Innovations & Imaginations

No island would have been discovered if people were worried to leave their sight of the shore. It exemplifies their courage to step out of comfort zone and their unquenchable thirst to explore more. We have witnessed great innovations ranging from mobiles to automobiles, penicillin’s to pen drives, telegraphs to televisions, notebook to face book. All these are different by nature and need but they have one thing in common. They were constantly changing.

This is proven in the case Bajaj in early 80s which enjoyed its market leadership in scooter manufacturing .There were times when customer has to wait for more than a year after booking to own it. The company would have vanished by now if they were complacent & happy with just scooters business. They were threatened to extinction by their rivals with innovation of motor bikes which were more stylish and fuel efficient.

 Imagine a youngster going on a pleasure trip with her GF on a scooter. Driving a scooter is easy but kick starting is a nightmare. In fact, you don’t really find any difference between kick starting a scooter or an auto, except that scooter uses stepper to kick start and auto uses hand lever. Both need at least 10 kicks to start. A scooter is even worse than an auto, as sometimes you need to tilt it to the extreme end to ignite.

 Imagine how embarrassing it would be to the young boy before his GF and how shameful If it didn’t start in spite of doing all circus. It’s like watching Dellhi Belly movie with parents. A scooter is actually meant for a family where you have a wife, two children and 3 balloons as in Hamara bajaj advertisement. It is certainly not meant for a youngster where you find a distance of 1KM between two seats where she will be sitting sideways holding sidebar tightly to prevent from falling. How can we expect a relationship to be blossom in this setup, where she doesn’t even bother who is driving?

Bike of course has brought some cheer into their lives, it not only has united two seats, but also made rear seat inclined, which means she can hold him instead of bar to prevent  from falling. To add more pleasure it is supplemented with disc brake. It’s fun driving a bike and even more fun when stopping it.  With changing times and trend, Bajaj has no choice but to discover pulsar; rest is history.

Definitely we wouldn’t have enjoyed mobile if we were satisfied Landlines, digital cameras would have been existed if we are happy with film cameras. It’s the passion to think afresh, helped world to evolve better and better.

I have few imaginations which will encourage us to live better.

a)      Technology which helps us in traffic – wouldn’t it be great if we have   aerial cable cars in the city to commute. It’s same as MMTS but they are not running on road but hanging in the skies. Imagine we all go over a ladder to board on cable car which means just 5 minutes journey from secunderabad to Hitech city. Similarly if we have provision for our cars to fly when we are struck in traffic for few minutes. If every car fly at the same time, it’s still ok as you can now travel by road like before J

b)      Scanning & streaming devices – Imagine a scenario where you were stand outside theathre and just show a device towards it, you then get information on the shows playing and their availability. If the show is full, you can movie by just streaming on it on to your device by standing in front of the theatre.

c)       Mobiles without batteries/borrowing charge – Will there be a day where we can borrow Battery charge by just SMS like in recharging?

d)      Conveyer belt in pilgrimages - Everybody can stand on it demarcated with small barricades and moves at small pace. This can prevent jostling and stampeding :-)

We are lucky to witness and experience great innovations so far, but its only a tip of a iceberg. The real beauty is still unseen, unexplored and unutilized. There is always a sachin after sunil,illena after sridevi and dhoni after sourav reminding us that its not the dead end, but branching new route from there to take on newer heights and horizons. Lets continue to innovate and imagine to realize our dreams. A day will soon arrive where school books will have to reprint their history chapters with our innovations and science chapters with our imaginations