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The Weekly Inventions of
Dr Splatterjacket

A mirror is on a wall on a hinge. It has clearly in the open position, folded back what it has revealed is an ironing board also on a hinge which has been let down so it is ready to iron. On top is an iron. Inside the empty space where the ironing board usually sits is some writing which says ReflectPress.

ReflectPress

25th July 2026

Now that my clothes had finished drying in the DryLearn, I faced another situation where I needed to do two things at once.

Firstly, I needed to iron my clothes.

Secondly, I needed to think about all of the recent accidents.

George accidentally buying my mine.

George accidentally turning off the power to my house.

George accidentally tipping a bathtub full of water over me.

All of these accidents kept happening, and now I needed to combine everything I had learned from my educational podcast and work out what it all meant.

Normally, when ironing, I use my IronMeet, allowing me to flatten shirts while conducting important business meetings. But I didn't need important business meetings. I needed important thinking.

Trying to resolve this problem would probably get you so confused that you started using turnips as ear muffs, but not me because I had ReflectPress.

ReflectPress is a revolutionary system where on your wall you have a double-sided mirror-based reflecting device which can swing open to reveal an ironing board and iron. Genius.

I quickly fired mine up and started ironing my clothes… and reflecting on the situation.

I thought about it really hard. What were the facts?

1) George had been involved in a number of accidents… well we can’t blame him for that… accidents do happen.

2) George was having a bad day because he had to go to an important business meeting leaving me to be free to issue myself a ticket to his mine and have another accident… well we can’t blame him for that… the meeting was important.

3) I had been having a bad day because I had accidentally sold my mine, and then had my mine closed, and then the power to my house had been accidentally turned off, and then I had been accidentally drenched in water… to say nothing of the fact that I’d also run out of all of the soap for my SoapSteps

4) Could I think of anyone who was having a worse day than me? Yes… there was one… Zargoid 5. Zargoid 5 was on holiday… and he hated being on holiday when there was mining to do.

Maybe Zargoid 5 would have an idea about what to do next?

I decided to ask Dennis to go off and ask him what to do, but first Dennis would have to find Zargoid 5.

Dr Splatterjacket sitting at a desk talking to his gerbil Dennis.

I asked Dennis if he was up for the task… he look a quick reflect in the ReflectPress and decided he was. He set off immediately.

I changed back into my clothes and realised that I enjoyed ReflectPressing so much that I might actually go and wash some clean clothes just to be able to ReflectPress them again. You should really get yourself one of these!

Note to self: I hope Dennis keeps himself safe. I would get lonely without him.