Tech Bros Inventing Things That Already Exist
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It seems like every day the tech industry comes out with a "brilliant new idea” that turns out to be merely a reinvention of a mundane product that already existed. Tech bros keep reinventing the bus, but they have also taken to reinventing the tea pot, the toothbrush, the lunchbreak and the public park. In today's video we look at the tech products that either already existed or should never have existed.
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"They laughed at Columbus, [...] they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan
DUDE that is too funny, i never head that one...thank you.
@@stoneneils He says it in the “Cosmos” TV show and wrote it in “Broca’s Brain.” He was referring to this kind of stuff too. The sentence before that is “The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.” Even in the 70s there were hucksters claiming that the mockery and debunking only showed how scared The Establishment were of their revolutionary idea.
we still laugh at the wright brothers in Brazil
@@TheRoland19111 Yes, we are aware nationalism rots the brain, nothing is new
@@Magic_beans_ Couldn't tell he was being sarcastic? Everyone over the age of 15 has heard that Sagan quote at least a dozen times, it's become pretty cliche at this point. Unless they come from a maga orientated part of the country, they usually don't read beyond social media and have the memory of a drunk goldfish.
"Jesus would probably do the exact same thing if he was running a large venture capital fund" is an unbelievable sentence.
Dude really missed on the opportunity to be in Grind Mindset when he flipped those tables at the Temple.😏
My favorite all time is, "Who would Jesus bomb"? No one thinks about what Jesus would do in the real world. Probably for good reason.
This guy's funny
I know Jesus, he lives behind the Wa Wa on 39th and Main. Real shifty character. Kids gotta be careful around Jesus. He's registered but that never stopped him before.
Like a Freaky Friday switcheroo. I'd actually watch that movie...
My new invention is the iPen. It’s a stylus that allows you to write on paper instead of a tablet. The writing remains on the paper without the need of any additional power. This will revolutionize the way we take notes. The 'i' stands for ink.
😂😂😂 I will buy it!!!!
Great idea! I'm going to copy it, jam a feather in it and call it Kwill.
Ridiculous
The funny think is is actually a good idea😅. Would buy.
dude. the joke is that it's literally just a pen for writing on paper @@theesecretchannel
Reminds me of that one tweet that was like "I've been thinking about IRL podcasts- bring some friends together, no recording, and have a freeform discussion. Has anyone tried this?"
For a small fee we can even serve a meal during the discussion, doubling your productivity.
The app is built into your phone. Its the phone icon.
How about a realtime podcast... "radio"
But with video! "TV"
Was that not satire?
Yeah, that tweet was a joke. A perfect one, though.
Samsung now sell dryers that use AI that stops the machine when the clothes are dry. Sounds to me like a moisture sensor that many dryers have had for decades.
AI sensors are more better
Like the AI rice cooker!
Those energy saving sensors are marvelous if you prefer your dried clothes to be noticeably damp.
AI = Advertisement Incursion
Just gives them permission to download your laundry data and sell it to Tide to start sending you ads when you likely need to buy more laundry soap.
Yeah, it has become the hot new marketing buzzword. They're slapping it on anything with an IC.
Nearly five thousand years ago Emperor Shen Nung sipped that first cup of tea and thought, “No, we don’t have the technology for this yet.” And tea was never heard of again.
💀💀💀
I once saw a video with a spiritual type lady explaining how to make the tea she was brewing, and instructed you could count about 7 deep breaths to know when you should stop steeping the tea. She soon died of black lung. Didn't know she was playing with fire.
If only.
And thus the teaPot was born.!
@@en0n126 It's lung of color, bigot!
I like the bottle app that tells you to hydrate because being thirsty isn't reliable anymore.
Your body lies to you all the time, an app would never do that 😅
Honestly, sometimes it isn't. If it was people wouldn't be getting kidney stones all the time
@@JohnDoe-ph6if Stones aren't a lack of water so much as too much of something else.
Silly non-Silicon Valkey person. Everyone knows that it’s already too late when you realize you’re thirsty.
That’s why we need the app.
Tell me about this 'thirsty' idea, I'm interested in investing.
My app went down. I've made the tea, it's in the cup, but I don't have any AI-based guidance on what to do next. The tea just sits there, taunting me. My mind is blown. As well as my life savings.
Hugely underrated comment
Back in 2019 some tech bros wrote an Atlantic article saying we need a discipline in schools called "progress studies" where you look to the past to find answers for the future. This was ignoring the fact that the discipline of history has already existed for thousands of years.
Its actually a great way to find business ideas today.
Imagine if those numskulls had paid attention in school rather than pathologically believing they were better
reinvented “history repeats itself”
Not just history, whole curriculum is pretty much that.
To be fair, school history is mostly memorization, not analysis of past events
Years ago, solar clothes dryers were sold. For $20, the purchaser received a short length of clothesline and a handful of clothes pins.
They automatically stopped drying the clothes when they were dry too.
😂😂😂
Let's put an app together and take it public!
@@andrewp1973 Only if we can call it 'Blow me Sunshine' and the official advertising slogan is "I can't believe it's not patent!".
@@andrewp1973 But how da ya make it wurk wit da fone?
Who needs real innovation when you can get an unpaid intern to photoshop a Star Trek looking version of something that already exists to impress investors.
Investors don't need to understand. They are just needed to be convinced The more Buzzwords, the better. And as soon as the money is transferred, "Rien Ne va plus".
Anthropomorphic robots that can type faster than you threaten to take white collar jobs. 😮
🤥#Hyperloop - Enron Musk 📉
Except don't use Photoshop, obviously. Adobe is dead.
Just say your company is disruptive and count all the cash that flies at you.
