25 Inventions That Are So Long Overdue We've Almost Given Up Hope

PocketEpiphany Published 09/10/2024 in wow

Growing up, we dream of seeing cool invention ideas come to life. Most of the time, though, the coolest ones never do. So, which inventions would we like to FINALLY see before we die? Here's the complete list from r/AskReddit.

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1.
Dental regrowth would be friggin sweet! Expensive...but sweet.
2.
Cure of most genetic diseases or cancer or Alzheimer's.
3.
I was promised jet packs.
4.
High-speed transcontinental railway system in the USA.
5.
Efficient water desalination and or plastic recycling.
6.
Cure for hair loss.
7.
Full-time operational fusion energy.
8.
Universal translator.
9.
Any human-made mechanism that can mimic the CO2 recycling of trees at scale to truly change the numbers on medium and long-term climate change impact. (Short-term is not good.)
10.
I've been telling my children for years that in their lifetime, when they need an organ transplant, doctors will just grow an exact genetic match for them in a vat. Time to get cracking on this.
11.
Diabetes cure.
12.
I read about scientists in MIT and Japan working on a machine that records your dreams and allows them to be played back. I would love something like that because I have some pretty crazy dreams that I would love to experience again.
13.
A time machine. Not one that physically allowed you to travel through time but something that allowed you to watch the history of the universe as its own kinda movie.
14.
A long-distance space shuttle, or maybe colonization of distant worlds. I always dreamed of traveling space-side.
15.
Full dive VR.
16.
A proper sci fi scanning device. Currently, the best thing we have is an MRI machine. This requires massive amounts of finite liquid helium, massive magnets, and they take up a huge amount of space. Even with that, they cannot distinguish one tissue from another, only densities so some things are missed. I would love to see a machine like the scanning pods in Passengers that can diagnose any issue.
17.
Websites without ads. Websites without pop-ups.
18.
Would be nice if self-driving cars were standard by the time I reach the point of no longer being able to drive myself.
19.
Warp drive.
20.
Teleporting water from floods to droughts.
21.
Cure for age-related deafness/tinnitus.
22.
Proper treatment regimens for fibromyalgia. All my doctors I’ve seen just toss medications at me until something helps.
23.
Immortality. That way it would be in everyone's lifetime.
24.
100 percent accurate lie detector.
25.
Artificially made meat that's completely indistinguishable from the real thing. Forget this plant-based stuff.

1.
Dental regrowth would be friggin sweet! Expensive...but sweet.
2.
Cure of most genetic diseases or cancer or Alzheimer's.
3.
I was promised jet packs.
4.
High-speed transcontinental railway system in the USA.
5.
Efficient water desalination and or plastic recycling.
6.
Cure for hair loss.
7.
Full-time operational fusion energy.
8.
Universal translator.
9.
Any human-made mechanism that can mimic the CO2 recycling of trees at scale to truly change the numbers on medium and long-term climate change impact. (Short-term is not good.)
10.
I've been telling my children for years that in their lifetime, when they need an organ transplant, doctors will just grow an exact genetic match for them in a vat. Time to get cracking on this.
11.
Diabetes cure.
12.
I read about scientists in MIT and Japan working on a machine that records your dreams and allows them to be played back. I would love something like that because I have some pretty crazy dreams that I would love to experience again.
13.
A time machine. Not one that physically allowed you to travel through time but something that allowed you to watch the history of the universe as its own kinda movie.
14.
A long-distance space shuttle, or maybe colonization of distant worlds. I always dreamed of traveling space-side.
15.
Full dive VR.
16.
A proper sci fi scanning device. Currently, the best thing we have is an MRI machine. This requires massive amounts of finite liquid helium, massive magnets, and they take up a huge amount of space. Even with that, they cannot distinguish one tissue from another, only densities so some things are missed. I would love to see a machine like the scanning pods in Passengers that can diagnose any issue.
17.
Websites without ads. Websites without pop-ups.
18.
Would be nice if self-driving cars were standard by the time I reach the point of no longer being able to drive myself.
19.
Warp drive.
20.
Teleporting water from floods to droughts.
21.
Cure for age-related deafness/tinnitus.
22.
Proper treatment regimens for fibromyalgia. All my doctors I’ve seen just toss medications at me until something helps.
23.
Immortality. That way it would be in everyone's lifetime.
24.
100 percent accurate lie detector.
25.
Artificially made meat that's completely indistinguishable from the real thing. Forget this plant-based stuff.