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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 120 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hearing aids that don’t auto connect to whatever my neighbors are playing on Bluetooth. Also hearing aids with a Bluetooth block list

Seriously I’m fucking losing my mind over this. 3 times in under 10 minutes last night my hearing aids stopped playing the tv I was listening to to play the Bluetooth that my neighbors or their kids were listening to. Suddenly mid conversation with my wife about it, bam, music.

[-] ultranaut@lemmy.world 70 points 11 months ago

If you live in the US that sounds like something the FDA should be notified about. It's probably not legal to sell a hearing aid that can so easily be hijacked by another party, or if it is, it really shouldn't be. Either way, FDA regulates hearing aids so they are the ones to complain to.

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[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 119 points 11 months ago

Batteries inside of stove/microwave/coffee machine/etc. with the sole purpose of keeping the time from resetting when it loses power.

[-] Brkdncr@sh.itjust.works 55 points 11 months ago

You don’t even need that. My microwave is wifi connected but still can’t keep time. Instead of using NTP like any appliances or industrial control system in the last decade+, it syncs to your phone time though an app.

Wtf.

[-] Valkyronix@lemmy.world 64 points 11 months ago

my microwave doesnt need wifi its a fucking microwave

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[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

I'm so tired of everything being wifi connected

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[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 11 months ago

Fuck IoT

All my homies hate IoT

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[-] the_doolittle@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

I've conditioned myself fully by this point to only use the clock on the stove as an indicator of whether my power has or has not gone out

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[-] smort@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago

Even just a capacitor to keep the time for 10 minutes or so. That would cover 99% of the power outages in my home

[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Computers have CMOS batteries. They are pretty cheap. I don't know why they haven't been added yet.

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[-] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 113 points 11 months ago

Any maps app that, when you set a route, lets you decide "don't give me any directions until I get to X step" and/or "don't give any directions after X step". I dont like hearing the navigation when I don't need it, and that would save me from having to open or close the navigation while I'm still driving.

[-] ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago

Hijacking this with my mini rant: GOOGLE if you provide me with three possible routes to my destination and I specifically select one... DON'T FUCKING CHANGE IT MID-DRIVE GODDAMMIT!

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[-] rImITywR@lemmy.world 69 points 11 months ago

Warm white LEDs inside of coloured glass bulbs to make LED Christmas lights that don't look like gamer vomit.

[-] 0gre@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago

Technology Connections did a video about this and talked about this company https://tru-tone.com

[-] D3m0li5h3r@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Maybe OP is Alec from Technology Connections

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[-] doczombie@lemmy.world 68 points 11 months ago

Nice try but I'm keeping my even more instant instant noodles to myself.

I'll give you a hint though, the secret is in being ok with pumping boiling water into your stomach.

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[-] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 66 points 11 months ago

It's been almost 27 years since the first Austin Powers movie and the world still doesn't have any sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 34 points 11 months ago

Would you settle for ill tempered sea bass?

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[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 57 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A better voicemail.

I just re-watched the introduction of the first iPhone, and one thing that stood out to me was this "visual voicemail" thing they showed. To this day I still just get an SMS if someone leaves a message, and then have to call my voicemail and listen to recordings one by one. That's still the norm for standard phone contracts here afaik, it's ridiculous!

[-] faltryka@kbin.social 28 points 11 months ago

I didn’t know that was even still a thing. For years now on my iPhone I’ve just looked at the text transcriptions of my voicemail in my phone app.

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[-] Chobbes@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago

Why the fuck don’t receipts just show up in my bank / credit card statements?

[-] msage@programming.dev 19 points 11 months ago

Do you want your bank to see everything you've purchased?

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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 51 points 11 months ago

RISUG is cheap, permanent, safe, reversible male birth control.

It was invented in 1979, and has not yet come to market.

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[-] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 48 points 11 months ago

Phone assistants responding to you in the same volume of voice you used to address them.

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 22 points 11 months ago

This would require a way of judging the distance you're speaking from. Calling out from another room might get a whispered response, and vice versa.

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[-] prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago

Nested Tags for contacts. Ability to add sub tags like Friends/BowlingGroup or Acquaintance/LocalChurchContact

I seriously don’t understand what’s difficult to tag contacts like this and ability to use them to message a group. It’s a serious no-brainer feature but not to be found anywhere.

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[-] quams69@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago

Some sort of device to remove the heads from the ruling class

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[-] LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The up coming weight loss drugs. I'm moderately over weight and been fighting it 20 years.

Having some help there would be a god send for a lot of people and I'm slightly optimistic on this round of drugs.

[-] Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago

Yeah, companies starting an obesity epidemic by pumping us full of government subsidized corn syrup, only to solve that by getting us reliant on an exorbitantly expensive drug that you have to inject every day. How I love capitalism.

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[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

useful implementation of AI silo'd to the applicable function.

some examples:

  • "rename these images with X pattern, add their description to the meta data"

  • "correctly capitalize all the names in my address book and tag them by how i know them"

  • "show me how much i spent on fast food last month"

  • actually good and useful autocorrect / spell check

  • find all the emails about Jane's wedding next year and let me know where we are with the planning

  • find me an app for windows desktop that does XYZ

edit to clarify: I know there are algos and LLMs that do this, but I don't want a "machine" that does all of them, I want a machine that only does each one really well.

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[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

Mainstream motherboards supported by Coreboot/more libre UEFI systems. Fuck AMI

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[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 26 points 11 months ago

Microwaves that use directed or reflected waves and to better direct or target energy to specific spots in food. Thermal vision in microwaves and more automated time/power controls.

Why are we still just blasting waves on a spinning dish as high as we can? Like we can pinpoint microwaves for devices with our routers, but we can do it for inside a controlled environment in a box?!

This is my evidence if someone tries to patent this and lock people out of making cool products that I said it here first!

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[-] khannie@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago
[-] nevemsenki@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

If your ABS takes 5 minutes to react there may be an issue with your car.

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[-] variants@possumpat.io 23 points 11 months ago

Being able to get pinged for a new message in a group chat bit mute the consecutive messages from that chat until you check it.

I like to be part of multiple chats like for my game server if there is an issue I want to be alerted from my guardians. Usually the channel is quite for days and days until someone says something then it's pings after pings as people reply while I'm commuting home and it interrupts my music

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[-] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 21 points 11 months ago

Non rebellious printer

Baby wristlet with heartbeat sensor (this one will make you go proper crazy)

Car that breaks down as soon as you buy it

'cause fuck cars.

[-] tourist@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

Car that breaks down as soon as you buy it

BMWs are already pretty mainstream

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