Design A Board Game for the National Young Game Inventors Contest!

Can YOU build a better "Mouse Trap?"

If you’re a budding inventor between the ages of five and twelve,
with a desire to create the next “Clue” or “Monopoly,” we encourage you
to throw your board game design into the ring for the National Young
Game Inventors Contest!

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

iOptik, winner of PopSci's 2012 Inventor AwardsYou’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….

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.

 

Calling All Inventors! Dean McDermott Wants Inventions For Gourmet Dads

‘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.

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.

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

Invention USALast 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.

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.


ideaAPP Could Be A Game Changer For Inventors

ideaAPP logo

If I were to tell you that you can get a complete, worldwide
patent search conducted on your invention idea for $9.99, you would
think I just swallowed a whole lot of advertising bull.  I thought it
was too good to be true too, so I went to the source, the company that
owns and offers the ideaAPP for Apple and PC products, and asked the
founder an irritating amount of questions.  He answered.