Can these six celebrity-created inventions change your life?

On Funny Fortnight show Josh Widdicombe Will Make Your Life Better, three celebrity guests (Evelyn Mok, Harry Hill and Fay Ripley - pictured) pitch inventions which could improve our lives.

These creations are then rigorously tested by experts who know a thing or two about life hacks: 19-year-old Akshay Ruparelia (a self-made entrepreneur who built a £12 million estate agents in a year) and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and problem solver Dr Lucy Rogers. At the end, these inventions are either dismissed as useless fodder or hailed as the next great 21st Century creation. One or the other.

Let’s take a look at the inventions being pitched on Josh Widdicombe Will Make Your Life Better. Would any of these turn your world upside down?

Disclaimer: don't try and make any of these at home!

Pitched by: Fay Ripley

The “Hob Knob” (Fay’s title) is actually a giant magnet, which she says is designed to get rid of the nasty grime that attaches itself to the metallic plates of a cooker. In her words, she describes it as: “A magnet in your hood that lowers down, and all of your metal sticks to it in the perfect place - wipe, wipe, wipe - and release.” Are you following this?

That’s right - it’s a gigantic industrial magnet that raises the awkward metallic bits on an oven, allowing you to clean them.

Fellow pundit Harry Hill notes that there’s a real danger in having a giant magnet in your home, and he's not wrong.

But expert Dr Lucy Rogers wasn’t entirely unconvinced: “It’s definitely feasible. Induction cookers are all done by magnets. So actually, all you have done is invert an induction cooker. But if you took it a step further and put them in your house - lumps of metal in your pillows - it’s a great storage solution.”

Pitched by: Evelyn Mok

We all have guilty secrets, says Evelyn. They could be about how many snacks we stuffed in the work canteen, or the number of times we said we went to the gym but actually, well, didn’t.

Evelyn suggests inventing a fitness app that stores our secrets - via an intelligence chip planted in our heads - and then reveals said diet-shunning actions all over the Internet. Truly, a terrifying discipline-enforcing app for our times. But would it help motivate us to stay fit?

Pitched by: Evelyn Mok

The second of Evelyn’s inventions would only really be useful during the most freezing days of the year, but it could come in very handy.

She suggests creating a boot with a heater in its sole, which would then melt snow and ice that had settled in sub-freezing temperatures.

This idea was so ingenious, it should be noted that someone in Josh’s audience let out an involuntary shout of approval, punching the air at the same time.

Lucy Rogers pointed out one obvious flaw: “If the snow is very deep, then you would fall down.” This idea needs work, but Evelyn could be on to a winner.

Pitched by: Louise Fox

Audience-member Louise gave her own suggestion for a life hack.

Deseeding a pomegranate is a nightmare, but Louise has a solution: a simple wooden spoon. “You cut it in half, whack the top of it, and go round with a spoon.” Within 30 seconds, those traditionally difficult-to-remove seeds pop out like magic.

Other life hacks from Josh Widdicombe’s audience included some truly bizarre suggestions, including sticking “a few peanuts” into a gone-off bottle of wine. Each to their own…

Pitched by: Harry Hill

It’s 2018, and many of us use emoji to communicate instead of traditional, structured sentences. One confused emoji can help explain how we’re feeling. They’re concise, cute and increasingly popular.

Harry’s idea is to take emoji one step further, by translating sounds into the smiley faces plastered all over our phone keyboards. But how does that actually work? With a bit of thinking outside the box, it turns out. For example, the sound of an elephant would be used instead of the word “forget”, because elephants never forget. “You get used to it,” he insists. “This’ll become second nature. It’s much quicker.”

However, this novel invention might already exist! Listen to Josh Widdicombe Will Make Your Life Better to find out more.

Pitched by: Harry Hill

“We’ve all had this problem, when it’s bin day and we have too much rubbish for the wheelie bin,” Harry starts. His novel idea is a bin key, which compresses our waste, meaning we never have too much litter.

It clips on the lid of the bin, you turn the key, and it compresses a clump of bin bags into one neat package. But what about the excess, disgusting bin juice that would be produced from such a method? “There’s a small tab at the bottom, where you can drain off the juice,” Harry explains. “Which makes a great nighttime drink for a hedgehog.” Lovely.

But would it actually work? Well, using Harry’s set of instructions, Dr Lucy Rogers actually went and made this invention. In real life, it proved slightly slow, but it actually worked! It’s an actual binnovation.

• Find out which invention wins by listening to Josh Widdicombe Will Make Your Life Better, available until Thursday 24 May