People love to listen to music on the go. Whether they’re jogging, suffering through a long commute, or walking around a school campus. However, where do their earbuds go when they are done using them? Mark Williams has created a simple solution to a problem that has existed since the iPod was invented. He’s created […]
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The emergency bra/gas mask combo that has won awards is now for sale on its website reports newser. For $29.95 you can receive 2 gas masks that double as a fancy bra, or is it a fancy bra made of two gas masks? Inventor Elena Bodnar, who witnessed the devastating effects of the Chernobyl disaster,
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For Don Edwards, it began with a need to move furniture on carpet with ease. In 1993, he designed a product called EZ Moves Furniture Slides. When placed under the edges of a couch or chair, it could move around a carpeted room with ease. What came next he never expected, reports Your Norwin. Edwards
While your kids are making popsicle art, these kids made viable inventions, reports US News. Many of them aren’t even teenagers yet, but their inventions could cause big changes—the Connecticut team designed a “Smart Sticker” that turns from green to red if a food container isn’t properly refrigerated, while the Ohio team created an erasable
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Suburban Life Publications: Two Westmont men are hoping their invention of a tool used to install commercial ceiling panels will be their key to retirement. Longtime residents William Saad and Charles Picha have a patent pending on a tool that they are preliminarily calling a “square cut,†though it doesn’t really have a name yet.
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Wall Street Journal (blog): The ability to speak well is not a talent most people have. We all have talking ticks. But in the age of mobile phones the habit that grates on others’ nerves the most is perhaps not knowing when to stop talking. Luckily, two Japanese researchers have come up with a persuasive
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Austin American-Statesman: Necessity is the mother of invention, right? For these Austin moms, their own necessities inspired inventions: one a weighted blanket to help people with sensory integration disorders sleep; the other a foldable mat for families on the go. We talked with them about how they came up with their ideas, who’s buying their
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The Huffington Post: Despite how silly it sounds, water-fueled vehicles do exist. The most famous is Stan Meyer’s dune buggy, which achieved 100 miles per gallon and might have become more commonplace had Meyer not succumbed to a suspicious brain aneurysm at 57. Insiders have loudly claimed that Meyer was poisoned after he refused to
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Gaza has been faced with unstable power supply for the past five years. Instead of suffering in silence, Mahmoud Shaheen created his own solar source. Mahmoud Shaheen, a 55-year-old chemistry professor, started investigating the possibility of generating electricity at home a long time before the bombing of the generators. “I started thinking of this experiment
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A Sheffield entrepreneur has invented a bicycle-powered washing machine which he hopes could be used in countries with little or no electricity. Richard Hewitt, a former design student, said he was inspired to create the SpinCycle after a recent trip to Burundi in Africa. Mr Hewitt said he now planned to set up a company
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