Invention Afficionado Gifts

"Congratulations on your invention...but you don't have to rub it in."

'The wheel was great, but what have you done for me lately?'

Robots search for people's personal information in the cloud.

'Let's not go by the book.'

"What's a patent?"

'I told you it would be useful.'

"I guess it's ethical. Let me run it through my 'Ethics Check' app."

"There's smart phones and smart cars, so why can't there be smart rooms that clean themselves?"

"She's been so creative lately."

"Meet the author"

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

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

'Some of those youngsters have come up with a terrific new idea - feathers.'

'First you forget logarithms. Then you forget how to do long division. Then the multiplication table begins to go...'

What can I do? He says it's his thinking cap.

"He's taught himself work-life balance."

"I need a deeper access to his brain. Only google has the records."

Ascent of Machine.

'Can our software do that?'

'...and in 1/100000 of a second, it can compound the programmer's error 87,500 times.'

"Think outside the box but never forget who owns the box."

"If you're smart enough to design a robot to do your homework, then you're certainly smart enough to just do your homework."

Eureka!

'I want you to paddle against the current.'

"Is it just a scary coincidence that the words 'changes' and 'unknown' both have 7 letters?"

Creative department

"Hey, remember a few days ago, when all this was unacceptable?"

Early cyborg.

'It's one of these new phones that takes photographs.'

"What if, instead of the safe being filled with rawhide, it's filled with catnip and mice!" "No one will buy it." "Drugs and rodents? Who's our demographic?" "The Simpsons already did that."

Driverless cars rage.

'I solved the problem of dead zones on my cell phone with a personal satellite,'