For Inventors

One Company Exists Just To Market Your Golf Inventions

by Myra Per-Lee

You want to know how many golf inventors there are? Just find out how many golfers there are, and you'll have the answer. One company just opened its door to all those inventors. I hope it's ready for all of you!

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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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Yankee Invention Expo Details Announced

by Myra Per-Lee

For the fifteenth year in a row the Yankee Invention Expo (YIE) will be held in Waterbury, Connecticut. This invention expo is an opportunity for inventors from all over the country to learn more about inventing from long-time successful inventors and to market their inventions to companies!

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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!

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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!

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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...

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Call For Inventors! As Seen On TV Innovative Product Search

by Myra Per-Lee

If you've had product concepts simmering on your mind's back burner, but didn't have the impetus or the money to start developing them, here's your chance to get them going. Edison Nation has partnered with some of the best direct response firms in the country to find the best innovative products for 'As Seen On TV Innovative Product Search.

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Call For Inventors! PetSmart Innovative Product Search

by Myra Per-Lee

Most inventors have pets. I can be safe with that statement, because most people have pets, whether they're dogs or cats, rabbits, fish, birds, snakes, geckos, etc. PetSmart knows this and instead of turning to its usual providers of products for new ideas, it's turning to us: inventors who know how to create innovative solutions to improve life!

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Design The Mobile Phone Of The Future!

by Myra Per-Lee

LG Mobile Phones, Autodesk®, and crowdSPRING are partnering to sponsor the Design The Future competition searching for the mobile phone of the future. And, guess what? They welcome submissions from novices and even give you the tools you need to win.

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Reality TV Show For Arab Inventors Hits Prime Time On Arab TV: "Stars Of Science"

by Myra Per-Lee

Filming is almost complete for the new 5-week reality TV show, Stars Of Science, in which 16 inventors from the Arab world will strutt their stuff, competing for best invention and a $300,000 cash prize. Sponsored by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, the format is not too similar to the American Inventor series, and Simon Cowell does not appear to be involved in this production.

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10 Cutting Edge Medical Devices Recognized For Excellence In Design

by Myra Per-Lee

The 2009 Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) were announced this week by the Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry. There were 32 award winners and every one of the winners contributed a medical device that advances their industry and provides cutting edge technology to improve patient care. Space and time don't allow me to introduce all of these devices to you, so I randomly selected 10 just to give you a sampling of medical inventions that may be significant to you some day.

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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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Call For Inventors! WD-40 Wants YOU!

by Myra Per-Lee

Edison Nation announced today that the WD-40® Company is challenging inventors to come up with a new delivery system for the product's many uses and to create new product concepts that have wide-reaching applicability and purpose, like WD-40. Put your thinking caps on, these tasks are both difficult; your solutions must be innovative and patentable.

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.

Spark Awards 2009 Call For Entries

by Myra Per-Lee

... The competition is in two phases; the first phase is now until September 11, 2009. But, early registration is definitely wise. It saves you money and it also gives you more exposure to the judges.

Is A Part-Time Online Business Right For You?

by Donna Pacheco

Do you know someone who is raking in the big bucks by engaging in a part-time online business? There are just too many of them claiming to have done just that all over the Internet. In fact, I just received an email about a really successful Internet Entrepreneur has supposedly made $1,000,000 dollars in just one tele-seminar.

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The 10 Best Digital Innovators Of The Year: 2009 Netexplorateur Awards

by Myra Per-Lee

This weekend in Paris, Netexplorateur announced its ten top picks for the most influential digital media programs. The winners, chosen by a global committee of pioneers in business and media, will be promoted during the next year in an effort to obtain global understanding of new ways to conduct digital activities and business.

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International Smart Gear Competition: Wrap Your Head Around Bycatch!

by Myra Per-Lee

The World Wildlife Federation (WWF) has launched the 4th International Smart Gear Competition, this year inviting submissions of designs for fishing devices that reduce bycatch. Bycatch, generally captured by fisheries and fishermen, is the unintended capture of species other than the target species, as well as undesirable young members of the target species.

The Low-Down On The iF Product Design Awards

by Myra Per-Lee

I've received several press releases in the last few days about different products that received the iF Product Award. What few of them state, or even imply, is that 801 other products also received the award. As there are only 16 categories of products, 801 awards are bound to hit the same products a few times, so hold on to your credit cards until the top 50 Gold Awards are announced!

Chinese Innovations in Foreign Countries Thwarted by Red Tape

by M Dee Dubroff

A draft amendment to China’s patent law is hindering the creativity of Chinese inventors living abroad by making it difficult to legalize the idea without much red tape. Read on and… keep your ideas to yourself.