Invention #2: Thought- Activated Word Program

Have you ever had to write an essay or paper and couldn’t really put to words what you were thinking? Because I for one have had that problem occur to me lately since I entered college and with all the papers due the next day, I had to spend hours just trying to find the right words and bring my exact ideas to paper. Now, with all the Microsoft Words and other programs available out there, I present to you the idea of the first ever Thought-Activated (that means powered by your mind) Word (e.g. Microsoft Word) Computer Program! *applause here*

 

Still don’t get the idea? Well, let me picture it out for you. Imagine you had to write a critical thinking paper and you’re sitting there in front of the computer, you open the program and it comes up your screen. Then you activate the blue-tooth (or whatever device we might use to read minds) and think of the whole concept and idea of what you are going to write down. The device in turn searches your mind for the words you would like to say (but can’t come up with) and finds the right word to put into sentence form. Sooner or later you’d be firing up the virtual keyboard and then bam! You’d have a perfectly well written report, indented and in perfect grammar, also properly edited and ready to pass.

 

Isn’t that just amazing! Well…some could could argue that I’m just lazy. Yet wouldn’t it be pretty sweet if something like that was ever invented? It’ll save us stressed out students hours of cramming when we could use that time to study for that exam or “chill” in other words. Though in the wrong hands this could go majorly haywire, I doubt that this would come into reality anytime soon. BUT I could be proven wrong. For all I know, Microsoft or Apple could be hiding this in their labs right now.

Fiction or Fact: Love at First Sight

You’ve read about it, heard about it, heck even saw movies about it! But is it truly possible that the scenario of meeting (or more likely seeing someone) for the first time could possibly lead the subject to immediately fall in love? Seems to me like a mental case, but who knows? I have read countless times of an individual, locking eyes with the opposite sex and then- bam! They immediately knew he/she was the “one”. I may not know what the “one” could possibly mean to them, but they seem stuck on the idea that there’s a whole future of them running away to the countryside, possibly living in a “one room shack”. Preposterous, so it may be. Which leads us to one of the most early literary masterpieces of that kind: Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo, a Montague, goes to the feast of the Capulet household where he meets Juliet and instantly, and I mean as soon as you could say Los Angeles, falls deeply in love. Romeo then sneaks into the orchard of the villa and visits his dear Juliet. After you blink, you found out they made plans to marry the next afternoon. Wow. Talk about shot-gun marriage.

So in today’s modern times, does this still happen? Well, we aren’t exactly in Verona and real life is definitely not a work of Shakespeare. This prompts us to ask, what do we have? There is some scientific evidence that this phenom does exist but from what I’ve read, they are all based on personal preferences of attraction. They could have liked the color of her eyes or the way she smiles. Attraction, in your own ideal, is the trigger. Though I hardly doubt that you would immediately would want to marry and spend the rest of your lives together, at least you know you like her. And if she is attracted to you too, although not love as of the moment, she, from the first meeting also knew that she liked you.

Take it easy, love at first sight doesn’t have to be a spontaneous event where you feel that jolt of electricity. It could be saying the first “hello” and spending a day together. That is where, after such time, the “first” accompanies the “love”. No sad dramas, no sappy endings.

And so to conclude this topic, I state this as FICTION. Mostly because it said love at first sight. It didn’t say, “The development of love from that first sight.” So I thought my judgement was fitting. Yet, there may be some exceptions out there of stories undiscovered.

Invention #1: Remote Control Finder

Now, most of you have probably spent a good amount of time searching for the remote control that you apparently misplaced somewhere under the couch or some other dark mysterious place which the forces of our human visioned eyes couldn’t in all impossibility detect. I myself, like all mortals have gone through this gruesome process and have long wanted this solution: a remote control finder.

Living in the 21st century, I have yet to discover if anyone has ever invented such a thing; but someone must have given it thought. Think about, it could be like a switch planted on the wall and flicking it on would send a signal by either it making a beeping sound like that of a cellphone AND emitting a bright enough glow when it is night. When this happens, wouldn’t it be more convenient? Although I have seen some simple modifications on one IKEA catalog last month of a sort of textile-like compartment (resembling one of those planners that contained note pads and pencils) that you simply slung over the arm of a sofa and placing your remote there after every use, you have got to admit that the glowing, beeping, spaceship inspired device is much more cooler- and fun.

So, until someone awesome and maybe a bit idealistic could come up with that, I would be shopping the aisles of IKEA for now.

New Beginnings Indeed

Now, I haven’t blogged the slightest since today, but since I just recently moved from a hot tropical 3rd world country to the cool and breezy beach city of California I have decided on the lather. This will mark my first post and I will be covering my experiences and rather awkward first moments to a new lifestyle in this blog. I hope you join me as I tackle college as a pubescent teenager and uncover the dos and don’ts of my new life and new me 🙂