HTTP:: How Children View the Year 2020
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The Intellectual Property Office (IPO), formerly the Patent Office, is, let's say, a peculiar organization. Recently, it became fond of the idea of constructing a space capsule, to be opened no sooner than 2020. For its enterprise, the IPO asked about 85,000 children and young inventors to set their ideas on paper, and to submit them for review. The best ones will be entombed for the next 11 years, the BBC News reports. Some of the ideas that the children had are really interesting, the Office announces. Oddly enough, many of the inventions that the children propose, such as a robotic chef that can cook any meal you ask of it, or a shoe that can play iPods, are hypothetically made out of renewable or recycled materials. This shows a clear concern that the small ones have for the environment, which brings a ray of hope in our fight to combat the growing phenomenon of global warming. If future generations are convinced we have a problem, then maybe they will see to its solu!
tions, given the fact that current leaders don't seem too inclined to. Other devices imagined by the small ones include a pedal-powered television set, as well as a solar-powered lawn mower. Fourteen-year-old Tyona Higgins proposes a novel solution for traffic jams, namely water. Her flotation device is password-activated, and features “super-...
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