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The Handy Makes Hard Jobs Easier


So busy that you wish you had another hand? The people at Spot Industries have taken this concept quite literally with an articulated robotic human-like hand and forearm assembly appropriately named "Handy".

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A Call To The Hydrogen Cell Phone


Small electronic devices have become drastically more powerful in reaction to our demanding high-tech culture. Hydrogen fuel cells has for years been considered a real possibility for powering small electronics.

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Germs 101: How to Traumatize Your Children


When you think baby present, you think cute, right? Cuddly? Educational? How about infectious? Contagious? Deadly? GIANTmicrobes® are accurate and (mostly) adorable representations of germs, bacteria, viruses and other no-see-ums at 1,000,000x magnification.

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Israel’s Marital Mitzvah Machine - The ATM


What would you think if you walked into a wedding reception and saw an ATM at the front door?

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Modern Barbie Gets Kinky


There are some deviant minds in the product development and marketing suites at Mattel’s Barbie™ division.

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Turning Hazardous Waste Into Usable Energy


An emerging Washington state company InEnTec (Integrated Environmental Technologies) has made some innovative plans for confronting the foulest problems from our industrialized world.

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Inventive Estonia : The Most Connected City in Europe


Estonia has been benchmarking itself against Finland, Ireland and the Asian Tigers from the point of view of raising the competitiveness of their economy.  Estonia's innovation performance currently ranks it among the "moderate innovators " -alongside the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Italy, Cyprus and Spain and improving, over recent years, compared to the EU average.

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Ideas Above My Station


Inventor Advice
I've gradually become aware, over the course of my last 500 or so ideas, that there are several modes of thinking from which ideas for inventions emerge.

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Experiences, Our Best Invention Resources


Inventor Advice
Where does an inventor who wants to innovate, create and improve products seek out their best potential? Must we re-tool our thinking and change often? Where do our ideas come from and where do we look for them?

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The Genius of Wile E. Coyote


Inventor Advice
There have been numerous Inventors throughout the ages that have helped push human progress to the next level. I want to discuss one such Inventor that has been sadly overlooked. His name is Wile E. Coyote.

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