Here’s One For You James…

Footage from the Australian Open tennis tournament was on the news earlier this week, including the closing moments of the men’s wheelchair final. For able-bodied individuals to fling themselves around a tennis court is demanding enough, but doing it in any kind of vehicle while brandishing a racquet and having balls belted towards you at tip-top speed must be nigh-on impossible.

“They should invent wheelchairs with those balls underneath, like Dysons,” mused my wife while we sat there, hugely impressed at the ability of the individuals taking part.

Come on James! Let’s see you put your Ball™ Technology to good use and come up with an ultra-maneuverable chair. Balance would, of course, be the primary obstacle – maybe four little rocket boosters could be used to steady the device – but such problems should be mere piffle to an engineer of JD’s undoubted talents. The man is, after all, worth £1.1 bn. (I’ll say it again - 1.1 billion pounds)…

Right, I’ll shut up about him now (though I can’t believe he’s been allowed to trademark the word “Ball”…)