If my mobile could also double up as an air conditioner remote, I wouldn’t have to sit at my laptop to write this down. Come to think of it, I wish my mobile would also double up as a TV remote, a DVD player remote, a car radio remote and also serve as the remote controller for multiple devices.
I remember a time when I wasn’t able to watch TV for a while at my house in Bangalore because the remote control wasn’t working properly. I later realized that it was due to a loose connection in the batteries, but until then, all the repeated beatings that poor remote took could’ve been saved had the WishMobile been invented.
I am too lazy and technically incompetent to work on coming up with this device. Plus I have a huge educational loan that hangs on my head like Damocles’ sword. But if someone chances upon this idea to come up with an integrated device that can serve multiple purposes as described above, you have my eternal admiration and respect.
However, considering I am strongly gravitating towards the minimalist lifestyle thanks to my being congenitally parsimonious, I don’t even know if I will have enough remotes around me in the first place to warrant getting a WishMobile!
If I can get my mobile device to allow me to manage an entire invention team and patent management team from my bed, while watching reruns of 30 Rock (and opening and closing my window shades), I’d totally do it. But alas, I’m also probably too lazy. Sorry.
But the closest someone has come to thinking of such a device is in that really crappy Adam Sandler movie, ‘Click’!