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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The Huffington Post: Just because it’s easier to get into inventing, doesn’t mean it’s any likelier to eke out a personal net profit. Oh, sure… winners win big. But the odds remain whoppingly against us, some say under 100-to-1 (compared to 35 percent win-rate in 8-deck blackjack). Such low success rates are rarely discussed, partly
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Wired: Joel Braun came up with a less-lethal mashup that stuns, shoots, blinds and sprays its targets. Braun’s system, described in a patent approved last month by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, is called the “Non-Lethal Weapon Mount With Modular Weapon Components.” It combines four of the most common less-lethal weapons technologies: stun guns,
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BusinessWeek: The result is the SleepTracker, a watch-like monitor and alarm that users wear on their wrists to record their sleep patterns and awaken them at an optimal time within the window they have chosen. The alarm goes off when the lightest sleep stage is reached during that window, reducing early morning grogginess. The monitor
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Inventing is a wonderful pastime, unless your invention also ends your life. Business Insider has pulled together a list of ten inventors and their inventions that killed them. Here are five of those stories. Winstanley – 1703 – Eddystone Lighthouse During the Great Storm of 1703, he and five others perished when they refused to
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SFGate: The RoboShowerâ„¢ is rectangular in design with over 20″ double-wide adaptable and one-of-a-kind head. This is to ensure that practically anyone will be able to receive adequate coverage of water flow while showering. Inventor, Mr. Audie Norr, did however keep a host of body types and sizes in mind with the design, and equipped
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Whether it is to safe money on gas or a need for exercise, cyclists are popping up everywhere. It was when Jack O’Neal was stuck behind a cyclist signaling with his left hand that he was struck with inspiration. That inspiration became YouTurn. He has created unique gloves cyclists wear that help signal their intent
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People have been trying to create a portable phone since Alexander Graham Bell first attempts. So, just how early on did someone finally succeed? According to The Daily Mail Online, W W McFarlane’s creation in the 1920’s was one of the earliest in portable phones. The device, invented by Philadelpia experimenter W W McFarlane required
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The Augusta Chronicle: Mad Scientists features amateur inventors, weekend scientists and eccentric engineers who make outrageous “toys†out of everyday products, according to a news release. During the show, host John Bowler challenges them to improve their original invention within 48 hours. Krug, the owner of Krug Technologies LLC by day, said he’s always out
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AARP: At press time, about 60 percent of The United Inventors Association of America members were 50 or older, estimates executive director Mark Reyland, and overall membership had grown 243 percent in a little over a year. “Older adults have more experience, plus the insight and persistence to get a product to market,” says Jeffrey
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