Category Archives: Funny

Authem

Posted on May 24, 2022 by gemmell

Users/auth as a service. It’s a very simple API for developers to add it ala all the existing ones, but this one has a catchy marketing angle. With a lisp: What do you want to do? You want to auth … Continue reading →

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Face Masks for Facial Recognition

Posted on August 17, 2021 by gemmell

Phone doesn’t unlock because you’re wearing a mask? You need one of my masks that have your face printed on the outside. Or a see through one.

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Mumometer

Posted on July 14, 2021 by gemmell

This is like a stepometer but for children, and listens to how many times they say “Mum” in a day. “Muum, muuum, where’s mum?”. They get a quote of 100 mum’s and it buzzes when they hit 50, 75, 80, … Continue reading →

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Sucky Spoon

Posted on May 4, 2021 by gemmell

My 6 year old daughter’s first invention. It’s a spoon that’s also a straw. So you can eat your cereal and drink the milk with one utensil. So proud right now.

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Simon’s Spit

Posted on January 27, 2021 by gemmell

Based on this thing I read about people being able to better digest carbohydrates because they have special enzymes in their spit that pre-digest it, I introduce Simons Spit. I believe I have such an enzyme because I’ve never had … Continue reading →

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CarBed – Killer of Cities

Posted on July 15, 2020 by gemmell

Imagine you go to bed at night with your wife as per normal, but during the night your robotic bed wakes up, ferry’s you to the car and loads you in (think like a coffin into a hearse). The car … Continue reading →

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Investrepreneur

Posted on June 9, 2020 by gemmell

So this is sort of like a cross between an angel investor & patreon, and modelled closely on the “benefactor” model of yesteryear. Essentially you pitch yourself on this site, and people “invest” in you. The investor then owns a … Continue reading →

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Slap! The dance sensation.

Posted on March 13, 2020 by gemmell

Tap Dancing, but in flip-flops (thongs, jandles), for men. You get the tap from the toe and heel and the slap from the thong. It’s awesome. Competes with dance/exercise classes.

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Carbotta

Posted on February 24, 2020 by gemmell

Thinking on hail damage, I thought it’d be great to have a robot that would lay out protective covers on cars when you lock the car. However generalising a bit, a drone/bot that did a number of functions for your … Continue reading →

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Make me sound smarter

Posted on June 4, 2019 by gemmell

AI that takes whatever you’ve written and upgrades the words used to make you sound smarter. Uses a sliding scale for the intelligence level so you can bash out some essay using your dumb-ass language and it comes through and … Continue reading →

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