study items.  I could slide the base under the end of the couch, so that the table would be in front of me, lap top opened, and ready to finish my English Composition assignment.  It would be nice if on the half that doesn't hold my laptop, there was a book stand to hold my text book, opened to the exact page my assignment was on. 


I truly believe that if I need these things, that others probably need them as well, so someone needs to get busy inventing them.  I'd like to be the one with the patents, but since I don't have the first idea of how to build anything, I'd be happy if someone else would build them, and I'd buy them.  I think that any of these things would improve peoples lives.