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Originally Posted by johndallman
Figuring out how to do stuff, when you have a problem that seems to have no solution, and then find a way to do it, is inventing.
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In a plain English meaning of "inventing", sure.
GURPS inventing means creating some wholly new thing that has it's own unique game stats. If you make a towel, you don't "invent" a towel, as towels are an already existing piece of gear. If your towel is made of purple and green pinstriped microfiber, and there isn't a towel like that on the market, it doesn't matter because all
GURPS cares is that it is towel. So you you just pay some materials costs and roll Sewing.
A TL8 Complexity 1 Word Processor is a generic piece of gear. Even if you are making a "new" one, it's still the same generic piece of gear in
GURPS, and therefore you don't need to invent one, you just manufacture one.