Master housewares licensor and inventor mentor Warren Tuttle graces our virtual studio on Got Invention Radio tonight.
Tune in 8 p.m. EST/5 p.m. PST at www.gotinvention.com. Call 877.474.3302 or e-mail your questions at info@gotinvention.com
Warren is the founder of Connecticut-based Monashee Marketing, which specializes in commercializing housewares.
For those familiar with the television direct response mega-hit Smart Spin, Warren helped orchestrate [...]
By Jason Albee
To understand the future of fusion, you have to know the past.
Around the turn of the 20th century, there lived a young boy named Philo Farnsworth. He grew up on a farm in Idaho, but his interests eclipsed agriculture. He had an aptitude for chemistry and physics, particularly when it came to electronics.
Drawing [...]
Inventor and licensing mentor Stephen Key is the keynote speaker at Inventors Conference 2010: The Power of Connections, Kentucky’s largest conference for inventors and entrepreneurs, to be held on Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 at the Central Public Library in downtown Lexington KY. For more information about attending this conference, visit www.ckic.org.
Stephen has licensed more than [...]
How to Score a Home Run Product
Despite its notorious reluctance to embrace innovation, Major League Baseball increasingly is finding room for new ideas in America’s oldest pastime. With the World Series upon us, it’s time to take a look how you can get into the game.
By Mike Drummond
Hall of Fame baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. [...]
The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance just announced the winners of the inaugural BMEStart competition, recognizing undergraduate excellence in biomedical innovation.
First place and a $10,000 grant for further product development was awarded to North Carolina State University for the HydrEYE CorneOasis Contact Lens, an inexpensive solution for patients who have lost control over [...]
Finally, a flying car!
Carl Dietrich is the CEO and chief technology officer and co-founder of Terragugia, a company looking to revolutionize personal aviation.
He’s the brainy and flighty guest on Got Invention Radio tonight. Tune in 8 p.m. EST/5 p.m. PST at www.gotinvention.com. Call 877.474.3302 or e-mail your questions at info@gotinvention.com
Carl received his BS, MS and Ph.D. [...]
Don’t Daze Me, Bro
Laser Energetics has developed a crime-fighting device designed to “save lives, one daze at a time.” The company says its Dazer Laser shoots a beam of light so debilitating and disorienting it can cause momentary nausea.
The Dazer has military applications, as well. General Dynamics this summer announced it landed a $2.6 million [...]
Heat the Feet
Hot sweaty feet may be annoying and pungent, but they can also generate energy.
While wearing Wellington boots, your hot feet can create and store enough energy to power a cell phone. The boots are a result of collaboration between British telecom company Orange and the green-minded folks at Gotwind.
Thermoelectric modules in the soles [...]
The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) announced the launch of the Global Innovation Initiative (GII), a program designed to support Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) educators and students in solving the problems of global poverty in environmentally and economically sustainable ways. Focusing especially on STEM Education, the NCIIA and its partners seek [...]
Our friends at the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance and partner Olympus, is calling for nominations for the seventh annual Olympus Innovation Awards Program.
The program recognizes those who have fostered or demonstrated innovative thinking in education.
Students, faculty and others at NCIIA institutions of higher learning in the U.S. can review qualification guidelines by logging [...]