Examples of Novelty,innovation & invention

this is a pistol gun hairdryer,how cool it is! :D





here are some novelty teapots,that can make out tea time better! :)




this is a bottle opener. at the same time, it's also a voice recorder.




a muscular body image apron,give a sense of humour when a housewife or a woman wearing it while cooking!
wow! a sevil devil apron :) a novelty design that i found online..

"Being creative is seeing the same thing as everybody else

but thinking of something different."

---Shekerjian,1990---

Thomas Edison, the father of invention:)
thanks to him, we can have a much more easy life with his creative ideas.

Lesson Two:Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention

Novelty: from Latin word it means "new".

Novelty is the quality of being new. A new style of art coming into being, it essentially exists in the subjective perceptions of individuals.
Novelty is a rare word that used in creative world. It define as a "Quality of Being New".
Novelty is an important explanatory principle in its own right, at least if what is meant by "explanatory principle" is a principle essential to metaphysical explanation or understanding".


Innovation: a new way of doing something or "new stuff that is made useful".

Innovation may refer to incremental and emergent or radical and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations.

The goal of innovation is positive change, to make someone or something better.



Invention: a new composition, device, or process.

An invention may be derived from a pre-existing model or idea, or it could be independently conceived in which case it may be a radical breakthrough.

Invention has a long and important history in the arts. Inventive thinking has always played a vital role in the creative process. While some inventions in the arts are patentable, others are not because they cannot fulfill the strict requirements governments have established for granting them.



Define:
Novelty
The concept that the claims must be totally new.

Innovation
The introduction of new ideas or methods.

Invention
The creation of a new configuration, composition of matter, device, or process.



My opinion:

1.Novelty is the quality of being new, Subjective novelty is the apperception of something as being new by an individual or a group of persons, but Objective novelty is something new for all humanity in its development through ages.
It's something "novel", which looks more striking, unusual, something creative. the term can have pejorative sense.

2.Innovation is also like bringing something new, like new ideas or make changes. It's the process of making IMPROVEMENTS, the realization of a creative idea in a social context, and it must be replicable at an economical cost and satisfy a specific need.

3. Invention.
The innovator have to create a totally new markets for the new product. But anyways, there still a less risky strategy for innovation & invention. Thats the imitator improve the new product that created by the revolutionary-innovator, to satisfy the demand with more efficient approach.

Another Articles About Creative Thinking:Creative Thinking—Make It a Habit!

Creative Thinking—Make It a Habit!
by Jack Oliver, Ph.D.

Dr. Oliver, a geophysicist, is the Irving Porter Church Professor of Engineering at Cornell University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and former president of the Geological Society of America and the Seismological Society of America. Dr. Oliver is author of The Incomplete Guide to the Art of Discovery, (Columbia University Press, New York 1991).

There is something mysterious about creativity. We can describe it, admire it, strive for it and experience it, but we can never understand just how or why a certain innovative idea springs up at a particular time in the mind of a particular individual. Indeed, most people never expect to understand or master that process. Let's hope we do not, for our world would be far more dreary if we ever fully harnessed the creative process and learned to produce results only on schedule or on demand.

On the other hand, we can imagine a brighter future if we were able to stimulate the creative process and produce more innovations. Can we, indeed, take action to stimulate creativity?

Some say "no," that due to their mysterious origins, creative acts can only arise without warning to those blessed by fate. According to this line of thinking, it's inappropriate or even futile to encourage creativity.

I don't subscribe to such a dismal view; I think investigations in the history of innovation show that we can, indeed, enhance our creativity. These studies show that creativity is repeatedly associated with certain types of behavior and reasoning. I do not mean to imply that a simple formula can be derived, or that one technique will work for everybody, or that success is guaranteed. But based on the historical record, certain steps seem likely to increase your creativity.

Restless?

Begin by conditioning yourself to be restless and uneasy about the status quo. Don't overlook the familiar just because you've seen it so often. Rather make yourself even more aware of it, then change the pattern slightly. If you invariably drive to the supermarket along a particular route, try a new one. If your spouse always buys the groceries while you return books to the library, switch jobs. If you eat a grapefruit like everyone else — one half at a sitting — eat both halves and compare the taste. (This exercise may astonish you!). If you always make a measurement or an evaluation in a fixed manner, change your routine. Sooner or later — I'd bet quicker than you expect — breaking your routine will help you invent an improved process or idea.

Force your mind to see things differently — in a new light, from a new angle, from another scale of time or distance, or from the perspective of someone with a different background. Explore beyond the bounds of your expertise — you may have the exact perspective needed by a colleague in another field.

If you have the germ of a good idea, preserve it by jotting it down immediately. Then, when you have time, think the idea through until you discard it as worthless or elevate it to the "significant" category. Great writers often scribble inspired thoughts when they arise, then subject them to the time-honored writer's formula: "l) revise 2) revise and 3) revise again." Consider your idea a rough draft that needs to be polished by a few cycles through the idea-processor.

