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16 Things Nobody Wants To Deal With

Life is hard enough. And that's why GE and Quirky teamed up to make Wink, their new line of app-enabled products created by people just like you! What products would you make smarter? Submit your ideas now.

1. Sleeping with a blanket on and you’re too hot but then you take if off and you’re too cold.

2. Getting out of bed and stepping on a cold floor.

3. Accidentally crumpling your seran wrap and then it becomes unusuable.

4. When you tear the toilet paper like this...

5. The inability to get your condiment of choice to come out of the bottle until all of a sudden it comes out uncontrollably, and you can’t stop it.

6. When you get pet hair all over your new black clothes.

7. When you're cracking an egg and it goes horribly wrong in every way.

8. When you finally reach critical mass with all those plastic containers you’ve been saving and throwing haphazardly into the cabinet.

9. When you have no room to sleep on your bed because your cat takes up all the precious surface area.

10. Inadvertently stepping in other people’s dog poops.

11. When you're eating a crunchy taco because you don't like soft tacos but it falls apart immediately.

12. When you can't seem to figure out the perfect cereal to milk ratio and you pour too much in.

13. Disposing of refrigerator leftovers after they’ve reached the threshold of smelling like death.

14. Dropping something under the counter and you can’t reach it.

15. Wondering if you locked your door / closed your garage / shut your windows / turned off the lights / turned off the fan / turned off the TV / turned off the oven...

16. And this:

Let's find a way to fix these annoyances!

Quirky recently partnered with GE to create Wink: Instantly Connected, a next generation line of app-enabled products for your home that will give you the freedom to do more of what you want to do – products created by people just like you! What products would you make smarter? Submit your ideas now.