Last week we had dinner with Nancy H at The White Chocolate Grille in North Scottsdale. The door to the very nice restaurant is large and very hard to open. I asked about it at the host stand and was told that sometimes it is very windy and it will blow open on its own if it isn’t strong.

It gave me an idea that you could invent a door that had a remote Bluetooth sensor on the roof that adjusted the pull based on the wind speed. This I thought is a great new invention idea so I resolved to put it on the blog. A few days later while composing the blog post in my head I realized that if your going to mess around with sensors and electricity why not just electrify the door like they do in supermarkets. Proven technology already exists to solve the White Chocolate Grille’s problem. I wonder why they don’t use it.

The picture is from a decade ago in Chowchilla, California.