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May 30, 2008 by Angela Shupe | 0 Comments

Due to popular demand, Everyday Edisons will extend our Season Three casting calls with a sixth and final casting call. Rather than visit one more city, we’ve decided to open it to anyone and everyone via the Internet. Now anyone may prepare and submit an idea for review by Everyday Edisons and major national retailers on their time and in the comfort of their own home. Submissions will be accepted on www.EdisonNation.com, beginning Monday, June 2 and ending Monday, June 23.

Everyday Edisons airs nationwide on PBS affiliates and documents the product development process (from start to finish) of approximately 12-14 inventions and the parallel stories of the inventors who created the original idea. The online casting call will conclude our national search for the next set of ideas/inventions to feature on our third season of the television show. At least one of the featured inventions will be selected from this virtual casting call.

This is a great opportunity to share with your readers. If selected, you will have your invention/new product concept commercialized by Everyday Edisons and enjoy a 20-year annuity on future product sales. The television show takes care of all expenses involved in bringing the product to market.

In order to be considered, all you need to do is log onto Edison Nation (www.EdisonNation.com) and create a profile. Look for the Everyday Edisons logo to submit to the sixth, virtual casting call. Register to become a Gold Member and enjoy many benefits, including the opportunity to submit your invention for the virtual Everyday Edisons casting call.

We are looking for inventions in all stages of the product development process, from rough ideas to refined prototypes and manufactured products. Even if you attended a previous casting call, you are still eligible to submit additional inventions through Edison Nation. And unlike our real-world casting calls, you can submit as many inventions as you like! Participants can upload visuals, videos and photographs to expand on their virtual submission. The Web site will walk you through the submission process step-by-step and you can follow the status of your submission with the “idea review timeline,” which will appear on your Edison Nation home page when you log in with your user name and password.

As a Gold Member, you enjoy many benefits including:

• The ability to submit your invention to the Everyday Edisons virtual casting call.
• A year subscription to Inventors Digest, “the magazine for idea people.”
• Have access to a library of interviews with product development experts like vacuum-mogul James Dyson, Jeff Bezos from Amazon and Doug Hall, of Eureka! Ranch.
• The ability to participate in live product searches through Edison Nation’s “Innovation Station.”
• Submit manufactured products to the “Commercialize my Product” section.
• Network with others interested in innovation, inventing and new product development.

Please visit www.EdisonNation.com to learn more about the upcoming virtual casting call and review the attached media alert with all of the who, what, when, where, etc.

If you haven’t had a chance to catch an episode of Everyday Edisons on your local PBS affiliate, you can check out a clip or two on www.youtube.com by simply searching “Everyday Edisons.” There are several fun things to view, including a behind-the-scenes clip; interviews with our engineers and Season One inventors; a Season One series recap and product “commercials.”

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