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People come up with ideas for frustrating things they have a lot of contact with; seemingly every HGV driver has "invented" a way to automate matching cab (ie tractor) plates to trailer plates.

People buy cheap umbrellas, they suck, the people imagine better umbrellas that cost more: goto START.

A 9yo of my acquaintance is really inventive; he often says "what if we had something that would ...", yes, if you'd invented and developed that 50 years ago you'd have been a multi-millionaire.

A lot of inventions arise naturally out of a creative mind being confronted with the problem.



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