Industrial strength secrets

[Scene] The pool at the Gold Coast Marriott … Bogan central.

Overheard behind me, a bunch of overweight forty something mothers discussing a new TV show called the Shark Tank. It sounds like Australian Idol meets the Mad Inventors.

The mums spent a good two hours discussing ‘inventions’. Mostly they were in fact just problem statements with no means of reducing them to practice.

An example was a mosquito killer which sounded eerily similar to Nathan Myrvhold’s laser based version.

This one would use high pressure water ‘drops’ (i.e. bullets) to kills mosquitos.

The question was posed as to how automatically find the mosquitos.  ‘Sonar’ was deemed a satisfactory answer.

I turned around at one stage to look for my daughter and I swear the mums went quiet on me in the interests of industrial secrecy.