INNOVATIONS & INVENTIONS

1. A small problem or fault that prevents something from being successful or working as well as it should.
3. A sudden and clever idea.
5. Something is very new and a big change from other things of its type.
6. A person or organisation that obtains or holds a patent for something.
8. The name given to a person who knows a lot about computers or technology.
9. A person who fears the effects of technological development on society and the environment and/or someone who is afraid of using technological devices, such as computers.
10. PENDING When someone has filed for a patent on an invention and is waiting to see if it is granted.
14. A discovery or achievement that comes after a lot of hard work.
15. No longer produced or used; out of date.
16. Something that happens that delays or prevents a process from developing.

2. Lasting for a long time and looks good even if it is used a lot.
3. A photographic copy of an early plan for a building or machine.
4. A term that refers to the latest and most sophisticated or advanced stage of technology, art, design or science.
7. The first example of something, such as a machine or other industrial product, from which all later forms are developed.
11. A person who has a love of or enthusiasm for technology and modern machines (such as computers).
12. Capable of being done, carried out, or brought about; possible."
13. Large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use; slow or complicated and therefore inefficient."
17. TO THE DRAWING BOARD An expression used when you have to start planning a piece of work again because the previous plan failed.