Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The secret life of wires
This morning, I put my uncharged iPod into my manbag – yes, I succumbed to the manbag as an alternative to a large workbag and the other extreme, the supermarket plastic shopping bag. The speaker wire was wrapped around the iPod. At work, I removed it from the bag to recharge it, and slipped it briefly into my pocket as I left the office.
How, I ask; exactly how did it get so knotted that it took minutes to untangle it? A couple of weeks back, the wire somehow attached itself to the cord of my camera case in a way that defied known physics.
So how do wires intertwine when nobody is looking? Why will a telephone wire automatically gravitate towards any other nearby wires making it so that one day, when you pick up the phone, it won’t even stretch halfway to your ear? It will of course be a really important phone call that happens with.
I wonder if anyone has ever considered attaching a little camera to several wires to see exactly how this happens when we aren’t watching. I don’t suppose it would be particularly exciting, but if a day’s worth of film was condensed into 30 seconds or so, I think it could fascinate a lot of people. I can just hear the eureka moments: “Oh! So that’s how that happens!”
In the meantime of course, nobody has ever invented a pair of shoe laces that won’t come undone. If only wire could be coated with shoelace material and shoelaces made of telephone cord, at least the right things would be knotted. Hell! You wouldn’t even need to tie your shoelaces. They would tie themselves!
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How, I ask; exactly how did it get so knotted that it took minutes to untangle it? A couple of weeks back, the wire somehow attached itself to the cord of my camera case in a way that defied known physics.
So how do wires intertwine when nobody is looking? Why will a telephone wire automatically gravitate towards any other nearby wires making it so that one day, when you pick up the phone, it won’t even stretch halfway to your ear? It will of course be a really important phone call that happens with.
I wonder if anyone has ever considered attaching a little camera to several wires to see exactly how this happens when we aren’t watching. I don’t suppose it would be particularly exciting, but if a day’s worth of film was condensed into 30 seconds or so, I think it could fascinate a lot of people. I can just hear the eureka moments: “Oh! So that’s how that happens!”
In the meantime of course, nobody has ever invented a pair of shoe laces that won’t come undone. If only wire could be coated with shoelace material and shoelaces made of telephone cord, at least the right things would be knotted. Hell! You wouldn’t even need to tie your shoelaces. They would tie themselves!
