Jetsons - packup my Jet !!

Smart Materials- promising Future !! A car that at a press of a button gets packed in a suitcase and more..!!

Nothing that is imaginable by humans can be not possible...

I was introduced to a fantastic material at the Indian Institutes, Madras - the Smart Materials. I was dumb stuck at what the Future would be with such materials. Though such a revolution is Far away.. real far away.. could even be hundreds of years away.. One can be lucky to have a glimpse of even the prototype of such a marvel in their life..

yes.. the materials that are going to change the life we live - the materials that have memory. they are called the SMART MATERIALS - sure.. correctly named.

Man can imagine anything and everything. The feasibility is always possible - long long ago when Edison proposed that he was to invent an electrical lamp, everybody laughed at him looked at him as a fool, but then he proved all those people wrong.

I had felt the Newspaper, that they show in Harry potter series (movies), in which the characters in the picture appear to move (as in a video), as something impossible or atleast some big revolution to happen to bring such a thing to reality. The Plastic transistors which were proposed long before Harry potter series came out, are already being investigated to make such a thing possible. Such transistors will have high degree of flexibility and the newspaper or device of those things such as a keyboard will be highly flexible ie bendable/foldable etc.

Likewise, It was an Imagination of the artist/s (dont know the maker of Jetsons or could be any other person's idea before Jetsons (atleast I saw it first in Jetsons - so many Jet-sons.. huh ! )), in which the main character (Jetsons) lives in far future. He has his flying ship that gets packed as a briefcase at a touch of a button. I have always fantasied such ships. I have fantasied even flying cars.

Well how far is Such a thing ?? not far away:

The memory materials, which have the ability to retain the shape injected on them by certain methods like say intense heating, will remember those shapes for ever. Even if one disturbs the original shape, it can be brought back to how it was (originally) by partially heating or presurising or by chemicals or any appropriate method depending upon the alloy/s. The next advancement is the discovery of Dual memory devices, ie it can retain two shapes and would toggle between those two states depending upon the method of shape revival, for example, say a memory device has state 1 and state 2. Now say, it is deformed in such a way that it is neither in state 1 nor in state2. Now there could be a method of cooling that will drag the material to state 1, and method of heating that will drag the material to state 2(duality). Newer materials with more than two states are also being investigted that can act as more that one device !!!

Now what does this mean ? It means that something that I/We saw in Jetsons about that briefcase flying ship, is very much possible not only that, there are lot more advantages as well. Say, a Car meets with an accident, the shape of the car can be brought back to how it was before the accident (ofcourse the simpler and better solution would be to discover/invent hard material that will never deform in an accident - Until then..ahem).

Imagine! Even if it is wild! Imagine !

One day the world would see Your Imagination to reality - you get a chance to brag, whether u live in this world or may be in heaven/hell(it is okie if you don't believe in life after death.). !!

Imagination at WORK - Really !!