My daughter has a large number of play things like toys, books, pens, crayons, papers etc. Every day, she manages to find time to spend with each of these objects and as a result, at the end of the day, all these get scattered all over the house and by evening, it goes into a state where you cannot find "what is where"! Putting all these things back to their respective places is a very tedious and time consuming task which becomes even more difficult when you are already sleepy :-)
How nice it would be if things were like Toy Story? If all these things are capable of self cleaning / self arrangement? If we can command all these objects to go back to their respective at the required time or a scheduled time, life would have been much, much simpler and beautiful. If they can talk to each other and find their capabilities, can the cooperate to get themselves organized? Say, those who cannot go by themselves will ask the toy truck/car to help them... They could make dynamic structures (like steps) by arranging themselves and help some one else to climb up into a cupboard.
OK... may be I am going a bit too fast... at least is it possible for them to separate out and get arranged on the ground based on the categories? Say all pens should group together, books should come to the same corner, the toys should go to a different room? Say, all of them should have something like a switchable magnet inside their bodies. And I should have an equipment which can switch on these batteries selectively (say based on group - switch it on for all pens) and also has a stronger magnet with which it can pull up the guys with the magnets switched on. So the only thing I need to do will be to walk around the house a few times switching each group once to collect all the respective stuff... Any other ideas?
