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INVENTIONS News, Jul 07, 2013























Finding motivation behind invention
Seacoastonline.com
As the Fourth of July celebration comes around, this column also celebrates six months from its start in January. I surmise that readers are paying attention to and looking forward to the backyard gathering of friends and relatives, or driving afar to ...
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Green Inventions: 10 Hot Eco-Innovations That Could Change The Planet ...
Huffington Post
... have appeared over the past decade that showcase the bright green future ahead? Lights that last nearly 30 years? Green burials? Take a look at some of the most innovative green inventions in recent history, and let us know of any others in the ...
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The 8 drink inventions we could never do without
Fox News
It's the little inventions that basically made our world of drinks explode into the endless variety of beverage options we have today. Without refrigeration we wouldn't have such access to drinks that spoil fast, like milk; without tea bags, the art of ...
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7 Inventions For Moms That Science Needs To Work On
Babble
I sweep my floors after every meal. Every time I sweep my floors, I think, “There's got to be a better way.” We live in an era where kitchen designers put functioning faucets over the stove so you can fill a pasta pot without leaving the heat source ...
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Ron Klein, Inventor Of Credit Card Strip, Made Little Money From The Invention
Huffington Post
"I think the statistics today talk about 609 million credit cards that are in existence, just here in the U.S.," says Ron Klein, the inventor of the magnetic credit card strip. "When I hear those kinds of numbers, I almost have to be apologetic." Even ...
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12 Badass American Inventions That Changed History
Mashable
In honor of Independence Day and the land of opportunity's 237th birthday, we've gathered a small sampling of some of the most important, iconic and overall awesome American inventions throughout history. From rockets to Roombas, swivel chairs to ...
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Design Museum announces Designs of the Year 2013 Visitor Vote winners
Digital Arts Online
For the first time, visitors to the Design Museum's Designs of the Year 2013 exhibition were invited to vote for their favourite designs to win the Design of the Year 2013 Visitor Vote award. It's clear that the public were won over by heartwarming ...
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iPhone 6, iPad 5 and mini 2 inventions baited
Phones Review
It is unclear if the next Apple phone will be iPhone 6 or 5S, although you can almost count on an iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 seeing a release date at the end of this year. If you love Apple products then we have the mother of all teases today, which tease ...
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5 Futuristic Inventions We Wish Existed
Mashable
Who would have thought Total Recall's prediction of driverless cars or The Truman Show's forecasting of the rise of reality TV would actually come to pass? But other predictions from futurists and Hollywood visions of hoverboards, flying cars and space ...
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Inventions showcased at The Leonardo
Theentertainmentjournal
Making its U.S. Debut at The Leonardo, 101 Inventions that Changed the World takes visitors on a journey through history to discover the top innovations that literally changed the course of humankind. The exhibit, which will run through the summer and ...
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Camp Invention teaches life skills, problem-solving
Newnan Times-Herald
Camp Invention works to instill vital 21st century life skills like problem-solving and teamwork through hands-on fun. Kids who participate in Camp Invention also receive hands-on learning through daily modules, based on science, created to foster ...
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Teen invents body heat-powered flashlight: What's your teen done?
Christian Science Monitor
A 15-year-old student inventor of a new kind of flashlight is the latest in a long line of young people to catch the public imagination with the sheer ambition of her creation. Ann Makosinski, a high school junior from Canada, harnessed Peltier tiles ...
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8 Inventions That Were Way Ahead Of Their Time
Business Insider
The jetpack, the flying car, free electricity for the world – all these ideas are way ahead of our time in the practical sense. With time on our side, however, the idea of what's out of our technological reach is always changing. Circuits get smaller ...
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10 inventors who didn't get mega-rich from their inventions
BBC News
Inventor Trevor Baylis recently said he can no longer afford to live in his home in Twickenham, London, because despite millions of sales around the globe, the company he went into business with were able to tweak his design and he lost control over ...
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Douglas Engelbart Dies At 88, Invented Computer Mouse
KUHF-FM
Engelbart first showed it off, along with many other inventions, at a conference in San Francisco for computer professionals in 1968. Most of them were interacting with computers as a big as a football field with punch cards. An amazed audience looked ...
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ISSUE 1: Dangerous Inventions
Oxford American
You could conclude from all this that my inventions are somehow a predictable bit of lying for the usual purposes of lying—to gain something, or to hurt someone else. I could gain status among my friends by being the kind of cool guy who has an artist ...
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Kitchen inventions quiz
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Without these advancements, we'd still be toasting bread over a fire and reheating our coffee in a saucepan on the stove. But how much do you know about these inventions and products you see, or use yourself, every day? Test your knowledge here.
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Doug Engelbart, Father of Computer Mouse, Dies at 88
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Engelbart is widely credited as the father of the computer mouse, which he developed along with otherinventions while a researcher at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California. He gave a celebrated public showing of his research at what ...
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A Detroit Entrepreneur Transforms Personal Tragedy Into Live-Saving Inventions
Xconomy
It was in Iraq where his endless stream of ideas led to his first bonafide invention. During sniper training, he realized that while perched in certain positions, it was nearly impossible for soldiers to drink from their canteens. So, while on the ...
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Doug Engelbart, American inventor and computing legend, has ...
By Om Malik
Douglas “Doug” Engelbart, a legendary American inventor and computing icon who invented the computer mouse and helped develop much of the modern PC user interface, passed away last night, according to family sources. News of his ...
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Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies at 88 ... - Science News
Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse and developer of early incarnations of email, word processing programs and the Internet, has died at the age of 88.
Phys.org - latest science and...
Nashua North students show invention at MIT's EurekaFest ...
A group of Nashua High School North students represented the School District at the EurekaFest.
Nashuatelegraph.com: Breaking...
The Bikini's Inventor Guessed How Much It Would Horrify the Public ...
By Rose Eveleth
Reard knew that the bikini would be a splash, so the first version that Micheline Bernardini wore had newspaper type printed on it—he was that sure his invention would make headlines. It did, and legend has it that he received 50,000 fan ...
Smart News
Quad bike invention wins | Otago Daily Times Online News : Otago ...
By Sally Rae
Seeing stories about the number of quad-bike fatalities in New Zealand got Steve Dawson thinking.
Otago Daily Times:

Passage: The inventor of the computer mouse - CBS News
CBS Sunday Morning: Passage: The inventor of the computer mouse - Doug Engelbart said his "X-Y-Z position indicator" was "no great shakes" - but the mouse ...
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Computer mouse inventor Doug Engelbart dies at 88 | N4G
The inventor of the computer mouse, Doug Engelbart, has died aged 88. Engelbart ... And to think, we all used his invention to read this sad news. A fitting tribute ...
n4g.com/.../computer-mouse-inventor-doug-engelbart-dies-at-...
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