I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.
Trevor BaylisIdeas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed.
Trevor BaylisThat was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.
Trevor BaylisI'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.
Trevor Baylis