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Stanford University Cool Products Expo – Spinning Out Bright Ideas – 25 MPH Segway…

Technology innovation isn’t always about creating completely new products.

Sometimes it’s about making useful, even mundane, improvements to existing products — such as creating a better steam iron, or a child’s bicycle that won’t tip over, or a way to keep screws and nails at hand without holding them between your lips.

These were among the bright ideas on display Wednesday afternoon at the sixth annual Stanford Cool Products Expo http://coolproductexpo.stanford.edu/ , a one-day show where 37 exhibitors showed off new and future gadgets to about 1,200 attendees.

I spent two hours wandering the aisles at the Arrillaga Alumni Center on the Stanford campus, and came across several “why didn’t I think of that?” ideas. Among them:

By Mike Langberg
Mercury News

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