Have an Invention Idea? Need Help or Advice?

Need invention help and advice? Inventors love to fantasize about the overnight success of their inventions, and reality TV, invention contests, and invention submission companies play right into those fantasies. But most of us don’t get discovered overnight; we have to work pretty hard until we make it. After marketing almost a dozen new products, on my own and through licensees, I wrote a series of invention advice blogs from idea to sale. In them, I share with you a practical approach to the invention process and help you recognize some of the inventor “traps” out there before they ensnare you.

New Fibertrap Technology Stops Bedbugs, Termites, In Their Tracks

Bed bug about to get caught in Fibertrap

by Myra Per-Lee

Like a spider's web stops a fly in flight, a patent-pending man-made fibrous web stops a bedbug in its tracks. Commercialized as Fibertrap, this material, created in the laboratories of Stony Brook University's Center for Advanced Technology in Sensor Materials, has tested effective not only for trapping bedbugs, but also for stopping termites in their tracks.

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Two Inventions Get FTC Prize To STOP Robocalls!

by Myra Per-Lee

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may not receive many robocalls, but it gets more than 200,000 complaints about the buggers every month. It finally decided last fall to issue a challenge to the public to see who could come up with a way to stop the marketing calls before they reach your ringer. The Robocall Challenge winners, announced April 2, 2013, were not the most inventive invectives, but the most likely-to-be-effective technologies invented separately by software developer Aaron Foss and computer engineer Serdar Danis.

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Eat And Flush: New Stomach Pump Means No More Dieting For Some

by Myra Per-Lee

Under the heading 'Be careful what you wish for,' the inventor of the take-a-walk-on-wheels motorized Segway, Dean Kamen, has applied for a patent for a pump that removes a portion of the food you've just eaten from your stomach. Partners in this patent are members of a company called Aspire Bariatrics. Here's a brief description of how the stomach sucker works....

Calling All Inventors! Popular Science Wants Your World-Changing Inventions For 2013 Awards

iOptik, winner of PopSci's 2012 Inventor Awards

by Myra Per-Lee

You'd best hurry. You don't have much time to get your world-changing invention to Popular Science reviewers for the 2013 'Garage' Invention Awards....

New Year Resolutions Traced Back To Medieval Times

by Myra Per-Lee

Though our ancestors back in the 1300's probably didn't resolve to turn their abs into 6-packs at the beginning of every new year, new research indicates that they did make wishes and predictions at the new year, a tradition believed to have evolved into today's resolutions.

5 New Year's Resolutions Every Inventor & Product Developer Should Make

by Myra Per-Lee

Nearly everyone has at least a dozen earth-shattering inventions up their sleeve. At least that's what they believe. But most who want to run with their ideas and make them profitable end up wasting a lot of time, especially as novices, on ideas that are already on the market or that few others want. It's important to work smart and fast as product developers so your focus is on the new, the needed, and the profitable. Here are five New Year's Resolutions that will boost your efforts and your results.

Calling All Inventors! Dean McDermott Wants Inventions For Gourmet Dads

by Myra Per-Lee

'Gourmet Dad' Dean McDermott has paired with invention search site Edison Nation to find the best new gadget for dads in the kitchen. You don't have to be a dad to submit your gadget invention, just a really sharp innovator who knows what a gourmet dad would find appealing for his role as favorite chef to his family.

Calling All Inventors! Kyle Richards Wants Your Hair Care Ideas

by Myra Per-Lee

If you have ideas for new hairdo gadgets, cool hair accessories, or hair styling products, the Kyle Richards (Real Housewives) inventor competition curls right up to you! Run by Edison Nation, the competition is looking for the next do-it-yourself product that will make you look like you've just left the poshest hair salon.

Calling All Inventors! Casting Call For Season 3, INVENTION USA!

by Myra Per-Lee

Last night was the premiere of Season 2 of The History Channel's inventor show, Invention USA. No sooner did the season begin, that casting calls for Season 3 of the hit series get on the road too. So now inventors have another chance to strut their stuff before the casting directors and the show's hosts, Reichart Von Wolfsheild and Scotty Ziegler.

First Warning Systems Creates Early Cancer Warning Bra (Video)

First Warning Systems Self Examination Bra

by Myra Per-Lee

A fortunate set of circumstances put 24-year old nurse Nedra Lindsay in an investigative study linking non-circadean temperatures in breast cells to abnormal growths within the breasts At her age, breast cancer was the last thing she expected to be faced with, but her study results indicated a follow-up with mammography....