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The other day I was talking over phone and the person at the end exhaled heavily into the mouthpiece. I usually don’t get too excited by this kind of behavior, but I got thinking.

What if there was a phone in which you could just the blow of air from the other end and pass onto the phone at the other end of the communication channel? That would be an interesting communication. Imagine your girlfriend exhaling gently into the phone and you at the other end, getting all the sensation to keep you up all night.

Or imagine somebody in a hurricane hit area holding phone in the heavy wind and you using all that power over phone to blow the dust out of your furniture. I would love that kind of application. I’ll take my phone all over my house to blow the dirt out wherever I haven’t dared ever. And considering all the devastation that hurricanes do, this will be a productive work coming from them. People might even start to like hurricanes. I can visualize an exponential increase in the number of storm chasers. But, instead of scientific instruments, they’ll be just driving into the hurricane holding out their phones. I can already see several “Discovery” series titles “The Storm Power Chasers”.

So much for an invention.

And we haven’t considered the sucking action yet. I can have my vacuum cleaner suck the wind out of my phone and somebody at the other end could be cleaning their car or themselves. Just think. You’re travelling with your laptop and it gets really dirty with dust on the keyboard and everywhere. Not many people travel with vacuum cleaners. So, you can call somebody who owns one and get cleaning.

I feel an extension to tihs invention coming already. The smell.

If that phone is equiped to transmit smell as well, that’ll be just great. You can smell what perfume the other person is wearing or what your mom is cooking. Or, if you’re longing for a coffee, you can just call a local coffee shop and feel mildly caffeinated. But, there are pitfalls. Please do not fart while using this kind of phone or use it from the restroom. I’d recommned a “mute” like button for smells.

Another extension: communicating heat.

Do not imagine the girlfriend scenario here. Stuck in a jam on road on a hot day, you can just call office and get some cool air over phone. Save some petrol by not using the car air conditioning. I think this one is a killer feature. We can just transfer heat from one part of the world to another using phones and maintain an average ambient temperature all across the globe. This can mean an end to excessive use of air cooling or heating to make your surrounding better. You just keep talking to people all over the world and the temperature just balances itself.

I think I have just found a solution to global warming. I’m waiting for my Nobel. Does it arrive by post or do I get a call?