Archive for the 'Inventions' Category

  • Bicycle Based Cell Phone Rechargers

    I’m constantly amazed at the innovation I see from entrepreneurs around the world and the postings at Afrigadget rarely disappoint in this regard! Check out this Nokia “cell phone accessory” – a bicycle empowered phone recharger. In Africa and emerging markets, the cell phone must handle more than one SIM card, serve as a flashlight [...]

  • $300 Million Prize Proposed For Battery Innovation

    I’ll have to give John McCain this… his idea to offer a $300 million prize for the inventor who can come up with a battery vastly superior to those available today at prices and efficiency rates that make electric autos desirable IS a smart idea. This is right out of the Wikinomics play book. If [...]

  • Minnesota Inventors Congress Links Inventors & Resources

    The Minnesota Inventor’s Congress has been around almost 50 years… starting in 1958. It started to help link inventors, manufacturers, marketers, and the general public. Like many smaller towns, they experienced the “brain drain” of their young people so they hoped it would encourage some to stay near home. Has it helped? In 1964 one [...]

  • How Toxic Seeds Could Feed Millions

    Many people don’t realize that we cook legumes and other seeds to increase their digestibility and nutrient availability. Otherwise, chemicals in the plants would sicken us. Some plant products defy such home grown processing – the cotton seed was one. Until now. As reported in the Christian Science Monitor, a new genetically engineered form is being [...]

  • How To Keep Your Day Job And Profit From Your Dreams

    Via Dane’s Blog BeaconNewsOnline.com: Three years ago inventor Steve Grant was thinking about designing a new kind of desk-top fish tank. He didn’t see any on the market that he liked, and he wanted to tinker with his idea. But he was worried. “So many times the people that I’ve read or heard about commit [...]

  • Attention Entrepreneurs Inventors Visit Collaborate 2006 Huntsville, AL – October 10 – 12

    Collaborate 2006 at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville AL promises to be an interesting event for entrepreneurs/inventors wanting to develop contacts in the Automotive, Aerospace, and Defense fields. Collaborate 2006 is North America’s only automotive, aerospace and defense collaborative event. This new annual conference and exhibition is produced by SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers) [...]

  • What Every First Time Inventor Must Know

    Via Dane… Inventors’ Digest: In honor of August being National Inventors’ Month, Inventors’ Digest magazine will unveil a compilation of its best and brightest articles from the past two decades, providing the first downloadable volume free of charge now and throughout August, to help novice inventors move from idea to product development success. The 20 [...]

  • Staples Office Supply Seeking Amateur Inventors

    Do you have an invention that makes life in the cubicle easier? You might win $25,000 and 8% royalties for life if you have a great idea! From Start Up Journal… Neil Grimwood once missed a meeting because a Post-it note he’d stuck on his computer as a reminder fell off. That inspired him to [...]