My invention for Oskar is somewhat of a time capsule. What if each person, when they turned 10 maybe, got a machine comprised of a voice recorder, video camera, regular camer, and (this being the more extraordinary feature) an emotion capturer? Throughout their life each person would record thoughts, ideas, dreams, statements to loved ones, their vision of the world and of themselves, and would connect the emotion capturer to their skin and pour the way they feel their emotions. It would capture the exact physical feeling and thought that each person experienced in their moments of great joy and sadness. The machine would be small enough to always carry around and would have the ability to transfer all of its data to another person's machine so they could see and feel what the other person saw and felt.
Oskar would love this machine because he needs a connection with his father. Although, now that I think about it, maybe it would hinder his ability to get over his grief. But hopefully it would, because Oskar desperately needs more of his father in his life. WHen he says on page 1, "I could invent a teakettle that reads in Dad's voice so I could fall asleep," he shows his yearning for his father. When he says to Ron on page 3," You're not my dad and you never will be," he shows that he doesn't want to replace his dad, and isn't ready to let go of his dad.
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