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Keeping An Inventor’s Notebook

Entrepreneur:
You’ll be amazed at the number of people you’ll speak to as you go through the inventing process.
Be sure to keep a brief record of all conversations you think are relevant. For example, when you speak with an engineer, graphic artist, prototype developer or patent attorney, write down the date and time of your call. [...]

Backup Balls Trailer Loading Device

SANEPR.com:
Whatever the size of the trailer couplers or the ball hitches, one of the main problems faced by many drivers is how to do a perfect alignment of the ball hitch of the vehicle to the trailer coupler.
Most available products in the market generally are very cheaply made and use magnets that do not work [...]

Turn Your Brilliant Product Ideas Into Reality

Killer Startups:
Have you always wanted to design your own jewelry or furniture?
Well make your dreams a reality with Ponoko.com. It’s a site that gives designers the opportunity to be creative and make products. Designers can make a product and put it up for sale on Ponoko.com.
In order to make and design a product you must [...]

Invention Helps Kids With Daily Routines

Examiner.com:
Moschel Kadokura is the genius behind a wonderful invention. As a mother four children, a set of triplets and a younger son, life couldn’t be more hectic and trying to get a troop of five year olds ready for school was proving to be a very difficult job.
The idea - find a way to [...]

GripBoard Brings Surf Something New

San Clemente Times:
It’s said that some of the best ideas are born of despair. For Thorpe “Sharky” Reeder, that expression is all too true, and the Capistrano Beach inventor-artist-fisherman hopes one day that the resulting idea will one day pay off in financial success.
Reeder is the inventor of the GripBoard, a wave riding device that [...]

The Shower Professor Offers A Simple Solution To Help Shorten Your Shower Time

If you want to conserve water when you shower, then it only makes sense to cut back on how much time you spend in it. So a simple alarm would do, right? Not quite. If you want something to join you in the shower, you’ll need it to be either protected or [...]

Simulating A High Five Machine: Great Idea?

Funny Patents and Inventions:
Is there anyone out there who isn’t familiar with the high five celebratory gesture made by two people, each raising one hand to slap the raised hand of the other?
It dates back to 1944 when in the movie, Cover Girl (1944), Phil Silvers’ character, Genius, tears up a telegram and attempts to [...]

Grad Scores With Invention Of Purring Toy

Athens Banner-Herald:
When former Jefferson resident Vivian Hoard was working “24/7″ as a tax litigator for a large Atlanta law firm, she often came home at night to a sleeping family, but she always could rely on the family cat, Ludwig, to sit in her lap and purr contentedly.
“When I’d come home at all hours of [...]

Inventor Creates Instantly Adjustable Eyeglasses

Gizmodo:
British Inventor Josh Silver has developer a pair of eyeglasses that are instantly adjustable. They’ve got a liquid-filled sac in the middle—add more fluid to make the glasses stronger, deflate to weaken them.
The no-optician-required glasses rely on the principle that the fatter a lens is, the more powerful it comes, so by pumping in or [...]

Cop’s Invention Like Handcuffs For Socks

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
One of the great modern mysteries is one that plagues almost every household: the missing sock in the dryer. Some have given it a name: Missing Sock Syndrome.
A relatively new product aims to prevent Missing Sock Syndrome. The Sock Cop, plastic clips that clip two socks together, was invented by Tampa, Fla., police officer [...]