A nearly instant success, Fifty/50 fired interest in the look that would later become known and fetishized as "midcentury modern".
Many of the other projects on show at the Faire were designed to catch the attention of children to fire an interest in electronics and home hacking.
Overall, Reller hopes the 'Blue' update and a slew of attractive touch-laptops will fire up interest in Windows machines in all forms.
Inevitably, the Nobel has fired new interest in her work.
"The crisis kindled America's social imagination," he notes, "firing enormous interest in how ordinary people lived, how they suffered, interacted, took pleasure in one another, and endured".
He met other aliens, including Arthur Koestler, Robert Maxwell and, most notably, a Russian soldier, who fired his interest in the language and the country.
"I do feel like I'm connecting to traditional female pursuits when I'm crafting," she says, "and Bust really re-fired my interest in knitting a few years ago".
The company, which won the 2012 Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge, was co-founded by CEO Molly Morse after her PhD studies at Stanford University fired her interest in naturally occurring biopolymers called PHA – a naturally-made polyester.
This has fired up interest, in Europe as well as America, in "macroprudential regulation": the notion that regulators must supplement "micro" supervision of individual firms by looking across entire markets and industries for risks that threaten the whole system.This is much harder in practice than in theory.
Today's top stories: An article in the next issue of Forbes magazine that details merger talks between Chase Manhattan Bank and Merrill Lynch fired up interest in financial stocks.
