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Start Making Money Online With These Part-Time Online Business Ideas

by Donna Pacheco

Ka-ching! That's the sound of the cash register when you record another sale. Too bad clicking the refresh button on your Google Adsense, Paypal account, or affiliate account does not make the same satisfying sound. Oh well. At least you can take comfort in the fact that the returns can equal or possibly even beat the ka-ching of the trusty cash register of a small business anytime.

And besides, who wants to hear the sound of cash register while you sleep? Online business is 24/7! Read on to find out some business ideas that you can implement today..

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Tom Kollars' Invention May Save Millions Of Lives: ProVector

by Myra Per-Lee

The invention of ProVector-Bt could not be more timely. As rising temperatures worldwide result in greater numbers of parasites active for longer periods each year, mosquitoes and other disease transmitters are contributing to higher death rates from disease-carrying pests. This is especially true for malaria and dengue fever, now claiming 5 million and 50 million new victims a year respectively.

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10 Great Invention Ideas for the Best St. Patrick's Day Ever

by Elizabeth Valeri

The following are my picks for the best St. Patrick's day ever, with a few post-St. Patrick's day reconciliation-style inventions thrown in for good measure.

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Inventions By Women Wanted By Bed, Bath & Beyond

by Myra Per-Lee

Ladies, get your inventive minds in gear; a large company is actually asking you for your ideas! That's right. Today Edison Nation announced a new invention contest sponsored by Bed, Bath, and Beyond (B³) that calls for product ideas to retail in its stores. This 'for women only' invention contest is scheduled concomitant with the recognition of American Women of Invention, this year recognizing the 200th anniversary of the first woman* to receive a patent on her invention.

2009 Lemelson-Rensselaer Winner Developed Carrier For Nanoparticles

by Myra Per-Lee

Yuehua Yu, nicknamed "Tony," arrived at Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute (RPI) in 2004 with a degree in chemistry and an advanced degree in polymer science from Nankai University in China. Today he received the Lemelson-Rensselaer Student Prize of $30,000 for his advancement in the fields of medicine, energy production and storage, water purification, electronics, and many other fields that work with nanoparticles.

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2009 Winner Of Lemelson-MIT Award Is Not Your "Average" Student

by Myra Per-Lee

Geoffry von Maltzahn is a man whose inventions are helping to create not one, but several different paths for successfully treating cancer. He is 28 years old, a biomedical engineer in graduate school at MIT, and he has already submitted 8 patent applications, co-authored 19 papers, founded two companies, and mentors aspiring scientists. And in his spare time...

Santa License Helps Kids Believe

by Dustin Brady

What did you do the Christmas your child questioned the existence of Santa Claus?

Ate Santa's plate of cookies? Dressed up as Kris Kringle? Dropped a white glove in the living room?

Didn't work, did it?

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Leah McLaren: Model Entrepreneur For Young Writers

by Beth Hodgson

Journalism and writing are popular career aspirations for today's youth, but most don't know the right way to go about chasing their dreams. Leah McLaren is a popular columnist, magazine contributor and author who sets a model example for young entrepreneurs hoping to see their names in print.

Security Mailbox - Mailbox That Protects Your Identity

by Dustin Brady

Several years ago, Juan Pineda found himself waiting for his wife's paycheck. And waiting. And waiting.

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Vibrator Lets You Know You're Out Of Line: The iPosture

by Boomer Babe

The iPosture is an electronic disc containing a number of sensors programmable to accept your perfect posture. When you deviate from that posture, the little devil goes off, vibrating until you get back in line.

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Mission Accomplished: Colored Bubbles are Real!

by John P. Barker

For over ten years, researchers have battled to discover the way to make colored bubbles--and they've finally succeeded.

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A Compact Veggie Brush & Peeler: The Pebble Peeler™

by Must Love Gadgets

Today's fave gadget is the creation of one of Inventor Spot's favorite inventors, supporters, and occasional columnists Roger Brown. It's called the Pebble Peeler™ and it's a new kitchen tool being produced by Evriholder Products, a manufacturer with an extensive line of kitchen products.

Buying The First Cosmonaut’s Suit: A New Space Race

by M Dee Dubroff

Next month at Sotheby’s auction house in New York a landmark sale is slated to take place. It will include prized relics from the Soviet era of space exploration that are owned by American billionaire, Ross Perot, who purchased them back in the 90s. Read on, but remember there are no exchanges or returns.

His Inventions Get You... Right In The Taste Buds

by Toby

Is it every chemist's secret dream to become a chef? Think about the benefits. Virtually unlimited ingredients, immediate feedback, safer work environment, fewer deaths, fewer law suits... Chefs are chemists, and though their creations may not lead to patents, they are inventions. This year Time Magazine has recognized one chef's work as a Best Invention of 2008: Heston Blumenthal's Sound Enhanced Food.

Student Inventors Keep Seagulls Off Their Boat

by Dustin Brady

Boat-loving seagulls will have to poop elsewhere if a team of high school students have anything to say about it. The team, named Vanish Productions, recently won the top regional prize in New Zealand's Young Enterprise contest for their Ultrasonic Bird Repeller.

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Need A Hand? How About A "Third Hand?"

by Must Love Gadgets

The Third Hand Adjustable Parts Holder With Magnification is really a modest name for this smart gadget. Why "modest?" Because, the Third Hand is really like having four or even five hands!

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Capturing the Leasing Market: Profit from Shared Office Space

by Beth Hodgson

In Good Company, located in New York’s Manhattan, is attempting to take the shared workplace to a new level by offering space solely to female entrepreneurs. Cubes & Crayons, in Silicon Valley, provides childcare for parents who share their office.

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Bubble Wrap®: Useful For More Than Popping!

by Dustin Brady

Your Bubble Wrap could be worth thousands. There's only one catch - you can't pop it.

Iraqi Expat Wins British Invention Award: An Inspiring Story

by Myra Per-Lee

If you like stories of personal struggle that end well, you will like this one. It's about an Iraqi citizen who fled Iraq with his family to avoid the death squads of Saddam Hussein, worked day and night to support himself through the University of Derby in the East Midlands of England, invented a device....

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Sharing A Meal Begins In The Oven! "Brivet" by DK Ahn

by Toby

DK Ahn's new designs, debuting at the London 100% Design show, are a small but varied banquet of practical, cultural, intuitive and spiritual sides of the artist, as well as the enormous talent, both as a designer and an inventor, Ahn possesses to express those sides.

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