Daily Archives: February 21, 2018

4-Valve vs 2-Valve Engines – Segmentation and Scale

Innovation ExamplesBy Tim Hampton February 21, 2018

Mo valves, mo power In a typical car engine, valves in the head open and close to allow air in and out of the combustion chamber. In their original iteration, such engines had one valve for intake and one for exhaust. Most newer engines have four valves, two for intake and two for exhaust. This…

SWING – Table Converts to Shelves

Innovation ExamplesBy Tim Hampton February 21, 2018

This is another smack-your-head, why-didn’t-I-think-of-it innovation. It’s a table made up of segments (Principle 1 – Segmentation) that converts to a shelf unit (Principle 15 – Dynamics) easily by turning on a pivot (Principle 12 – Equipotentiality). Check out the video: What can we learn? Like the Youtube video says, there are some bits of…