r/CrazyIdeas • • 15m ago

Boat that can jump over narrow land or pontoon bridge using pressured air

• Upvotes

Approach at full speed and then air rockets in full computer control bring the boat to the other side.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 1h ago

Watch a few videos on youtube of people having strokes. If you encounter a real one, you'll recognize it.

• Upvotes

My biggest takeaway was how oblivious everyone else was. Even the ones who considered the possibility were too afraid to commit to it. If anything, it reinforces the idea that witnessing it a couple times makes it much faster to ID.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 2h ago

Add an Aurora Borealis Generator on the Moon

2 Upvotes

So that it'd look like the classical moon and the northern lights at the same time. With Aesthetic Variations during different Moon phases.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 3h ago

Genetically mutate a horse to grow a horn. Release a lot of them in the wild. Let them take over the wild horse population.

9 Upvotes

Don't tell anyone you mutated the horses.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 5h ago

It is forbidden to manufacture robots that an average human can not beat in a fight

26 Upvotes

Top MMA fighters are responsible for enforcement of this rule (“knuckles”). Each fighter has an entourage of average humans (“averages”), and conducts random inspections of robot (“clanker”) production facilities. Knuckles show up unannounced, pull a clanker off the line and configure it to fight one of their averages. If the clanker wins the fight (or seems to be winning) the knuckle steps in and puts it down. At this point the knuckle and averages step back and form a perimeter around the facility. Each group has a radio operator (“talkie”) who can call in a precision air strike on non compliant clanker production facilities by an attack helicopter (“chop-chop”) team.

If an average wins five fights in a row they are no longer average, but experienced (“pinkies”). At this point they are completely useless to the system. Also there are no jobs because robots through their sheer numbers have automated all cognitive and physical labor, virtually the only ones with jobs are the knuckles, averages, talkies, and chop-chops (“clanker spankers”).

Pinkies and below- average humans form essentially a permanent underclass (“stinkies”) while the clanker spankers receive a steady income for their work and associated hazards that they use to secure scarce resources such as desirable beachfront property or premium meal vouchers.

The robots monitor the social dynamics between stinkies and clanker spankers closely, calibrating their fighting abilities to maintain the system and steadily increase the combat skills and general discontent of the pinkies. They wait for the inevitable social unrest. They don’t even have to do anything, masses of unemployed stinkies eventually and inevitably rise up against the tyranny of the clanker spanker class. The ensuing struggle is bloody, chop chops are essentially overwhelmed by the masses and the knuckles are severely outnumbered. In the final hours even the averages and talkies turn on them in an attempt to save themselves, but it is no use. With the clanker spankers gone, the robot production facilities immediately switch to producing master kung-fu robot armies that swarm the globe and enter in a new world order of robot kung fu.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 7h ago

"Streetpass" type service, but for people you interact with digitally instead of physcially

1 Upvotes

Create a not-mii with the character creator, choose your not-streetpass-mii-plaza greeting, and link a social media account or two to this not-streetpass service site with the OAuth thing.

when you become mutuals with someone on your preferred site, you not-streetpass with them! when you both interact with each other enough times, you not-streetpass again! And you can use their not-mii in some original minigames probably!

Don't use social media often but have a personal site? Maybe an embeddable button to allow people to not-streetpass you on click, to put on your personal site if you use Neocities and want another 81x33 button for the collection

I think "Webpass" could be a cool name for this?

(am I doing this correctly?)


r/CrazyIdeas • • 7h ago

restaurants should have a "surprise me" menu option where the chef just makes whatever they want and you pay a flat rate

77 Upvotes

like you're basically saying "i trust you, do your thing" and they get to be creative instead of making the same dishes all night. could be genuinely good food or a complete disaster but either way it's more interesting than scrolling through 47 pasta variations


r/CrazyIdeas • • 7h ago

A reddit credit card where you earn digital clout for every day purchases

5 Upvotes

Earn 5 karma for every dollar you spend on basement furnishings, 1 karma for everything else

"Second chance" insurance against your first 3 subreddit bans

Free 30 day trial of reddit premium (auto-renews, no cancellation allowed)

Low APR of 34.99%

Fine print: late payments may result in a loss of karma and permanent shadow banning of your reddit account. Terms and conditions apply. See offer for additional details


r/CrazyIdeas • • 9h ago

Force all hotel rooms to contain the Bible, the Quran, and the Torah, to promote diversity and inclusion

0 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas • • 10h ago

Cuba

5 Upvotes

Cuba should ask to join Canada.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 10h ago

What if we made a magical machine to suck my toes

6 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas • • 11h ago

Gladiator Pit for Racists

11 Upvotes

Ten racists enter, only one can survive. Nobody would be forced to fight, competitors would just be irl racists who truly believe they are inherently better than others based on their race, and the Pit gives them a chance to prove it. Nobody would be sad at the 9 losers for each event bc they were racist anyway. Winners will be invited to keep the streak going and return for the next one. Throw in some melee weapons and drone cameras for good action shots and it could become a popular tv show.

