Invention

Fun Times In The Snow Call For A Snowball Blaster!

by Must Love Gadgets

I'm going to have to travel a bit from where I live to get to play in the snow this winter, but it's always worth it. Even if you're not into skiing or snowboarding, there's nothing that makes you feel like a kid again than having a snowball fight. But alas! What's this about a new invention for creating and shooting snowballs? A Snowball Blaster?

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The Something Store’s ‘Surprise Yourself’ Shipments: Innovative or Insane Business Idea?

by Beth Hodgson

SomethingStore.com is a weird and wacky business concept where your order remains a surprise. You pay, they ship you something and the best part is you will have no idea what's on its way!

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Keep A Bouncer At Your Cat Door With The Pet Porte

by Lady Bee

If you have visiting cats, raccoons, squirrels, rats and other neighbors entering your home through your cat door, you may soon be relieved of their uninvited calls. A veterinarian on the Channel Islands, David Chamberland, has invented a "bouncer" cat door. Say the secret word, or I'll send you to the moon buster!

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Eat Your Veggies While They're Still Growing: The Gropak

by Must Love Gadgets

Among the amazing inventions that Time Magazine selected for its Best Inventions of 2008, is a package designed to keep food growing while it travels from field to table -- over the meadow and through the woods!

A Life-Saving Gadget For You And Your Kids! GUARDian® Backpack

by Must Love Gadgets

Most of us have had the feeling more than once that we were being followed, or that someone, even a person we could see, was a threat to us. Fortunately, more often than not, we find some way to lower the threat level...

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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.

Russian Scientific Innovation Competition Yields Success

by M Dee Dubroff

Two winning Russian innovation projects have received investment backing from two mega supporters, AFK Sistema and Tekhsnabexport and some new awards to honor technological innovation have developed as the result of this competition as well. Read on and learn more about this contest and its winners.

Custom Email Signatures to Support Your Presidential Candidate

by Beth Hodgson

As the United States Presidential Election draws nearer, it's your last chance to get in every ounce of endorsement for your favorite political candidate or party and what better way to do it than through email? Email Widgets, based in Vienna, Austria may be across the planet but that didn't stop them from creating an opportunity for profit. The mark of a true entrepreneur is to look at highly publicized social issues and turn them into successful business opportunities.

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Time Picks Best Invention Of The Year 2008: DNA Test "23andMe"

by Myra Per-Lee

Time Magazine has announced the 50 best inventions of 2008 and at its top is a DNA test called 23andMe. It's not as well-known as the iPhone, Time's best invention of 2007, but if 23andMe catches on, it will change how much we know about ourselves, our families, and possibly, about others.

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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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Russian Hacker’s Clever Eee PC-Based Carputer!

by M Dee Dubroff

Does your vehicle have a carputer? Well, don’t despair, as no one’s car did until recently when a really clever Russian hacker ripped apart his car’s dashboard (which wasn’t doing anything anyway) and his Eee PC (701G) and recombined them! Read all about the magic that created the carputer!

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Non-Drip Ice Cream: Delightful Russian Innovation

by M Dee Dubroff

Even if you don’t believe in UFOs, they may have invaded earth after all but for delicious rather than nefarious purposes. Enter UFO ice cream, named for its unearthly ability to avoid melting. Read on whether you prefer chocolate or vanilla.

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Inventor's Hall of Fame Picks 2008 Collegiate Inventors Finalists

by Myra Per-Lee

The National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation announced the 2008 finalists of the Collegiate Inventors Competition. Sponsored by the Abbott Fund and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the competiton winners were undergraduate and graduate students whose inventions were found to meet pressing needs in our society.

Get Ready For Winter Sports With VoltoPrima™ Gloves

by Must Love Gadgets

Skiing, sledding, snowboarding... all great winter sports. But when your hands get numb, you have to call it quits for the day. And then, of course, there's the sport of shoveling snow.... The newPrimoVolta gloves by Aevex® Products with patented Intelligent Heat™ promise to keep your hands warm for up to six hours just by turning on a switch.

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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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The Fling-ama-String Battery-Operated Cat Toy: Product Review

by Lady Bee

I have pains in my cheek muscles from laughing at my cat try to capture the viper-like string. Is this toy for him or for me?

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Put Your Mittens On To Cook With The Anti-Griddle

by Must Love Gadgets

The Anti-Griddle makes foods as frozen on the outside, as a griddle makes them crisp and hot on the outside, but you may need your mittens to cook with it.

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A Pistol With The Nano Crystal

by Must Love Gadgets

Now, before you start calling this a vacuum cleaner, just hold it a minute. This big gadget is a technological first for the home: a steam disinfector that converts the minerals in tap water into nano crystals that will eliminate every bacteria and virus in its range within five seconds! Isn't it great that something can make good use of our tap water?

TeleNav GPS Navigator™ Wins 2008 Mobile Internet Innovation Award

by Myra Per-Lee

GPS systems are tough to follow while you are driving... not to mention dangerous. The TeleNav GPS Navigator provides both a visual map and voice driving instructions through your cell phone. Yesterday, the visual-voice navigator received xchange magazine's Mobile Internet World Innovation 2008 Award, adding to the list of TeleNav's awards and recognitions.

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The Next Must Have Mobile Device: The PicoP™

by Must Love Gadgets

Tech reviewers are still writing about the fuzzy line between mobile devices and personal computers. Yes, it's a fuzzy line. Get over it; the line's about to get fuzzier.

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