Mar 18
With Google Reader shutting down, NewsBlur saw its daily users go from 1,500 to 50,000. They did not scale well, and now they posted some lessons learned from the event, and what others should know when they start a new online service.
Mar 17
Engineering Students Unite To Save The World, One Invention At A Time – Enter To Win The James Dyson Award 2013 Competition!
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Since 2010, the James Dyson Award has
prodded engineering and design students from around the world to create
and share their unique innovations with the ultimate goal of solving
problems, and they’re gearing up to see what 2013 has to offer the
planet…
Mar 16
Making The Most Out Of Quirky.com
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Quirky.com is a great site aimed at inventors and something you can take advantage of to market your ideas into products, but not everything makes it to the production floor. How can you maximize your chances for your idea to become a product?
Mar 13
Can Your Invention Make The Top 5 For The ClickStartMe Product and Invention Contest?
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Are you ready for a no-holds-barred way to not only show that your
innovative invention is the greatest thing since sliced awesome, earn
funding for your idea’s creation as well as a nation-reaching marketing
deal to sell it to the masses? Grab your blueprints and get ready to
blow America’s socks off!
Feb 11
Truly a new beer gadget like no other, the I.C Can from Tempra Technology and Crown Holdings is set to put a smile on the faces of beer drinkers everywhere. Yep, when a new beer invention takes 20 years to perfect, you know that good, and insanely cold things are going to happen. Sick of waiting for what seems like an eternity for a cold beer? Prepare to be sick no longer!
Jan 11
The Problem: Business trip to the big city. Meetings all day, fine restaurants and clubbing all night. Limited luggage space. How can you make one or two pairs of shoes last all week? The Solution: Smart and sexy Heel Condoms change the look of your heels instantly!
Jan 07
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….
Dec 27
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.
Dec 04
So 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.
Nov 29
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.
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