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Laid Off, A Chemist Invents A Very Relevant Gadget: The Magic Toob Lampshade Leveler

by Myra Per-Lee

I suspect your response to a lampshade leveler is going to be "So what." Mine was too... until I learned how universally relevant this little gadget is now, and will be in the next few years.

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Calling All Inventors! Casting Invention TV Show In Chicago!

by Myra Per-Lee

If you can create an amazing gadget out of anything... If you love tinkering with crafts... If you go by the nickname 'mad scientist'... Then, an Emmy-nominated production company is looking for you to interview for a new series with a major cable network.

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Worlds Collide: BBC 'SuperPower' Meets ABC 'V' TV Show

by Ron Callari

Two ethereal female guides offer help for planet earth. Both represent super powers. Both attempt to 'shock 'n awe' us into looking at our lives in different ways. The promos are similar in their 'otherworldly' approach and mood, but the intent is much different. One looks to inform while the other to entertain. Both connect with Barack Obama. While the president is actually featured in SuperPower's promo, the 'V' series has been interpreted as an allegory of the current administration, with its allusions to "change" and "universal health care."

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AT&T Wireless Data Profits At Record High, iPad Traffic On The Way

by Austin Keenan

AT&T now stands to make even more money than they're making now, which they said in a press release yesterday was a record high.

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Will NY Times Charge For Content & Bundle Delivery With New Apple iPad?

by Ron Callari

NY Times to be bundled with Apple Tablet

Speculation is circulating from reputable sources such as Mashable that the New York Times is contemplating charging for content. While legacy newspapers have struggled to develop new business models to address dwindling subscriptions and ad revenue, it's apparent that a metered system is on the table for consideration.

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Call For Inventors: Christmas Tree Decor & Gifts!

by Myra Per-Lee

While Christmas is fresh on your minds, I know you inventors have plenty of ideas for how to improve it. Before those visions of sugar plums and the money to be made from them leave your minds, the Christmas Tree Shops, through Edison Nation, want your ideas. Hurry now, you have only until February 15, 2010 to get your entries in.

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Augmented Reality Could Transform Legacy Newspapers Into Video Media

by Ron Callari

Remember when after reading something of great interest, you daydreamed about the content as if it was a living scenario, whether it was fiction or the daily news. Now with the assistance of Augmented Reality, the content you read will virtually be able to pop off the page and begin speaking to you.

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Call For Inventors: 'As Seen On TV' Innovative Product Search!

by Myra Per-Lee

If you've had a product in mind that would sell a few million through infomercial advertising, your idea could be one of the next big hits As Seen On TV! Edison Nation has partnered with some of the best direct response (DRTV) firms in the country to find the best innovative products for 'As Seen On TV' Innovative Product Search.

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Edison Nation Plays The Name Game: Name This Product Competition

by Myra Per-Lee

If you're good at coming up with names for products, Edison Nation has got just the competition for you. The online intermediary between inventors and big companies has added Name Searches to its Live Product Searches. Entries to its first naming competition are due January 18, 2010, so you better get started!

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Something To Be Thankful For: Scientists Working Hard to Develop Unique Ways To Recycle Feathers

by Gloria Campos

Have you ever wondered what happens to plucked turkey feathers? For the most part turkey feathers as well as feathers from various other poultry are simply incinerated, made in to low -grade animal feedstock or thrown away only to end up in a landfill. Fortunately, several scientists are working hard to develop new eco-friendly ways to recycle these feathers for future use.

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Human Hair in Solar Panels Make Solhair Power

by Gloria Campos

Another reuse for human hair has been discovered thanks to a young bright man from Nepal. Using human hair, the young man and his friends, invented a method to power more affordable solar panels for their village and hopefully the rest of the world. Is it Solhair Power?

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Innovation Village Doesn't Ask For Money, Just Your Inventions

by Myra Per-Lee

Innovation Village is a one-eighty from other invention companies. It develops your inventions without asking you for a dime... if it thinks it can make a big hit with your invention.

HuffPost Social News + Facebook = Strange Bedfellows?

by Ron Callari

Can online journalism become a social network? With legacy newspapers continuing to look for new ways to reinvent themselves, transforming into online blogs was just the first step. As a result of the Huffington Post's collaboration with Facebook, the next phase in the morphing process appears to be news blog sites melding into social media networks.

Inventor's Marketing Tool Helps Put Your Inventions On Shelves

by Myra Per-Lee

Ottawa inventor Geoffry Maseruka has created a unique way to help other inventors improve their marketing by actually getting their new inventions on store shelves!

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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!

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!

Top Ten Twitter TV Shows (Twitter All Day, All The Time)

by Ron Callari

Remember when CNN first entered our lives and people were shocked that any network could take on the daunting task of supplying us with a news format 24/7. "Unheard of?" "Couldn't be done?" And yet, here we are some 20+ years later, and CNN has not only sustained itself but was the impetus for other news networks to populate as well. Well,in 2009, the web is currently abuzz with talk of a “Twitter TV Network.” According to Biz Stone, one of Twitter founders, he's "even getting folks asking (him)if they can audition." Could Twitter TV be the next evolution in the short life span of the micro-bloggin' darling of social media?

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Wanted Dead Or Alive On Social Networks

by Ron Callari

Is the FBI giving Social Networks a bad name? After all, the whole construct behind a social network is for followers, fans and alike to interact with each other... and kind of like... behave in a social manner. In what the FBI is calling a "pilot test," the agency is distributing billboards across the virtual worlds of Second Life with the Top Ten Most Wanted list of fugitives. Is this a cheeky way of tempting criminals to crawl out of their covert holes to sign up for Twitter and Facebook accounts?

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.

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!