Inventions

[electron100]

One of the projects my engineering 21 group is considering is a timer which would function as an ordinary kitchen timer except that instead of sounding an alarm audible in the proximity of the device, as most timers do, it would call a phone number, presumably a cell number. This would allow people who start some sort of food cooking and not have

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[martian_42]

I don't think I'd be that likely to buy it, but I think it would have commercial viability. I presume you don't have to actually try to market your project, and I think this is useful enough that some people could be reasonably expected to buy it.

It seems it would be best for people who live alone, though. For a family or a public kitchen in a dorm or something you would have to keep changing the number (though you could have people store numbers and pick theirs when they set it), and if you forgot to change it, you could have it calling someone else and annoying them (at least if it defaulted to the last used number, which I suppose it wouldn't have to, but then you'd still be expecting it to call you and it wouldn't). All this doesn't make it useless, but it does make it not quite as simple/menu-free as you suggest.

[electron100]

mm, thanks

[for_callahorn]

OMG YES

I would totally buy that.

In fact, something like that would get Cyrus to do the laundry. Not even kidding. I would buy two. Or three. Or possibly more.

[electron100]

great :)