Do what gives you a buzz..

The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong..

As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something..

I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me..

A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt..

All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy..

Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity..

I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again.….

But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat..

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress..

That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz..

But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the future of Orange A….

Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremi….

Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go..