It is believed that innovation and progress begins within us. It’s general purpose is to make life easier and convenient just like it makes human fulfilled, happy and satisfied. When we were asked to observe another three houses, I began to wonder if innovations can be seen in a simple and ordinary house. Well, as I visited more three residences of my classmates like the house of Erick John De Castro, Lheanna Mae Solis, Anne Padua, Gelyn Sardoncillo and so on, I came to senses that innovation spread through houses first, making the residents more comfortable, happy and living a convenient life.
As I observed every houses I had visited this past few these, I saw the simplest form of technology and innovations in their houses. Electric fans, oven, rice cooker, air conditioner and so on are some sort of simple innovation and technology that makes the lives of the residents easier.
When I remembered what our professor had told us to do which is to think for another new technology than can improved the state of their house now, at first I was getting hard time but then. I saw something that can help me conceptualize a new idea for a technology that can better the life within the house.
One of the notions I had fabricated is the “Automatic Curtain” which may help resolve household issues pertaining to sun rays and window problems.
We all know that the sunshine is unpredictable as always. We can’t measure what time of the day the sun strikes hotter or the sunshine penetrates less. And because of this sometimes, we found it effortful to close the curtain if the sun rays are extremely bright penetrating the window or even we found it effortful to reopen a curtain to let the faint sunshine comes in.
The main function of this automatic curtain is that it will automatically close the curtain when the sun is too strong and bright that sometimes too irritating to the eyes the curtains also opens when the sun is too faint to penetrate inside the house. The thing that enables this “Automatic Curtain” do the sliding off and on is a certain device called temperature sensor attached on the curtain holder. This sensor uses the principle of optics and light. The brighter the sun rays, the hotter it was. The fainter the light rays, the colder it becomes. These principles enable the sensor to measure the sunshine’s temperature. If it reaches an estimated hot temperature, the curtains will close. Otherwise, it will remain open. There is still one catch, if the sensor measurements fell under normal room temperature which means normal intensity of light, it will remain open.
Another feature of this “Automatic Curtain” is that it has a programmed clock in a format of 24 hours. When the clock reads evening starting at six in the evening, the curtain will close. When the digital clock strikes six in the morning, the curtains will slide open.
The benefits of this “Automatic Curtain” are stated below:
- Lessen the effort of closing or opening the curtains
- Avoidance of direct sunlight of great intensity.
- Protects photon infections especially to those with special skin state.
Another innovation or technology I had thought of to improve the living inside a home is the idea of a “Talking Clock” because as busy people might always do, they always tend to ask what time is it. Normal settlers of a residence will stopped from their household chores just to peek on the clock and know what time is it. This Talking clock will help anyone in the house know what time it is. It has the following benefits that will help the residence even in small things. The clock works like an ordinary clock with special features. This Talking Clock has digital calendar on it. It has also a button that if press you can register an appointment.
First benefit is that the clock reminds the residence to keep track of time, serving as an alarm in waking up. Also, one of its benefits is it saves time and effort. Because it dictates time every ten minutes, one doing a household chore will never stop his chore just to peek and find out what time is it. For example, I was doing a chore in dish washing and I have to hurry because I have an appointment at Nine o’clock. With the help of this talking clock, you are reminded of the time every ten minutes and you do not need to stop your work in order to find what time is it.
Here’s another feature of the clock that I had thought of. As a talking clock, this kind of technology does not only reminds the owner what time is it but can also remind his master any appointment registered in it ahead of time.
To use the reminder service of the clock, just press the record button near the digital calendar. It will ask for a time. To input the time of appointment, you must speak the exact time like “9:30”. Then a beep will resonate indicating that you can register your appointments. To stop the registration, just click the button again.
Another convenient trait of this device is that when the clock reads six in the evening, the clock will stop talking the current time so that it can never disturb sleeping residence. The talking will only restart when the clock strikes six in the morning.
It feels great when you have thought such wonderful ideas to help people’s life become easier, less miserable, comfortable and convenient. Also, it feels so nice that we can think of new things for the betterment of our school facilities for the benefits of the student.
