Albert Einstein had to start somewhere.

12 year old Tharon Trujillo winning an award for his Lock 'n Block invention

Galileo, Columbus, Eli Whitney, Westinghouse, Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and even a Cro-Magnon caveman were famous inventors who impacted how we live our lives today.

More recently Hoover, Einstein, Salk, Bette Nesmith Graham, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and a slew of new inventors are creating products at an unimaginable rate.

Even kids are getting into it. Braille was 12 years old when he invented Braille. Igor Sikorsky invented the helicopter at age 19. More recently 12 year old Tharon Trujillo invented Lock n' Block. It become an overnight sensation and huge award winner. Now its being sold in Walmart, Target and K-Mart and even in Europe!

There are so many exciting inventions today that although it might seem that there has to be an end, today's leading innovators know we're just scratching the surface.

Believe it or not, soon man will fly instead of drive. Patients with ailments may be injected with a nano-machines that will seek out and kill enemy bacteria, germs, and viruses. DNA will soon be able to be altered to eliminate a disease. And certain forms of mental telepathy will be identified and practiced.

And who may we ask is going to invent all this? Do we even need to ask?