I’m thrilled to announce that I’m up for two Aurora Awards this year! Fireboy is on the ballot for Best Young Adult Novel, and The Worldshapers is once again on the ballot for Best Fan …
I spent a good chunk of today at Wordbridge, the annual writers’ conference in Lethbridge, Alberta. My main reason for coming was to launch a Shadowpaw Press title (Broken Realm by Jenna Greene, a Lethbridge …
This is Easter weekend; last weekend, I sang in the Easter concert of First Baptist Church here in Regina as a guest soloist and chorister. The whole concert is worth listening to, but if you’d …
I put a link to this in the previous post on my Aurora-eligible work for 2025, but wanted to highlight it. This was my contribution to the Shapers of Worlds Volume V anthology, and it …
The Aurora Awards are Canada’s best-known science fiction and fantasy awards, voted on by fans every year. I’ve been fortunate enough to win twice, for Marseguro (DAW Books) (soon coming out in a new edition from Tuscany …
Put this under the category of “things I’ve meant to do for a long time”: I finally published (under my Endless Sky Books imprint) a new edition of The Haunted Horn, a modern-day middle-grade ghost …
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"This invention is a system that teleports a human being through hyperspace…"
This has to be the patent application of the year:
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0001] This invention is a system that teleports a human being through hyperspace from one location to another using a pulsed gravitational wave traveling through hyperspace.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The basis for this invention is an event, referring to FIG. 1, occurring on May 2, 2004, in which the inventor (‘he’) personally experienced a full-body teleportation while walking to the bus stop…
I hate it when that happens.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2006/05/this-invention-is-a-system-that-teleports-a-human-being-through-hyperspace/
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And yet you never thought to patent the idea. That’s what sets us mundane types apart from…um…geniuses.
That’s hilarious! I wonder if he was just daydreaming and came to at the bus stop… I’ve done that before while driving. I’ll arrive somewhere but have no recollection of the trip. I must have been teleported, too!