This week I read an article that Mark sent me about this year's Nobel Prize winners in Physics. It was about the two men that came together and invented the CCD "storage" computer chip but then found that it recorded images digitally.
This small invention in turn led to digital imaging in satellites and the cameras inside our phones. It is an amazing accomplishment.
I also found it interesting that the men that invented the imaging device were just friends that got together and bounced ideas off of each other. It was just by chance of them hanging out and throwing ideas around, and the intent to make a computer storage unit that they came up with an amazing invention.
It's funny how the world works and changes so rapidly and many times it is just by chance.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113527362
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