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The Weekly Inventions of
Dr Splatterjacket

A boy is in the airport wearing a cool yellow jacket which has 6 power sockets on the shoulders. His phone and his laptop are both plugged into the jacket and charging.

PowerJacket

17th May 2025

I, Doctor Splatterjacket, was sitting in my office late at night working out exactly the right playlist to play on my MelodicTissues when my laptop started playing a tune of its own. It made the sound “Beludeblorp” suddenly, and then after a small pause played the sound over and over again. It was of course a video call coming in. I wondered if it was going to be another spam caller trying to get me to invest in nuclear fission again, but no, it was my sworn enemy Zargoid 5.

Zargoid 5 is standing in his laboratory. He looks a lot like a robot version of Dr Splatterjacket.

There he was looking back at me with his secret lab on view for all to see. He doesn’t even look like a proper scientist like me, I mean he isn’t even wearing slippers for a start. He immediately launched into his yammering, about how nice it was to talk, how he missed me, how he wished we were able to get more time to talk, how he wondered what I had been inventing lately, and if I was keeping well. All exactly the kind of the things a sworn enemy would ask about. I saw through it immediately.

Then he hit me with the bombshell, he was inviting me to come to his mine and see how they were doing and see if I could suggest any improvements. It was an obvious trap, but of course I decided to double trap him by saying the last thing he would expect, “yes”.

He made all the obvious signs of being pleased, and said he was “looking forward to it” and that he “couldn’t wait”. Of course, he must have been cursing himself right down to his supersonic ears. He’d fallen for the oldest double bluff trick in the book, hook, line and heat sinker.

Now he was trapped he immediately sent me the co-ordinates to his mine, and I rushed out of my office to get my turbo powered hang-glider out of the hanger and revved up and ready to go. Of course I grabbed my laptop, and my phone, and of course my PowerJacket to go with me.

Now you are probably thinking about your own travel situation and what a nightmare it would be to suddenly leave your house with your phone and laptop without adequate planning time, you would be worried that your devices would almost immediately run out of power. But do I worry about such things? No because I have the PowerJacket.

The PowerJacket is an insulated jacket with power sockets right there on the shoulders allowing you to power countless devices as long as when you think of countless you mean 6. It even comes equipped with a continuous mild humming sound which reassures you that it is working, along with regular small electric shocks to keep you alert. All of this means never worrying about running out of batteries and panicking about if you will be able to identify the location of your sworn enemies mine when landing your hang-glider in the desert. That’s why you need a PowerJacket today!

Note to self: You should set up an AeroNote to remind you to charge the PowerJacket itself, for next time.