North County Times:
Randy Sonderhouse says he knows how easy it is to waste time ---- and water ---- in the shower. After his wife noticed he was taking unusually long showers, the Murrieta resident decided...
The Record-Courier:
Meneley teacher Cathy Hackler, organizer of the school’s annual invention convention, said the event gives students the opportunity to problem solve and look at the world in new ways.
“Students were asked to think about...
NBC Newschannel 6:
Mecinna Price is a local inventor who has turned a simple idea into a multi-million dollar business. Thursday morning she appeared on the Today show to talk about her invention and get some...
SPACE.com:
NASA astronaut Don Pettit loves his coffee. So it comes as no surprise that he found a way to drink coffee from a cup, instead of the traditional straw, on his day off Sunday aboard...
PRWeb:
Travel isn't getting any easier except for one bright spot called a Luggage Hugger.
Divorced and left with nothng but optimism, Lucia Burns, inventor and mother of two sons, spotted an opportunity when planning a...
This Is Nottingham:
Nick Cranham, of Cinderhill, is giving families the chance to keep their loved ones close after death — by turning their ashes into photo frames.
The engineer only used to offer the service to...
Daily Herald:
Kathy McGuire's son had a tough time understanding that he couldn't wear shorts when the weather turned cool.
Getting strong-willed 4-year-old Ryan ready for preschool in the morning turned into a daily battle.
McGuire, a stay-at-home...
The Suffolk Journal:
The New Product Innovation Competition, an annual competition open to all Suffolk students, had its third annual award ceremony at the Law School. The competition was established in 2006 by Professor Sushil Bhatia...
IPWatchdog:
Increasingly on the Internet, invention advertising is taking an odd and seemingly inexplicable turn toward advising independent inventors to not seek patent protection, which is undeniably bad advice that will undoubtedly cause much disappointment and...
news10:
It all started when Juan Pineda was a victim of mail theft.
Valuable checks were lost in that theft, but Juan may have the last profitable laugh.
He's invented a device that sets off an alarm if...
WashingtonPost.com:
Silver Spring residents Catherine Sumi Kay and Shaun Sablowski say they have always had great ideas for inventions but never followed through on them. But now the house mom and the auto parts salesman are...
Star Tribune:
One night in 1966, "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson and a guest, the lovely Eva Gabor, were on the studio floor as they giggled and groped their way through a new game that was...
BBC News:
A Scottish cake maker is hoping to mix it with millionaires with a “revolutionary” take on the wooden spoon — which he insists is NOT a spatula.
Instead, “Spon” inventor Neal Robertson is sending his...
Peace Arch News:
After investing more than eight years and thousands of dollars of his own money, Kirk Arsenault is starting to see his automotive drip mat design come to life on the market.
In 2000, Arsenault...
Washington Post Magazine:
Kendra LaDuca's eureka moment came while she was pushing a grocery cart through the aisles of a Costco seven years ago.
As she scanned the shelves, her infant daughter leaned over and started...
Kalamazoo Gazette:
Tom Raich's dream about beer has turned into a nice little side business.
Raich, a 53-year-old pharmacist and longtime homebrewer, had a dream one night in 1996 that led to an invention, called the Brew...
CampaignSeries.co.uk:
John Arundel of Quakers Yard grew up in Aberbargoed and has been a lorry driver most of his working life, which equated to 23 years of experience. He came up with an invention to check...
Yahoo Tech:
Despite the public shame of driving around with a cell phone jammed against your face and the growing number of laws against it, people just can't stop dialing and driving, it seems. Could the...
TIME:
From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public bike system to the world's first moving skyscraper – TIME's picks for the top innovations of 2008.
The Global Seed Vault
Superman...
Sioux Falls Business Journal:
Ginger Thomson saw the need for some kind of new door gizmo about 30 years ago. A town house she lived in had sliding patio doors.
“I kept thinking there needs to be...
