Enrichment
Wonderful examples of cross-industry innovations

18th February 2023
This is one of those twitter streams that arrives once in a while and provides a veritable gold-mine of interesting examples of when industries draw on ideas from others to fast-forward the innovation process. Did you know for example that James Dyson made a bagless vacuum after seeing how sawmills used cyclone force to eject sawdust? Or that an ultrasound machine designed to scan the ripeness of expensive cheeses was adapted to find liver disease!
Please have a look at the eight examples discovered by @TrungTPhan
Went down a rabbit hole for cross-industry innovations (when one industry borrows from another).
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) February 17, 2023
Here are 8 gems.
1. James Dyson made a bagless vacuum after seeing how sawmills used cyclone force to eject sawdust. pic.twitter.com/jre4FCdaVj
This is cool: an ultrasound machine designed to scan the ripeness of expensive cheeses was adapted to find liver disease (h/t @TheKFay)
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) February 18, 2023
🔗 https://t.co/R7cvU2hqbr pic.twitter.com/6tRPJWj1iV
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