• Ideas – April 9th 2016

    1. Darth vader ice lollies, cola flavour
    2. Emoji fingerprints
    3. Grumpy impressionist painter called Moanay
    4. Expressionist painter who is mad keen on making pancakes, called Turner
    5. Impressionist painter who will get your motor started if it breaks down, called Van go
    6. Classical music themed BBQ joint, BarBachQue
    7. Use a bowl when making trifle to make the jelly concave like a bowl, not just flat topped
    8. A pint glass that can determine the speed at which you’re drinking and say “Whoah”
    9. TV show in which old versions of celebrities interview young versions of themselves or vice versa. Could use impressionists, but for preference actual time travel would be involved.
    10. Sausages with a core of honey running through them
  • Ideas – April 8th 2016

    1. Theme pub: Admiral AckBar
    2. App: Detects if a smell is at a level where you can politely comment on it
    3. Time travelling pirate movie
    4. Yo sushi! but with indian food
    5. Cobble streets in the arctic circle with frozen lemons and limes
    6. Horses that patrol the streets carrying urns of tea
    7. Hover jets that work by pulling on the air from above rather than pushing on the air below
    8. Guitar with self contained amp and megaphone speaker mounted on the head
    9. Equal rights for fish
    10. Political party: Double six, roll again
  • Ideas – April 7th 2016

    1. A smell that is the inverse of poo so they cancel each other out
    2. An app that tells you if you’re in space or not
    3. King of kings movie trilogy retelling Heroditus story of Cyrus and his sons
    4. An app that tells you what sort of app you need
    5. Slow exposure photographs of disco balls and light up yo-yos
    6. Giant suction cups for impromptu hammock mounting
    7. Useful stuff like maps, how-to guides, classic literature and art printed on the inside of packaging so people might re-use it
    8. Therapy parrot that tells you everything is going to be ok
    9. Lemons that ferment on the vine,producing high concentration alcohol and becoming natural napalm grenades
    10. Motorised rollerblades with tracks that double as chainsaws
  • Ideas – April 6th 2016

    1. Detective story: Who murdered Little Miss Muffet
    2. Morning checklist: before you leave the house
    3. Controlling a game via fitbit/heart rate monitor
    4. On safari with Tony the tiger
    5. Persuade the Pope to front a punk band
    6. Raspberry ripple bananas
    7. Online medical advice that doesn’t give you the fear
    8. If there’s a Quasimodo, is there an Actualmodo?
    9. Demolition derby races, but with ships
    10. Specially trained giraffes to assist the fire service
  • Ideas – April 5th 2016

    1. Plank app that uses the spirit-level function in your phone to tell you if you’re in the correct position
    2. Site that explains what all the bits on a swiss army knife are for
    3. “Run to the moon” crowdsourced relay marathon
    4. A timer app that can alternate different sounds at intervals (helps keep track of how many intervals you’re doing)
    5. Ban all measurements of quantities like “1 slice” from myfitnesspal (how big is a slice?)
    6. Rainbow jam
    7. Cartoon: Cyborg puppies
    8. Life jackets and flippers for horses so you can take them in the river
    9. Childs hat with lights that start flashing after a certain amount of time away from it’s parents phones
    10. Disco gnomes
  • Ideas – April 4th 2016

    1. A notice at the start of a movie telling you if there is a post-credits scene or not
    2. Batman V Superman: Underpants edition. Same movie but batman and superman have cgi underwear on over their tights
    3. Rain map, very precise weather app that tells you where you should walk right now in order to get least rain
    4. Water butts everywhere. I know it’s not a new idea, but why aren’t these more of a thing?
    5. Rapid inflating elephants that activate if someone breaks into your house
    6. App that identifies what type of lightbulb you need either from a picture of the bulb or of the socket
    7. Curried cauliflower cheese
    8. Options for the type of nut you want in your salad
    9. Sweet potato lies: James bond themed health food cafe
    10. Officially changing the spelling of quinoa and feng shui to reflect the actual pronunciation (or permission to slap anyone who corrects you for pronouncing it wrong)
  • Ideas – April 3rd 2016

    1. An easy and obvious way to post to personal word press blogs from an app
    2. Game: Super Mario pants
    3. Don’t supply food in non oven friendly packaging if it needs to go in the oven
    4. Have a second secret April Fools day in September. Precise date only known in advance by people with actual funny ideas
    5. Severe punishment for people who don’t know the difference between an April fools prank and a practical joke
    6. Even more severe punishment for people who don’t know the difference between a practical joke and harassment
    7. Super severe punishment for people who fake prank and reaction videos
    8. Just ban reaction videos, experience your own emotions why don’t you
    9. Kneecap anyone that uses the phrase “the feels” we’ve got adjectives for a reason
    10. For one day a year, replace all TV, radio and social media internet with a looped video of a corgi and a cat dancing to samba music
  • Ideas – April 2nd 2016

    1. GM sheep to produce naturally coloured wool
    2. Tiny bite sized apples that you can eat without getting juice all over your hands
    3. Goat hip hop
    4. A barcode scanning app to inventory home items, such as a library
    5. A website that is no content, just comments. First comment “This is a shit idea for a website”, goes downhill from there
    6. Defer funeral expenses by allowing your mummifed body to sit on a tube train wearing branded clothing
    7. The kitchen stork. Lives in your kitchen and chops veg
    8. The stupidometer. A device that prohibits you from leaving the house or communicating with the outside world until your brain has sufficiently engaged
    9. An app that automatically plays soothing music when your blood pressure reaches a certain level
    10. A bee gees tribute band featuring actual bees
  • Ideas – April 1st 2016

    1. Some way to randomly suggest what soup to make
    2. Amazon prime “No cartoons” option
    3. Kettles with bells so when they vibrate from boiling, they play a tune
    4. Self folding paper planes
    5. Toast as ninja stars, anti-terrorist defence on planes
    6. “easy” and “difficult” queues everywhere. As soon as a customer is identified as having a complex issue, they get moved to the difficult queue to be assisted by expert staff, this way the easy queue keeps moving
    7. A big spring so that if you don’t have your toiletries in a bag before you get to the x-ray machine, you get ejected into space
    8. Springs on the bottom of boats so that if they sink, they come back up again
    9. Bacon plants
    10. Glasses that project eyes on to your sleeping eyelids, making you appear awake.
  • Ideas – March 31st 2016

    1. When choosing a new mobile phone, two simple options “How much for the same features I currently have” and “what can I get for cheaper than I’m paying”
    2. Interval training app that can automatically detect when you’ve done X reps of one exercise and switch to timing you for X seconds of another.
    3. A water bottle with some sort float attached to a visible indicator on the outside. When it reaches the bottom it adds another notch so you can tell how many bottles you’ve drunk in a day.
    4. Edited versions of wildlife documentaries that don’t show baby animals being killed.
    5. A “skip credits” button on netflix *
    6. Life jackets that react with salt in sea water to keep people warm
    7. An app that can listen to car engine noise and diagnose faults
    8. A way to remotely disable other peoples alarm clocks
    9. Shoes that play music in time to your walking/running speed
    10. An app that detects your location and plays your theme music when you enter or leave your house. *