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As I am writing this there no bicycle trousers for urban rain.

It is ordinary, water proof, breathing, rain weather trousers; but totally water proof where the seat is (otherwise water might get pushed through the pants); more sturdy around the knees and front part of the thighs as those parts get more worn. Front thigh should be totally water proof too.

The rest can be the usual breathing and waterproof fabric. But that already exists.
It should be widenable to allow for taking off without taking the shoes off. But that already exists.
It could inherit the idea from jackets, to have zippers in the arm pits, but on the back sides of the thighs.

Problem:

You are browsing through stuff on the internet.
After a while you remember something about something. You want to get back to it. But cannot find it.

I suggest:
A web browser plugin (or whatever it is called) that stores your last day/s i a local database to search through.
Come to think of it – as it catches your logged in pages, would even allow you to search in pages where you are logged in, something that google/bing/insertyourfavouritesearchengine doesn’t do.

Say you are going skiing with your family.

Say it is morning so everyone needs to wash and pee. At the same time.

Say you are leaving for the mountain and everyone needs to take a dump and brush teeth. At the same time.

Everyone is queueing to the same room.

I suggest separating the wash basin and shower from the loo into separate rooms.

It is not always feasible to set the ladder on its “feet” as they are narrow.

I suggest having different mountable feet. A round disc. A perpendicular bar. An ice peg. A hole for a bolt. Whatever fits your need.

It is not uncommon to have the need for a ladder on uneven ground.

I suggest a ladder where one leg is adjustable for compensating slope or uneveness.

The ladder I use the most is made of I profiles so it should be doable to hide it in the concavities. Or mount it around the leg. Or have it totally separate.

When I learn/train 180 on skis there is a 50% of success or failure. A failure often means landing on my hip.

I suggest hip pads in skiing clothes.

When being in rain with glasses they often fog up or simply get water on them.

I suggest wipers; like car windshield wipers.

I have seen motorcycle gloves and with sammy and ski gloves with a plastic protrushion. That would only partly do.

The ski stopper on slalom skis doubles as a gadget for keeping skis together when carrying.
But it is not without fault as anyone who has tried to carry skis has noticed. The middle part of the skis stays together but the ends tend to divide.

I suggest a thingamajig for stopping the ends from dividing.

It is preferably an item stuck to the ski(s), so one doesn’t have to dig through any pocket.

Problem solved

Using a language the audience is not interested in or does not comprehend.

Suggested solution

Listen to keywords and use a discreet warning.

Yeah

Say you are describing a solution for a customer audience. Say the solution is somewhat technical in nature and you are very technical in nature. It is very easy for you to use technical lingo, what you know, and not the customer’s language.

I suggest a warning sign, a lamp for instance, every time you say “endpoint” or “database” or “cache” or “gateway” or “repo” or “pull request” or “linear gear box” or “blast radius”.

Equally if you are a boss and hold the mandatory christmas corporate bullshit about how proud you are of your employees. Every time you say “synergy” or “forward leaning” or “on toes” or every time you mention economic figures your audience cannot do nothing about. Light a lamp you are losing them.

It can be realised as an Alexa bot or any other eaves dropping device to listen to key words.

I suggest the alarm is a red lamp at the rear wall of the audience, a watch with a buzzer or a klaxon horn.

I suggest an electronics sport with electronic players, a ball, two goals and rules somewhat like football rules.

Say you have a ping pong sized play ground, with borders. The players are round can sized robots.
In the first iteration of this idea the players can be remote controlled. In the more advanced iterations they can be self controlled, with or without a hive mind, robots.

This sport can be awfully fun to both play and watch. With 4 players in each team, or more players for a bigger playgound, it will allow for agility, cunning, strategy and precision. The speed should have a maximum, albeit the goal keepers can have their own maximum speed.

The speed(s) and sizes of the goals and play grounds should be iterated forth. One could also consider assymetrical cans to allow for more ball tricks.