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Dinner Date with the Mangrate
By Mike Drummond
I told Evan McConnell that I’ve barbecued pizzas made from scratch on my charcoal Weber grill and he one-upped me.
He regularly cooks Sunday breakfasts on his grill. Bacon, eggs, toast, the works.
McConnell has made a comfortable living as CEO of mobile computing enterprise EarthWalk Communications. He founded the Manassas, [...]
Lessons from a Foul-Mouthed Funnyman
When the recession put him on the unemployment roll, he regrouped and relaunched his career. He’s back on top. This time on his own terms.
By Mike Drummond
It’s late June and I catch Adam Carolla in a chatty mood. Then again, when isn’t the former co-host of Loveline and The Man Show [...]
Brian Sumereau solved the riddle of winning thousands of dollars in cash and prizes with his game “The Puzzler” in this year’s Invention Dimension national competition.
The 11-year-old of River Vale, N.J., beat thousands of other contestants with his highly original new game, which combines logic puzzles with board games.
Brian received a $1,000 prize package from [...]
It’s another banner evening at Got Invention Radio tonight, when Martin Cooper – one of my favorite innovators – will be in the house.
Cooper, a legend and national treasure, invented the first commercial cell phone.
I had the pleasure of interviewing him many years ago – he tells a great story of placing the first mobile [...]
With the help of Edison Nation, Michael Diep’s
Emery Cat clawed its way to success
By Mike Drummond
Bullets from pursuing government troops zipped overhead, missing Michael Diep as he, his father, mother and younger brother fled.
A man who took their money and promised to help them cross the border never showed – again. It was the late [...]
The Intellectual Property Owners Association Education Foundation elected three new board members, all with expansive intellectual property bona fides. The new members in alphabetical order are:
Louis Foreman is the founder and chief executive of Enventys, an integrated product design and engineering firm. Foreman is an inventor with 10 U.S. patents. He is th creator of the [...]
Anthony Salcito is one of Microsoft’s more peripatetic execs. As vice president of the company’s Worldwide Public Sector-Education, he’s in Puerto Rico one month, Russia another, and maybe Fresno, Calif., the next. Why? To gain insights on different education systems and, as you might imagine, to drop Microsoft’s technology into the conversations. We caught up [...]
Frustration spurred Tom Patterson’s quest to reinvent men’s undergarments. The founder of Tommy John undershirts appears on Got Invention Radio tonight to share the secrets of his success.
The former medical device salesman thought he could improve the un-tailored generic t-shirt, which failed to flatter men’s bodies. Generic cotton Ts also tend to shrink and develop [...]
Just Say ‘No’ to Rejection
By Ron Komorowski
How long should we really push an invention before giving up and moving on to the next idea?
I guess this is the age-old question dating back to when we started making fire. I can only imagine how many ways our hairy ancestors thought of ways to create fire. Who [...]
By Gene Quinn
Over the last few months, I’ve chatted with several giants in the patent world – industry leaders who revere the concept of intellectual property, but have deep concerns with the existing patent system.
To one degree or another, they support patent reform – a concept that can trigger no small amount of debate in [...]
