By Dale Moore |
By Dale Moore |
|
We live in an age of miracles. Really, we do! At times it seems as if anything that could be invented must have been invented. But I suspect there are still a few inventions to challenge the mind of man. For example, I’d pay big money for new bed sheets; sheets that repel dirt, never wrinkle, and therefore, never have to be changed. Wow, to be able to buy a mattress covered with sheets guaranteed to stay clean, smell fresh, and not show a wrinkle for the life of the mattress. Just think, to only have to change sheets when one paints the room or becomes bored with the plaid or pastel flowers on the pillowcases. We have, for several years, enjoyed the miracle of the self-cleaning oven. How about a self-cleaning refrigerator? Containers are marked with a bar code when they are placed in the refrigerator. Every night when the refrigerator automatically defrosts, an electric eye scans the containers. Any food with an outdated bar code is automatically swept down the back of the icebox where the container and foods in it are fed through an attached garbage disposal and washed away with the defrosted water. I need a robot that serves as a file clerk. No matter what papers, letters, or magazines end up on my desk during the day, the robot would unfold from the kneehole at night, scan the papers and place them in the correct file folder. I know that some folks have administrative assistants for that task, but it seems to me if we can replace the service station attendant, are administrative assistants really safe? Why can’t they make a key with a built-in beeper? I mean, they can now insert a chip in each car key so that your car recognizes this key as the right one. So why not another chip that causes the key to start beeping when it is not picked up within a set period of time? Lose your keys? Keys start to beep! Keys are found! Think of the gain in productivity because no one is late to work due to lost car keys. I’m sure a hundred other ideas would come to mind if I spent an hour thinking about it. I’m equally sure that there are a hundred other ideas that each of you could add to the list if you had an hour. So put this column down and get the ole inventive mind going. The sky’s the limit! Speaking of sky and airplanes, how about a carry-on bag that shrinks to a size that actually fits in the overhead bin.
And that’s my two cents worth |
