Site Announcement - March 7, 2011

Michelle — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:52:03 -0800

InventorSpot.com is happy to announce that another writer will be joining our team. Nicholas Greene is a freelance writer with a Bachelor's degree in English obtained from the university of Calgary. Nick's blog will concern advances and innovations in the computer industry, often with a nod to their possible effect on electronic modes of entertainment. You can read his computer technology blog here.

Site Announcement - March 4, 2011

Michelle — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:33:13 -0800

InventorSpot.com is pleased to announce a new writer is joining our team.Kyle Fiechter is a freelance writer and photographer with videoproduction experience based in downtown Denver. Kyle's technology blog shares unique insight on the emerging market of DSLR cameras used for shooting video to keep InventorSpot readers ahead in the technology game. You can see his camera blog here.

Site Announcement - March 3, 2011

Michelle — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:18:26 -0800

InventorSpot.com is excited to announce that a new writer has recently joined our team. Hazel Chua graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering and just recently passed the Board Licensure examinations held late last year. She loves to read and writing has been her passion ever since she learned how to pick up a pen. When she's not busy working, Hazel enjoys blogging, watching movies, catching up with friends, and playing video games. Hazel is an avid gamer and her blog Video Game Central will be "the blog that eats, lives, and breathes video games." You can read her video game blog here.

Site Announcement - February 17, 2011

Michelle — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:08:17 -0800

InventorSpot.com is excited to announce that a new writer is joining our team.

Jamie Reygle is a teacher at a small independent school, and was a music writer and radio announcer in a past life. He writes about great ideas in order to avoid having a head full of them driving him insane. Jamie also lives - and works - on a farm.

Jamie's blog Creativity Proclivity will be about the most creative great ideas he can find from around the world to share with InventorSpot.com readers.

You can read his creativity blog here.

Site Announcement - October 20, 2010

Michelle — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:45:24 -0700

InventorSpot.com is excited to announce that Spencer Lanoue will be joining our writing team as our small business blogger. Spencer Lanoue is a college student working on his business administration degree. He is excited to be working with InventorSpot and is open to all constructive criticism from experienced writers and of course, our readers.

You can find his small business blog here. We hope you enjoy his articles.

Site Announcement - October 18, 2010

Michelle — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:19:19 -0700

InventorSpot.com is happy to announce that a new writer will be joining our team.

Amanda Hinski, will be focusing on environmental innovations. Amada is a Writing Arts undergrad student from New Jersey and avid blogger. You can see her blog here.

We hope you will enjoy her articles.

InventorSpot.com Team

What's Happened to the Inventors from American Inventor - Season One?

Michelle — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:33:03 -0700

Curious about what's happened to your favorite inventors and inventions from Season One of American Inventor?

Well, we have lots of information but we didn't know for sure what we could share with you and what we couldn't since much of it was unconfirmed or confidential.

So we thought it would be a good idea to create a post where folks from Season One can report on what has been going on for them. read more »

The Brutal Truth About the Invention Process

Michelle — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:46:08 -0800

Have an invention idea? Need help and advice about your invention?

Ed Zimmer has written what I think is one of the best articles on the web for inventors, "New Product Licensing" on his helpful website The Entrepreneurs Network.

I thought is was one of the best distillations of the challenges of the invention process and it offers priceless advice for inventors. Here's Part I of his article:

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You have a new product idea that you believe would sell very well were it only available on the market -- but you don't have the time or resources to "venture" the product, i.e., to manufacture it (or have it contract-manufactured) and sell it yourself. What now? read more »

Realistically, the best advice you could be given is to forget the idea -- and get on with your life.

Ron Docie To Write for InventorSpot.com

Michelle — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:11:53 -0700

InventorSpot.com is proud to announce that Ron Docie, author of "The Inventor's Bible, How to Market and License Your Brilliant Ideas" which is considered by many to be THE definitive guide for inventors will be joining InventorSpot.com as a regular Featured Guest Blogger.

Please Vote For Us And Help Us Out?

Michelle — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:28:56 -0700

Please vote for us as Best Blog About Stuff and Best Hobby Blog for the Blogger Choice Awards for 2008. You do need to sign up on the site in order to vote but we'd be eternally grateful. Thanks!

Site Announcement - February 19, 2010

Michelle — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:39:08 -0800

InventorSpot.com is pleased to announce that a new writer is joining our team.

Kim Patterson is joining our writing team as a featured blogger, covering innovations in the health, beauty and kids areas. She has a bachelor’s degree with a major in English and has always loved to write. Kim is finally pursuing a freelance writing career to fulfill her dreams of writing for a living and enable her to stay at home with her young daughter.

