Timeless Creations

Usual beginnings

14 January 2015 (A year and a bit earlier)

Christian Woolfe awoke with a start. His alarm clock started up and began rolling around the floor.

This was one of his inventions he was most proud of. After doing extensive market research he discovered that people tend to hit snooze button or ignore their alarms which often caused the alarm clock (or cell phone) to ultimately become redundant.

So to fix this commom problem, Chris made an alarm that doesn't only go off, but begins rolling around at relatively high speeds whilst making the noises to force the user to get up, fetch the alarm and then switch it off.
(You are awake after having to get up and catch your alarm clock. People quickly realised that). The invention was a huge hit. However it started to lose it's effectiveness. People would just use their phones. But Chris wasn't too worried. He had a new invention already.

Chris hunted down his alarm clock and, with the precision of a sniper, scooped it up and switched it off. Starting his normal routine he went to the kitchen, put down a slice of bread to make toast and switched on the coffee machine. Content that everything in his morning routine was correct he went to shower. It seemed like an ordinary day.

He had his breakfast, changed into his work clothes and walked to the door.
*PING*
With a sigh, Chris looked at his phone. Why are people on their phone so early??

Groggily he scrolled to his messages. Just the normal "good morning" messages he got everyday by the same people.

That lightened his mood a bit. To know that there are actually people who care about him. With a smile he replied to all but one message he had missed before...

It was from an unknown number from a different country. He knew because Australia's code is +61. But this code says +27.

South Africa!?

Chris wondered why the message came from South Africa. It read

Good Morning Mr  Woolfe

I  am contacting you because we have heard rumors of your wonderful creation. We have seen evidence that you are an amazing inventor whom I'd love to meet one day.
I have seen the sketches and plans for your laser-guided bullets and think that it absolutely amazing what you are doing.

I would love the opportunity to meet you and see these bullets for myself . This will help our army by playing a crucial part in attack and defense as our army currently doesn't have state-of-the-art equipment just yet.

Hope you say yes
Marcus Pieterse

Startled by this message, Chris felt his heart beating. No one was told about my bullets. No one knows. There was no possibility that anyone could have known about it.

Chris was feeling anger and grief at the same time. He would have to meet this man to know how he knew about the bullets...

The bullets had been a flash idea Chris had one day whilst watching a sniper movie. The bullets would be shot the same way as normal bullets. The only difference was that these bullets could be controlled.

The biggest challenge for Chris was making sure that the bullets could change trajectory travelling at such high speeds.
The next was making sure the bullets registered the request for movements quick enough.

Months and months of tireless research had gone into the creation of these bullets.

The best solution that Chris had found was to create flaps on the bullets to alter cause a difference in the bullet's aerodynamics.

The bullets would have a sensor to detect the laser (which was projected out by a hyper-sensitive scope on top of the gun).
The sensor would go off, triggering the chip in the bullet to activate. Based on the information fed by the lasers, the chip would cause the flaps to move, changing the bullets direction.

All of this happened within a matter of nano-seconds.

He was so proud of his creation he had signed for an international patent, preventing anyone from stealing his designs for at least seven years. Finally so much time and money spent on research had paid off.