Mind Bender # 13 : Incredible Planning Tool?
Here’s the specification for probably the most incredibly sophisticated planning & communications tool yet invented …
- It’s portable —so light you don’t even notice it your pocket or brief case. Its life is more than one-hundred times greater than the current best re-chargeable power-packs.
- It is extremely durable — if dropped from 50 feet onto concrete it’ll be good as new within a minute or two at the longest. It’s so intuitive that anyone can use it immediately without training.
- You can use it on a plane — even during take off. It uses a remarkable data input method as fast as an experienced qwerty keyboard operator, and yet requires no keyboard skills.
- It handles graphics as easily as text and can even handle 3-D modeling and complicated calculations.
- It is compatible with any paper output, even a bus-ticket or a table napkin, and is universally adaptable to any reader format.
- It is completely wireless, already available all over the world, thanks to a distribution network greater than Microsoft’s; and comes in hundreds of model variants to suit all styles and egos — you can even get gold-plated ones.
- It costs a fraction of a cent per day over its lifetime, and if you lose it, its inherent unbreakable security will leave no trace of confidential files or personal history.
- Replacements are no problem because you can afford to keep a couple spare with you all the time.
Being so close to Christmas, I thought I should give you a rather easy Bender this time.
However, can you tell me … what is this amazing piece of equipment?
17 December, 2007 at 9:58 am
A pencil !
17 December, 2007 at 9:59 am
The mind
17 December, 2007 at 10:00 am
Pencil
17 December, 2007 at 10:02 am
Pen or pencil but not sure because of second point.
17 December, 2007 at 11:59 am
The humble pen.
17 December, 2007 at 12:42 pm
sounds like a pencil to me
17 December, 2007 at 1:11 pm
A pen.
17 December, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Its a pen or pencil.
17 December, 2007 at 1:21 pm
The ever reliable Biro/Ball Point Pen!!!!!!!
Regards-BG
17 December, 2007 at 1:58 pm
It reminds me of the small Spirax notebook that my father always carried buttoned up in his top pocket.
17 December, 2007 at 2:09 pm
its a bloody biro
17 December, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Your brain
17 December, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Is it a pen?
17 December, 2007 at 6:24 pm
A pen
17 December, 2007 at 8:11 pm
It’s a pen/pencil.
17 December, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Brain
17 December, 2007 at 11:18 pm
A USB Thumb Drive
18 December, 2007 at 9:37 pm
A Pen!
19 December, 2007 at 6:54 am
a pen
19 December, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Is it a pen?
20 December, 2007 at 11:25 am
A pen!
22 December, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Answer to mind bender 13 - a pen.
Have a great Xmas & New Years
22 December, 2007 at 6:55 pm
OFFICIAL PROTEST TO MIND BENDER 13
I contend that the answer is not Pencil but Pen for the following reasons:
1. Using a sharpener to sharpen the broken tip is cheating. If we are allowed to carry extra equipment we may as well take with us a laptop and a computer technician. The 2 minute delay would be to stand the pen upright to allow the ink to flow to the nib again.
2. “Gold Plated Pencil??”, more likely a pen don’t you think?
3. Easier to write on a napkin with a pen rather than a pencil.
So do I win the car?