What do you use if you want to trap and kill mosquitoes? If you’re Fredros Okumu, all you need is the smell of some old, sweaty socks. An African inventor recently discovered an interesting fact. While humans may find the scent of sweaty socks repulsive, mosquitoes are attracted to the smell. So, he has devised […]
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Ever wish you could own an island? Well, if the price is too high for you then maybe you should make one instead. According to the MailOnline, a British inventor, Richard ‘Rishi’ Sowar, has created his very own island in the Caribbean using 120,000 plastic bottles and some ingenuity. Filling fabric bags with the discarded
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According to Bloomberg Businessweek, opening manhole covers, which weigh up to 400 lbs., is difficult at best and dangerous at worst. Dave Roberts, 51, who spent 25 years lifting them while working for waste-water authorities in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, decided to find a better way. A perpetual tinkerer, Roberts designed a machine to remove the
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When you wear glasses all of the time, there are not many options to choose from when you’re blinded by the sun. You can either get prescription sunglasses or settle for a pair of clip-ons that just don’t seem to fit your frames the way they should. Sunclipies is giving eyeglass wearers a third option:
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Here soon you will be able to choose which color you want your rechargeable batteries to come in. Red? Blue? Wired has the latest on a new innovation in batteries: spray on rechargeables! Lithium-ion batteries are made by tightly rolling up the various battery components in layers before encasing them in rectangular or cylindrical packaging.
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For people on the go, travel mugs are an important tool to carry. However, two inventors made it even more useful by making the lid open and close automatically, reports DailyPress.com. The hole that you sip from automatically opens and closes, which means no more fiddling with the lid while driving or otherwise occupied. When
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CNNMoney: Steve Luhr worked in medical equipment sales but yearned to become an entrepreneur. When a rival firm bought out his employer in 2002, Luhr received eight months’ notice and the motivation to do his own thing. Luhr, who lives in Shelburne, Vt., enlisted Minneapolis product designer Bob Worrell to brainstorm on a sleek reimagining
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When you open your garage door, what do you see? Like most people, I would bet that you hope to see everything organized for an optimum amount of space. However, that’s probably not what you see. Jared Newman of Gorgeous Garage knows exactly how you feel. He started by organizing his own garage. Once he’d
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Michael Hecht was mowing lawn on his hilly property just a few years ago when he nearly had an accident. A wheel had slipped, and he couldn’t stop it from rolling backwards. It ended up going over a brick wall and he landed in the driveway. Sure that there had to be a way to
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When is the last time you were jabbed with a needle in the name of health care? One inventor hopes to relieve some of that pain. Oliver Blackwell says his pain-free needle could be used in millions of procedures every year and lead to a more pleasant experience for patients. He also says it will
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