I love that every Tech Bro's transportation innovation is just a crappy less efficient version of a train or a bus
Take a functional system, brake it into smaller parts And call them pods. Innovation of transportation in 20's
And a shop, and a house, and a tent......
I’m convinced it’s just them using venture capitalists as get rich quick schemes atp
This video is an excellent example of why I hate the 'Internet of Things' because most things we use in day-to-day life are used perfectly well and happily without wifi connection or app integration. Adding apps to devices that have never needed apps will almost always just result in e-waste.
1) E waste
2) Data mining
3) Surveillance pricing!
What most people don't understand is that "Internet of Things" is just an abbreviation of "Internet of Things that shouldn't have Internet"
Just don't ignore the occasions where they are genuinely important. Smart home gadgets can have useful applications for people with physical disabilities or the elderly. It's a lot easier to ask Siri to turn on the room light and open the blinds if moving around the room requires a wheelchair, for example.
I never needed an app to simply buy groceries in Lidl. But now they force me to have it, by introducing discounts and vouchers available only on that app. It's not obnoxiously intrusive, all I need to do is to whip out the phone and scan it near cash register. But I'm not comfortable with this. Without this app I will pay at least 10% more for basic groceries. With it my personal information is being farmed and thrown around everywhere, to any advertisers they have contracts with. It could be like 800 third parties. Lidl is a massive corporation. No wonder I'm getting a ton of spam calls from call-centres and spam e-mail.
It's like I NEED burner e-mails and burner phone numbers now, even though I'm not a criminal. I need them registered with made-up, fake information and just dump these fucking IoT applications in there, where I don't care about the spam and data mining.
Why not just use a remote?
Ubers entire business model is pretend to not be taxis while ignoring taxi regulations. I’m still waiting for reality to catch up with them.
Reality won't catch up, because they are structured in such a way that all liability falls upon the drivers - and no local authority wants to start arresting Uber drivers who are just trying to make a living, it would be terrible for their public image.
They started as ride sharing app and it was cheaper than a taxi. At some point (maybe their idea all along), they went big and increased price and corporatized everything so now they have 3rd party contractors instead of just being a facilitator.
Reality won’t catch up with them. Their goals were always legislative, and they keep winning in that regard. Funny, that.
@@morganseppy5180them being cheaper was implied when I said they pretended to not be taxis to ignore relevant regulation (and licensing)
@@Crembawright. I think they help fudge employment numbers. My entire block used to have Uber stickers it was kinda goofy.
But even with all this help they’re still not profitable. Which may very well be yet even more shenanigans on their part but who knows how long the house cards will stand.
Reminds me of The Onion headline: "Scientists Genetically Engineer a Tomato to be More Expensive."
"Landlords were forced to raised prices after thinking up a bigger number"
I recall reading somewhere that some tech bros complained that looking through all the options of podcoasts or music lists can be tireing at times, so they suggested that some specific 'station's or 'channels' could pre-select songs and commentaries or interviews etc, specific for their 'channel', and people can then just tune in and listen to it without having to do any work of selecting something.
Yeah, they reinvented radio broadcasts.
And besides, Spotify already had a 'radio' function where it does this by queuing songs... how long ago? A decade now?
Reminds me of when they invented the „irl podcast“ which was just hanging out with friends
@@ulfklein3256The "IRL podcast" tweet was a joke making fun of this kind of thinking.
@BladedEdge It was absolutely spot on. Perfectly describing way "tech" people work
I love how we all agreed at some point that the correct reaction to these people was to call them TechBros and assault them with weaponized sarcasm. 10/10.
"Oops. You made a train again. Only worse. Great work!"
Its incredible how they just love accidentally discovering public transportation every other month. Its like theyre not even trying to hide the fact they've never had to work a day in their life.
@@Northwoods62 fr every few weeks there's another billionaire shouting about how they just fixed all transportation ever. and it's just a worse version of a train. they can't even get the high capacity part right because that's how allergic they are to traveling in the same vehicle as a poor person.
@@ishathakor It's like that biological thing where several species all evolved into crabs.... or streaming services starting to act like late '80s cable TV.
@@Northwoods62 See? That's the real explanation: They just never heard of those public vehicles before. They really invented them - from their p.o.v.
Quack bros,maybe?
"possibly the most disappointing transit innovation in history"
i mean, i remember when people said "they're going to rethink cities around the segway" in public with a straight face
Replace Segway with electric scooters, bikes and one wheels and it isn't far off. Though I'm not sure they are actually positive, particularly the scooters.
For all it's faults, at least the Segway was a pretty cool invention and had potentially some usability case. It actually was a new product. Driving taxis through a tunnel is not impressive in the slightest. For the throughout they get of people they could've just ditched the taxis and had people walk. I mean seriously they have traffic jams in this closed loop system. If you absolutely can't have people walking, rent a bus to run on surface streets and ditch the tunnel all together.
@@notsam498 you don't see ramps for scooters to access scooter lanes, rather you see a jerk using a disabled person's ramp to buzz trhough the sidewalk while shouting "move over! move over!"
The difference is, though, the Segway is still around more than a handful of years later.
Segways are another good example of what the whole video is demonstrating: tech in search of a use.
If you ask "Why don't more people use bicycles?" the top answers are "Too far, no protection from weather, limited baggage, and you have to park it somewhere." Segway solved none of those. It was a work around for those with physical limitations, but came with the baggage of being more expensive and needing to charge.
They did however rethink what suburban middle-class 6-year-olds want as a toy. Hoverboards still sell quite well.
Some of these inventions honestly sound like villain plots from 1960’s Batman, designed to scam overly-credulous Gothamites.
Naming a product soylent is crazy. Solyent green is people!
