Inventing something amazing isn't as simple as having a good idea and a plan to bring it to market.
Sometimes you also need the right family behind you to help you do it.
Throughout the history of invention it has been the case that great minds have often sprung from equally great parents - and technology is littered with examples of great father-son (and daughter) teams who have changed the world.
Here are six of our favourites:
Wilbert and Robert Gore
Robert Gore may have created a thin and breathable material that was also waterproof - named polytetrafluoroethylene - but it took his father Wilbert's help to rename it Gore-Tex, patent it and sell it through the family company. Both father and son are listed on the patent, which has now expired.
Kiichiro And Sakichi Toyoda
Kiichiro Toyoda was a Japanese inventor and entrepreneur who created what is now the Toyota Motor Corporation. He left the company in 1950 due to falling sales, but his cousin Eiji Toyoda eventually led the company to success with the launch of the Lexus brand. His son - Shoichiro Toyoda - also became president of the company between 1982 and 1992.
But it was Kiichiro's father Sakichi Toyodawho established the company as the Toyoda Automatic Loom Works - and is known as the king of Japanese inventors for creating the self-halting automatic power loom, among other inventions.
Thomas And Theodore Edison
Thomas Edison is perhaps one of history's most famous inventors, holding 1,093 US patents in his name. He helped to develop the stock ticket, the practical light bulb, the phongraph and the motion picture camera.
But one of Edison's sons, Theodore, was also a successful inventor, holding 80 patents as the founder of Calibron Industries.
Above: Alexander Graham Bell and Alexander Melville Bell
Alexander Graham Bell is credited as the inventor of the world's first practical telephone, as well as the metal detector and the hydrofoil boat. But it turns out experiments with voice ran in the family. Bell's father - Alexander Melville Bell - was a speech specialist who invented a visual alphabet in 1864 designed to help deaf people communicate more easily.
Sacharias Janssen And Hans Janssen
Sacharias Janssen is the Dutch inventor and lensmaker who is often credited with the invention of the first two-lens microscope - but he only got there with the help of his father, Hans, in 1590-5. There is significant doubt about whether the claims are accurate, but if true the father-son team made the first microscope capable of 10-times magnification.
John Stevens And Edwin Stevens
John Stevens was an American lawyer and inventor who in 1806 built the first steamboat which sailed on the open ocean and is also considered by some to be the 'father of the American railroad', for successfully building an experimental steam locomotive three years before George Stephenson perfected his invention in England. His son, Edwin, was also an inventor, who on his death founded the Stevens Institute of Technology.