Innovation, Inventions and Crowdsourcing
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In 1858 Ferdinand Carré invented a cooling device, based on the work of Michael Faraday, that can work without electricity.
More recently an enterprising Adam Grosser proposed re-introducing his redesigned version Carré’s invention to parts of the world where refrigeraion is not available and where it could save lives.
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Have you ever wondered why it takes so long to come up with some inventions? The kind that make you go, “Duh! Why didn’t I think of that?”
Why did it take so long to put wheels on luggage? Why did we have to go through so many seat-belt contraptions before we settled on the current, easy-pull, easy-stow version? Remember passive restraints?
Sometimes the ideas that initially sound the most absurd are the most brilliant ones. Suppose for a moment that someone told you that they were going design a camera for blind people. Well, a design team at Samsung has done just that.
My first thought was “Why?” … My second thought was “ok, but…How?” Read the rest of this entry »