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To make a long story short: I believed a micro wave oven needed three buttons. When the on/off switch failed on my oven I realised I only needed two.

One button is for the timer. When set to zero the oven is off. Preferably the button is a turnable dial. Fast and easy.

Another button is for the effect. Also preferably a turnable dial.

Why does the microwave at my job have 10 buttons? where I don’t even know what all do.

My newer microwave has 8 buttons. They beep when I press them as if I didn’t know that already.

My suggestion is to bring back the microwave oven with 2 buttons.

See image. See all the buttons. Find out what they do.

To the defence of the oven producer it is both a microwave and a regular oven; which makes it harder to create a simple UI.

But… why have plus to the left and minus to the right?

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.