Making life easier for people in need is always good business, as one entrepreneur has discovered. The assistive devices started really by accident. My first handmade product was an iPad stylus made from a highly conductive fabric sock (knitted by my wife!) that can be wrapped around any pen holder (the Stylus Socks). They worked […]
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The increasing popularity of touchscreen phones has caused some problems for the visually impaired. However, the new BrailleTouch app hopes to fix that. In an app coming to the market relatively soon for both iPhone and Android, Georgia Tech researchers have reduced the price of realistically typing Braille on a smartphone from $1700 plus the
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OurWindsor.ca: Get ready to pitch your idea to the producers of Dragons’ Den when they visit the Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce (2575 Ouellette Place) on Saturday, March 24 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pre-registration is strongly recommended and you do need to be prepared: Act like this is the real thing. Present how
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The Daily Record: Helen Waterston has been told by advertising watchdogs the ASA to change the wording on her website for the Roastcosy. But yesterday, she slammed the order following a single complaint which, she says, may have come from a competitor. Mum-of-one Helen, 46, added: “It’s ludicrous. I just don’t understand how just one
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What does it take to create the best toy robot in the universe? Jaimie Mantzel thinks he has created the answer with his currently unnamed robot, reports Gizmag. Mantzel’s little robot walks on six legs and is guided by a remote control, but what makes it stand out are the different attachments that can be
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Chicago Tribune: Reavill won a prestigious contest in London late last year called the OmniCompete Health Pitch Battlefield, whose independent judges said his invention is a simple way to catheterize the heart. It reduces risks to an “absolute minimum” by moving the catheter insertion to the arm, the judges said, replacing a complex wire-guided procedure
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Apparently one “I” can make a big difference if you choose to name a product with the word phone in it. At least, that is what driPhone recently discovered. Apple, through a Wellington-based patent firm, told Hayden Crowther it was opposing his application to trademark the driPhone name in New Zealand because it is too
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The Boy Scouts of America and Edison Nation have come together to challenge kids between the ages of 7 to 21 years old to participate in the Boy Scouts of America Innovation Challenge. The Innovation Challenge is looking to today’s kids to develop tomorrow’s products. Whether the invention solves a problem around the house, the
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According to WalesOnline.co.uk, Brian Conlon didn’t intend to create a health drink for dogs. He happened upon the idea by accident, and Woofit was born. We had built a new shed onto the old one in the garden, but there was a crack in the perspex roof so when it rained little drops of water
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Next in our series of interviews with the contestants in Walmart’s Get on the Shelf contest we have Tangela Walker-Craft, the inventor of the GoPillow. What product did you submit to Walmart’s Get on the Shelf contest? The GoPillow!- Uses include, but are not limited to: Breast feeding pillow with built-in privacy cover-up Pillow and
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