Before Scott Swierski began inventing, he had to reinvent himself. He was in the real estate business, but when the market began to suffer he needed to get out. So, he started inventing, reports South Charlotte News. Standing in his kitchen, he sifts through a plastic bin of forks and spoons designed with toddlers in […]
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When you have a hungry baby, there is no waiting around for 20 minutes while a regular bottle warmer does its job. However, Littlewunz has created a unique bottle warmer that will do the job in under five. It is perfect for home use, while portable enough to use in the car, too. It was
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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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Possibly the best kept secret in beauty, Rose Cannan invented the blowout. Her salon even predates known brands like Vidal Sassoon. W Magazine: Here she tells us about the day she invented the blowout technique: “It was a Friday and all the chemicals were on the trolley ready to straighten my clients’ hair, yet again.
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Forbes: Only a small percentage of innovators are also inventors. If necessity is the mother of invention, obsession is the father of innovation. Innovators iterate and combine preexisting ideas until they incrementally modify an invention such that it embodies a marketable value proposition upon which a sustainable company can be created. If you are solely
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Cork News: A local amateur inventor with scores of ideas, concepts and inventions is giving them all away in the hope that they might provide viable commercial opportunities for entrepreneurs. Bill’s self-published book, Fly-Flaps & Other Inventions, contains descriptions and explanations for some 200 of his ideas, some of them humorous and tongue-in-cheek, and others
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The Moscow News: Leonardo da Vinci’s 500-year-old inventions come to life in a new exhibition at the Experimentanium, which is showcasing models built according to plans by the Renaissance master. Like everything at the museum, visitors can touch the displays with their hands, provi ding a kid-friendly entree into basic mechanics. Though the fanciful inventions
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Techdirt: Late last week, the Washington Post reported that The Smithsonian had acquired “tapes, documentation, copyrights, and over 50,000 lines of code from V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, who both the Smithsonian and the Washington Post insisted was the “inventor of e-mail.” There’s just one problem with this: It’s not actually true. … As is nicely summarized
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In Malcom Gladwell’s review of Walter Isaacson’s book Steve Jobs, Gladwell argues that Steve Jobs wasn’t an inventor. Instead, he was a tweaker. A tweaker, according to economists Ralf Meisenzahl and Joel Mokyr, was a a resourceful and creative man who took the signature inventions of the industrial age and tweaked them – refined and
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What happens when you can’t sleep? For Dennis Linton, that is the perfect time to invent. According to North Harbour News, it is during that time when he comes up with most of his innovations. That’s what led to him designing new types of hydraulic jacks which helped save the life of a man in
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