The concept involved members of the studio audience proposing their own ideas to a celebrity guest under the moderation of comedian Dave Gorman to be adjudged "Genius" or "Not genius".
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| A well known Genius |
The shortlist of qualifying Genius ideas is then voted on by the studio audience to arrive at an overall winner.
Genius has recently been repeated on BBC Four Extra and I have greatly enjoyed hearing the contenders for the top accolade.
Here are a few of them although I have deleted the decision as to whether they were
a) Winning Genius
b) Genius finalist or
c) Not a Genius.
It is up to you to decide.
The two hooded coat: For protecting your date from the rain.
The democratic bus: The passengers get to say where the bus goes.
Taxi driver taking shoes as insurance for potential fare dodgers.
Genetically engineered mini-elephants as household pets
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| Mini elephant |
The bespoke multi-bladed razor head mould: to make shaving quicker.
Placing prisoners on exercise bikes attached to the national power grid.
The science of opposites: Discovering the opposite of an item by examining its function
Dancing maths teachers: To encourage greater numbers to study maths.
Build weighing scales into shoes so you can watch your weight on the go.
Adopt appropriate regional accents for weather forecasts so you know which part to listen to.
Make the Isle of Wight symmetrical to increase tourism.
A-bear-toir: Places where naughty children go to have their teddy bears destroyed.
Dating insurance: Pay a pound per week, and the person who is dumped gets all of the money.
The torture box: To punish inanimate items.
Zip-up animal suits: An animal wears the suit, and when it dies you put another animal inside, but it looks the same.
The conveyer duvet: A duvet cover which surrounds the bed, so that if you pull it towards you, whoever is sleeping with you still has the duvet covering them.
Gambling ATM Machines: A gambling machine built into all cash points so when you need a £10 you can try and win it even if you only have a few pounds in your account.
Only Women Voting : Because of the 80 year difference in men being able to vote and not women, we should spend the next 80 years with only women voting.
Fizzy Onion Juice : Red or White? Carbonated juice of an onion as a summer time drink. Good with cheese, and vodka.
Day of the Week Lotto : An international lottery programme where the order of the days of the week are chosen at random. Bonus ball on leap years, and a rollover for unclaimed Tuesdays.
Cat Bars : As men have bars filled with dancing girls, women should have bars filled with cats. Thus relieving stress.
Have swimming lanes built next to cycling lanes.
Virtual reality headsets for chickens:
Vans delivering higher fat content food should be constantly moving so that people have to run and get fit if they want the food.
Wire up pianos to lights which are held by members of a choir. When one of the lights is lit up, the choir member holding it sings a particular note.
People in Old Folks Homes monitoring CCTV from high crime areas rather than just idly watching daytime TV
Bring your Uncle to work day
Bungahigh- a multi-storey bungalow
Laughing gas to quell rioters
Breathalysers on mobile phones to stop the making of rash calls when intoxicated
A 99p coin
Edible fruit labels
New swear words
Claiming East and West Poles for the UK
Lego Prisons
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| Lego lock-up |
A 2 year old dog to avoid all of those messy puppy moments
I did send in an idea of my own for one of the early series.
It was using old vinyl records to resurface motorways.
Vehicles would be fitted with a pick up needle so that at exactly 55mph, which used to be the recommended speed for optimum fuel efficiency, there would be heard sweet music. In this way the Police would be able to easily detect excessive speed or equally hazardous dithering by motorists by sound only.
I heard nothing more.
*Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid
Albert Einstein
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