Ring Ring, Tring Tring and Who am I?
It was a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon. It was about 4.30PM but the sun shone warm and bright almost overhead. We were taking our usual walk around the block when we decided to break the routine and walk towards the downtown. We cut through Murphy, the Caltrain station, Taeffe street and then into Murphy again, the downtown street. To our surprise, we found the place rather deserted. Most of the Shops closed; no people out, hardly any traffic.
The construction of the new mall is going at full pace. It is supposed to be as good as the Santana Row. Wow! I am waiting eagerly to see it open.
The Caltrain station brought back some fond memories of my engineering final year days when I commuted daily from Home to college and back home in trains about 280 km. The parking of my kinetic Honda in the long term parking, season tickets, boarding the train that is always late - East Coast or the train that takes forever to reach the destination – Push pull or Krishna express, Aurora Engg College vs. CJITS, boys, girls, strangers, friends, pranksters, samosas/snacks, reading, assignments, class work in the station, on the train etc. It was such incredible fun and unique experiences every journey.
I sat in the station for a few minutes, walked up and down the platform while burning a few calories, reminiscing some of the best college days in India and not even trying to compare the stations in here to those in India. Hehe!
Then as we walked towards the downtown street, I saw the tiny, colorful souvenir and accessory stores across the street. I had been looking for an interesting keychain and I found one. But Alas! I wasn’t carrying my wallet, I couldn't avoid window shopping. How I wished, I had carried my purse or credit card or some cash. But why would I do that, I was out jogging, walking. The most I carried was my mobile phone and of course keys.
As I was disappointed for not having my credit card /cash handy, the idea suddenly flashed in my mind.
We should have a mobile phone with a built in credit card and a photo ID! How about that?! All you need to carry is your mobile phone. While shopping, window shopping or just out jogging/walking ;)
I also started brainstorming on the ideas on how the mobile phone would look and feel and operate with the "ring and tring" concept (ring the credit card at the checkout counters and tring, a phone call!) and if the cashier asks for your identification you have a copy of your photo id in your phone.
I thought the idea was brilliant. I was ecstatic. I even wanted to research on how to patent my idea.
Guess what! The first thing I did was after I got back home was, google my idea!
“cellphone with built in credit card” and look what I discovered: http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=cell+phone+with+built+in+credit+card&spell=1
Puff, All the excitement vanished into thin air!
Nevertheless, it will remain an interesting example of the saying 'necessity is the mother of invention' and creativity!
I still am excited to have thought about the idea myself though a bit late; billions of people must have used a mobile phone before I did and many of them may have found the need to have one with a built in credit card like me.
This idea will be on my think tank’s radar for while and I am going to study the search results and learn how intuitive the working model is.
There is so much more to be doing (inventing), than done(invented) at any point and so I will walk on!
The construction of the new mall is going at full pace. It is supposed to be as good as the Santana Row. Wow! I am waiting eagerly to see it open.
The Caltrain station brought back some fond memories of my engineering final year days when I commuted daily from Home to college and back home in trains about 280 km. The parking of my kinetic Honda in the long term parking, season tickets, boarding the train that is always late - East Coast or the train that takes forever to reach the destination – Push pull or Krishna express, Aurora Engg College vs. CJITS, boys, girls, strangers, friends, pranksters, samosas/snacks, reading, assignments, class work in the station, on the train etc. It was such incredible fun and unique experiences every journey.
I sat in the station for a few minutes, walked up and down the platform while burning a few calories, reminiscing some of the best college days in India and not even trying to compare the stations in here to those in India. Hehe!
Then as we walked towards the downtown street, I saw the tiny, colorful souvenir and accessory stores across the street. I had been looking for an interesting keychain and I found one. But Alas! I wasn’t carrying my wallet, I couldn't avoid window shopping. How I wished, I had carried my purse or credit card or some cash. But why would I do that, I was out jogging, walking. The most I carried was my mobile phone and of course keys.
As I was disappointed for not having my credit card /cash handy, the idea suddenly flashed in my mind.
We should have a mobile phone with a built in credit card and a photo ID! How about that?! All you need to carry is your mobile phone. While shopping, window shopping or just out jogging/walking ;)
I also started brainstorming on the ideas on how the mobile phone would look and feel and operate with the "ring and tring" concept (ring the credit card at the checkout counters and tring, a phone call!) and if the cashier asks for your identification you have a copy of your photo id in your phone.
I thought the idea was brilliant. I was ecstatic. I even wanted to research on how to patent my idea.
Guess what! The first thing I did was after I got back home was, google my idea!
“cellphone with built in credit card” and look what I discovered: http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=cell+phone+with+built+in+credit+card&spell=1
Puff, All the excitement vanished into thin air!
Nevertheless, it will remain an interesting example of the saying 'necessity is the mother of invention' and creativity!
I still am excited to have thought about the idea myself though a bit late; billions of people must have used a mobile phone before I did and many of them may have found the need to have one with a built in credit card like me.
This idea will be on my think tank’s radar for while and I am going to study the search results and learn how intuitive the working model is.
There is so much more to be doing (inventing), than done(invented) at any point and so I will walk on!
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