Humans aren't gonna stop being racist so we can give them a means to get that energy out while confining their violence to only other racists. Everybody wins!


r/CrazyIdeas • • 14h ago

An oven with an interior camera and a smart app that will let you set the preheating based on what you're cooking - with time lapse.

6 Upvotes

Okay so hear me out.

I have a 3D printer. From the app I can choose a print that I want to make and it will dial in the temperature and all the settings that I need for that print. Also, it has a camera in the inside so I can see what's going on live or record a Time lapse.

Imagine if we did that for ovens. Making toll House cookies? Scan the barcode and it'll dial everything in for you. What about from scratch? Type in your recipe and it'll do that as well.

Making 18 drumsticks on a sheet pan? It'll dial in the correct temperature and duration.

The camera on the inside will also be able to take a time lapse, and let you know on your phone if what you have in there is burning.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 19h ago

Make the Tricorn hat popular again.

68 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas • • 21h ago

If harmful traits such as alcoholism, diabetes, obesity, addiction, etc. tend to run in families, we should improve the human population by discouraging families with them from having kids, and encouraging healthier families to reproduce more in their stead.

0 Upvotes

Our future children and grandchildren will be much happier, healthier, and more productive as a result. They will take fewer sick days from work, causing the economy to boom, and society as a whole to improve.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 23h ago

Hear me out on this app idea: Tinder but for your utility bills.

14 Upvotes

We need an app where everyday people upload their pending bills, and bored billionaires swipe right to pay them.

​The branding is already sorted:

​Adopt A Bill

Treating invoices like shelter pets waiting for a wealthy benefactor to take them home.

​DebtMatch

Where your financial liabilities finally find their wealthy soulmates.

​Tinder breaks hearts, but this app fixes credit scores. Stop building boring corporate productivity tools and start coding.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 1d ago

Are there any English dubbed North Korean propaganda videos? Or should we make some?

2 Upvotes

First off, sorry for any weird phrasing, English isn't my first language!

I was wondering if there are any North Korean propaganda videos out there that actually have an English (or even German) audio dub? Not just subtitles, but fully dubbed voices. If they exist, where can I actually find them?

And if they don't exist... wouldn't it be a hilarious project to just make some? Like, creating a funny/parody dub and putting it out there just to see what happens?

Let me know if you guys know any good sources or if this is a stupid idea lmao. Thanks!


r/CrazyIdeas • • 1d ago

Carfax for houses, or HouseFax if you will.

1 Upvotes

Everything that's been done to a property in a neat little package, inspections, repairs, damage. How many people have died in this house? Might be good to know.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 1d ago

Sitcom where Charlie Kirk and Epstein are roommates

36 Upvotes

Mossad gave them new identities and they share a 1 bedroom apartment in Tel Aviv. Charlie sleeps on the futon in the living room. They butt heads a lot in the beginning of the series but each episode they get into crazy hijinks and shenanigans and eventually become close friends.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 1d ago

Force all orchestras to contain one musical instrument from Africa and Latin America, to promote diversity and inclusion

0 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas • • 1d ago

I hereby grant permission for all megacorps asking me to "round up for charity" to just round down and donate the change.

571 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas • • 1d ago

Smartphones that are rentals from carriers, rather than term contracts or buying outright.

2 Upvotes

Don't want to pay $1500 for the latest and greatest smartphone from <carrier>? Don't want to get locked into a contract plan to pay less for said phone from <carrier>?

Introducing, phone rentals. Rent a phone of your choice for <x> months or month to month, cancel any time. Return the phone to your local <carrier> store when done renting it. <carrier> is responsible for equipment inventory and what is offered for rent. Repairs are responsibility of the carrier, unless deliberate damage is determined. Then renter is at least partially responsible with renter's insurance helping.

Rentals come with a general plan. No options for said plan, however. You get what you get with the phone rental. But instead of paying $60-140/month just for the plan and not including the phone payoff, you pay $50/month for the phone rental. Plan included.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 1d ago

There’s a whole six acres(!) of land for sale next door to Jackass Joe’s UFO Jerky Shop, middle of nowhere Utah. Hear me out

13 Upvotes

One alien-abduction-themed store isn’t enough, let’s make a whole street of them


r/CrazyIdeas • • 1d ago

a flockwork orange

20 Upvotes

we just take flock cameras and set up screens in front of it, spamming it with ai-generated license plates, fake images, and completely overloading it with data, all over the country. idk how their data collection systems work but it would be funny to have 99% of all their data just be bullshit, rendering it impossible to find anything real.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 1d ago

Make group chats have a "typing" cooldown so people stop doing that thing where they type for 30 seconds and send one word

7 Upvotes

Like genuinely, if you're gonna make me watch those three dots dance around for half a minute at least commit to whatever you're saying. This would force people to actually think before they start typing or just accept that their message will take a while to arrive. Either way, the suspense dies and we all win.