Genuine Geniuses: Engineers & Scientists Analyzed

Actually it was in the Creativity class today I gained an awareness that I'm living in a world surrounded by genuine geniuses. And also engineers & scientists alike's true face. My version of a genuine genius is one who has insanity, intelligence, creativity, boldness, valiance, sense of caring, responsibility, authenticity, Peter Pan, imagination, and sense of art combined together.

I'll explain. Today we were watching some of the class member presentating their innovation (any innovation they could think of, no matter how crazy it sounds). Here's some memorable innovations:

- The first team presented a polymer high-tech helm (we have quite plenty of motorcycle users here. It's part of college life, after all) which was designed having UV screen for daytime and lightning for nighttime. It also has a thin cooling-fan layer. The energy used for the fan and lightning comes from a solar cell on TOP of the helm (so it can be charged during the day).

Though I think a cooling-fan isn't needed, just add some holes on it and you'll have air circulation instantly. And how much energy can a single little solar cell mount? Teeny-teeny bits of energy, everyone knows. But it's a fantastic idea indeed. What an imagination, we have to appreciate it!

- The second team presented a chair with student's absence detector. Simply put a fingerprint detection device on the chair. When the class starts, the teacher activates the entire class' system. Students do the fingerprint detection, the system matches it with existing database, done! It 'll bring effectiveness to lecture time and prevent absence manipulation.

But anyone with enough skill can hack into the system database and ruin the whole plan. It'll be a bit trickier to be applied to a class full of IT students ;)
(not me, pharmacist doesn't do that kind of stuff)

- The third team (and the last that I remember, sorry) presented an offshore dwelling concept. Actually it's been made in Japan (but underwater), said my colleague. This one isn't underwater. Basically it's a big, board-like structure connected with the foundations below. The team explained kinds of foundations used underwater, but I can't remember the details (I wasn't paying the least attention but it was just too much and too...distant. Not my field). Besides the foundations, there's also a 'waveradar' structure. It's like a single tube divided into 3 horizontal branches at the end. On each single branch another tube structure is vertically attached. This vertical structure swaying up and down, following the ocean wave. The swayings are sent through the big, single tube and then converted into electrical datas. The computer reads this and will respond by slighthy moving the whole structure according to the wave. The 'waveradar' is also used to eliminate the wave vortex so the force can be reduced. And the dwellings (home, etc) is placed on the board. Like a refinery nowadays.

It's too expensive! Although I'd like, like to see and visit such a town. Imagine a whole town floating over the water just like Lake-town in the Hobbit! And visit your neighbor with boat-ride ;) hmm all fun


Although they all took much liberation to imagine something, perhaps ridiculous and not practical, but I like them. They're all a bit of mad scientists who believe that possibility has no limit. Their innovations might be incomplete here and there, but basically they all just want to help fixing the world. They care, they are aware of social problems. Engineers and scientists are not people who sit all day mumbling on equations and science laws. They 're dreamers. Creative dreamers who want to help fixing living creatures' and environmental problems. Why? For they care. They have sympathetic feeling and responsibility towards these creatures and environment, because of all persons on earth they are the ones who understand most of the secret of the universe. And we are all part of the universe. We are all the building blocks of it. It's you who must choose whether your block addition will ruin the whole structure of the universe...or build it.

Whew. That was a long post. Need some sleep now. Vale!