Innovation Invoker Mugs

Humans rarely use cash anymore. It's all electronic transfers in and out. Computer algorithms target them with ads, telling them what to buy. More and more, computer programs select marriage partners for them. And now we're seeing electronics override human drivers in cars! Only alarmists worry about electronic devices taking over the world and controlling our lives. Sometimes they are just so funny!

The Department of Really Stupid Ideas: 'Most people think they just appear out of thin air! But the truth is, there's a great deal of very hard work involved!'

"My older self travels back just to remind me to put the cap back on this pen?"

Valuable business advice from some famous disruptive technologies.

Though he created more than 300 products from peanuts, George Washington Carver was unable to change even one of them back into a peanut.

'We've financed three more startups for no fathomable reason.'

'Our parents were replaced by machines - We'll be replaced with new software.'

The first car accident.

' A good idea '

'It's not easy being ahead of your time.'

'Smith, we need more creativity. You have to learn to think outside the box.'

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

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

Robotic Man

"Dammit, Johnson. You've got to start thinking outside of the box."

Empty box of ideas

Eureka!

"You have to believe what you're doing will lead to something valuable, even though it probably won't."

'Hey weirdo, where do you think you're going?'

Robots In The Boardroom

'A wheel? No wonder I broke a tooth. I thought it was a donut.'

Bob invents a device that electrically shocks anyone who calls between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.

Early Adopter...Early Opt-Outer

"This new chair has the smoothest 360 swivel action on the market!"

Sport Utility Boot.

The original paperless office

Artifishial Intelligence

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

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

"Early model of baggage claim"

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

'I've found a way to improve on light beer!'

Computer Hitching a Ride to Silicon Valley

A balloon seller is selling thought bubble balloons

"Ralph's smart car not only drives better than he does, it also works better. So we fired him and hired the car."