Getting Useful Ideas

Bare bones ideas are plentiful, but the trick is to identify the good ones. Ideas derive their importance and durability in relation to data, problems and other ideas. In other words, ideas must be tested against reality. Good ideas will have two effects. They will be useful in their original context and they will create surprising, intriguing connections among things that once seemed to exist in separate contexts.

Divide your thinking into two distinct styles. One style should promote carefree, blissful dreaming. Would these compounds rapidly combine if "A" were true? What wonderful process could we invent occur if "B" were correct? Questions like these help you outline the fragile essence of an idea.

Then, once the idea is fleshed out, energize your analytical thinking. Test your idea against the data in the most dispassionate, objective manner. Most dreams deserve to fail, and it's best that you scuttle them, rather than allowing someone else the chance.

Do not be constrained by the critical side while you dream, but be sure to use those "reality-checks" once the idea has taken shape. In other words, learn to bounce back and forth from dreamer to critic.

Adapt an idea from elsewhere if necessary. (Naturally, be sure to give the originator credit in an ethical manner.) If you admire a new product in another field, immediately try to apply the underlying idea as a springboard for improving something else.

Creative-thinking Time

Schedule regular times for creative thinking. I walk to and from work daily, about 35 minutes each way. After many years of following the same route (sometimes I do vary it!), the journey is routine, but I've dedicated the walk as a scheduled time for free, creative thinking, for dreaming, for envisioning what might happen, for devising imaginative solutions. I jot down my ideas immediately after reaching my destination.

I also use sporadic, spontaneous times for creative thinking. At meetings of scientific societies, for example, I'm often so stimulated by news and unconventional events that I have difficulty sleeping. Those sleepless nights usually produce lots of ideas, some of them quite usable.

I think the fundamentals for improving creativity are pretty clear from the literature on history's successful innovators. If this is true, then why not follow their lead — and improve upon their techniques?

In its essence, my advice is, "to be creative, think creatively". Don't muddle around hoping for a great idea to strike like a bolt of lightning. Train yourself to think in ways that have worked for others. Everyone knows a habit can be acquired through repetition. Why not make thinking creatively a habit?

om the article above:

1) Try another way on what you are doing daily.
2) Think differently from different angle.
3) When come out idea, jot it down quickly.
4) Ideas must be tested against reality.
5) Bounce back and forth from dreamer to critic.

"to be creative, think creatively"

make thinking creatively a habit

Article of Creative Thinking:Techniques for Creative Thinking

Techniques for Creative Thinking: Yes, They Work
by Gary A. Davis, Ph.D.

Dr. Davis, Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is author of Creativity is Forever (3rd ed. 1992), Kendall/Hunt Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa.

Creativity techniques are deliberate thinking processes designed to help find ideas and solve problems. They are not mental tricks dreamed up by ivory-tower professors but rather strategies used by many—if not all—productive, creative people. Although the techniques are not complicated, most people are uncomfortable using someone else's thinking or problem-solving methods.

Nonetheless, you might be pleasantly surprised after trying some of the following strategies. They have worked for many others.

Analogical Thinking

The most common creative process is analogical thinking--the transfer of an idea from one context to a new one. Perhaps 80 percent of creative ideas are rooted in analogical thinking, and examples abound in every field of human creativity.

In music, Aaron Copeland's Appalachian Spring was based on the Quaker folk tune, Simple Gifts. You may know that the U.S. national anthem Star Spangled Banner originated as an English drinking song. And the Broadway musical Cats was based on T. S. Eliot's Book of Practical Cats.

Political cartoonists and creators of cartoon strips continually borrow ideas from movies, television commercials, the Bible, children's stories, and the headlines. Remember the caricature of Ronald Reagan, Ronbo? Did you notice the caption by cartoonist Gary Larson: "Moses as a kid," under a boy who was raising his arms to part the milk in his glass? Many movies, from Gone with the Wind to The Ten Commandments, derive from historical or Biblical themes.

We also see analogical thinking in the mechanical realm. The irreplaceable fastener Velcro was inspired by the obnoxious cocklebur. Gutenberg's printing press was a combination of the stamper used for minting coins and a wine press. Eli Whitney was inspired to invent the cotton gin after watching a cat pluck at a chicken through a fence. The resulting pawful of feathers apparently reminded him of cotton fibers.

One technique is asking how nature has solved a similar problem. Pringles Potato Chips were conceived via the analogy of wet leaves--which stack compactly and do not destroy themselves. Darwin reversed the situation, using a human solution to explain a natural phenomenon: His origin of species explanation stemmed from selective cattle breeding practices.

Finally, virtually every architect and designer keeps stacks of books and magazines filled with ideas waiting to be adopted.

But you need not sit back and wait for analogous connections to appear by themselves. Analogical thinking can be a conscious technique if you deliberately ask questions like these:
"What else is like this?"
"What have others done?"
"Where can I find an idea?"
"What ideas can I modify to fit my problem?"

Brainstorming

The granddaddy creative technique, brainstorming, was the brainchild of Alex Osborn, co-founder of a major advertising agency. The procedure is simple and familiar. First you devise wild--even preposterous--ideas, and jot down every one. But the key is this: save the criticism and evaluation until this process is completed. Osborn tells us, with disarming logic, that we cannot simultaneously be creative and critical. Furthermore, he adds, wild ideas can often be "tamed" into workable solutions.

