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Invention sketches

Explore sketches, drawings, and illustrations that simplify ideas related to Invention. Discover the frameworks, principles, and tips I've sketched to make Invention topics easy to understand and share.

How canal works to allow a boat to travel uphill

Siphon illustration: how a siphon works draining a reservoir by running a water uphill, unaided, until it empties into a lower reservoir.

Chindogu example: A t-shirt with a labelled grid on the back could be a useful tool to guide someone to the exact coordinates you'd like your back scratched.

Chindogu: unuseless inventions

Cheap disposable objects

The long nose of innovation explained showing the long period of refinement and augmentation before a wow moment of technology. The long nose of innovation theory is from Bill Buxton

The Long Nose of Innovation

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