http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/arts/10innovative.html
I really enjoyed this article by Patricia Cohen from the NY Times as it brought me to the video I pasted in below about a guy who build his own scanner. He described the process in detail that was kind of "inside baseball" but fascinating as he's giving the DIY process away and telling how it is possible to do this with a little programming prowess, some ingenuity and a lot of creative energy and collaboration. He talks about the people in the process as that is the most important element of where good ideas come from. The video is nothing special and the beginning is a little annoying as the shooter is getting into position but has the camera running.
But Cohen's article is interesting because she talks about producers and innovators as being essential to the process of developing good ideas. Now, this is not just in creating entirely new things, but modifying existing material and "things"for the better of society and often fun. It reminded me of my friend Jeff Taylor, who showed some Super-8 film at a party of early snowboarding in Utah where they lashed longboards to their boots and careened down the slopes in the 1980's.
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