Innovation Watcher Pillows

'This appliance will replace that other appliance which replaced all those original appliances.'

The first car accident.

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

Artifishial Intelligence

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

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

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

Republicans and Democrats debate while the US economy drowns.

'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?'

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

Space for Lease.

"It will scare away our competitors."

'Mark my words! Our enemies will test this young guy with a huge international crisis as soon as he's electe! But don't worry, he'll be fine!', 'Come here, Joe -- let me give you a nice fist bump!'

"It's a self-driving skateboard."

The North Portico of the White House runs away crying.

'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!'

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.

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

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

'Our ratings are down. Let's blame it on the media.'

"I'm not an AI, I'm a human being."

Busy, Busy, Busy

Patent Office: ". . . It's a phoneless cord."

"The search for a new painkiller has been a real headache."

One-man band - One-man office

DNA Lab. I spliced bee DNA into a dam-building rodent

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

'The bouncing dot.com. bomb.'

"I worked on an early version of the Cloud. I call it the Fog because it never got off the ground."

The successful rubbernecker...

Early design for the Two-Man Kayak.