4th Grade Conversations

Wouldn’t it cool if we could all read minds, but only when we chose to? We could focus on whom we wanted to hear and then we would. This way we would go crazy hearing everything all the time or hear things we didn’t care to hear. You’re probably thinking that this is a really bad idea, because what if you hear gossip about yourself or accidentally hear something you thought you wanted to hear. Yeah, that sucks, but see you could still chose to do it or not. If you never wanted to do it then you just never would. Simple as that.

I decided to sit in a fourth-grade classroom and listen to their conversations during recess time. It was interesting trying to focus on someone’s voice and accurately hear what they were saying. For all I know I interpreted them all wrong!

What if you could buy headphones that very accurately deciphered a conversation from across the room? They would work by Bluetooth technology and you would just push a button on your phone and be able to hear a conversation. Now in order to decipher the correct conversation, the application would need some quick information. For instance, a compass would be included and the application would ask for the direction in which the conversation is and then it would ask for an estimate on how far away. Once the information is entered you would be able to hear the conversation most accurate to the information given, if it is incorrect, recalibrate and do it again. Yeah it sounds like too much work, but it’s a work in progress and only an idea.