Innovations for Life

It has been a slow day for me, so for inspiration I went to my personal web archives and found this from about a month ago, which I now offer up to you...

2007 Breakthrough Awards from Popular Mechanics

Classic examples of Yankee ingenuity and creativity. And wherewithal to nurture an idea to life. We need to make better examples of these types of people in our schools and communities. They are the ones who make the leaps that make all our lives safer, more comfortable, and more efficient.

My personal favorite: The hands-on computer (seen above) wins for most cool, while I highly admire the spunk of the young chemist to find an economical fix to a world-wide problem.