Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Flashing Lights


Last week was Thanksgiving and my parents surprised me with a last minute trip to Dublin to visit my friends over the weekend. Everything was planned and I had my flight details and all the transportation was organized. When I got to the airport I tried to check in but they told me to go to the ticket desk. Turns out my flight was scheduled to leave at 12:30 and it was 12:20 already. I had to book myself onto the next flight, all because I was an hour late. This was all completely my own fault, but nothing could stop me thinking about how I could have actually made the flight by being on time. I am fairly slow in the mornings but if I had been told about my flight leaving soon I would have hurried myself. As well as being notoriously late all the time, I am also always on my Blackberry (bad habit, I am aware). This lead me to think about whether or not there was a certain kind of application for Blackberries that would let you know when your next appointment, party, or in my case flight is. I searched everywhere on Blackberry App. World but my search results were unsatisfying. For your computer, there are such things as email and appointment notifiers, but nothing that really intrigued me, and there was nothing about flight times. As a person who is always late for everything, I have tried almost everything including setting my clocks forward a few minutes with the hope that it will speed me up so that I will arrive on time for things. Nothing has worked yet, even my friends and family's criticizing hasn't had a major effect on my punctuality. If I could invent anything it would be a very obnoxious and interfering notifying application, that would let me know when all of my scheduled appointments and such are taking place. I was thinking something that has an alarm and lots of flashing lights, whatever necessary to grasp my attention and keep me on track. Maybe that way I wouldn't miss anything else.
(Image: own)

5 comments:

  1. Blackberrys have a way that you can have an alarm go off, or a silent notifier alert you, by placing events in your calendar... This could be of use if you are always late for everything as it forces you to read what pops up on the screen before you can dismiss it.

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  2. no it doesn't work it's not vibrant enough!

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  3. Yeah, Blackberries have alarms on them that could be very loud is you wanted them to be. It's not the best way, but it could help you wake up on time and such. Sorry, that sucks about your flight.

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  4. CALENDAR!!!
    that one of the primary apps for blackberry!
    Go to the date and time you want the REMINDER and you can edit the text, sound and volume!
    i guess u wasted your time..

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  5. false, I knew about the blackberry calendar thing, it already alerts me on birthdays, what I'm talking about is something that you dont have to enter manually, and something that complies absolutely everything on your agenda and alerts you

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