Underrated Inventions
You know what? Us humans...we're a really smart bunch or bananas when you come to think of it. I mean, seriously. We've come up with some pretty sweet inventions over the years. Some have been better than others. This entry is not for everyday inventions like toilets and cars. I can see how you can get water to pump into a toilet or how you can turn motors to make cars go. No, those inventions, although pretty sweet, do not belong in this entry. In this entry, I will mention some of the ones that are really sweet that you see and use sometimes every day but probably don't realize how sweet they are.
Contact Lenses - The inspiration behind this entry was a commercial that I saw featuring Kiefer Sutherland. I don't remember what the product was so I guess the marketers failed, but it was a good commercial. In it, Kiefer said a few "What if..."s, and one of them went something like "What if...we could make a piece of plastic so thin that we could put it in someone's eye and improve vision." When I heard it, my first thought was "Wow, that would be so cool." Then I saw the picture of someone putting in a contact lense and it struck me. We have already invented that! And it's underratedly really cool. We can stick little pieces of plastic that fit perfectly into our eyes and all of a sudden, like magic, we have perfect vision. How COOL is that? Underratedly cool, that's how cool.
Airplanes - When you think of the futuristic future, what's one of the first things you see? I see people flying. The idea of having traffic in the air seems like such a futuristic thing, but it's happening right now! How cool is that??? It's crazy enough that we have somehow found a way to get a plane weighing several tons into the air. But we also got them to go hundreds of miles per hour. Madness! And...and!...they're doing this miles and miles above the surface of the earth. Look up on a clear day someday and you can see little specks with little trails behind them. Those are planes! Waaaaay up in the sky, going 500 mph or some crazy number like that. Absolutely stunning, if you ask me.
Telephones - How crazy is it that you can be here and someone else can be way over there and you can each pick up telephones and talk to each other? How does the sound go through the wires so fast??? When the first person used a telephone I bet they passed out from the shock that it worked. Take it one step further...CELL PHONES!!! There's not even a wire for the sound to go through. They go into outer space and bounce off of satellites or something. Maybe not that much, I don't really know. But I know that they travel through the air...somehow. And that's a cool invention that I bet you haven't thought about recently. Be honest. It's cool, isn't it?
CD Burners - First of all, the CD is quite an amazing invention by itself. How can a CD player or a computer recognize music as a bunch of little holes burned into a CD? It's mind boggling that someone could actually think to invent that. But I might be able to understand it if only a few people in the world had the ability to make CD's with this super-high-tech CD making device. But that's just not the case! You can buy a CD burner for your own computer for cheap and you can burn little holes into a CD that a CD player can recognize as music. It's pure madness...and underrated madness at that.
Calculators - I decided to stop one level short of saying that computers are underrated inventions. It is pretty sweet that all of those little wires and microfibers and whatnot in there can do the things that they do. But calculators...come on...calculators are amazing! They're tiny, cheap as dirt, and can do really complex calculations in a split second. How they can do it is beyond my beginning of comprehension. Crack open a calculator and all you see is a bunch of weird looking things and somehow they can do these calculations. All I can say is that not in a million years could I come even close to inventing something that's even close to coming close to being half as sweet as that. But that's what geniuses are for, I guess. Right?
Contact Lenses - The inspiration behind this entry was a commercial that I saw featuring Kiefer Sutherland. I don't remember what the product was so I guess the marketers failed, but it was a good commercial. In it, Kiefer said a few "What if..."s, and one of them went something like "What if...we could make a piece of plastic so thin that we could put it in someone's eye and improve vision." When I heard it, my first thought was "Wow, that would be so cool." Then I saw the picture of someone putting in a contact lense and it struck me. We have already invented that! And it's underratedly really cool. We can stick little pieces of plastic that fit perfectly into our eyes and all of a sudden, like magic, we have perfect vision. How COOL is that? Underratedly cool, that's how cool.
Airplanes - When you think of the futuristic future, what's one of the first things you see? I see people flying. The idea of having traffic in the air seems like such a futuristic thing, but it's happening right now! How cool is that??? It's crazy enough that we have somehow found a way to get a plane weighing several tons into the air. But we also got them to go hundreds of miles per hour. Madness! And...and!...they're doing this miles and miles above the surface of the earth. Look up on a clear day someday and you can see little specks with little trails behind them. Those are planes! Waaaaay up in the sky, going 500 mph or some crazy number like that. Absolutely stunning, if you ask me.
Telephones - How crazy is it that you can be here and someone else can be way over there and you can each pick up telephones and talk to each other? How does the sound go through the wires so fast??? When the first person used a telephone I bet they passed out from the shock that it worked. Take it one step further...CELL PHONES!!! There's not even a wire for the sound to go through. They go into outer space and bounce off of satellites or something. Maybe not that much, I don't really know. But I know that they travel through the air...somehow. And that's a cool invention that I bet you haven't thought about recently. Be honest. It's cool, isn't it?
CD Burners - First of all, the CD is quite an amazing invention by itself. How can a CD player or a computer recognize music as a bunch of little holes burned into a CD? It's mind boggling that someone could actually think to invent that. But I might be able to understand it if only a few people in the world had the ability to make CD's with this super-high-tech CD making device. But that's just not the case! You can buy a CD burner for your own computer for cheap and you can burn little holes into a CD that a CD player can recognize as music. It's pure madness...and underrated madness at that.
Calculators - I decided to stop one level short of saying that computers are underrated inventions. It is pretty sweet that all of those little wires and microfibers and whatnot in there can do the things that they do. But calculators...come on...calculators are amazing! They're tiny, cheap as dirt, and can do really complex calculations in a split second. How they can do it is beyond my beginning of comprehension. Crack open a calculator and all you see is a bunch of weird looking things and somehow they can do these calculations. All I can say is that not in a million years could I come even close to inventing something that's even close to coming close to being half as sweet as that. But that's what geniuses are for, I guess. Right?