The whole world is crazy about the i-phone: a 5-year FLASHBACK blog!

(Originally posted July 11, 2007)

You can do everything with an i-phone.  It includes phone, internet, and music.  If you had one you would probably use it every day.  I estimate that the i-phone will render newspapers obsolete by the year 2020.

The problem with the i-phone is that it costs a LOT of MONEY!  Like hundreds of dollars I think.  The company must be getting so rich from it.

It's hard to be an inventor nowadays because almost everything has already been thought up.  You need to do some serious noodle-racking in order to come up with something innovative.  and I'm talking about something BIG, not like that Billy Mays guy and his stupid Hercules Hook Wall Hangers.

One idea I have is a sort of wireless webcam that would also be glasses.  People could dial in and see whatever you're seeing.  The camera would be between the two lenses.

Some things it would be useful for:

1) Okay you know how sometimes you are in your car looking for someone's house that you have never been to before, and then you have to call and ask for directions?  The person at the house could use the internet to look through your camera glasses and help you find the place.

2) Preventing MURDERS!  If you have your camera glasses on and someone shoots you in the face, everyone will be able to see who did it.  That is a deterrent.  Unfortunately, this would not aid in the prevention of Abraham Lincoln type assassinations, but it's a start.

3) If you wear your camera glasses at the movies or a concert or the rodeo, all of your friends can dial in and watch for free!

Another invention I have been thinking about is a telephone headset for pets.  Most animals have never been able to use the telephone because they do not have hands.  With my wireless headset you could make contact with your pets from anywhere.  Like you could call from work to check in from time to time.  "Are you being good?  Where's your ball?"  The call would be received automatically, because animals can't push buttons.  (It would also prevent "screening" if he or she was in the middle of doing something bad.)

Here is a list of prank phone call ideas for your pets:

- Call your cat pretending to be a dog and start barking

- Use a fake celebrity voice ("Hello, this is George W. Bush.  Were you a good boy today?")

- Talk with a fake accent and pretend to be a distant relative from another country

DISCLAIMER: I still need to check with the SPCA to see if making prank phone calls to pets is considered cruelty to animals, so don't do it yet.

By the way don't even THINK about trying to steal one of my ideas.  I have already written them down in a sealed envelope that was stamped by the POST OFFICE.  That is badass official.  If you have an idea for an alternate use or improvement, though, you can write to me and if I wind up using it I'll send you a check.


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