[Jewelry making - Article 01010] - Re: [Orchid] Things I'd like to see invented or produced

[Karen Goeller]

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>     Online classes: I'd like to take a class held at the Alan Revere
>     Academy from my home in Cincinnati. 

    Couldn't agree more! I'd love to see this happen, using something
    like WebCT with video elements like we use here at the college. That
    could be awesome and make the courses accessible to many of us for
    whom travelling just isn't an option. 

>     Plasma tool: A hand tool that can cut, file, and polish without
>     changing hand pieces. 

    This sparked something for me. I'd love to see a flexshaft handpiece
    with a chuck like the #30, but with a quick-change button (motorized
    chuck, I guess) to make those changes -- even between different
    shaft sizes -- easy and quick without having to scrabble around for
    the &*$#(* chuck key that always manages to elude me on the
    workbench. 

>     Transparent Aluminum: I got some whales I need to ship out. *Side
>     note*: I'd like to see any one of these in my life time. I have
>     already seen the transparent aluminum (sorry, it was in liquid form
>     in a vacuum...alloyed with 1% silicon). 

    I'm always fascinated by how the creative process of "imagining" is
    frequently what leads to the act of "inventing." Look to folks like
    Jules Verne and Leonardo da Vinci for examples of how setting vision
    is still leading to innovation and invention. One of the reasons that
    science fiction resonates with me is that process of envisioning,
    and it's always fun to see how we've made real, take-it-for-granted,
    useful objects out of things that were first envisioned in fiction...
    and Star Trek was at the forefront of that. Think it's coincidence
    that flip-phones look like the old communicators??? Or pocket doors
    that auto-retract with motion sensors became popular? 

    Seriously, that's what I was trying to get at with this thread... if
    we can articulate the things that frustrate us and that we WISH
    existed, I'd bet that there are folks out there reading this who are
    eager for the $$ who will try their best to invent those things. And
    they may come up with some unexpected wonderful inventions along the
    way. 

Karen

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