Sixty Second Idea to Improve the World

Katherine's idea is to invent a device which can detect when your brain is stressed and tired and automatically block all kind of new information. It might work by sensing physical signs of stress and tiredness such as blood pressure. She says that there's nothing we could do to stop it and she thinks that this device is necessary because we don't take time to rest for ourselves when everything is getting too much. She also claims that the more stressed and tired we are, the more likely we are to check on emails, twitter and facebook.

Malcom thinks that it's a great idea, but he says that he checks obsessively his emails and if he wouldn't do it the problem would be that there will be twice as many emails than the day before so he'd get more stressed out.

Ian thinks it's a wonderful idea because the interesting thing is that when this breaks happen, because your computer shuts down or like a storm they've had in the UK which stopped people from travelling to work, they enjoyed that "natural break" where they could talk to neighbours and have a little time for themselves.