Where can you find ideas and concept to help in human innovation? Well one place is to study the works of those who are designing toys. That's right toy technologies. You know I have always thought that the Toy industry is a great place for innovation, because the stuff they come up with is way out and probably something no one would ever fund, but it works.
All sorts of cool aerospace designs, robotics, military kids toys and stuff. In fact I now live in a mobile command center myself, an idea basically from the GI JOE toy - Interesting indeed. It seems that borrowing ideas and concepts from Toy Designers makes a lot of sense really. I think a good engineer might find a great home making toys, RC and such and without the stress, sounds fun.
Currently, the average age of the aerospace engineers is 57 years old - that means we will need a whole new generation of designers and innovators, but even with all the kids in engineering school today, it is not even a fraction of what we will need. We may need to recruit some of these toy designers to give us a helping hand other wise we are going to be in for some dire problems in the future.
Perhaps the technology toy makers and designers can transform fantasy into the reality for the future of the most important human endeavors. You have to admit that it makes a lot of sense, because these folks have been making scaled models for years, so let's graduate them to the real thing.