You can read her blog here.

All the Best Valentine's Day Links?

Michelle — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:43:10 -0800

In celebration of Valentine's Day, I thought it'd be helpful to collect together some of the great articles written on InventorSpot.com and around the web in celebration of this day of love and romance. read more »

Happy Thanksgiving!

Michelle — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:46:54 -0800

The AmericanInventorSpot.com Team wishes all of you a very happy and safe Thanksgiving.

We are thankful that you have given us the opportunity to share our discoveries and rants with you.

Thank you for being a supporter of our site and helping to make it a fun place for the inventor in all of us.

AmericanInventorSpot.com Team

Random Good Links: Halloween 2006

Michelle — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:30:13 -0800

PimpkinHi Folks:

We are going to try something new on our site.

Folks have asked us why we don't link to some of the great content on the web. Our response was that since we're a site focused on inventions, innovations and interesting ideas, many of the links that we like were not quite on topic of our site.

But with reflection, we realized that with so much great content floating around, we should share some of it with you. Thus, we are going to post random links from time to time of what we think is worthy of sharing.

So to start off this series, we share with you here some of our Favorite Halloween Links: read more »

Site Announcement - March 7, 2008

Michelle — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:19:25 -0800

InventorSpot.com is pleased to announce the addition of another writer to our blogging team. Chris Weiss is a freelance writer who has dabbled in everything from politics to travel. Like many men (and women) out there, Chris is somewhat obsessed with the latest gadgets and technological breakthroughs. As a snowboarder, mountain biker and all around outdoor sports nut, Chris has a particular affinity toward gadgets that are designed to pull you out of the hairiest wilderness survival situations or simply make the outdoors more fun. Chris will be covering gadgets with a slight emphasis on outdoors and fitness-related items. You can check out his amazing finds here.

Site Announcement - March 2, 2009

Michelle — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:36:13 -0800

InventorSpot.com is pleased to announce the addition of another new blogger to our writing team. Rick Martin is a Canadian freelance writer who has lived in China for 5 years. During that time he wrote extensively about Chinese technology and the internet, and spent some time enrolled in Mandarin language study as well. Rick will be covering innovations and interesting developments from China. You can read Rick's China blog here.

Site Announcement - March 1, 2009

Michelle — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:56:36 -0800

InventorSpot.com is delighted to add an artist and aspiring inventor to our blogging team.

Alex Eremenko is a full time college student double majoring in Psychology and Business. In his spare time, he is a freelance writer and digital artist, working with Photoshop and Maya. He will be writing a recurring column for us titled "Fake or Factual?" in which he will be featuring inventions both fake and real with the common theme of being mildly absurd or wildly imagininative.

The articles will be appearing later this week and seen at Alex's Blog. Go and vote whether you think his finds are Fake or Factual.

Prisoner's Inventions

Michelle — Wed, 17 May 2006 15:22:37 -0700

I had seen an exhibit several years ago at the Univeristy of Tempe Museum of the artwork made by prisoners in jail and was totally blown away. Using just the packages of used cigarette packs, the prisoner's came up with intricate and gorgeous sculptures of rare beauty and form. The artistry and the inventiveness of using garbage to make art in an environment of limitless time haunt me to this day.

This website Temporary Services reminds me of the prisoner artwork. It profiles an interesting project highlighting the inventiveness of prisoner's incarcerated in our jails.

Site Announcement - February 17, 2008

Michelle — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:17:12 -0800

InventorSpot.com is pleased to announce the addition of another new blogger to our writing team.

Jace Shoemaker-Galloway is a busy freelance writer and mother of two. For seven years, Jace taught technology to 600 young children each week. As a child safety advocate, Jace also served as Internet Safety Coordinator for two school regions, teaching parents, educators and over 1000 children all about online safety. She has an award-winning educational resource blog on online safety. Although the majority of her time is spent focused on serious issues, she thoroughly enjoys finding all sorts of innovative items for children and babies.You can read about her interesting finds at Jace's blog.

Site Announcement - February 16, 2008

Michelle — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:50:47 -0800

InventorSpot.com is pleased to announce the addition of a new blogger to our writing team.

Austin Keenan is an aspiring professional writer. He is currently in college as a Journalism Major with a background in online writing, although he started off his career in media production. When he's not working to produce online videos for his own company, SomeGuys.tv, he's scouring the internet looking for cool websites to try out, and watching lots of online videos. He will be writing about innovative forms of online media, including interesting websites.

You can read more about his cool website finds and more at Austin's blog.