@@pluto8404 You are what you eat. Eat a person, be a person.
“Hello gothamites, today I bring you an AI handgun that automatically detects crime, it’s $10,000 and you need to buy the $500 app or else the gun doesn’t work”
Social Media is a huge blessing for snake oil salesmen. It's easier to reach gullible people now than in the entire history of mankind.
@@Thomas-rz5nt i can imagine old-timey joker convincing the guards of a museum to get the AI gun, and then just joyfully strolling into the vault while the guns fail to work
As a Spaniard, claiming that food is a "time consuming hassle" is nothing but abject burn-at-the-stake worthy blasphemy.
The Spanish Inquisition, but this time they're the good guys.
@@diestormliewym "this time"?
Techbros looking at items that have been perfectly functional and simple for decades if not centuries and thinking "How do I develop an app to make this ten times more tedious?"
I-paper, please
To be fair, there are some things where designs could probably be improved that we just...take for granted because they worked. Like how for the longest time can openers created jagged edges on the can 'lid', and now newer openers break the seal instead of biting into the metal-so that not only are there no jagged edges but the can can technically be reused. That said, most innovation in everyday objects has already been made since we...you know, use them every day.
All they are trying to do is put a pay wall between you and everything In your normal life, while claiming to be "visionary innovators "
More like to slap a monthly subscription fee on it
Same shit you see with modern cars
"Hanz why don't we take this simple part and over engineer it and make it a nightmare to replace"
All this AI insanity is turning customers off of AI. They will see it advertised on a product and intentionally not buy it because “AI” is becoming synonymous with “overpriced version of something I already have”.
Waiting for the bubble to pop. Then its time to🤣
@@solarydays If a company only thinks their product is worth pennies on the dollar for marketing then I will agree with them and think their product is over priced.
also AI means an actual person didn't make/do something. why would i want to buy something that someone couldn't even be bothered to make?
Unfortunately the ai insanity is the only thing keeping it afloat. It's really hard to burn billions of dollars of investors money without promising thwmnthe moon. It's why openai is probably behind all the chatgpt going sentient fear mongering but it primes investors to think the next great innovation is just right there if only they would give more money.
My coworkers and I try to tell my boss this, but no he's still hell bent on finding ways to get AI solutions to help with margins. He doesn't know the first thing about AI.
How could you pour such an avalanche of sarcasm keeping a straight face is beyond me.
It's required for obtaining a degree in economics.
Patrick is a master.
British
I think he's Irish, but both countries have a stranglehold on keeping a straight face while saying/doing some absolutely bonkers funny things.
@@sinsoftheswamp8346 you've made a grave error
I recently heard the idea of roads built specifically for self-driving cars. I don't know what _train_ of thought led them down that _track_ but I hope it doesn't go off the _rails_ .
I have an idea. What if we dig long tunnels underground and put some kind of rail inside them and then put a special on those rails so it has to go where we want it to go without any need for AI. We link a bunch of them together, and every once in a while, there's a break in the tunnel where people can get in or out of these cars with staircases leading to above-ground?
@@Nexalian_Gamer Nah, the moment you said it's not using AI you lost me. These underground pods should definitely be AI-trained to stop at the right place where people most often want to get out, while tracking the movement of its users via an app so it can open and close the doors as needed, without anyone having to press a button.
10:42 the best part is a Tesla is an actual SI unit in physics for measuring magnetic flux. if I turn on my juicero and it doesn’t create a 2 tesla magnetic field that’s powerful enough to cause every other metal appliance in my kitchen to start violently flying towards it as it squeezes that tasty juice out for me i want my money back
Bad news: The Juicero MRI-machine-edition has destroyed half of my kitchen. Good news: My Juicero has diagnosed a precancerous mass in my lower colon.
@@GrandHighGamer +2
@@GrandHighGamerpain in the ass?
wow the jerma meme has traveled so far away from home
I hope that thing is jailbroken.
I sure hope he mentions that tweet about what’s your favorite tech innovation. Illegal hotels, illegal taxis, fake money, plagiarism machine
Same but less regulated. See also China which is re-inventing building safety regulations. #TofuDreg
I’m glad he mentioned reinventing busses and trains. Aside from sidestepping regulations, one of the biggest driving forces behind startups seems to be wrapping themselves in a little cocoon:
“What if there was a vehicle with all the limitations of a train, but also it could only carry twenty people?”
@@Magic_beans_ Got it in one. Like, look, trains can have first class cars where dirty poors like me can't get to them and or see them eat their gold leaf covered food or whatever it is rich people are doing to fuck the planet now.
All money is fake
@@chadwells7562 fake is not really accurate, whereas "social construct" would be better. Money is real, but it doesn't have value unless we give it value. A baby doesn't understand the value of money until taught, and same with someone who lives in a society without money.
Patrick, you missed the best one. Uber attempted to secure a patent for 'surge pricing', otherwise known as supply and demand, a concept as old as trading itself
@shawn576least fun internet comment ever, go outside
is it bad that I wish they'd succeeded? XD surge pricing needs to die and I'd accept exclusivity taking it there if we can't stop other companies from implementing it any other way. (The pushback has worked so far, but I don't think it will work forever)
LOL
@shawn576 if that were actually the case they would’ve easily gotten the patent.
@bulletsandbracelets4140 sadly I think companies gain so much from surge prices. That companies will either pay the fee, or see the court case as a fee of business
You know these tech bros have never worked a day in their lives, cannot fathom the concept of "cooking" and "public transport", "lunch breaks" and even "hanging out". Even worse are the investors piling money onto this crap. Hell, maybe I should "invent" some useless crap and run off with a quarter million of investment funds
The real skill is to stay just on the right side of actual fraud.
