PurpleFrog
Kona Fan
If anyone wants to read a book on real technical innovation and the problems involved then this very short one is outstanding:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Good-Turn-N ... 0684867303
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Good_Turn_%28book%29
..The mass production of interchangeable screws sounds boring, but it was actually the key step in the creation of modern technology: it was when the very difficult problem of how to make things to extremely small tolerances using just seconds per it of (relatively) unskilled labour was solved. This required new ways of measuring things and of controlling machinery; the intellectual effort was immense and the result changed industry and society. That - creation of something new and unobvious - is invention. Making an adult-sized BMX using the most obvious components possible in the middle of a BMX boom, and then getting your marketing department to keep other people's names out as much as possible, not so much.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Good-Turn-N ... 0684867303
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Good_Turn_%28book%29
..The mass production of interchangeable screws sounds boring, but it was actually the key step in the creation of modern technology: it was when the very difficult problem of how to make things to extremely small tolerances using just seconds per it of (relatively) unskilled labour was solved. This required new ways of measuring things and of controlling machinery; the intellectual effort was immense and the result changed industry and society. That - creation of something new and unobvious - is invention. Making an adult-sized BMX using the most obvious components possible in the middle of a BMX boom, and then getting your marketing department to keep other people's names out as much as possible, not so much.