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Philosophy and Stone
The principle of extreme inventing is that you have to capture a property of a found object and incorporate it into what becomes a technical system. In our first two examples the found objects from...
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METhCheMEm
The good looking fellow here is the late and great Genric Altshuller, the Russian engineer-inventor famous (in some circles at least) for devising the most comprehensive design methodology there ever...
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Enchanted
Highly polished axe heads like the one shown here have been found all over Europe. It represents a category of extreme inventing I’ve called the social object. This example was found in Britain and is...
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Extreme Picks
Another good example of extreme inventing, exemplary in fact. This is a pick made from deer antler and used for digging in prehistoric times. Examples are found all over Europe. Recalling that extreme...
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Takes two to tangle
Using a spider’s web to catch a fish. A truly fascinating case of extreme inventing. Like many, I came across this technique while watching a BBC series about the islands of the South Pacific. Fish are...
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