Copying is one of the 40 Inventive Principles of Problem Solving.
Bull! This cow is not watching you – he has eyes painted on his butt. This is a kind of artificial automimicry, which the Oxford dictionary defines as: “The mimicking or accentuation of some characteristic of one’s own species as an adaptive response.“ This is a great use of Principle 26 – Copying, since it…
Why do I want to fit Principles into SCAMPER approaches? In a recent post (check it here first) I explore how SCAMPER can embrace the 40 Principles of Inventive Problem Solving. The goal is to wrap the complexity of the Principles in the approachability of SCAMPER. Substitute defined in Applied Imagination Under the category of…
The problem As I described in an earlier post, some elementary students in Ontario were suspended for incomplete immunization records. This series of posts is an effort to come up with ideas using each of the 40 Principles. Remember the cardinal rule: there are no stupid ideas, only ideas that may serve to inspire the…
This is an inspiring example of Principle 26 – Copying. I saw a young woman at York University on one of these hands free knee crutches making great time walking down the sidewalk. This kind of hands free knee crutch appears to be inspired by prosthetics. While taking the weight off the lower leg, it acts…