Thursday, November 01, 2007
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Original Article: Condé Nast Portfolio
For the first time, Condé Nast Portfolio has identified the world’s most prolific inventors alive—three of them have more patents than Thomas Edison—and asked them the big question: Where do the big ideas come from? None of the top 10 created any game-changing devices on a par with Edison’s lightbulb, but most people benefit every day from some discovery by the creative minds in the chip business whose efforts have improved laptop computers, cell phones, and digital cameras. Kia Silverbrook, the most secretive, runs Silverbrook Research in Sydney, where he has led a decadelong, superstealth effort to create new computer-printer technology that could be on the market by 2009.
Slideshow - Kia Silverbrook: http://www.portfolio.com/slideshows/2007/10/Top-Inventors