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I just came back from speaking at the Minnesota's Inventor's Congress (MIC). For those of you who don't know, the Minnesota Inventors Congress is one of the oldest and most established inventor trade shows in the country. And I have to say, I learned more from the inventors who attended MIC then I ever thought possible. It was so inspiring that I felt compelled to write this article and share.

As you begin your path toward bringing your invention to market, you might become keenly aware of how many naysayers suddenly show up in your life.   And when I say naysayers I mean people who don't share your vision, don't believe you can make things happen or let you know that for some reason or another you cannot actualize your invention dreams. 

One of TV's favorite dogs wants to see your pet product invention.  His name is Gigolo, but you may know him as 'Giggy,' the dog star of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.  He's partnered with Edison Nation to find something he can get his teeth into - any pet-related product that completes his image of sexy and chic.

A group of high school students have developed a way to convert waste generated in space into food.

It's National Inventors Month; I bet you didn't know that.  But Edison Nation is celebrating in a way that can save you inventors some dough.  During May you can submit a patented or patent pending product for free to any one of Edison Nation's current product searches, such as...

The $300 House is a project that enables the poorest of the poor to build the best houses they can for next to nothing.

Hackasaurus gives kids the tools they need to truly understand and manipulate the internet.

PopSci and InnoCentive team up to give you the opportunity to turn your ideas into money.

TED wants to know if you have ideas worth spreading.

The Knight Foundation and Mozilla Foundation are offering paid fellowships to journalism's future innovators.

StatPlanet lets you interact easily with a wealth of World Bank data.

The 2011 James Dyson Award one instruction is nicely broad, giving college designers, engineers, and inventors throughout the world plenty of room to spread their imaginations.  It is, simply: "Design something that solves a problem."

The USA Science & Engineering Festival wants you to help them make science cool.

Hoping to spur on some closet inventors in the U.S., Edison Nation, the search agent for several large retail outfits, has set up a $25 million fund to help inventors with great ideas fund their development.

A cheap, unimposing wind turbine that attaches to the roof of your house could be on many horizons in the not-too-distant future.