By Rich Lewis, March 17, 2005
A few weeks ago we were kicking around the question: What are the best gadgets ever invented?
Since then, I’ve realized that a more important question might be: What are the best gadgets that haven’t been invented yet?
Recent events in my household, and a magazine cartoon, leave no doubt that number one on my list would be The Findatron.
You would take this little box, and speaking into its microphone, say something like: “Find my brown shoe.”
You’d hear a little whirring and beeping, and then a pleasant robot-voice would announce: “It’s… under… the… couch.”
Would that be great or what? Sort of like a Magic 8 Ball, but with a bigger vocabulary and with such exquisite capabilities that it would never be forced to say, “Ask again later.”
I know I need one.