I was just saying to a friend the other day that if all the technologically creative minds in the world focused specifically on ideas that really mattered – like cleantech or election monitoring* – we could probably wipe out some of the world’s biggest basic problems. Sure, we might suffer slightly in personal ways if we had to go without radio-controlled golf balls, swimming pool snack caddies, or motion sensor blenders that keep our cat off the counter, but mightn’t it be worth it? By the way. Is it just me, or does that seem like a slightly cruel way to go about keeping your cat in line? Or is it just the fact that the guy seems obsessed with videotaping it?

* Ironically, that International Election monitoring link excludes North America