As a PhD student, this is my day-to-day 🥲

I had the idea for a printer/scanner/copier/fax. Copier = scanner + printer. Fax = scanner + modem.

egoism, then again i was a kid

also drones, i thought i was a genius for coming up with the idea of remotely controlled optionally weaponized vehicles with cameras, then again i was a kid

Maladaptive daydreaming. I didn’t know the word for it until I was like 17 (like 8 years ago) but I did it my whole life and was very ashamed of it

When I was a kid I learned how aircraft wings worked, then visualized one spinning so the airfoil was annular. Then I rememebered the frisbee already existed.

I was going through a lot of batteries at that time (hello, Radio Shack free battery punchcard!) and dreamed of wirelessly powering devices from a wallsocket transmitter. My TX looked like an upright toilet paper roll for some reason. A few decades later I was delighted to learn Tesla had been interested in the idea, too. Vindication, bishes!