If only! 9 non-existent inventions that we NEED in our lives, thanks

Entertainment

Feb 26, 2016

Thanks to technology, we can now do countless things we wouldn't have dreamed of as kids.

Video chatting with someone halfway across the world, managing our lives through our phone, recording TV shows without having to put a big dirty 'DON'T TAPE OVER THIS' sticker on the VHS cassette… the list goes on.

Sky Ireland recently launched Sky Q TV, a home entertainment system with some seriously futuristic features. Like the Pause And Carry On option, for example, which allows you to pause whatever programme you're watching and pick it up elsewhere, be it on your phone, tablet or another TV.

Little inventions like that just instantly make our lives SO much easier, which got us thinking about what other potential things we'd love to see making their debut…

1. Moisturiser that instantly makes it look like we've had eight hours sleep
Puffy eyes, be gone.

2. An 'unsend message' button on Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber, Tinder…
You know when you write a message in the WRONG thread, and it's just sitting in their phone, waiting to be read? Yeah, that.

3. A Cold Tea Alarm
Taking a massive swig of your tea only to realise it's gone ice cold without you noticing is an injustice that must be stopped.

4. An alarm clock that would actually MAKE us get up
Unless someone is literally shaking us, poking us or shouting in our ear, we're gonna fall back to sleep. Sorry 'bout that.

5. Negative calorie chocolate
You burn more calories digesting celery than the celery actually contains. Can someone invent a chocolate with similar properties, please?

6. A way to snap your fingers at night and instantly be in bed, teeth brushed and make-up free
The move from the cosy couch to the freezing bathroom never, ever gets easier.

7. An eyebrow grower
No, not just a thickener, an instant eyebrow grower. Make it happen.

8. A machine that can perfectly apply winged eyeliner
Because nine times out of ten we end up looking like a drunk squirrel drew ours on

9. A Find My Umbrella/Find My Keys/Find My Change For The Bus app
If they can do it with phones, they can do it with that rogue lipstick you lost somewhere down the side of your bed three months ago.