Monthly Archives: January 2009

Invisible Hockey Pads

Forget everything you know about how hockey players are all toothless cement-headed goons. Trevor Leahy, a teen-age goalie from the Boston area, is definitely no cement-head. He has come up with an innovative design enhancement to his padding that mimics the pattern of a hockey net. The theory goes that opposing shooters, with only a [...]

The Creative Gold Mine

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about the possibilities of generating ideas by exploring concepts that occur at the intersection of two seemingly unrelated things. The things can be anything – areas of knowledge, ideas, pop culture references, etc.   Comfort Zones = Creative Traps As a Generalist, I draw upon my divergent [...]