Bring me your mind-children

[imomus]

I'm on deadline for my next Wired News column, the first of 2007, and I thought I'd broach the subject of fantasy technology. Then I thought I'd ask you to add your ideas to the suggestions I'll be making myself.

Basically, what inventions would you like to see emerge during 2007? Can you describe one? Maybe start from your actual needs and extrapolate a piece of technology (give it a silly name if you like) that doesn't exist right now, but could plausibly be invented. Obviously these mind-children are going to be somewhat frivolous. If you really think up something brilliant, don't share it with me and the readers of Wired News -- just go ahead and patent it.

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project darkness project

[(Anonymous)]

of course being here in berlin i have a bicycle. and of course my bicycle has a headlight ("kein Licht geht nicht!") which is powered by a generator which converts the energy of the turning wheel. as i move forward the headlight projects a beam. in german it is a 'Scheinwerfer' - a 'glow thrower'. what i would like is a pedal powered light which would reverse its direction if i pedalled backward - a 'Scheinsauger' - or 'glow sucker' which would of course appear to be a negative headlight or darkness projector... i could use it on exceedlingly bright afternoons....

William
http://www.squirm.com

department of redundancy department

[cheapsurrealist.livejournal.com]

When my son was very little he had a stuffed toy. A glow worm.
When you squeezed it a certain way it would light up. One night he was having trouble getting it to light. He said "sometimes it's hard to get the dark out of it".

Re: department of redundancy department

[(Anonymous)]

indeed, i know the feeling well...
william