Archive for the 'tv' Tag
Inventor Of Modern Skiing Featured On Mad Men
It’s not everyday an inventor receives a small feature on television, but we can add the inventor of modern skiing to the list, reports DCist. In 1954, Head was awarded a patent for his design that pressed a plywood core inside two aluminum sheets which were then covered by a shell of laminated plastic. The [...]
QVC Picks Up Inventors Creation For Staying Cool
The News Star: Wiley Ezell loved umpiring high school baseball in northeastern Louisiana, but after he passed out from the heat on a particularly stifling day, the former Jackson Parish insurance agent was determined to find some relief. Ezell couldn’t find an existing product that suited his needs, so he invented one, the Cool Neck, [...]
Everyday Edisons Seeking Pet Inventions
Pet Product News: The pet product idea casting call, which ends April 23, will be for the show’s fifth season. Inventors can still submit pet product ideas until April 30, when the season’s open casting call ends. Ideas are submitted online. The show’s premise is to help inventors develop their product ideas into finished products [...]
$10 Mil Offered To Inventor Of Star Trek Technology
The Week: THE X PRIZE foundation, a non-profit foundation promoting technology, has offered a $10m prize to anyone who can make Star Trek’s medical “tricorder” diagnostic machine a reality. The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize was announced in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show. The X Prize Foundation’s Chairman Peter Diamandis said: “I’m probably the [...]
Smart TVs To Use Voice Command
SFGate: At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas opening today, LG and Lenovo will show TVs that allow users to search for shows and Web applications with natural-sounding voice commands. Samsung introduced three high-end models with so- called Smart Interaction technology, which builds in motion- sensing and voice-command software similar to Microsoft Corp.’s Kinect [...]
Switch-A-Dish Inventor Not Yet ‘Homemade Millionaire’
She may have won on Kelly Ripa’s cable TV show, “Homemade Millionaire,” but Karen McCombs is not a millionaire… yet, reports lohud.com. What Ripa’s show — in which regular folks presented their inventions to a panel of experts and competed for a pitch spot on HSN — gave to McCombs was not a million dollars, [...]
Do You Have The Next Great Invention?
EON: Backyard Inventors, a new TV series produced in association with W Network, is looking for everyday inventors who are ready to showcase their inventions to the world. On Backyard Inventors, one of the world’s leading inventors, Doug Hall, will show the innovators of Canada, with inventions he sees potential in, how to turn their [...]
On TV: Making Money from Other People’s Junk
A new flea market reality show debuted last tonight on the Discovery Channel. Called Dirty Money, it is the story of two brothers, John and Jimmy DiResta, who turn dumpster-dive trash into amazing works of art, and then sell them at flea markets and swap meets. John and Jimmy DiResta live and breathe flea markets. [...]
