As is often the case with invention, the solution came from an existing problem.
This being the Victorian age of invention, the solution was obvious: devise a labour-saving device that would get the job done quicker.
"We have countless problem sets that are very important and do need solutions but are not technology or invention driven solutions.
The inventions offered solutions to a range of problems.
Plus, entrepreneurs are like superheroes: they create jobs, come up with brilliant inventions and solutions that didn't exist before, and find creative ways to solve problems, with no obstacle being too tough.
When you discover that in this year so far, there have been more than 2000 drowning deaths of asylum seekers in the Mediterranean, you understand that that is 2000 lifetimes worth of stories and ideas and inventions and solutions and beauty that the world will never know.
Thus, adaptations in any taxon may be described as "innovations," "inventions," or "solutions" (sometimes "ingenious" ones, no less).
Every year, over 1,000 high school kids from 72 countries and all 50 states submit to the Conrad Foundation their ideas, inventions and solutions to real world problems in one of four categories - aviation and aerospace, cyber-technology and security, energy and environment, and health and nutrition.
With war raging across continents, inaction in the face of climate change and the disparity of wealth threatening the stability of the economy and open flow of invention, an easy solution would be to point fingers and place blame.
Ironically enough, she was given the challenge (to which this invention was the solution) on the Friday before her boss went on vacation and she solved it over the weekend.
Necessity is the mother of invention, and Linköping invented a solution that was the opposite of "more of the same".
