Curio Folio: Thought Bubbles

While at the trade show where I saw the ingenius Pizza Tomato, there was a promotional product called the Thought Bubble, as seen in the painting above. The Thought Bubble was a very small microchip encased in a bubble, like the kind of bubbles that children make by blowing soap through a loop. The product representative was blowing bubbles at people as they walked by, which I tried as much as possible to avoid. Once a bubble contacted your body it would pop, leaving the microchip attached, which would then make a neural networking-artificially intelligent connection with your central nervous sytem. At that point, a thought would transmit into your cerebral cortex, like 'Eat at Joe's!', or 'Eat more Pizza Tomato!'. So it was being used as an advertising tool. Unfortunately, I could not avoid the bubbles and one got me... suddenly I craved pizza tomato and went and had another slice. It worked, although ethically speaking, these Thought Bubbles seem a little dubious. Lets hope the only place you have to ever encounter them is in my Curio Folio of things you have never seen, or wanted to see. 

Curio Folio: Thought Bubbles, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, September 2025