Currently enrolled in one of the most prestigious school in Mindanao the University of Southeastern Philippines, I wanted to think of a new technology that will help not only the students but also the administrators, faculty and staffs of the school. But one thing had occurred to me, as I always observed, is that the University had been prone to various problems in terms of the school facility, benefits of the students and the benefits of the staffs and faculty and administrators. I opened my eyes to present situation of the school. Not to mention, it has malfunctioning comfort rooms, almost dilapidated rooms, lack of facility, etc., that are not promising and conducive for learning. Many have been whispering and whimpering about this lack of facilities and the problems of the school. Yet my eyes were opened to the current situation of the school. How can anyone frown and mock the school when they can think of other thing than that like how to make the University more conducive. Instead of blaming the administration, I thought to myself what if I can think of a new technology that can help the University of its Lacking Aspects. Then, I started to formulate ideas by reviewing the current state the university is undergoing.
Though the University embraces new technologies and equipments, the University still lacks some technologies that will enhance and help the welfare of the students and professors.
When we were asked to think for a new technology that can be installed in the university, I came across an inkling that will bring me new technology. I was thinking of a new technology that can uplift the problem of the comfort rooms around the campus. My solution to that problem is a simple technology that can do the following:
- Lessen the stinking smell of the comfort room
- Avoidance of not flushing the toilet
- Maintain the good attitude of students in the comfort room.
In order to achieve these goals, I thought of a new form of technology that is more likely to discipline and educate the students on what is the proper using toilet bowls. My little technology is more likely an all new toilet set that I prefer to call “DISCIPLINARY BOWL”. Here in the university, the scenario is always the same when using the comfort room. Students tend to leave their excess and excretions unclean especially the male students. Mostly, male students don’t practice the attitude of flushing their excretion even the water supplies is always and readily available.
To stop and discipline this attitude and control the sanitary state of the school’s comfort room, I may present this “DISCIPLINARY BOWL”. This technology works like the traditional toilet bowl but with special feature. When a student wants to use a toilet, of course this student will close the door. Automatically, the DISCIPLINARY BOWL will sense human presence with a use of sensor. As the student will poop or pee on the bowl, the technology will run a program that is connected to the door and automatically locked the door.
The cubicle’s door can only be open when the student who uses it will flush his dirt. This way it will help people maintain discipline in using the comfort room. Who wants to be locked up in a cubicle when you have something to do? No one does. Basically, students will get afraid of getting locked inside a cubicle if he or she will not flush his or her excretions. By means of this too, smelly comfort rooms will be unassociated with the University in no time. And because it give disciplinary practice to those who will use it, no student will be left uneducated and undisciplined in using the comfort room, even it can help sanitary engineer or janitors to maintain the cleanliness and being odorless of the comfort room.
This problem will be vanishing in no time. If the students will comply to the disciplinary practice the “DISCIPLINARY BOWL” technology had been imposing, then there will be no one in the university that cannot define between clean and good sanitary and undisciplined dirtiness.
Basically, new forms of technology, may it be large scales or small scales, are just aids and helpers to make our life more comfortable, relaxed,happy and convenient to live. It is not only the sole key to make everyone in the world deserving to be convenient but also the people who are using these new form of worldly technology is another factor to make it happened and be used for the better future and betterment of life. As I am writing this article of new formed ideas, I came to realize that technology is a very powerful product of our great imaginations and brilliant mind. Technology can be innovative. It can be progressive for the betterment of everyone but technology can also be a weapon of warfare and pandemonium. To those who are reading this article, let us not stop here thinking for new technology. Let us be vigilant because it is up to us to use these kinds of present technology in either good or bad.
As I ponder for last words, these technologies I had thought and mentioned above are for the betterment of everybody. This is Karlo Jay Isturis Bueno, saying: “In every aspect of technology you can think of, be creative and responsible. Technology is for the betterment of everybody on earth but not with the worst warfare of the world.”
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