NCIIA’s New Undergrad Competition

The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) announced the launch of BMEStart, an award recognizing undergraduate excellence in biomedical innovation. BMEStart stands apart from the NCIIA’s other biomedical...

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A Style Change for Your Pocket Change

When fashions collide, Wallots keep you color coordinated By Edie Tolchin Listen up, fashionistas. It’s easy to coordinate your shoe color with your purse. Say you have a fuchsia sandal and a matching fuchsia handbag. But you...

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Poking Fun at Patents

By B. Collins When I got my review copy of Daniel Wright’s Patently Silly (First Lyons Press, 2009), I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. The small, square book based on Wright’s patentlysilly.com Web site contains some 200 of...

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Take No Prisoners

In search for new product ideas, Skol is opening its doors to inventors By Mike Drummond For more than 20 years, Skol carved itself a niche manufacturing light fixtures for prisons. Making lights functional yet inaccessible to...

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Vanna Go to the Moon?

Some of you may recall the piece we wrote on Vanna Bonta, the inventor/innovator from California who developed a suit to help humans copulate in zero gravity. The 2Suit anticipates the day when we colonize space. (See Sex and...

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The Future of Fabrics

Spider Webs, Grass & Nanotubes – Behold the Brave New U.S. Textile Industry It is tempting to think textile development hit its apex in 1873, when Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss invented denim blue jeans. What is more...

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Another Open Letter to Obama

Dr. Mr. President: On Tuesday, Sept. 8, you traveled to speak at Wakefield High School in Alexandria, Va. I have to say Mr. President, it was a sensational speech. After reading it online, I found myself thinking about the...

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The Chicago Innovation Awards

The eighth annual Chicago Innovation Awards is Oct. 20 at the Windy City’s Goldman Theater. The awards program honors 11 products and services from companies that may be large or small, for-profit or not-for-profit,...

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