# Innovation and simplicity
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As I near the half way point of summer, I've come to realize something. For all the innovation that exists in the world, no one has yet invented a decent pool/beach toy inflatable pump. They don't exist. Ever model I have ever tried (and there have been several this summer) is a dismal failure. We can get people to the moon and back, and store all of the world's data in the pinprick of a needle head, and solve some pretty perplexing medical challenges -- but we can't seem to invent a simple, straightforward, constantly reliable inflatable pump. Why?

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Source: https://jimcarroll.com/2005/07/innovation-and-simplicity/