Exciting news! W
e are pleased to announce that as a result of our “As Seen On TV: Take 3″ Search, Edison Nation member, Peter Wachtel, has had his submission selected for an option period with one of our DRTV partners!
Please join us in congratulating Peter!
To learn more about the ASOTV Option and the next steps for Peter’s invention, be sure to check out our post The “As Seen On TV” Option: What Does it Mean?
First & Goal A fifth-grader from North Florida has released a college football app for iPhones. An avid college football fan, 10 year-old Jack Templeton came up with the idea for a college football roster app when he received an iTouch for his birthday. The 99-cent app provides users with all 120 Division I college [...]
Crabgrass, Vegan Eggs and Package-less Orange Juice Homaro Cantu’s Recipe to Change the Way We Eat By Mike Drummond Celebrity chef Homaro Cantu would rather tinker with lasers, ultrasound and liquid nitrogen than talk haute cuisine and name drop. Despite the fact he and sidekick pastry chef Ben Roche had a cooking show called Future [...]
Tonight on Got Invention Radio, the station for inventors brings you another holiday treat. Chip Fisher, president of Fisher Wallace Laboratories and son of pioneer stereo legend Avery Fisher, joins Got Invention host Brian Fried at 8pm ET/5pm PT. Click on the “listen live” button on the homepage, www.gotinvention.com. Call 877.474.3302 or email your questions to brian@gotinvention.com. [...]
By Jennipher Adkins Every self-respecting inventor with a product to sell should be searchable on YouTube, ebay, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter. However, serious players also will post their products on targeted sites frequented by retail buyers, innovation companies and licensing groups. TheProductNetwork.com is “where inventors and consumers unite.” With a high ranking on Google, the [...]
Every month, Inventors Digest features new inventions from independent inventors in our Under the Radar section. Get your invention in the magazine; email info@inventorsdigest.com. Put “Radar” in the subject. Spot Me Scott Naidus of Manchester, N.H., has been inventing for some 15 years and has two patents so far. The fitness-industry consultant has practiced what [...]
How the Crowd Can Help Find Prior Art By Cheryl Milone Prior art research is playing an increasingly important role for companies and inventors with potential exposure to intellectual property litigation. Millions of dollars in legal expenses are being spent to understand the true value of patents. In some cases, entire industries are threatened by [...]
Val Valgardson is the technical director at Suburban Artworks, which specializes in 3D product imaging. The company has built a reputation producing top-notch virtual prototypes, 3D illustrations, architectural renderings, 3D floor plans, animations, product images, sell sheets, webpages and logos. Suburban Artworks can turn your cocktail napkin sketch into a professional 3D drawing. We talked with Val [...]
By James Richardson A hundred years ago if you wanted to make a prototype, you broke out your hammer, chisel, lumber, metal, forge and other brawny hardware. Today, you use a keyboard and a mouse. Although 3D modeling software has been around for many years, it was very expensive and used mainly by large corporations. [...]
Former B-movie actress-turned inventor Rhonda Shear – who graced the cover of the December issue of Inventors Digest – takes a star turn on Got Invention Radio tonight. Rhonda spent 25 years in the Hollywood spotlight as an actress, comedienne and host. Starring for years on the popular late night series “USA: Up All Night,” [...]