Sunday, 29 September 2013

Innovative Ideas !!

Last Friday i have to say, i saw innovation at its best.When you enter the class and you see Wish standing there with a dozen of random things in front of him, like he always says you really do think for a moment "Am i actually spending soo much much to be playing with toys??" Well eventually when i sat there along with people i had never met, i realized that this is what you really need to learn. How to interact with people, How to learn from them , basically i was learning things which would actually help me in real life. I mean yaa sure you need to study and all but along with that, self confidence is something that can not really be taught. 

So we were given a shaving brush, inflatable arm bands and a hammer products that had nothing to do with each other, we started telling each other anything that came to our minds. We ended up designing a sort of an under water cleaning system. Honestly by the end of it i thought to steal the idea and try selling it in Pakistan! It could make me a billionaire. Ask yourself who would not want something that they could drive around by a remote control to clean there swimming pool! Smart right?

Well not smart enough for the teachers i guess! So we were given a few more totally random things,this time a scarf, a shoe on and some sort of a belt. This one was pretty challenging as we spent about 20 min thinking on what could be made of these three odd items. After a while we started exchanging ideas, my group mates started drawing stuff, half way through and i was still not sure of what we were doing. Ultimately we ended up making a sport wear protection gear, for people who tend to hurt themselves while playing sports. The product we designed was something that could actually be used as kids do end up getting hurt very often while playing sport. Also with the increasing awareness on safety cautions the product could actually work.On top of that all, the guy from our group who presented the product was an excellent spokesperson. So i think we did pretty good on that one.

There fore i thought that all this group work and you actually using your brain for once was not only fun to do but also a very knowledgeable. As we hardly ever used to do anything similar in Pakistan.