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Toyota’s new robot can play the violin

Toyota’s new robot can play the violin

May-14-10 By Paul Wagorn
Toyota is of course very well known for making cars, but not really for making robots - this is Honda domain. That being said, Toyota has been working on this robot for 3 years, and has now decided that it is ready for public viewing.
Why Didn’t I think of that?

Why Didn’t I think of that?

Feb-15-10 By Paul Wagorn
Frustration often begets creativity and innovation.
Micheal Jackson’s patent

Micheal Jackson’s patent

Oct-13-09 By Paul Wagorn
Not all inventions are new cars that run on strange fuels, new drugs that cure cancer or novel methods of digging wells in the third world.  Sometimes, patents are issued for devices that simply entertain us.  This leads us to Micheal Jackson:
Innovation and invention: Why didn’t I think of that?

Innovation and invention: Why didn’t I think of that?

Sep-10-09 By Paul Wagorn
Sometimes a picture needs almost no explanation:
Key/Keyring combo is all too easy

Key/Keyring combo is all too easy

Jul-09-09 By Paul Wagorn
This is to be filed in the "why didn't I think of that?" folder. Sometimes an idea doesn't have to be complicated, expensive or difficult understand to be creative and useful.

The picture says it all:
Video games for kids that are played..outside?

Video games for kids that are played..outside?

Jul-07-09 By Paul Wagorn
Sometimes innovation comes from completely discarding most everything about an idea that defines it.  One of the major complaints about videos games for kids is that they keep kids indoors, staring at a computer screen or television when they could should be outside playing and getting some exercise.

Playing video games makes us forget how fun it is to actually play outdoors with friends - Why not get rid of the television?  Why not take the gaming console outside?
Toilet analyzes your stool and beams health results to your cellphone

Toilet analyzes your stool and beams health results to your cellphone

Apr-06-09 By Paul Wagorn
The Japanese are an innovative bunch. Everything from cellphones to cars and TV's have benefited from the Japanese pass time of making products better more interesting.

The latest device coming from Japan is a terminal that gets attached to toilets made by the toilet giant Imax. It analyzes your stool and gives you an instant health report to your cell phone.  Japanese toilets have always been a few steps ahead of the west, but this product even takes thinks a step further.
Creative people are crazy

Creative people are crazy

Feb-25-09 By Paul Wagorn
When I was a child, a doctor once told me that he suspected that I might have attention deficit disorder - ADD (or ADHD as it's now called).  He went on to say "..but, only a touch of it.  Basically enough to make you creative". I suspect that he was joking at the time, but it always made me wonder.
A story about a physics exam…

A story about a physics exam…

Oct-15-08 By Paul Wagorn
Sometimes it's easy to get caught within the bounds of where an accepted solution "should" come from.  We need to look a the tools that we are given,  and get creative not just with the solution, but with the tools themselves.

The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen.  The story goes like this:
The Speed Vest

The Speed Vest

Sep-18-08 By Paul Wagorn
Sometimes someone comes up with something that makes everyone else think "Why didn't I think of that ?"

Have you ever outpaced cars and been honked at? Had a car almost wipe you out while making a turn? Do you ever ride your bike so fast that you wish that everyone else could know how close to the speed of light you were? Or sometimes are you riding your bike, cars honking impatiently behind you, wishing that they knew you were actually going more than 10 mph? Or maybe you just want to show off to your buddies that you left in your dust!

Enter... the speed vest!

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