Although most people consider brainstorming a group technique, you can brainstorm by yourself as well as before a large audience. But the recommended small group, with 10 or 12 members, is usually suitable to a variety of situations. Brainstorming, I'd say, has survived for half a century because it works.

Attribute Listing

While brainstorming is a general procedure, attribute listing is a specific idea-finding technique (one that could even be used while brainstorming). You identify the key characteristics, or attributes, of the product or process in question. Then you think up ways to change, modify, or improve each attribute (in design engineering this is called the substitution method).

Almost anyone can "disassemble" a product into its attributes and then think of modifications for most of them. For example, a can of soda has these attributes: size, shape, color, color pattern, decorative theme, material, possible uses after modification, other audiences for the product if modified. Can you invent alterations for each of these attributes? Fran Stryker supplied himself with plots for Lone Ranger radio and television episodes for a couple of decades by modifying these characteristics: characters, goals, obstacles, and outcomes.

Morphological Synthesis Morphological synthesis is a simple elaboration of attribute listing. After completing the list of attributes, list changes in one attribute (such as “products”) along the horizontal axis, and list changes in a second attribute (such as “markets”) along the vertical axis. Idea combinations, or syntheses, will appear in the intersections, or cells, of the table. Morphological synthesis will force you to look at many surprising combinations.

Idea Checklists

Have you ever consulted a telephone directory or a supplier's catalog as a "checklist" of resources or ideas for solving problems? You may not know that checklists have been written expressly to solve problems creatively. The best known is Osborn's "73 Idea Spurring Questions." Consider how you would invent a better mousetrap as you read these examples from his idea checklist:

Put to other uses? New ways to use as is? Other uses if modified?
Modify? New twist? Change meaning, color, motion, sound, form? Other changes?
Magnify? What to add? Greater frequency? Longer? Extra value? Duplicate? Multiply? Exaggerate?
Minify? What to subtract? Condensed? Miniature? Lighter? Split up? Understate?
Rearrange? Interchange components? Other sequence? Change schedule?
Combine? How about a blend, an assortment? Combine units? Combine purposes? Combine appeals?

Of course, none of these techniques is guaranteed to solve your research problems. But they can help you find ideas without forcing you to wait for an uncooperative muse.

Lesson One: Creativity

Creative: A different thinking mind.
Creativity: Creative mind come out with new ideas or concepts.

Creative is having a power to create.
Creativity is having a creative imagination and doing work or thing in different or new way.

To identify and to define the meaning of the word creative and creativity

According to the slides lecture :

1. Only special talented people are creative.

2. Being creative is hard.

3. Problems are in our life to make it more difficult.

4. I am not creative.

5. Innovation is the domain of geniuses.

6. I have to have brand new ideas in order for me to be considered creative.

7. Brainstorming is hard work.

8. Only artists need to be creative.

9. Writer’s block is a greatest obstacle in the creative process.

10. Using structured creative techniques will hinder my ability to be creative.

Something that i learnt is :

The myth of creativity:

1.Only special people are creative.

It's quite true that some people think that only the "special ones" are talented. Like how

we have the perception that engineering students cannot be creative or have an artistic skills. But it's a wrong perception and can be considered a stereotype.

2. Creativity is hard.

I feel that it's hard. But if you set your mind, that you can be creative, then I think it's possible.

Creativity is an attitude, combine with effort; 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration- Thomas Edison

i like this quote because this shows he wanted to be creative thats why he worked hard for it with his efforts.

3. Creativity is only for artist.

I personally feel that this is wrong. Because creativity is everyone. Being creative is somehow in us, as we are people of innovative skills and having the ability to think of something different. So I think it comes back to whether or not we want to be creative and think differently.

So What is Creativity?
-Creativity is the ability to imagine or invent something new.
-Creativity is an attitude: the ability to accept change and newness, a willingness to play with ideas and possibilities, a flexibility of outlook.
-Creative people work hard and continually to improve ideas and solutions, by making gradual alterations and refinements to their works.

Characteristics of the creative personality:

1.Creative individuals have a great deal of energy, but they are also often quiet & at rest.

2.Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time.

3.Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

4.Creative individuals alternate between imagination and fantasy ant one end, and rooted sense of reality at the other.

5.Creative people seem to harbor opposite tendencies on the continuum between extroversion and introversion.

6.Creative individuals are also remarkable humble and proud at the same time.

7.Creative individuals to a certain extent escape rigid gender role stereotyping and have a tendency toward androgyny.

8.Generally, creative people are thought to be rebellious and independent.

9.Most creative persons are very passionate about their work, yet they can be extremely objective about it as well.

10.The openness and sensitivity of creative individuals often exposes them to suffering pain yet also a great deal of enjoyment.

Before i end my first blog,

My opinion is, the main idea of being creativity is thinking and hard work. If you keep on thinking but not doing something, that is imagination only. But if you create it out, it will become a creativity design or artwork. That is how brainstorming is useful for us to come out with ideas.