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Crabgrass, Vegan Eggs and Package-less Orange Juice Homaro Cantu’s Recipe to Change the Way We Eat By Mike Drummond Celebrity chef Homaro Cantu would rather tinker with lasers, ultrasound and liquid nitrogen than talk haute cuisine and name drop. Despite the fact he and sidekick pastry chef Ben Roche had a cooking show called Future [...]
A Sneak Peek at the Taipei International Invention Show & Technomart By Kayley Duval I was wheeling through the Taipei International Airport searching for someone holding a card with my name on it. I spotted a sign – “Kaely Dual.” No quite right, but after a marathon journey that spanned the continental United States, the [...]
Beyond the Bake Sale By Haley Dunn The Beatles proclaimed, “Money can’t buy me love.” However, money can buy plenty of other things. The value of a dollar is learned at a young age — even the youngest entrepreneurs know that a lemonade stand and a gap-toothed grin are good for a pound of candy [...]
1.) Have your invention evaluated by a non-biased professional – even if your mom’s in the business, go to someone else. It may be nice to know that your friends and neighbors like your idea, but do they know anything about new product development? Do they know about manufacturing or how to price a product? [...]
- 10 Simple Tips By Karen Waksman Selling an invention to major retailers can seem like an overwhelming task, but it doesn’t have to be. You just need a little insight into how retailers operate and what makes them more inclined to buy. 1 Buyers Are Looking For You Most inventors don’t realize how important it [...]
The Purple Gears – Cranking Out Innovation By Kim Wierman How do you lift batons from a vertical dispenser without using your hands? If you’re the Purple Gears, a seven student team from Raleigh, N.C., taking part in this year’s FIRST Tech Challenge, you design, build and apply to patent a foldable forklift. Team 2901 [...]
Norm Goldstein, founder and CEO of By Kids For Kids, overseas an operation that works tirelessly to helpl youth commercialize their inventions. Norm, a longtime friend of Inventors Digest, takes to the air tonight (July 30, 2011) as the featured guest on partner Got Invention Radio. The show is archived. Listen to Norm on Got Invention Radio. Norm [...]
By Jack Lander We love to think of ourselves as creators of original ideas. Most of the time we are merely tuning in on the concepts of others. But we’re in good company when we reinvent the wheel. Did Edison invent the light bulb? He invented one version of it. Sir Humphrey Davy invented the [...]
Once upon a time in America – in the 19th century, actually – the nation convulsed with anxiety about the future. Many worried that the United States was adrift from the vision of the founding fathers. “People were panicked,” says independent museum curator Claire Perry. “There were many editorials, church sermons, poems, pictures and paintings [...]
By Mary Dickson While visiting Chicago recently, President Obama remarked to the crowd, “Ordinary folks can do extraordinary things.” Call me crazy, but I think Obama just might kick back with Everyday Edisons in his downtime, for this ode to extraordinary capabilities is kind of our mantra. Edison Nation (a sister company of Inventors Digest) [...]