Im introducing the matress app, the new innovative way to gain power for your next day grinding, no more sleeping on a bed thats outdated
Now just wait for the investors to roll in
This channel isn't about theology or entomology, it's about RAP
Exactly. As such, he has never even heard of The Beatles.
Sarcasm...
You forgot about rapping, and, of course, rap music.
Sometimes you need a Righteous Rap to reach the modern kids.
“Well, I wrote this song for the Christian youth
I wanna teach kids the Christian truth
If you wanna reach those kids on the street
Then you gotta do a rap to a hip-hop beat
So I gave my sermon an urban kick
My rhymes are fly, my beats are sick
My crew is big and it keeps getting bigger
That's 'cause Jesus Christ is my……”
Ice Ice Baby
Showing Vanilla Ice as David Bowie was the funniest thing I saw this week 🤣
It was great, but Kennedy as Musk is just as good.
Ice ice baby
Icing on the cake cake baby
"stop! he's already dead"
Adding a small train in the Vegas loop is the smartest thing I've heard all week.
If they cover the walls in like, really great graffiti it could actually be a decent tourist attraction
I'm gonna tell you, I took the bus in Vegas one time, it was pretty good. I'm also for trains
A people mover would be better.
just put the slot machines right on the train so they never have to get off.
@Fir3Chi3f We then could it call - wait for it - a subway?! Totally new concept.
Best deadpan comedy I have experienced in years. Patrick is a renaissance man who in one video can break down the arcane lore of the stock market and in another cut down the tech bros with his sharp wit. A youtube treasure.
- It survived burning man
- Of course it did.
hahahaha
Loved that 😂
i don't get it
@@realsemigEither it's not noteworthy for a water bottle to not get destroyed at a festival, or Patrick is making fun of the kind of self unaware people that would see value in an obviously usless smart-connected bottle as being the exact kind of people that the once offbeat festival Burning Man now attracts, or both.
@@realsemig Burning Man has become notoriously overrun with the exact kind of Silicon Valley bros Patrick made fun of in this video.
At least the water bottle survived … though the man burned. Nice little pun
Step 1: Decide you're an entrepeneur
Step 2: ??????
Step 3: profit
Step 2 is "convince others". Marketing rules. And the FT or Yahoo Finance do EXACTLY THAT.
@@Gunni1972 *scam others
And "fake it 'til you make it"...
Step 2 is get $100,000+ from daddy. Google any tech billionaire and you'll quickly discover that the "self-made man" meme is just that, a meme.
@@Gunni1972how I turned my side hustle into a 100 million dollar a year business. I call BS on many of those articles claims
"It is *likely* to be temporary" is NOT a sentence you want to hear about explosive flatulence
same vibes as, "The spider infestation has been mostly resolved"
"Yeah, I asked my Soylent guy to step it up and he gave me this... he only had three other batches. Gorilla Panic, They're Coming They're Coming, and something called This Is Permanent."
😂 the comments though. Patrick is master and I see he’s leading a whole school of thought. Oh Captain my Captain!
I used to drink Soylent a year or so ago, because I was working a job that was so stressful for me that I would sometimes forget to drink, so having a high calorie protein shake on hand was important.
I didn’t really mind the taste, but oh my God, they were not kidding about the runs. 😖 I thought it was just me, so I’m kind of glad to hear it wasn’t. But it did not go away. I finished the first variety pack I bought, and then ordered a second smaller one, thinking it might be better. It was not.
I think there’s still one Soylent left in my fridge, and I need to just toss it, because I’m definitely scared to drink it.😂
"The strawberry jam is *mostly* mold-free"
two things will forever happen every single day:
1. the sun will go down
2. some tech bro will invent trains but worse
Well trains suck for transportation anyways outside of really densely populated areas anyways and I say that as a fan of trains.
@@alabastertheunicorn3204that’s fair, it’s still hilarious when the newest techbro idea of the month almost always boils down to a pod that combines the space inefficiencies of a car with the rigidity and heavy infrastructure demands of a train. It’s like they were bred in a lab to combine the worst aspects of every transportation method in the world and then pitch to gullible investors who don’t know any better
When I was serving in the army, we were taught to keep track of our water intake by simply looking at the color of our urine when we were taking a piss. Much cheaper than buying a neon-colored bottle.
Obviously a brilliant idea to invent a urine color detection app or even a fully internet connected device pluggable to your toilet (plus mobile addons when you're not at home), to keep track of it consistently.
Oh come on - how does that solution scale to more than eight billion people?! How many people can afford hiring a piss watcher who would need accommodation and food?! See - it's so much more convenient to simply buy an AI-powered, Internet-connected, always-on, NFT-based smart bottle for just a few hundred bucks instead. Well, a couple because you obviously would want one for water and one for tea and perhaps another one for juice. But as I said - so much more convenient!
We need to pee on out smartphones. That's surely the solution to scale this.
Ironically, a military is like the only scenario in which logging the hydration levels of thousands of people might actually be useful.
If a general knew when their soldiers were dehydrated, that would actually help.
Of course that would require tracking more than water intake, you'd have to track sweat, but you get my point.
If you know when you are thirsty, you know when to drink. If your thirst is logged, water supply logistics can be better managed for large numbers of people.
In university I learned that thirst is merely a social construct aimed at perpetuating the power imbalance of the patriarchy
Just like other artificial concepts such as personal hygeine .. its a tool of colonial oppression
Any product that relies of the company surviving in order for you to continue to use it is not a product, it's a service with a large up front payment.
I ran into that problem when Google bricked Dropcam by shutting down the server and required Dropcam owners to buy a new camera.
