A Thing Of beauty Is A Joy Forever

OK, I’ll be the first to admit that I am a little at a loss as to how this thing is supposed to work. It has gotten a lot of blogger “buzz” in the past few days, as the winner of a Japanese design competition. There’s a graphic that seems to show that each wand both receives location from GPS (easy to do but very, very nicely implemented in this design) and transmits its location up to some satellite (hard to do, expensive and due to frequency and power considerations not something you would want to put in the hand of a little girl or any other human.

But I can see how these would work if the “wanderer” knew the location of “home” … it will find its location, figure the course back to home and light up its little bud and point the way … very nice.

I also feel the implementation of the Bluetooth PC interconnection and the wireless vase for recharging … now why in heck can’t an electric toothbrush be that simple? Hmmm? Is a great design concept. The absolute idiots who give us a household full of cell phones with disparate chargers, multiple laptops all with separate, expensive and always missing charging “bricks, digital cams with one charger, digital camcorders from the same company with a totally different charger, etc., etc. is sick in today’s world.

Matter of fact I could think of something electrical to do with certain body parts of some of these so-called engineers … but since I no longer live in the US I’m not allowed to practice torture.

What about a home charging management center. Something like that vase in the picture that you dropped your cell phone into when you came home, your toothbrush, your laser briefing pointer pen and so on. The device should be able to learn what devices are in the home, maybe by “introducing” them via Bluetooth or RFID link and should know when an item was last charged, etc.

Sounds difficult? Well name me a good invention that isn’t … that is until the problem gets solved, then it’s simpler and everybody has one. Electric power needs are something pretty easy to define and standardize, it merely requires a couple of the industry giants to actually care about the consumer and the rest of the copycats will fall in line.   RIS  (rechargeable idiocy slaves) of the world, Unite!