Contests

The 2009 Nobel Prize In Chemistry: Ribosomes Bring Life To DNA

by Myra Per-Lee

Our DNA would mean very little if it were not for ribosomes, because ribosomes transform DNA into living matter. But scientists did not know exactly how ribosomes function or even what ribosomes look like until the works of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, and Ada E. Yonath shared their knowledge of the structure and workings of these life-giving structures. These scientists are the 2009 recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

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Top Ten Massive Multiplayer Online Games on Facebook

by Ron Callari

So why are they called "Massive Multiplayer Online" Games, or MMOs for short? Because the popularity of social media gaming has gone through roof and the numbers of players now engaged have skyrocketed into the millions. While many MMOs can be played on stand-alone systems like Play Station, Nintendo and Xbox game players, the latest trend is registering for the online versions of these games on the world's largest social network...Facebook!

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Innovative Fashion Design: Convertible High Heels

by Beth Hodgson

Women like heels, but there's a common problem that accessory loves face - their heels just don't like them by the end of the day. Changing shoes for the walk home after a day at the office or a night at the club means remembering and managing to tote a more practical pair around which just isn't always reasonable. Now, an Australian design student has a more functional alternative.

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Call For Inventors! Bed Bath & Beyond® Wants Innovative Pet Products For PawsLife™

by Myra Per-Lee

It looks like the pet product market has not been saturated yet. Here comes Bed Bath & Beyond with its own pet brand, PawsLife™, and it wants your pet product ideas!

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Department of Energy Announces $1 Million Prize for New Method to Store Hydrogen

by George Delozier

Even the most die-hard fans of hydrogen powered vehicles have a hard time finding a solution to the problem of storage for their fuel. Currently, it requires a high pressure tank and a maze of fittings and lines to ensure the proper delivery in the proper amount at the proper time. However, the Department of Energy (DOE) has just challenged the general public to find a new way to store hydrogen and offered a six digit prize to anyone who can meet this goal.

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Wall-E’s Girl-friend’s Cousin, Le Petit Prince, a Robotic Garden For Mars

by Gloria Campos

Do you remember Wall-E's girlfriend Eve? Her mission was to find plant life. Once she did, it was her mission to protect the plant. Le Petit Prince, though still a concept, is also a robot that has a similar mission, except he already has a plant inside him and it's his mission to keep it alive.

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Call For Inventors! Got A Sweet Tooth For Innovation?

by Myra Per-Lee

Best Sweet® and Edison Nation are teaming up to get your pitch for a new candy. Not your favorite candy, but a tween's favorite candy which you are going to innovate. There are some guidelines though, so you won't get totally sugar-highed: 1. You are not required to make the candy or submit a formula; and 2) Your inspiration must be from a widely recognized ice cream flavor.

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Call For Inventors! Amazon Wants Green Inventions NOW!

by Myra Per-Lee

Amazon Green is a new category on Amazon.com where all the eco-friendly products that Amazon sells can be located; it's a handy way to find things. If you would like to find your thing -- your time, money, or energy saving invention -- on Amazon Green, then here's your big chance to score big!

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Call for Inventors! O-Cedar® Wants The Next Big Mop!

by Myra Per-Lee

O-Cedar, manufacturer of household cleaning products, is looking for the next hot floor care product. A mop with a twist, a new "hairdo," a new material, or a self cleaning broom... I don't know; am I giving anything away here?

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NASA’s Earth-Friendly Flight Challenge

by Gloria Campos

Aviation plays such an important role in our lives today that despite the aviation industry’s harm to the environment we, as a society, cannot just cease flying. In an effort to promote more earth-friendly flying NASA recently announced the Green Flight Challenge.

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Bluetooth® Seeks Low Energy Inventions For Its 2009 Innovation World Cup

by Myra Per-Lee

Submitting an idea to this competition is a great opportunity for those in the healthcare/wellness, fitness, fashion, and sports fields to make an impact on your fields, using Bluetooth's low energy technology, a technology which is now in its infancy.

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Click Happens! Young Inventors Wanted For LEGO® Click Awards 2009

by Myra Per-Lee

Lot's of stuff can "click." Friends click with each other, teachers can click with their students, and if there's one ingredient missing in the soup and then it's found by the chef, it's a click! An "aha!" moment, some call it, when everything seems to fit perfectly. LEGO® is a company that knows about clicks, in more ways than one, and they are looking for young inventors who have had their own clicks.

Inventor Challenge: Make Life Better At A Music Festival!

by Myra Per-Lee

Quick! What new product would be needed for an audience of music lovers at a music festival? Invent it and $5,000 (or equivalent in pounds, rupees, rubles, reals, or euros) could be yours.

NikePlus iPod Makes You Hear the Burn!

by Ron Callari

Now the sensor in your Nike+ can connect to an iPod and record your workouts. Its as easy as finding an iPod-compatible cardio machine at the gym and tracking your progress from one workout to the next. Minute by minute, mile by mile, you will be motivated by more than just from your iPod's tunes.

The 12 Best Designs From 2009's International Plastics Design Competition

by Myra Per-Lee

The 2009 International Plastics Design Competition (IPDC) took place in Chicago in June and the 12 winners are absolutely awesome products, innovators in their respective fields as well as in plastics engineering. And they were all designed to be sustainable, cost effective, and to reduce our carbon footprint.

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Essay Contest Asks Teens To Look Into The Future... To 2059!

by Myra Per-Lee

Imagine what your life will be like 50 years from now? What new inventions will have changed life dramatically in 2059? How will people do their jobs? How are they educated? How do they travel, communicate, recover from illness or injury? Teens 12 to 17 are called upon to write about one invention that they see changing their own futures.

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Samsung Innovation Quest 2009 Now Open For New Widgets!

by Myra Per-Lee

Samsung's Innovation Quest (aka Samsung IQ or SIQ) is now open for competition, this year being devoted to building the Samsung's new GT-i8910 home screen widgets. Samsung is also being innovative by giving you lots of resources and technical tools that were not available in prior years -- including teaching you all about widgets!

Call For Inventors! Lifetime Brands Seeks Innovative Barbecue Products

by Myra Per-Lee

This Edison Nation/Lifetime Brands Innovation Contest sure is timely. It's the perfect season for barbecuing, so get your chef's hat on and cook up some ribs, chicken, vegetarian... even a pie, so you can get inspired to invent. Not a bad way to be inspired!

Call For Inventors! Walmart's Innovative (GREEN) Product Search!

by Myra Per-Lee

How are you doing on your projects for PetSmart and As Seen On TV? Because here's another Innovative Product Search, this time from Walmart! Ya Hoo! They're all calling for you and your super-duper problem solving inventions, but they have to be GREEN! Here's the nutshell version of Walmart's needs...

Google's Logo Winner Wishes The World A "New Beginning"

by Myra Per-Lee

Google's home page has a new logo, but just for today. It's the winning color drawing of the Doodle 4 Google competition, an opportunity for kids K-12 to design their own vision of the icon's logo. Christin Engelberth, a sixth-grader at Bernard Harris Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, made the winning Doodle. The theme of the contest this year was "What I Wish For The World," and Ms. Engleberth's wish was "A New Beginning."

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