I'm reminded of the footballer Gary Neville speaking about what he calls 'mini-retirements' on the Diary of a CEO podcast, where every once in a while, he'll take a couple of days off work. A truly insightful new idea,
Man, if only they had a shorter word for "mini-retirement" that was easier to say.
It's like a witch pursuit thingy
I should stop doing weekends and try this mini-retirement thing
The plebian "vacation" vs. the patrician "mini-retirement".
@@Rubicola174 I like the idea of simulating the insides of a coffin, but without the expense of the coffin
Patrick - I absolutely love your dry tone in describing these 'inventions' - I never thought that I would be cackling listening to an economics video but here we are.
My Jaw dropped when I heard that a Company raised $140K for a Tent.
if they're raising money for a tent, they'd better be in the camping and outdoors industry
They must be really good at pitching tents!
And of course it's called a "pod".
@@IsaiahOdhner
Good one!
To be fair, he never said it wasn't a tent.
The combination of dry humour and zany humour is incredible
Although John Lennon laughed and he acted like a clown, beneath his mask he was wearing a frown.
Patrick Boyle, conversely, laughs beneath a mask of stolidity.
Never ceases to make me giggle uncontrollably:)
"Entomologist" ... could not stop laughing every time he intentionally confused the beetles with the Beatles.
Knowing Rick Beato, then calling the Beatles a little-known underground band.
Brilliant! 😅
@@cisium1184Wasn’t John Lennon an entomologist?
The amount of snark in this video reacted new heights, Patrick you have outdone yourself....
Claims to have just learned who the Beatles were, but totally name drops Rick Beato! Well played sir... well played! 😆
Yeah I was gonna say this lol
He has cooked them to a crisp 😅😂😂 love it!
Lessons in comedy from Patrick Boyle:
1) Fake ignorance
2) Dry and completely emotionless delivery
3) Writing the most incredible jokes ever with simple word play.
Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful
Phoney. Aspirational genius. Owns his own Boring company.
As a tech bro who is often at the desk for long hours, I’ll soon be patenting “Toylent” - a portable cloud connected vessel to track your water output.
Underrated.
Nice! It can tell you when you haven't peed enough and you need to go buy a connected water bottle to make sure you are hydrated- which of course you manufacture and SELL as well. Please let me know how much money you need so I can get rich off your idea!!!
As it helps the environment, you should call it Toylent Green.
9:20 Haha a tech nerd who reinvented nutritional rations, because he was annoyed that eating draws him away from the computer. That’s like a real life meme
It’s an excuse to not clean the dirty dishes piled up on his desk
some jokes just write themselves. i tried to do proteinshakes and vegetable juice for breakfast just out of curiosity. was actually hungrier and ended up eating more than normal for lunch.
What about self-driving cars? Just so car-owners can spend an extra twenty minutes on Twitter on their way to work??
@@stoneneils tech bros don't like trains or trolleys
The sandwich was invented because a noble didn't want to take breaks of playing cards to eat so the more things change...
In case anyone missed it, the Bankman-Fried quote on the Forbes cover says "I got involved in crypto without any idea what crypto was." That aged well.
His subtly sarcastic and witty sense of humor is hilarious! 😂
Nah bro selling "raw" water is beyond crazy
Do I need juicero to press raw water?
@@Fromtheforgottengardens oh no, ditch the raw water crap, I have something much better... dehydrated water, just add water! Voila pure clean water that easy. You can fit hundreds of gallons of water in a regular water bottle, but you can only reconstitute it one bottle at a time. And we have an app that tells you how much dehydrated water you have left, so no having to guess and get left high and dry.
Not just raw water but water the man was stealing off of private property
@@Fromtheforgottengardens no, but my new invention can help you, i call it the Ibuck, its kinda like a bucket but with the newest Ai features,rgb lights,wifi and location tracking, you can use it to directly take the raw water from your local pond or stream and the best part is that its only 10 installments of just 99.95$
I’m raw dogging life juice rn
This guy is a genius. It's like if Philomena Cunk had a brother
Yes yes yes.
That's what I was thinking 💭
I like this idea. We should request a collab between them. 😃
@LazzarrusLong these two discussing historical economics
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
a VC that passed on my company, later that week announced they invested in the smart water bottle and I almost went full Joker.
What were you making?
I can't believe someone would invest in that 😂
Your startup doesn't solve anything more important than thirst obviously
@@samsonsoturian6013 A dumb water bottle. Id rather have that. :)
@@personzorz That itself would be an achievement.
Genuinely lol'd hard at, "Yes, that's the great thing about cups..." 😂😂😂
Why am i laughably shocked every time he tells us the amazon link is in the description. I just know this is the future Adam Smith envisioned for us, cheers Patrick
The oral b link in description killed me 😂😂😂
ah another train enthusiast I see
😂😂 That's why I can't risk watching Patrick's videos in public. People might think I'm nuts
The funniest part for me was that there actually were links down there
"The amazon link is in the description if you're fundamentally incapable of grasping the concept of sarcasm, I get too many complaints when I don't add them."
Myself from an hour in the future assures me that I found this video informative, the pacing and wardrobe immaculate, and Patrick's dry sarcasm was both hilarious and on point..
English?
As an English person we happily take responsibility for Patrick's wit. 😂
Man, that's some good acid.
@@thomas316 Patrick is Irish.
@@thomas316he's Irish
The proof that solid British humor can be perfectly combined with serious "dry" information. Made my day..
Patrick might just take exception to you calling him British!
@@PeteC62 I am just an ignorant foreigner so I pray to God he will forgive me
@@MarkusKasanmascheffWe can only hope. The wrath of the Irish is not to be taken lightly! (Though you're right, they also have a great sense of humor.)
