>  Oh, being that type of Engineer. See if this works, see if that works, 
> try this material, is it too heavy, too light, is it safe, etc.

At the moment it's more like "see if it can be mass-produced cheaper than 
what we make at the moment" - everything else doesn't seem to matter!

> Heh, quite hard to do I would think, especially as, (as Andrew would say), 
> "Everything in the whole entire universe has already been invented."  :)
>
>  Personally, I think there's a whole lot of good things to come yet. I 
> wonder what the very last invention ever would be?

The guys here tend to work on improvements to existing stuff, mostly optics 
and LCD based things.  They seem to churn out a lot of patents on those 
subjects but most of which I think "nah, that's never going to be 
practical".  For instance they came up with the dual-view LCD display which 
is just about to make it into cars -

http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/10/mercedes-benz-intros-splitview-command-system/

but it's just too expensive to manufacture and nobody really wants to pay 
the premium so I don't see it becoming popular anytime soon.

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