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N.E.A.M. and EnHANTs

Have you ever had a crazy idea only to see something very similar actually happen? If you have the crazy-idea-become-partial-reality was most-likely followed by an internal dialog about hidden genius.

I know I have.

This morning, I came accross a post from one of my favorite online contributors, Johanna Beyenbach of Tokyohanna that triggered this post within minutes of reading it.

N.E.A.M.

About a decade ago, during a haircut, I unveiled my crazy idea to my friend, Andrew. The letters stand for: Night-time Energy Accumilation Module. The idea, laughable at the time, was that I would invent a ski mask for night-time use. The mask would somehow harvest the micro-energy generated by my facial hair growth and wirelessly transmit it to an energy repository in my house for later use.

EnHANTs

Energy-Harvesting Active Networked Tags sounds like a very cool project, indeed. I feel like what I imagine kids in the 50's felt like when they thought about 1984. "I'm getting a jet pack when I'm 50!"

What was once laughter filled with jubilation in reaction to sheer absurdity is now the laughter of excitement, and in the better sense of the word, lunacy.

As in mad scientist laughter.

Tell me these ideas aren't similar at all. Not even close. And I (might) stop laughing like I've lost my marbles. At least on the outside. But, for now, seeing the vastness of what I could only imagine being spanned by real technology gets me giddy.

As in Giddy-Up!