USB Plant Sensor Helps You Get A Better Green Thumb

Michelle — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:24:44 -0800

Watching plants you broke your back to put into the ground die can be quite disheartening. You aren't sure why they died, either. Were the growing conditions not right? Did you put in the wrong type of plant for your climate? A nifty little USB device can help address these questions.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Michelle — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:17:48 -0800

From the InventorSpot.com Team, we wish all of you and those you care about a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. Thanks so much for visiting our site and for being a part of it.

Site Announcement - November 17, 2008

Michelle — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:55:13 -0800

InventorSpot.com is very excited to announce another addition to our writing team.

Dustin Brady is a reporter for a Cleveland, Ohio newspaper. His favorite part of writing for InventorSpot.com may very well be that he does not have to attend City Council meetings to get story ideas. He will be writing about inventor news and events. You can follow his blog here.

InventorSpot.com Team

Site Announcement - November 12, 2008

Michelle — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:09:53 -0800

InventorSpot.com is pleased to announce that another writer is joining our team.

John P. Barker spends most of his time running amuck, working on an ever-expanding novel, petting his twenty-five pound cat, and tutoring kids of all ages. He'd really like to see his life hit some sort ofroutine, but with the advent of a new girlfriend and total family chaos, he predicts that this won't happen for a while. To keep his sanity he plays lots of games (he feels that nothing is moresatisfying than blowing up a zombie critter), reads everything possible (currently alternating time between Atlas Shrugged and comic books), and plays with a barrage of toys. He is guilty of having anextensive R2-D2 collection-much to the chagrin of the new girlfriend. John will be covering innovative and unusual toys and games for our site. You can check out his blog here. InventorSpot.com Team

Site Announcement - October 27, 2008

Michelle — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:47:58 -0700

InventorSpot.com is excited to add another writer to our writing team.

Jill Harness is a freelance writer, a gaming enthusiast and a fan of all things fluffy. Ultimately, she'd like to be a comedian, a screen writer and a professional children's book author. She will be writing about the weirdest of the weird inventions crawling their way into our society at InventorSpot.com. You can check out her blog here.

InventorSpot.com Team

Site Announcement -October 26, 2008

Michelle — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:50:19 -0700

InventorSpot.com is excited to add another writer to our team.Beth Hodgson is a freelance writer and editor who works with various types of corporate and creative content. Located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, she decided to leave the corporate grind behind her earlier this year and founded www.writesourcing.com . With entrepreneurialsm in her gene pool, it's only natural that she loves to learn about new business ideas and trends (especially the strange and risky). She is very pleased to share her findings with readers on Inventor Spot. You can read her blog here .

InventorSpot.com Team

Site Announcement - October 17, 2008

Michelle — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:38:35 -0700

We are happy to annouce that a new writer will be joining our team.

Ron Callari is a Chief Marketing Officer for a Search Engine Marketing firm as well as a freelance writer for last 10 years. Ron will be writing about cutting edge, innovative societal trends.

Ron's published work has appeared in HospitalityNet, Hotel Sales & Marketing Association International, Alternet, Counterpunch, Sacramento News & Review, NewsMax, Albion Monitor, SCOOP and the World and I. He is the author of “Uncle Dubya’s Jihad Jamboree”, published in 2005, and the creator of kidd millennium’s editorial cartoons, www.kiddmillennium.com. You can check out his blog here .

Welcome Ron!

Site Announcement - October 16, 2008

Michelle — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:24:07 -0700

We are happy to annouce that a new writer will be joining our team.

Andrew Portola is a college student as well as a freelance writer with an ultimate goal of getting onto the PGA Tour. He will be writing about the coolest gadgets under the sun. You can check out his blog here.

Welcome Andrew!

Weekend SpotLight: Animal Oddities

Michelle — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:00:21 -0700

Animals are forever capturing our attention with the silly things they do. Some don't even have to do anything, they just look funny. Check out some inventions for animals and articles about animals from our archives and from other great sites on the web.

Site Announcement - August 5, 2008

Michelle — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:26:46 -0700

Hi all:

We are really excited to have this blogger join our team. Sholto Crow loves to make up all sorts of nonsense then post it on InventorSpot.com. He is a freelance writer, designer and motion graphics artist from London and is currently a vagrant, having quit his job as creative director of a motion graphics company at the beginning of 2008 in order to wander about the earth and see what happens. He is also a musician with a few records under his belt, which is quite uncomfortable but looks good. He currently lives somewhere between Vancouver, Sweden and Norfolk.

You can read his blog of crazy invention ideas here .

InventorSpot.com Team