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The Chinese consider crickets to be lucky, and often keep them in ornate cages to admire from time to time.
Office workers often suffer from eye strain because of how long they spend staring at the same spot for extended periods of time.
Let us design an ornate all-glass, goggle shaped cricket
cage which uses a pair of reading glasses to serve as the "lid." Air vents will be located around the "lid," and feeding or watering equippment can be held by the bridge of the nose, or near the hinges.
When you do not need your glasses, you simply set the cage down on discreet stands located on the "Front" of the goggles, and you can admire your lucky cricket to your heart's content. When you again need your glasses, you pick up the cage, and stick it in front of your eyes.
While reading, the cricket serves a much different purpose. As it hops about, crawls on the surface of the glass, and gives you reasons to clean it's cage you will be forced to shift your head and eyes in order to continue looking at your work.
This will relieve your eyes of eye strain, and as your eyes constantly shift focus slightly, it should reduce the need for prescription glasses. Also, since you really are wearing coke-bottle glasses here, the enormous weight of the cage will give your neck a powerful workout.
In addition to these fundamentally western concerns, the sacred art of looking at, and then not looking at your pet should help you to better understand the yen and yang of mystical zen philosophy... or the tao of cricket poo, or...
Are there any eastern philosphers with advertising experience in the house?
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I belive your eyes would be even more strained by this idea, as you would have to see past a cricket and wastes. Plus, I am afraid the cricket would die, bringing misfortune to your doorstep. And, after all that, many people just wouldn't want these. |
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Surely the crickets wouldn't die more often than other lucky chinese pet crickets. They've got food, water, and air vents like all the others, and the all glass cage would likely lend itself well to more frequent cleanings. |
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Charges that "Many people wouldn't want these" should be used cautiously on the halfbakery. They do not necessarily have any effect on the bun-or-bone-worthiness of an idea. |
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Quite true. And this is coming from the inventor of many intresting ideas. Still, it would be a bit irritating. I have a distractor on my computer that messes up the screen every once in a while, forcing me to look around for the off button. Probably a virus, but it has been disarmed. Perhaps glasses with built-in distractions and lucky items would be a modern version of this (I can imagine an old man wearing your original glasses happily.) BTW, (+) for the idea. Very few people want my ideas, but I know that doesn't matter. But I still think the cricket would die a lot. If not from the area, then from the movement and the magnification powers of glasses. |
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i wear glasses - switched to contacts in college because the frame gave me headaches [they used to be really heavy back then], switched back to regular glasses when i started working, having a cricket in my line of vision while on a frame-induced headache might cause me to have said cricket as a tasty snack..... |
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..... croissant for choosing a crispy atkins-approved nibble. |
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So there we have it... The crickets won't die in the cages, they'll die in Pyggy potamus's stomach. |
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I will point out that chocolate covered crickets will not need food or water, but also will not move about in the cage as intended. |
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