How remarkable is it that in this day and age, how we can undertake some phenomenal things.

Take the fact we can go to the moon, (it is entirely up to you if you believe in the conspiracy or not). We can develop cures for many fatal diseases. We can fly and develop many transportation devices to get all of us around the world.

I can remember a marvellous conversation I had with my grandmother. How she remembers the first car coming to the village and how everyone was scared of it, that was except for the children who were fascinated. My grandmother had never been out of the village, let alone travelled abroad by any means of transport. I realised that, in her lifetime, she had seen such marvellous inventions appearing from cars to airplanes and what about the gadgets we all take for granted now a days for example.

Such inventions of devices like the TV, Washing Machines, Computers, Telephones and installation of electricity and road lighting.

When you actually think about these things, it is hard to actually envisage how one person such as my grandmother, could of seen so much in a lifetime.

One thing I do know, is that she never ever passed her driving test. Despite driving tractors and taking her driving test several times. Even when she was in her late 90’s, she would cycle on her bike down country roads. But, in the middle of the road I might add, without a care in the world, as if she was still in the era before the car.

Which brings me back on to my original thought, which is, how come despite all these marvellous inventions over the years why have we not come up with a way to run a car say on water?

With our British weather, we wouldn’t need to go to the petrol station to fill up. All you would need to do is leave your car boot open overnight and you would have a full tank by the morning!

Now there is an invention for ‘University Challenge’. What would your invention of today be?