Nancy Handy wrote:


An innovation *is* something new or different. It isn't necessarily
better or an improvement.

Sort of true, but by that measuere each and every pen ever made is an
innovation if it hasen't been made before and ANYTHING about it is
different, including its color, trim or name. Every LE for example is
usually the fist LE to bear that "innovative" name. The new 51 is
innovative because it did away with the original hi tech ink collector
and replaced it with a cheap standard feed. and so on. FD