The theme of innovation is one that I would like to explore more on this site. Please send me links to examples of Iranians who have innovated or who are in some way promoting innovation and progress in the world. It could be in any category, health, science, art, architecture, business, politics, anything that "plants the banner of humanity a few furlongs further into chaos."

Of course, all that comes to mind right now are those that have a lot of press or that I have heard of for some reason or another. But I'm sure there are so many more. Let me know, send me links.

Anousheh Ansari and family, for her role in and contribution to the Ansari X prize. "The ANSARI X PRIZE is a $10,000,000 prize to jumpstart the space tourism industry through competition among the most talented entrepreneurs and rocket experts in the world." All you space geeks out there, this is the COOLEST site! NASA and big government can eat entrepreneurial space-dust! This project is showing a lot of success as we can see from this CNN article on the first successful private space flight.

The E-Bay founder, an Iranian computer geek's attempt to solve his girlfriends pez dispensing problem.

Cal-Earth, a revival of ancient Persian architecture applied to present day housing and sacred space needs. Speaking of space, some of the ideas here have been suggested for feasible lunar colonizing projects.

And of course, so much more to come.