Apr 10
Calling All Inventors: Submit Your Best Healthcare, Education, Or Sustainability Ideas
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Got an idea to change the world? Verizon wants to hear it, and it might even get you a cool $10 million.
Apr 07
Trendy & Tasteful: The Top 5 Trendsetting Cruelty Free Taxidermy Inventions
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The popular decorative trend of displaying beautiful taxidermy animals
throughout the home hasn’t slowed in 2013.
Inventors were quick to jump at the chance to get a piece of the
taxidermy décor craze by creating stunningly impressive one-of-a-kind
animal-inspired inventions that are guaranteed to be completely cruelty
free. My top five animal-free taxidermy innovations are just a click away!
Apr 06
PepsiCo Inc. (PEP),
the makers of the iconic American soda, has recently become the
second-largest food and beverage corporation in the world. An abundance of
innovations helped to make PepsiCo the industry giant that it is today. The Sultan
of Soft Drinks hasn’t stopped striving to discover innovative start-ups
across several areas to throw their support behind, leading to the
creation of PepsiCo10.
Apr 05
When Facebook rounds 3rd base for a home run On April 12th — with it’s
new Android app called "Home" — one has to wonder if Google missed a
golden opportunity? With a stock uptick of 3% as a result of this
announcement, the new FB app is boasting its functionality to turn any
compatible Android phone into a socially-smart Facebook phone.
Apr 04
Sometimes it takes a brand decades to use its specific combination of
logo, words, font type, design, colors and value to evolve into a
lifestyle choice. The promise, look, personality and feel is the brand’s
patina. It transcends the commercial transaction igniting what I call ‘magnetic marketing,’
or the time when the buyer and seller travel on the same wavelength,
where they are more tightly attracted to each other, than any other time
in the customer-brand relationship cycle.
Apr 03
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.
Apr 02
Ever wanted to create your own version of “Clue” or “Monopoly,” but for the digital age? DICE+ wants your best ideas.
Apr 01
![RIP YouTube [2005-2013], The End Of An Era!](https://i0.wp.com/inventorspot.com/files/imagecache/ContentHalfWidth/blog1/Screen_shot_2013-04-01_at_2.52.41_AM.png "RIP YouTube [2005-2013], The End Of An Era!")
Man, we were all fooled. We’re being told today, YouTube was launched in
2005 with one sole goal in mind — to surface the best video of all time. It’s
taken 8 short years, but the panel of judges are now ready to get down to
brass tacks and start the hard work, which according to Google will take
10 long years hence.
Mar 30
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, sworn off using social networks
or have been on an extended vacation, you’ve probably been stumbling
over the marriage equality symbol that’s cyberventilating its way across
Facebook and Twitter. The pink equal sign on red background, with all
it’s various permutations is now considered the de facto logo of
supporters of gay marriage. And as such, according to Chris Gayomali at theweek.com, "it ticks all the requisite checkboxes. . . it’s simple, instantly recognizable, and well, everywhere."
Mar 29
While conspiracy theories abound in all fields, the digital age has
added a new playground for the nefarious to up their game. The next time
you make a Skype call, you might want to be aware how third-parties
could possibly hi-jack your transmission and encrypt a secret message with
callers none the wiser.
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