As inventions go, Jake Zien’s was a clever fix rather than an imaginative breakthrough: Irritation was the mother of his invention. He found the standard power strip maddening because electr... Read more
Humanity today faces incredible threats and opportunities: climate change, nuclear weapons, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and much, much more. But some people argue that these things are al... Read more
Head off a patent law that he says will favor big companies and hurt lone inventors like himself In Silicon Valley, Apple just won big against Samsung in the patent lawsuit of the year, afte... Read more
Many innovators don’t want to patent their creations It might be a heretical idea for readers of this magazine, but law professor Jason Schultz says that many innovators don’t wa... Read more
The Ministry of Industry and Commerce held an exhibition of Yemeni inventions, as well as granting the first patent. The exhibition aimed to develop the inventions and encourage inventors to... Read more
An inventor’s new gizmo could signal the end of the road for searching for a parking space. Adrian Bone from Lewes has produced a ‘parking patch’, a sensor to be placed in parki... Read more
The sensor can be placed in a mobile or embedded in the crib, out of the baby’s reach. Researchers in Texas have made a medial breakthrough in the fight against Sudden Infant Death Syndrome,... Read more
Onstage at TED2012, Peter Diamandis makes a case for optimism — that well invent, innovate and create ways to solve the challenges that loom over us. “Im not saying we dont have... Read more
Inexpensive technology means that anyone can easily transform an idea into a product. From Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs, America has always been a land of inventors and tinkerers, according to... Read more
Twitter is thinking differently about this We’ve talked repeatedly in the past about how even if a company got patents for solely defensive reasons, down the road, those patents can en... Read more
How “patent assertion entities” stifle innovation. (It’s even worse than you think.) When hospitals come upon a technology with a proven track record of saving lives, you’d expect a flood of... Read more
A Japanese company could astound the world by 2050, building the first elevator to space. According to The Daily Yomiuri, Tokyo construction company, Obayashi Corporation, hopes to er... Read more
The general perception of engineers is a warped one. We are the car mechanics fixing the oil leak. Or, if we’re lucky, a white coated scientist tucked away in a dusty laboratory. Never... Read more
Daydreaming during class paid off for UW-Madison student Eric Ronning. He won $11,250 on Friday at UW-Madison’s annual Innovation Days for an invention he came up with during an... Read more