New Invention Maybe: 1 Minute Rewind Idea

Ever find yourself using multiple tries to navigate through and replay the sweet spots in media. This one may have already been thought of but just in case: this is not an invention that finishes rewinding a VHS tape completely in one minute. I know that one has been invented before. What I am talking about would be an invention that would be similar to an instant replay. Let me explain: In my generation cassette tapes were a real pain in the butt, in fact the inability for the user to find the desired place in the music was super annoying. This is still true in digital media, but not so much, as there is the loading bar idea, where audio and video that enables one to click to find the right spot. This is where the idea of this blog comes in: imagine a button that rewinds media exactly 1 minute at a time. Obviously, there could be some settings which could make this something at 30 second rewind, but that is beside the point. This rewind idea would be extremely useful at websites like Facebook.com which is loaded with short media files, audio and video, where the ability to find the sweet spot in them for replay or reviewing would come in handy.

Connectedness

Many ideas people have occur at the same time or in close proximity.  Perhaps, this suggests a collective conscience.  For instance, Alexander Graham Bell is credited for patenting the telephone, but at the about same time he applied a German, Johann Philipp Reis, also applied for the same patent.  It was such a short period of time that perhaps the German may have received the patent if perhaps he spent less time warming his lunch, or his wife hadn’t nagged him to take out the garbage sooner rather than later.  Who was first?  And, more importantly; does it matter?  I understand that patents and ideas are very important to business, yet it seems absurd to give a financial monopoly to an inventor, when it was really two or more that had the idea at the same time.  These sorts of things end up in courts, but when it comes to who is first, I wonder if there is usually or even occasionally justice.