The rubber band holding your papers together, the microwave heating your coffee, the non-stick pan on your stove — your home is full of accidental inventions, products that stumbled into their current roles through chance, desperation, or sheer creative misuse. Innovation rarely follows a straight line. Many of the items you use daily began their lives solving completely different problems, often in industries that seem worlds apart from where t…
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