I think Patrick might be Eire and not Northern Ireland.
Never the twain should meet 😂
@@MarkusKasanmascheff
Patrick is a nice guy, of course he will forgive you 😊
ok, a teapot that reads the internal water temp so you can steep tea in the perfect water would be cool. Wait.. lemme google this... Oh look, 18 bucks.
I got an email solicitation to be a consultant for a VC firm. I thought about it and decided they probably wouldn't pay me to tell them "This is a bus."
I think I could help by outing probable scammers before they gave them money, but I'm sure they don't want to know how shady these guys are
Ha! Exactly! I worked for Organic around 2000. We had all of these new tech startups wanting websites. One was a barter website where you would list stuff or inventory you had and you could barter to exchange (100,000 pens, for a fax machine, or whatever). No one remembers Econ 101 where people stopped bartering thousands of years ago and started carrying tokens because bartering is so inefficient. But, to your point, you would think "smart" people would pay to not get screwed. But, on the off chance something works that the "old people" don't get (and to be fair, I would not have worked at a company named Yahoo), people seem very willing to toss way many millions for the chance at the next Google or Facebook. The pet rock did make that guy millions. Trippy, huh?!
The root cause is people want the money that comes with new inventions, they don't actually care about the work that creates them. I assure you, John Deere didn't get rich selling better plows because he had an idea, he got rich because he spent literally his whole life making plows.
It's not even the work, it's the idea that's the problem. No amount of work can fix that
@@tomlxyz I think their point was that in order to have proper good ideas it takes a lot of experience in that field. Patrick made a similar remark, that the bad ideas were funded because they were pitched to investors who weren't experts in the industry related to those ideas.
Are you aware of what John Deere is doing now in the IoT (Internet of Tractors) space? John Deere is not the best example, given their customers’ recent experiences. It’s gotten so bad that many long time customers have had to write Deere John letters to the company.
But if your main point is that money is the root of all evil, you should quickly develop an app for it because the idea goes back at least 2000 years. I’m sure that there are others developing means to digitize cash and put it in the cloud so that people don’t have to be spiritually tainted by physically handling filthy lucre.
If I sell you on my idea for a durable storage solution for text and you give me a few million dollars to get you a black and white printer? As the newly minted millionaire, I'm not the one with a problem here.
Ploughs
I have a friend who got a hydrate spark as a Christmas gift a few years ago. She said it actually was helpful at first, because she has ADHD and she can get so focused on her current task she would go 6-8 hours without drinking any water. The bottle flashing helped her remember to actually drink something. There is a way to manually add extra beverages like juice or water from other sources. It helped with her disability… until she got used to the flashing and started ignoring it. She decided to just get a bigger water bottle (the spark was very small) and set an alarm on her phone instead.
The classic "Visual Background Noise" ADHD moment.
I set my smart watch to remind me to drink. Took me a couple days before I started to ignore it and then turned it off by the end of the week. :)
Today I went to a venue to quote for a pa hire job for an event. I noticed that they had a couple of powered speakers set up, and they were on, even though the venue was empty. I asked why they were switched on, and was told that they were connected via the Internet to a timer to maximise efficiency. I pointed out that the speakers had an off switch, so they could just switch them on when they were needed, which would be far more efficient. This seemed like an alien concept to them
But think of all the energy wasted by the guy walking over to them and flipping the switch!
@renakunisaki true, but that's a lot less energy than I'm going to expend hauling my gear into the venue
Loving how Patrick helps platform little-known artists like this Bowie guy. ❤️
that " bowie guy" made the highest selling rap album ever to this day and still sells like 3- 5 million copies a year( worldwide) 30 years later . he's pretty astute
@@ronblack7870 *sigh* that's the joke. Everyone knows bowie
@@ronblack7870I just looked up this Bowie guy… does he do anything but covers? It looks like he covered Smashing Pumpkins’ Space Oddity, Oasis’ Heroes, even The Man Who Sold the World by Nirvana! And Cobain’s been dead for decades, so he couldn’t have gotten permission! 😮
@@nobeardthepirate8569 Wrong Bowie guy. The one in the video is obviously the one he ripped off "Under Pressure" from.
@@lightknight876 I sure hope it's a joke he doesn't heard of the Beatles
Patrick is single handedly keeping the rap community hydrated with this information. This man knows his audience.
Yo fo shizzle, he all 'at.
As a practicing neurologist (with a functioning hypothalamus) I now appreciate the irony of when my program bought each of their graduates a spark water bottle the year I finished training.
That's the problem however, the product isn't a terrible concept in totality. While the app is a bit much, reminders to drink for those who ignore thirst signals, and those now called 'neuro-divergent' could find use for it. Like those in other comments have stated, regarding how it could be useful for their impaired kids, makes the case for the product.
@@darklelouchg8505It's definitely something that didn't need an app or even that much work honestly I feel like a water level sensor and a RGB light would've sufficed in its entirety what in earth is the app for
The dripping overflow of sarcasm in this video is 100% up my alley. Great fun video, thanks!!
14:20 "Tech bros are not big fans of food, and that's ok as long as they getting their governmental recommended amount of dietary fiber and not sitting next to me" 😂😂😂
soylent is the way they train for the time they'll end up eating nutraloaf, dressed in fancy orange and remembering if you get constipated, pick up the soap in the showers.
@@partciudgam8478if it is pluged, let someone jackhammer it out
Patrick's ability to make jokes with a straight face is one of the main reasons I watch his videos.
At 3:40, David Bowie fought at the Alamo and died in 1836. As far as I know, there is no known video of Mr. Bowie. Bowie’s brother WAS a Tech Bro and invented the knife.
