A Note of Encouragement to Inventors Everywhere
If you are thinking of inventing or launching a new product then take heart. Don’t be discouraged or disheartened. Nothing is that difficult. As part of your research you might have investigated the competition, and found an daunting degree of product sophistication. It seems that everywhere you look, the techniques are difficult, the results are entirely dependent on a staggering amount of specialised expertise, and the barriers to entry are insurmountable. I will let you in on a secret: Manufacturers everywhere try their best to make what they do seem difficult. Manufacturers do and say whatever they can to discourage you from competing with them. One of the key ways to do this is to pretend that what they are doing is infernally difficult. Perhaps elements of what they are attempting are difficult, but often these are product embellishments which add very little to the product performance. Often the real difficulty with any of these products is getting them to market successfully. The technology often is not that hard.
So many things in this world are now available off-the-shelf or can be made-to-order. Just look at Alibaba for inspiration. The clever inventor usually just needs to find a way to view these products as modules which can be endlessly recombined to achieve new products.