From babies and Legos comes high tech innovation

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It's doubtful that Las Vegas bettors would have put any money on an ultra-Orthodox Israeli schoolteacher and mother of five taking the city by storm and setting the annual Consumer Electronics Show on its ear. But that's exactly what inventor and super mom Sarah Lipman did, overcoming the odds while casting a whole new light on the way users can interact with their computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices.

She's not alone. Indeed, Lipman, who heads her own company - Power2Be Technology - represents part of a new generation of strict religiously observant Israeli women who are finding ways to merge their talents for technology with their strong commitments to family life. Finding that balance is producing a bounty of innovations, while at the same time allowing the women the satisfaction of sometimes seeing their child's first step just a few feet away from the computer being used to work on their latest project.

Former Los Angeles elementary school teacher Lipman, 33, says she "fell into high tech backwards," noting that while she's always had a penchant for inventing things, she never saw this one coming. She and her husband Michael were enjoying a vacation in Scotland when she literally saw the light.

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Very cool. Empowering, yet humiliating. I struggle just to get laundry and dishes done while home with the kids. She invents cutting edge technology. Sigh.

More power to you, Hon!