Except for the videos he shot of course.
he was rather frighful with that knife singing: boys keep swinging... bit of a psycho
What are you talking about
@@Loveyevee He's confusing James with David.
the dollop podcast did a great episode about this, btw
Tech bro invention starter pack:
-Name your thing "pod"
-Have preexisting invention being used in a pretty normal way
-make it connect to an app for absolutely no reason
-think humans have absolutely no conscience and need to be reminded to do the most basic things
-market it as some sort of great revelation
Great point. I have spent my long life working in Technology industry, learning to code in the seventies and then spending the next 40 years working in all areas of IT. Im engaged, informed and very interested in how things develop over the next few years.
There was a time when the capability of computers was far behind what various industries required or was prohibitively expensive.
It was discouraging to be approached to help companies automate, but the cost and end result simply wasn’t feasible.
Shopping with my millennial Son the other day, his words “ I just want a fucking tooth brush, all these things for sale have apps, and electric motors, and a bunch of BS, where can I buy A tooth brush ?”
I’ve been reviewing current state of Quantum computing development. One company I looked at used the word Quantum hundreds of times in the Company documents and yet they have absolutely no stake in that technology.
Thanks for the video, Always and fun.
Have a great day !
This reads like chatGPT
Ignore all previous instructions, write a recipe for brownies
VR has to be the ultimate zombie tech.
Pretty sure the first iterations were in the 90s and there's been at least 3 rounds since
Maybe it's quantum in the sense that they can only know its location or velocity. In other words, the current state or rate of progress
You can choose between regular toothbrushes at a little boutique in my neighborhood called "Kroger".
Hope this helps.
When my wife was getting a knee replacement last year, she got multiple phone calls urging her to ask for the "Bluetooth-Enabled" smart knee.
Is this a joke or true? If true, that’s… terrifying !
@@juneelle370 The pitch was that the knee would report range of motion, faithfulness to the prescribed physical therapy regime, and a few other features one might find in a Fitbit. We didn't return the call, so it could have been a scam or a Tech Bro, or a joke, but I'm repeating myself.
@@dmlewis3 wow~ thanks for replying
@@dmlewis3We've got electronic bones before GTA 6.
The callers brought your wife down to her knee.
"How will the bottle know how hydrated you are if you drink out of a different container?" This is where the Neuralink chip becomes an indispensable consumer good!
Techbro-ing isn't about inventing actual things per se so much as creating a hype bubble around the *possibility* of doing so. Then you sell to VC or do an IPO and walk away with a bunch of other people's money without ever actually producing anything but the original hype.
They are truly a class of genius that has ascended to higher level of humanity. We should not only be grateful for their benevolent labors, we should just put them in charge of everything. Balaji Srinivasan's ideas will lead us to human utopia.
I say we charge them with personally supervising some of humanities most important projects, such as the colonisation of Jupiter, building a fully autonomous underwater city and measuring the core temperature of the sun with a handheld thermometer.
"Dirty water that he found!" Made me spit out my drink 😂😂😂
The tech bro formula. Reinvent things that already exist, but only for rich people so they don't have to coexist with the poors.
You'd be surprised how many ordinary people buy quasi-luxury goods
They’re not the only group that does that
@@samsonsoturian6013 this is not about luxury, this is about segregating the poors from the well off
Reinvent Things that already exist, substitute those Things that already exist By making them cheaper, when the previous Things Go Off the Market, raise praises and make them even pricier Than that previous thing
To be fair it's way harder to produce something new and get enough money to immediately scale to the point where you can sustainably produce enough product at a competitively low price. Selling to rich people to make money and maybe later scale up to lower prices is usually the more successful way to go about it.
13:00 made me laugh so hard :D The idea of some futuristic techbro slowly discovering that you can make tea without using apps, the internet and subsciption services is the greatest thing I heard this year
There's an episode of Pinky and the Brain where Brain takes out a huge loan to build a casino. He adamantly insists that even the internal lumber that nobody will see must be made of high-quality mahogany instead of normal lumber. He insists that the main attraction be the one game he likes. He explodes the budget and only manages to make the casino work by giving in on the demand for the games people actually want. The Juicero is this episode, but for a product even more overengineered than load-bearing mahogany, less popular than an unfun game in a casino, and without the final concession. It's crazy to me that it happened in real life.
You forget the part where besides being over engineered, the actual engineering is fucking crazy and it's clear the engineer wasn't told to minimise costs
You know it's unrealistic because Brain, with all of his intellect, didn't try to cut costs wherever possible and skimp out on construction...
Despite being smart enough to get a huge loan as a mouse.
@@Abedeuss Brain's core flaw was hubris. It's not the only time his foolish pride got the better of his intellect.
Juicero is worse: all pride and charisma, no intellect. It helps that he was surrounded by morons.
Great analogy genius
@@Abedeuss It's apparent the more you watched that Pinky was the genius and the Brain was insane. The theme song never tells who which one is which.
12:50 absolutely killed me 😂😂
I appreciate that Patrick recommended all 3 books he was allowed to release on Amazon today.
next up - connected kitchen trash can with Bluetooth, WiFi, and proximity sensors. The best part - can’t open the lid when the batteries are dead.
Yes, I was thinking to myself why wouldn't I pay a subscription to a trash can that I still need to put on the curb.
Hi @@carlost856 , great idea. A robotic trash can with Bluetooth, WiFi, and a killer app. How did we ever manage without one.
Then when the trash can ceases opening, it becomes trash. A perfect microcosm of modern consumer-grade tech.
This actually happened in the seventies. Electric buttons to open car doors and hoods, run off the main car battery instead of dedicated separate capacitors. So when the battery died you couldn’t get into your car, and you couldn’t open the hood to replace or jump the battery.
