Hand Pump Liquid Deodorant

This is another idea related to the gym.

Frequently I forget to bring a stick of deodorant with me to the gym. So I need to wait until I get home to apply it. Now health club changing rooms often offer a lot of amenities. However, they can't really offer deodorant to their members. People don't want to use a stick that someone else was just using.

Now Axe. and other spray deodorants can be a solution to this, but many people don't like spray deodorants. They can fill the air with an unpleasant scent.

Basically I am envisioning a pump bottle like the ones used by hand soap. However, instead it dispenses some type of liquid designed to be rubbed into the armpits.

People would probably need to wash their hands afterwards (otherwise their hands would be covered in deodorant). However, it would be a way for another 'consumable' amenity to be offered at the gym.

Streaming Shower Radio

I like to listen to music in the shower.

But after all of my searching come away disappointed in the solutions. The choices available are devices that can play CDs in the radio or play FM/AM radio. Now the moisture eventually ruins the CDs and the radio is inevitably going to get less than ideal reception in many showers. But even if it received decent reception none of them even use digital radio. It' all tuning knob based.

I want a solution that lets me play music from my computer. The best I have seen was a shower radio that came with a low power FM transmitter. So I could listen to my music this way. However, its not a good solution. The transmitter is not very good so the signal is noisy. And to top things off, you have no control over whats playing. And of course, if you forget to start up music and to plug in the transmitter before you get in the shower you are out luck.

I have also seen waterproof IPod cases. Those of course require you to have and IPod and to bring it in.

What I want is a waterproof device that can connect to my home network over wifi. A server program on my PC could then stream music to the 'radio.' Because it is being streamed over wifi the radio can send commands back to the PC server. That means you could have play/pause controls and a method to browser your music collection from the shower.

With an internet connection it could even stream music from online radio services like Pandora.

This is not complicated technology. Devices like this exist in other non-waterproof forms (like fancy alarm clocks). There is nothing standing in the way of a company manufacturing and selling a device like this. It would be significantly more expensive than the low quality shower radios currently on the market, but I can not imagine I am the only person who has a desire for something like this.

Shower Clocks

Another idea related to the health club.

I tend to go with my family. I also like long showers, but don't want to keep them waiting. However, every time I try to speed up my shower, I find myself waiting for awhile for everyone else to get finished.

Of course, I could just take a stop watch. But I am lazy.

If water proof digital clocks were installed in showers it would be easy for family members to decide "lets meet in the lobby in 15 minutes" and then actually do that.

It's a small thing but it would be nice