Week 2: Novelty, Innovation, and Invention

Novelty
1. state or quality of being novel, new, or unique; newness: the novelty of a new job.
2. a novel occurrence, experience, or proceeding: His sarcastic witticisms had ceased being an entertaining novelty.n
3. an article of trade whose value is chiefly decorative, comic, or the like and whose appeal is often transitory: a store catering to tourists who loaded up with souvenir pennants and other novelties.

Invention
1. The act of inventing.
2. U.S. Patent Law. a new, useful process, machine, improvement, etc., that did not exist previously and that is recognized as the product of some unique intuition or genius, as distinguished from ordinary mechanical skill or craftsmanship.
3. Anything invented or devised.
4. The power or faculty of inventing, devising, or originating.
5. An act or instance of creating or producing by exercise of the imagination, esp. in art, music, etc.
6. Something fabricated, as a false statement.
7. Sociology. the creation of a new culture trait, pattern, etc.
8. Music. a short piece, contrapuntal in nature, generally based on one subject.
9. Rhetoric. (traditionally) one of the five steps in speech preparation, the process of choosing ideas appropriate to the subject, audience, and occasion.
10. Archaic. the act of finding.

Innovation
1. something new or different introduced: numerous innovations in the high-school curriculum.
2. the act of innovating; introduction of new things or methods.

Those are the meaning taken from dictionary.com. After really understanding the meaning of each of them, I come out with my own answers;

Novelty
Creating something fresh and unique to the public/people.

(Before) Use map to travel

(Now) Every car are equipped with GPS

Invention
Creating something that was already created by someone else but make it better.

Sony PlayStation 1

Sega Dreamcast
Both of the consoles uses CD to play their games but the graphics of each consoles are different. Dreamcast is much better!

Innovation
A new way to make something different(new). Example; the SLR camera below. Before this, it was call SLR. It uses film. But now, it's called DSLR. Simply because instead of using film, now it uses memory stick and the letter D stands for Digital.

(Before) SLR Camera

(Now) DSLR Camera