Swimimng pool thoughts

People these days post their thoughts from anywhere thanks to iphones and blackberries. This convenience is liberating because you can't make a date with your thoughts and expect that they stick to it. I know I do a lot of thinking when I swim and like to swim every day if I could. It's rhythmic, quiet and soothing. I think of it as meditating in water and most swimmers I know think the same. On my way to my regular swim yesterday I was thinking that the pool is one of those places where people can't post their thoughts as they come to them. In my view, many good thoughts are wasted because swimmers do a lot of thinking in the water but it's very hard to remember them after.

I could take the blackberry with me and have it by the side of the pool but I am always worried someone might accidentally step on it or drop it in the water. I know it's probably too much to have touch keypad waterproof screens on the side or at the end of each lap only for people to post their thoughts. But if the screens were mainly used to take measurements from lap times to heartbeats similar to what people get in a sport gyms from a running machine, it probably wouldn't be difficult to connect the device to the internet and allow people to post thoughts from within the pool as they take breaks.

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Dog-Peek, add a hole for sniffing

I thought of a small innovation to the Pet Peek window design. Dogs love to sniff and have a more developed sense of smell, thus a small opening for the nose to protrude would make it more fun for the dog as it can see and sniff at the same time. On the company's website we are told their product won the 2006 Silver Medal Product Excellence Award. Why not poke a hole and hope for the Gold next time!

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A (pervert) gadget ring

I just thought of a ring that can be custom-made to contract and tighten in your finger in the same rhythm, timing and intensity as your lover's vagina muscles do. Assuming it's possible to store in memory and replicate vaginal undulations and create the ring, what do you think of it? Is it too pervert a gadget? Will it sell only as a prank-ring? Can it enhance sex drives if worn regularly? In a prank store it can sell under the name 'The Lord of the Rings'. In Tiffanny's it can take a more descriptive name, e.g. 'Tightania' with the word tight alluding to how the mechanism of the ring works :)

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How to tie a tie

This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 28 October 2007 by member smarty

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What if there was a machine or gadget that would tie the tie for you and all you had to do was wear it?

I have never seen such a gadget around and last time I asked my wife to do the tie for me, she was saying how frustrated she was I could never learn how to do it myself!

I imagine it as follows. You would enter your neck size once, choose the kind of knot you would like and it would take care of the rest!

How difficult could that really be? These days you can have machines/robots that automate the process for everything, why not on how to tie a tie?

What do you think?