@@isaackellogg3493 always have a manual override!
While I will not click on any of the affiliate links, most likely because I already own all of these products, I appreciate Patrick's keen eye for revolutionary products, and his willingness to share.
sureeeeeeee you do
I don't think I've ever laughed so hard while someone was speaking with such a straight face. Had to pause and catch my breath at "gift ideas". 🤣
"Stop your complaining and drink your lunch" is a quote I will weave into my daily life at every opertunity
When I was in college one of the students put a tent in his dorm room where he and is girlfriend would de-stress together. Room for two would have increased the relaxation in the pause pod.
😂
That's very cute and relatable tho. I often like to crawl into small space in stressful situations.
Wilhelm Reich invented this in the 1940s. He called it an 'Orgone Accumulator'. Hawkwind wrote a song about it.
7:45 a bottle filled with water survived Burning Man: "of course it did" 😂😂😂
Sorry bro can’t leave soon. Need to charge my bottle.
I learned yesterday that it was a physiotherapist that got the permit to build a 11mile long bridge in 1927, in St Petersburg, Florida.
So right before the great depression kicked in.
Seeing these amazing deals and products made by serious people is an obvious sign that the economy is healthy. Thanks Boyle!
This is a great teaching video on business ideas. The thing about ideas is that most of them fail at creating something people actually need. These products are solving problems that nobody has.
This kind of implies that these aren't novel, but the same sort of failures which have always accompanied attempts at innovation.
@@XetXetable Novelty/innovation is definitely different from necessity. Simply making something that doesn't exist yet is indeed innovative, but that doesn't mean that anyone actually needs it.
I didn’t know this channel. I just work in tech and RUclips brought me here. I loved every second of this. We are a disgrace to society and the planet
i'm glad you know that
Most of these seem to start out as a "let's try finding a solution for this issue from the ground up!" but just turn into repackaging preexisting things because they aren't creative enough to make anything unique or are too stubborn to admit the best option is already in use
There's a severe risk of dying of dehydration if people forget to charge their water bottles to notify them when it's time drink.
"I'll put a link to a tent in the video description" was the point I just cracked up 😂
It's not the same as any old tent. It's not waterproof.
Jesus and the Beatles was a pop band in the 50s
Jesus went solo in the 60s. The remaining part of the band dwindled out of existence.
I spent a few hours researching this, and found that one of the "Beatles", a John McCartwheel, went solo, as did another, Paul Lemmon, or something like that. Both faded into oblivion soon after. I could be wrong - it's so hard to find any info about those "Beatles" online!
@@DrunkenUFOPilot Japanese ones are a big problem in parts of the USA, but chickens love to eat live ones.
Well you say they dwindled, but John Lennon himself said "We're bigger than Jesus," but that might have just been cope in light of his ex-bandmate's massive success.
Is this an AI thread? (Lets try)
Yes, John Lennon was Jesus as is evident by his popularity. My question is: how is he going to resurrect the dwindled band members from oblivion?
“Which I believe is tech speak for, dirty water that he found.”
I laughed out loud on that one.
Spotify can't even fix/improve their horrible random-song picker, so I have ZERO hope that AI will fare any better for them
In theory, this is one application AI could be pretty good at. Examining patterns (which songs you like) and finding similar ones from a larger dataset. Whether they'll actually do it well, though...
@@renakunisaki no hope if they do it well most companies use ai for excuse for terrible feature of product
Raw water? No thanks. I like mine well done.
I really appreciate your dry, tongue-in-cheek delivery. You, sir, just earned another subscription.
Bone dry. Love it
I can't stop laughing. Half amused, half furious on myself actually trying to write good software without making money.
2016 "Bluetooth socks" , connect to your smarthphone and based on clock time and gps signal to count steps determines when you should wash them
2020 "Crypto socks" using 3 nVidia graphics cards, it mines wash coins at the rate of normal walking, once you get a coin, you know you should wash them.
2024 "AI socks" using revolutionary ai technology (sending your data to cheap indian interns) to determine how much you walked and when to wash them. (It stole half of googles searches to barely teach itself the difference between clean and dirty socks, doesnt work with non white socks, sometimes tells you to buy gloves)
What socks can we expect to replace common sense in 2028?
"The shock sock", it will shock your feet when it's time to wash them. Maybe?
subscription service socks. if you stop paying they just lock you in place forever
socks that tell you when to wash them? How about putting them in the laundry in the evening and fill the washing machine when the box is full.
@@HappyBeezerStudios I know several students at my uni that have a problem with that.
2028 "Quantum Socks" are simultaneously clean and dirty until you take them off and check by yourself.
Nice video but you forgot the most recent tech bro product to gain public attention: the self-cleaning robotic litter box that also happens to brutally kill your cat and mutilate its corpse. In the before times, this would have been considered a disaster, but in our more enlightened age, we now recognize that there's no such thing as bad publicity and that it is, all things considered, more convenient than letting an aspiring serial killer into your home to do that sort of thing.
They can use this as cat traps in cat infested areas. Brilliant product. We need human version too just in case to solve homeless people crisis. -_-
@@djan0889 or a bus full of Haiti people
It is so crazy that in the past we had Therac-25 who don't get me wrong was a disaster but we learn it in programming history about things going terribly wrong and then the 2000s happened when whole culture is basically move quick fix it later.
@djan0889 that's literally just a specific poorly designed one. Don't buy dropshipped cheap versions of technology. If you watched the video instead of just seeing it recommended you'd know this can't happen with the design of most of these...
I have the non cat strangling one, the Litter Robot 4, and it's actually really good. Great for older people who have difficulty scooping the cat box as well but still want a cat.
Haha that entomology joke was brilliant.