Interesting post Boyd. I have just finished
a fairly exhaustive look back at many of the major
inventions in last 200 years. Care to guess
at what the #1 technique was for inventing
highly successful products? Serendipity. That's
right, most of them were created to solve a
smaller problem or simply were stumbled upon
by accident - much like your web surfing example.

The halfbakery site is just super. Very closely
aligned with what master innovator Joey Reiman
talks about in his book "Thinking for a Living"
He talks about ideas being this generations real
currency. In fact, his newest project has taken
him from years in the advertising industry to
running idea generation groups.

Fascinating topic.

> Some people get frustrated by search engine
> results that they deem irrelevant.
> To me, they are just great new
> opportunities. Let me tell you about a
> couple of totally amazing things I found,
> while looking for something else.
> Ever run short of ideas for product ideas,
> or wondered if something completely off the
> wall would fly? If you thought custard
> filled speed bumps, or a head-mounted
> Presence Denier would be cool,then you need
> to check out:
> http://www.halfbakery.com/ Now you may not
> think of yourself as an artist, or you may
> have considered it as a career and rejected
> it on the grounds of not wanting to starve
> in a garret, but whatever your stance on
> art, I suggest you download the free book
> at:
> http://www.innisart.com/ its, quirky,
> funny, and really useful, whatever creative
> field you are in.
> I have NO personal or commercial interest in
> either of these sites. They are just random
> gems among the mundane and dross.

> ;




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