Work at Home Business Ideas

Star Tribune:
One night in 1966, “Tonight Show” host Johnny Carson and a guest, the lovely Eva Gabor, were on the studio floor as they giggled and groped their way through a new game that was destined for tens of thousands of U.S. living rooms.
The agile Johnny attempted to slide one foot to a color destination […]

TIME:
From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public bike system to the world’s first moving skyscraper — TIME’s picks for the top innovations of 2008. Yesterday, we looked at a couple of innovations. Today, three more.
Made-in-Transit Packaging
Most fresh food comes with a “best before” date, but Amsterdam-based Canadian designer […]

TIME:
From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public bike system to the world’s first moving skyscraper — TIME’s picks for the top innovations of 2008.
Yesterday, we talked about the number one choice. Today, we’ll look at a couple of other innovations.
Montreal’s Public Bike System
When lots of people use a […]

ReadWriteWeb:
We live in an age when success of innovation is mixed with unprecedented failures. On one hand we’re reinventing the web, fighting for a greener future and building genomix. On the other there are housing bubbles, credit crises and war.
The technology patent crisis is important to our future. For decades the patent law served its […]

Entrepreneur.com:
The web has revolutionized nearly every aspect of human endeavor. The cliche goes that you can do everything from diagnosing medical aliments to investigating your genealogy while sitting at home in your underwear. This is equally true for entrepreneurs, who can perform virtually all of their business activities online.
The internet can help both the novice […]

IPWatchdog.com:
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has announced that it is adopting new rules relating to a variety of issues that impact who can engage in representation of clients before the PTO, both on the patent and the trademark side of the Office.
These new rules, which will go into effect on September 15, 2008, […]

Daily Cognition:
Lock Cup - Anti-Theft Coffee Cup
Are you tired of others stealing your coffee cup? Well now there’s a solution. The Lock - Cup has a hole which prevents most people from using it. Only the owner of the cup can use his/hers shaped key to close the hole.
“The Zaky” - Infant Pillow
An ergonomic infant […]

PRNewswire:
WHAM-O, Inc., announced that John Bisbal III of East Northport, New York is the winner of the company’s 60th Anniversary Kid Inventor Contest.
In saluting WHAM-O’s storied, and sometimes “zany,” history of redefining fun with off-the-wall toys and imaginative inventions, WHAM-O’s Kid Inventor Contest encouraged kids between the ages of 6-17 to tinker, test, create and […]

Entrepreneur:
Over the past several months, Congress has been discussing numerous changes to existing patent law.
While certain elements of the legislation will bring the U.S. patent system in line with much of the rest of the world by potentially simplifying the process of filing, granting and disputing patents, my concern is that the direction and consequences […]

ThomasNet:
While necessity may be the mother of invention, its paternal roots can be traced to accidents and eccentricity. IMT contributor Ilya Leybovich looks at the unexpected sources of some of today’s most common inventions, plus some unusual proposals for products yet to find a niche.
One of today’s most widely used adhesives was the product of […]