Overlooked Innovations: Spin Dry Mop Bucket
The Mopking super spin dry mop uses centrifugal force to remove the water from the mop. This saves work, produces a better result, and is more convenient. This one is powered by a foot pedal but they also make a rechargeable battery powered bucket that can even be used by handicapped people.
This is the first of a new category of articles I’ll be making that reveals overlooked innovations. Even though there was a large need and no technological barriers, this innovation was overlooked for more than 100 years. The primary reason this rather simple but vastly better innovation was overlooked is people had accepted a single paradigm and only made incremental changes. The concept of squeezing a rag to dry it out was passed along to mops and has remained for thousands of years. There are dozens of much better ways of achieving the goals of mopping which have been overlooked. This tendency to focus on one concept then drag it along even when it is clearly only marginally satisfying users applies to every area of life. The Predictive Innovation® helps you break out of that trap.
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Is P vs NP solved?
Vinay Deolalikar from HP Labs claims he may have solved the P vs NP problem proving that P ≠ NP. It’s literally a million dollar problem. Millennium Prize is offering $1,000,000 for the solution. This is very important for a range of problems including: cryptography, logistics, biology, mathematics, and innovation.
If P ≠ NP is true, it would allow a person to formally show that a problem cannot be solved efficiently, so attention could be focused on partial solutions or solutions to other problems. Or as I say in my talks about applying information theory to science, “Being able to prove something is impossible helps you focus on the things that might be possible.”
The other implication is that some problems can be proven to be harder to solve than to test that the solution is true. This is very important to cryptography. If P = NP then many of the encryption methods would be easy to break and would need to be changed.
Hard to solve, easy to check also directly relates to innovation. I run into this all the time. A company has what they believe is an impossible problem. After we apply the Predictive Innovation® and find the solution they think the solution was obvious. It was far easier to check the answer than it was to solve the problem. In fact it was so easy to check the answer they didn’t understand why it was so hard to find in the first place. I would not be surprised if P ≠ NP was proved.
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