March Madness for the Mind – Vote Now!
February 25th, 2010
College innovators exhibiting at the upcoming March Madness for the Mind event have created short videos showcasing their amazing inventions.
Here’s your chance to cast your vote for your favorite team and help them win $800!
PLUS – Save the Planet One Kilowatt at a Time. Check out the Inventors Digest 2010 Collegiate Alt-Energy Challenge.
Cash for Thinkers
March 9th, 2010
IdeaConnection Links Companies with ‘the Crowd’
By B. Collins
Innovators, inventors, researchers and tinkerers of all stripes looking to earn extra cash might consider enlisting for IdeaConnection, an online collection of mercenary problem-solvers.
Serial entrepreneur Scott Wurtele of Vancouver, Canada, formed IdeaConnection three years ago in hopes of capitalizing on “open innovation” – the practice of tapping outside [...]
Power 2.0
March 8th, 2010
College Students & the Generation of New Energy
By Mike Drummond
Dell, Facebook, Google and Microsoft all have one thing in common. Each was started by college students.
You arguably could throw in Apple. But founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, while college age-ish when they first met in 1968, didn’t meet on campus.
Nonetheless, there’s something about dorm [...]
Energize Our World Contest
March 6th, 2010
Save the Planet One Kilowatt at a Time
Colleges – Sign Up for Your Free Poster Now
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Inventors Digest is hosting the national 2010 Collegiate Alt-Energy Challenge.
We’d like to ship colleges and universities 10 free posters announcing the event. High-resolution PDF versions also are available.
Simply provide your contact information and shipping [...]
Patent reform bill close to passing?
March 5th, 2010
Beltway blog The Hill reports that senators involved in the patent reform bill have reached agreement on language in the legislation that has lingered in Congress for much of the last decade.
There’s a certain good news-bad news aspect to this. I’m for language in the bill that allows the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office to [...]
Seize the Zeitgeist
March 4th, 2010
How Timing Impacts Success
By Jack Lander
Let’s talk about opportunity. Hmmm … on second thought, let’s address success. Actually, timing may be more to the point. What I’m getting at is how timing affects opportunity and success.
To get a clear perspective on how timing relates to opportunity and success, I’ve devised a gamut that ranges from [...]
How to Cut Your Patent Costs
March 3rd, 2010
By Rick Martin
The road to obtaining a low-cost patent – with the term “low-cost” being relative – begins with an Internet search.
Start with Google Patent Search, an engine that delivers patents issued in the United States.
You’ll also want to search the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s site at www.uspto.gov, which delivers international pending applications.
These initial [...]
Edible Advertising
March 2nd, 2010
Inkjet Printer Transforms the Surface of Drinks
By Tom Samph
Oleksiy Pikalo, a Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer, created a new medium for advertising: the surface of drinks.
Pikalo’s invention, a beverage art printer, sprays a thin layer of caramel on the surface of any foamy drink, transforming a milky latte or an amber Guinness into a canvas. The [...]
Word Sharing
March 1st, 2010
Imitation Is Everything in the World of PR Writing
By Damon Carson
Do you have a phobia of writing?
Maybe it doesn’t rank up there with the fear of public speaking, but most of all us probably wished we could write a little better. How many times in business would you benefit from being a better writer [...]
Olympics and the Rings of Innovation
February 26th, 2010
Every two years the world is brought together to celebrate sport and the art of healthy competition.
The Olympics brings out the best in the competitors because, as Herb Brooks said, “The name on the front of your jersey is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back.”
Recently, the world witnessed [...]
