Made in Singapore
June 02, 2017
We have heard of many cool inventions coming from other countries like the famous Apple phone, Samsung phone and even the classic inventions eg. The lightbulb by Thomas Edison, Basic phone by Antonio Meucci. There are also some amazing products/brands that we Singaporeans have came up with. An example of such is TWG.
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TWG Tea, the finest luxury tea brand in the world, was established in Singapore and celebrates the year 1837 when the island became a trading post for teas, spices and fine epicurean products. A veritable tea institution, TWG Tea is passionate about sharing its expertise and has become a point of reference for tea lovers thirsty for knowledge.
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| Moving on, my favourite Singapore invention is the teleport drink that NUS researches have came up with. At present, the researchers are only able to replicate the taste of lemonade online, but work is underway to transmit more sophisticated flavours in the future. How the “virtual lemonade” works is through the combination of a special “lemonade sensor” and a tumbler with electrical diodes. The “lemonade sensor” is actually two sensors in one device: The first sensor detects the colour of the drink, the other measures the drink’s pH level. After these two attributes are recorded, the information is then transmitted online to the customised tumbler, which is filled with just plain water. The tumbler then uses LED lights at its bottom to replicate the colour of the drink, while electrodes around the rim send electrical pulses to your taste buds in order to mimic sourness. Among the benefits Dr Ranasinghe sees for his work is producing a healthy food or drink option for the elderly in the particular. For instance, his modified soup bowl was able to replicate the saltiness of miso soup, without the sodium content inside. How amazing is it that you can actually “teleport” drinks this way? Now, I can teleport my favourite Starbucks drink! |
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Suppose you’re going to a park, but the walk there is boring, so you stop for an ice cream cone. This keeps you satisfied until you’ve reached your destination. The better alternative, however, would be to reach the park in an instant without the long walk, which could only be done if you got your hands on a teleportation machine. The thought of teleporting gave me an idea that if I were an inventor, I would invent a teleport machine where anyone could teleport from a country to another regardless of the distance. With all the disasters happening like turbulence, missing aeroplanes and accidents happening in air, I feel that it would be great if we could avoid these disasters from happening. I would like to invent a teleport machine where people will not feel any side effects after teleporting to another country. It would be perfectly fine for others and this way, we could save money on aeroplanes and staffs.
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The reason why I want to invent this is because I am always afraid of riding on aeroplanes even though I have travelled multiple times. For example, the flight to USA takes about more than 15 hours from Singapore. The thought of having to sit in the plane for that long gives me the chills. Every time I reached my destination, I would come out puking and that is not a good sign. It is only going to make my trip less enjoyable than I thought it would be. People who has airsick like me would probably suffer too. It is wonderful being able to travel, but if we would not have to go through all the hustle of flying by aeroplanes, I would be more than happy to go anywhere in the world. I'd be a journalist who travels everywhere and write reviews about a place. Adding on, we would have so much more time to do stuff that we actually want to do. You could go to place that you want to visit without worrying about the time it will take. You could send things to places that needed them immediately, like supplies to a refugee camp, medicine to a hospital, or a gift to a friend - all with zero delay. The possibilities are endless! However, there are also several problems to teleporting. When scientists teleport a photon, what they're actually doing is destroying that original photon and creating its replica in a different place. For this concept to be applied to human teleportation, the whole body has to first be deconstructed in order to be analysed and set. This very fact might seem grim, because to complete this "deconstruction", your body would be taken apart piece by piece, killing you in the process. What if the deconstruction step fails, and you end up with two versions of yourself? Which one would be the real "you"? Obviously, scientists could not allow that to happen, so they would have to kill the version of you who stepped into the teleportation machine.
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According to the movie “The Fly”, Seth Brundle, a brilliant but eccentric scientist invented a set of "telepods" that allows instantaneous teleportation from one pod to another. It may seem really cool but his experiment went horribly wrong. Seth Brundle teleported himself alone, unaware that a housefly had slipped inside the transmitter pod with him. He emerged from the receiving pod seemingly normal. Soon, things were starting to change for him. His fingernails began falling off and then he realised something went wrong during his teleportation. He checked his computer's records and discovered that the telepod computer, confused by the presence of two lifeforms in the sending pod, merged him with the fly at the molecular-genetic level. Brundle continued to deteriorate, losing body parts and becoming less human in appearance. He had begun vomiting digestive enzymes onto his food to dissolve it and had gained the ability to cling to walls and ceilings. After watching this movie, it made me feel that it is actually very dangerous to teleport as it may harm one’s life. Though there are several bad points to teleporting, I still think that it is never impossible. It just takes time to build, especially with a team of people who genuinely wants this invention to work. Even if one fails, you should always learn to get back up on your feet. I am sure all inventors fail at least once in their lives. However, their strong determination got them going and look at where they are at now! They have build many successful inventions. It taught me that it is never too late to get back up on your feet.
Therefore, if I were an inventor, I would invent a teleport machine that will produce no harm to anyone.
Video of Teleport drink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYbi8buT6s0 |
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