Innovation Detective Prints

'Don't throw the little silicon chips away -- we may find a use for them someday.'

"They grow up so fast."

The first car accident.

"I don’t know what your invention’s called, but it’s really irritating."

"I bet you're curious about what's going on in the R&D Department."

"Those new coffee drones are really starting to get on my nerves."

Artifishial Intelligence

STRIP Hambone: Fix it yourself

'Ideas.com' desk with a 'come' tray and a 'gone' tray.

"I don't think our smart home likes the color we painted it. It keeps spitting it out."

Boom

'Mark my word, Walters, this is no ordinary virus.'

"I'm afraid your Apple goggles aren't compatible with your X brain implant."

'The school computers are six months old. How can I be expected to be competitive in the job market if I'm trained on obsolete equipment?'

Before the development of the microchip, attempts to build a laptop computer were largely unsuccessful.

"I'm pretty sure my self-driving car is moonlighting for Uber behind my back."

"Gentlemen, may I present our company's future. A buggy whip... with Bluetooth!"

Space for Lease.

"It will scare away our competitors."

"It's a self-driving skateboard."

'We're beta testing Goo-Goo Glass.'

'Okay, let's go over this again: You tell me your great ideas, I repeat them back to you, then you tell me I have a great idea and I get all the credit for it!'

Food manufacturing industry in a soup.

Academics at the Beach: Professor Stints wears his patented total sun-blocking suit.

Henry Fox Talbot

'I'm afraid this is going to lead to regulation of my invention.'

"Our company is going to embrace cutting edge change...that's why the room is full of old white guys waiting for me to load a motivational video into a VCR."

Change, Change, Change, Change.

'We're conducting experiments to dertermine which has a longer life, new phone technology, or a fruit fly.'

"It's even more controversial than uber. It's a driverless taxi."

"A possible eureka."

"What if it's smarter than us?"

"I've solved our chip shortage."

'The bouncing dot.com. bomb.'

Man with candle in thought bubble, "Ideas before Edison"