Have an Invention Idea? Need Help or Advice?

Posted April 24th, 2008 by Myra Per-Lee

Inventors love to fantasize about the overnight success of their inventions, and reality TV, invention contests, and invention submission companies play right into those fantasies. But most of us don’t get discovered overnight; we have to work pretty hard until we make it. After marketing almost a dozen new products, on my own and through licensees, I wrote a series of invention advice blogs from idea to sale. In them, I share with you a practical approach to the invention process and help you recognize some of the inventor “traps” out there before they ensnare you.

11 Brilliant Inventions From Popular Science's Best of What's New 2008

Posted November 9th, 2008 by Myra Per-Lee

Popular Science has announced its Best of What's New awards for 2008; they are all brilliant inventions, but some are phenomenal! There were 11 categories of best invention awards ranging across a wide spectrum of technology, from automobile to security technologies. One of the 11 winners was named the Grand Award Winner... see if you can guess which one!

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Time Picks Best Invention Of The Year 2008: DNA Test "23andMe"

Posted November 1st, 2008 by Myra Per-Lee

Time Magazine has announced the 50 best inventions of 2008 and at its top is a DNA test called 23andMe. It's not as well-known as the iPhone, Time's best invention of 2007, but if 23andMe catches on, it will change how much we know about ourselves, our families, and possibly, about others.

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Inventor's Hall of Fame Picks 2008 Collegiate Inventors Finalists

Posted October 27th, 2008 by Myra Per-Lee

The National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation announced the 2008 finalists of the Collegiate Inventors Competition. Sponsored by the Abbott Fund and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the competiton winners were undergraduate and graduate students whose inventions were found to meet pressing needs in our society.

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TeleNav GPS Navigator™ Wins 2008 Mobile Internet Innovation Award

Posted October 22nd, 2008 by Myra Per-Lee

GPS systems are tough to follow while you are driving... not to mention dangerous. The TeleNav GPS Navigator provides both a visual map and voice driving instructions through your cell phone. Yesterday, the visual-voice navigator received xchange magazine's Mobile Internet World Innovation 2008 Award, adding to the list of TeleNav's awards and recognitions.

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Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards: 10 Most Brilliant Gadgets Of 2008

Posted October 15th, 2008 by Myra Per-Lee

Popular Mechanics announced its picks for the 2008 Breakthrough Awards to The 10 Most Brilliant Gadets of the Year. Here's the list of international winners; you may be surprised at the gadgets on the list.

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A Rubberband Contest For Kid Inventors To Stretch Their Minds

Posted October 14th, 2008 by Myra Per-Lee

There's a really cool contest going on now for students grades 5 through 8, challenging them to invent something with one or more rubber bands. It's the first of its kind, according to the sponsors, and just thinking about using a rubber band in something totally new has got to be a stretch.

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2008 Nobel Prize In Chemistry For Work on "Jellyfish's Green Light"

Posted October 8th, 2008 by Myra Per-Lee

The 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded today to three biochemists for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP, originating in the Aequorea victoria jellyfish. The three scientists - Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien - contributed greatly to the study of cell biology, by identifying and marking proteins that contribute to illness and disease.

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2008 Nobel Prize In Physics: 3 Early Contributors To Big Bang Theory

Posted October 7th, 2008 by Myra Per-Lee

Today, in Stockholm, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three Japanese physicists - Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, and Toshihide Maskawa. In different studies, 14 years apart, these men contributed to the understanding of broken symmetries at the sub-atomic, or quark, level of matter and antimatter. The work of these men has led to an understanding of why everything in nature does not react symmetrically.

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2008 Nobel Prize In Medicine Awarded To HIV And HPV Discoverers

Posted October 6th, 2008 by Myra Per-Lee

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden announced today that the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine would be shared by the discoverers of HPV (human papilloma virus) that causes cervical cancer, and the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), both sexually transmitted viruses.

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Wall Street Journal Announces Innovation Awards For 2008

Posted October 1st, 2008 by Myra Per-Lee

The Wall Street Journal announced the recipients of its 2008 Technology Innovation Awards. The top award went to Vidacare, a U.S. firm, that created the EZ-IO device, a high-speed drill that delivers medications and other fluids directly into bones.