I missed the annual Pi day celebration. Enjoy the Pi song at least. Pi has its day, appropriately, on March 14 (3/14). Often a Pi Day celebration will have an extra special event set for pi minute (at 1:59pm). In the UK, Pi Approximation Day is often celebrated on July 22 (22/7) as 22 divided [...]

Stainless Steel Got You Blue? This invention spotlight shines light on a unique problem that is becoming more prevalent in today’s modern kitchen’s. Magnets won’t stick to stainless steel. How do you attach anything, especially your 5-year-old Picasso’s latest masterpiece, to your refrigerator? A company called Mayfair Lane™ has a very cool line of products [...]

What does this all mean? I don’t know either. Should I be scared or exhilarated. The video is worth watching … Can you really wrap your head around a million anything? how about a billion? Try this on for size.1M seconds = 11.6 days1B seconds = 31.7 YEARS! My brain hurts. You might be interesed [...]

I recently met a gentleman named Billy, who 15 years ago had aspirations to be an inventor. Billy had an idea for a product he wanted to take to market. Instead he got taken and was fleeced by a company that claimed they were going to help him get his idea patented. They kept asking [...]

Patents can be useless. I have six of them credited to my name and my former employer never got a nickel from them. I got a few thousand dollars in bonuses but inventions do not equal innovation. Michael Schrage has a great definition of innovation: “Innovation’ isn’t what innovators do….it’s what customers and clients adopt.” [...]

This is just plain freaky. Check out this video of a four legged walking robot. Turn down the volume because the audio sounds like a chain saw. DARPA ROCKS in my book. You might be interesed in reading … Invention Addicts, meet BotJunkie NAO Robot Expresses Emotions RoboPlow Thank you for reading. Comments are welcome [...]

This blog is dedicated to inventors and their inventions. We will have posts on how to be more creative, help with patents, cool and not so cool inventions and inventor spotlights. The invention spotlight is your chance to promote a product that you invented. We’ll provide a link to your website so readers can learn [...]