If only somebody was out there turned my ideas into products, the world would be a better place: isn’t this what we all think secretly?
Now the person who had this idea has been lucky enough to turn his/her idea into reality.
This year’s Lemelson-MIT Invention Index makes an interesting read. The following infographic shows who the 1010 respondents (16-25 year old) thought was the greatest innovator of all time.
Make sense what you may but it seems rather bizarre to me that Steve Jobs, who was a genius in marketing and I adore him for all he has given us, comes as second to Edison in the list of inventors of all time. The secret may lie in the way ‘inventor’ is being understood by these young voters. As for what makes an inventor, according to a Lemelson-MIT press release, “More than half (55 percent) of young Americans cite creativity as the quality that best describes an inventor. Fewer think inventors are people who are problem solvers (24 percent), intelligent (13 percent), employed in a technical field (4 percent) or nerdy or quirky (3 percent).”
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Matt Binstead is the photographer of this extraordinary shot. The title is his and in the caption he says:
“This photo has had a lot of attention over the last few days so I thought I would re-post it. I really like this photo, but I know I could do better now with he new equipment I have and the experience of taking this one. Hopefully I will get a chance to replicate it later this year.”
via his blog
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking users to help extend and expand the right to jailbreak smartphones, tablets and gaming consoles. Here’s how to get in on the action.
Since 2010, smartphone users who want to jailbreak their devices, freeing them from manufacturer constraints, have the legal authority to do so. But that right may soon be flushed down the proverbial toilet, warns the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Luckily, there’s a way to fight back, and even expand the right to jailbreak to tablets and gaming consoles.
Chen – who also goes by her English name of Only – carried out the ceremony, complete with flower girl, cake and ring, as a protest against the pressures on women in Taiwanese society to get married.
The Taiwanese government has just stepped up its publicity campaign to encourage marriage and parenthood in order to boost the island’s very low birthrate.
Many Taiwanese women are delaying marriage because they want to have an education and a career. It is thought that they then find it hard to meet the expectations of potential husbands and parents-in-law to put housekeeping and child-rearing ahead of their jobs.
Vitalich and Jirka are a young couple who decided to have their very own special wedding, as zombies. I guess not even death can split-up these two.
Believe it or not, this is the couple’s third wedding so far. Every time they married each other. It sounds strange, I know, but they have reasonably good explanation. Their very first wedding was pretty much what you’d expect a normal wedding to be like. They did it to please their families, but felt they needed to have a new ceremony just for them.
The problem was in order to legally get married again, they had to divorce each other. And so they did. Thei second wedding was Goth-themed and their most recent one was all about zombies. They got some real cool make-up on, dyed their clothes and asked the same thing of their friends. They consider themselves normal people who just love getting married in the most unique ways.
