It didn’t matter that Roland S. Berthiaume has spent the past 15 years as a chiropractor, he still couldn’t manage to get his own back straightened out when he needed it most. So, he invented a device that would do it for him. He’s formed a company called NGC Industries with Springfield businessman and landlord […]
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Inventors will do anything to prove their invention works. Just how dedicated are you? One man actually shot himself to prove his bulletproof vest worked.
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Today in Germany, Austria and Switzerland it is Inventors’ Day (Tag der Erfinder). November 9th is celebrated as the holiday because it is the birthday of the actress Hedy Lamarr. She invented frequency-hopped spread spectrum in 1942. The most celebrated invention of frequency hopping was that of actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil, who
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The Telegraph: Mr Moggridge, a British industrial designer, was credited with creating the flip-open form of the modern laptop that is common today. His computer design, the Grid Compass, had a keyboard and yellow-on-black display and was released in 1982. Priced at more than $8,000 (approximately £5,000) it was encased in magnesium and considered to
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BBC News: Britons have risen to the economic challenges of recent recession by becoming more prolific inventors, a random survey of 2,000 Britons shows. A third of respondents claimed that the recession has increased the amount they were coming up with inventions and innovative, money-saving solutions. A third of those with a bright idea were
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Sometimes your latest creation will help millions of people, and sometimes a little product placement in a movie will make millions believe they want it. One inventor has been lucky enough to get his gun placed in the latest Bourne movie, reports Redlands Daily Facts. The long-range, bolt-action rifle that Jeremy Renner’s character “Aaron Cross”
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KansasCity.com: Don Gilmore, a Kansas City mechanical engineer, has invented a self-tuning piano kit that could revolutionize — if not destroy — an industry headquartered in his hometown. The computerized device, which could sell for as little as $300, could be retrofitted for older pianos, doing much of the job of a piano tuner. On
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Forbes: A recent exploration of the U.S. Patent Office’s searchable database unearths a wide range of patents held by big-name tech chiefs. Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer has one. Oracle’s Larry Ellison has four, Google’s Larry Page has six, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has nine. The late Steve Jobs won more than 300 patents during his lifetime
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The Washington Post: While he never possessed super powers, the real-life Tesla was just about as quirky as any fictional mad scientist, particularly in his later years, when he tried to convince Great Britain to fund him in the development of a death ray. (He was unsuccessful.) In fact, Tesla was such a bizarre and
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The Washington Post: Norman A. Sas, 87, who invented a buzzing, vibrating tabletop game called Tudor Electric Football, a wildly popular and long-enduring simulation of professional football action, died June 28 at his home in Vero Beach, Fla. With an electric motor and a sheet of metal, Mr. Sas devised a game that enthralled millions,
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