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

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.

 

Law 101 for Inventors: Legal Protection and Why You Need It

Law for InventorsSo you’ve come up with an original invention or idea, and now you’re ready to go out into the world and make an impact with it. But before you can do that, you should think about the legal protection and measures that you need to set in place for your start-up.

The Future of Broadband: Where It’s Headed and The Changes That Are About to Come

Numerous studies have already been conducted to confirm the obvious: the future of mobile Internet lies with 4G and users will continue to sign up for the service in the years to come, which will push mobile data demand higher than it has ever been.

Diving Helps Keep Pigs Healthy, Makes Bacon Tastier

Diving Helps Keep Pigs Healthy, Makes Bacon TastierIt’s raining swine, hallelujah! A Chinese pig-farmer’s porkers perform daily dives from a 10-foot tall platform because, according to the farmer, the exercise results in healthier pigs that grow faster and taste better.

Calling All Inventors! Edison Nation Launches Open Search For Innovative Products

Edison Nation's Open SearchHave a unique and patentable idea that you’ve not been able to move off first base?  Edison Nation has just the answer for you in its newest search for ideas.  It’s an open search! 
So, you can submit one or more of your ideas in any category of
products – home, garden, office, etc. to the Open Innovative Product Search.


Social Finance Comes From China To Assist US College Students?

Social media has continued to evolve over the course of the last decade.
From social networking to social gaming to social commerce, the common
belief is that social will continue to bleed into other categories.
Social Finance is SM’s latest iteration and there are a number of
exciting start-ups trying to attack the trillion-dollar student debt
problem in the U.S.


Technology and the Future of Payments: Credit Cards and the Mobile Wallet

We are currently living in the digital age, where seemingly advanced technologies from the past are slowly being rendered obsolete. One such technology includes those from the payments industry, where advancements in mobile wallets, which takes advantage of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.


Calling All Inventors! FridaBaby Wants Your Baby Product Ideas

I’m going to try to write this with a straight face…. The FridaBaby company, which I have just learned of, markets some very inventive and ‘curious’ products for babies so far. One is called the Snotsucker, which employs a mom (or dad)  to suck the snot out of their baby’s nose….