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FULL TITLE: Voice of Thomas Edison's talking doll is heard again after 123 years as scientists crack the code of mysterious metal ring For decades it lay in the bottom of a secretary's desk drawer, its purpose unknown. But now, 123 year after it was made, the secret of this bent metal ring, which was found in Thomas Edison's laboratory, has finally been uncovered. Scientists have found that the microscopic grooves on the ring make up the tune of 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' and mark the world's first attempt at a talking doll and the dawn of America's recording industry...

A study of 4,000 consumers also placed the Apple smart phone - which has sold 42 million units since its launch in 2007 - ahead of the car, camera and flushing toilet. The wheel was voted as the most important invention in history, with the aeroplane in second place, the lightbulb third, the worldwide web fourth and computers fifth.

FAIRBORN — Though Ohio’s unemployment rate has almost reached 11 percent, one man recently laid off — on his birthday, no less — did not let his situation keep him from pursuing his passions. “It was either that or give up. I just had to apply myself,” said Mike Deal of Fairborn. Deal said that he tried to get his first patent when he was nine years old for a remote-controlled camera. “I couldn’t get the funding for a patent, though. No one would give a 9-year-old the funding for a patent,” said Deal, laughing. Deal’s latest patent idea, however,...

Inventor Raphial Morgado has been invited as a guest speaker a the Oregon chapter of SAE to discuss and demonstrate his Massive Yet Tiny (MYT) engine. Also working on building 5.5-inch versions to demonstrate this 40x power-to-weight ratio engine.Inventor Raphial Morgado has been invited as a guest speaker a the Oregon chapter of SAE to discuss and demonstrate his Massive Yet Tiny (MYT) engine. Also working on building 5.5-inch versions to demonstrate this 40x power-to-weight ratio engine. We've got several updates to report on Angel Lab's Massive Yet Tiny (MYT) engine -- the internal combustion engine with multiple firings in...

I guess no one has ever thought of this before. This guy is gonna make a mint selling these things. Buy while you can!!!

A glove that works as a cell phone, a vest that senses danger and a tank top that measures heart rate. It seems that the hi-tech textiles by Swedish School of Textiles researcher Lena Berglin could turn anyone into a superhero.

The Obama administration says that economic prosperity will depend on the United States becoming an “innovation economy.” But innovation success rates in the Unites States have plunged. The USA National Innovation Marketplace – which launches on April 20th through a partnership between The US Department of Commerce NIST/MEP Network and Merwyn Research, Inc. - aims to address the critical challenge of matching inventions from America’s most talented minds with buyers, investors, distributors and manufacturers in desperate need of innovations in order to survive in this economic climate. As more people are laid off from their jobs and dreaming that their...

1. The Detachable Dog Sack. Enjoy a drive with man's best friend, but hate the hair he leaves behind? Then the detachable dog sack is for you. Now your pet can ride outside the car in a pouch attached with rubber-padded hooks to the open window of your vehicle. Because, let's face it, who needs safety when you have a sack? Click here for more. Not to mention the added benefit of deflecting blows from other people's car doors in busy parking lots. 2. The Cat Wig. It's pretty difficult to decorate a cat, but with a kitty wig, it's...

Pardon the vanity, but I need to tap into the vast knowledge and experience of the FReepers. I have a patent on a garden item, and I need a manufacturer. Any FReepers who might be in the plastics molding business, or know someone reputable who is, please list any information here or feel free to FReepmail me.I have no idea how the manufacturing process works, so any input is helpful. I know there will be several FReepers who can help me out with this. I do have a prototype and the drawings that were submitted with my patent paperwork that...

Growing up in Dallas, Alison Schuback was the kind of young woman yearbooks were created to enshrine. At 23, she was beautiful, popular, working on her master's degree in family therapy, and envisioning a life spent helping others. Then, on October 17, 1997, a Chevy Suburban ran a red light and plowed into the side of her gray Mitsubishi Eclipse, which was waiting to make a left-hand turn at an intersection. As Schuback's car whipsawed into other vehicles, the fibers of her brain twisted and tore, wreaking havoc on the delicate network that keeps humans sentient and mobile. ... Then,...

To Timbuktu by flying car: it sounds the most unlikely journey on earth; a sci-fi voyage from the pages of Jules Verne. But this is no fantasy. The car really flies. And the journey will become reality early in the new year when two explorers set off from London in a propeller-powered dune buggy heading for the Sahara. The seed of this improbable adventure was sown four years ago when Gilo Cardozo, a paramotor manufacturer, had a eureka moment. For those not familiar with paramotors, picture a parachutist with a giant industrial fan strapped to his back, which provides...

Humans are thoughtless and cruel. I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but did you know their thoughtlessness goes back many, many years? Check out this invention by some innovator type from back in the thirties. I like how this article from the June, 1936 issue of Popular Mechanics starts out… (When you take your dog along for a ride, but prefer not having it inside the car…

In the past few months a number of technologies and products that invoke the Star Trek name have been rolled out. MIT was the latest with a tractor beam-like device, but all manner of other new stuff from Star Trek funeral products to healthcare items are also out there. We've gathered up some of the more recent products so you can have a quick look-see. MIT's Tractor Beam The U of Washington TricorderStar Trek Line of funeral productsThe Air Force's transparent armor The CommunicatorThe Phaser GunPurdue's Cloaking DeviceHyperdriveThe HyposprayTelepresence   Slideshow

The origins of ice-skating have been traced by scientists to the frozen lakes of Finland about 5,000 years ago, when people used skates made from animal bone. Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University have calculated that skating on the primitive blades would have reduced the energy cost of travelling by 10 per cent, suggesting that it emerged as a practical method of transport and not as recreation. Southern Finland has been identified as the most likely home of skating through an analysis of the shape and distribution of lakes in central and northern Europe, which shows that the early Finns would...

Hollywood socialite Nicole Richie has lent her voice to a campaign to stop dogs peeing on lamp posts. When Paris Hilton's dog-loving pal learned of Swedish inventor Lennart Järlebro's plans to design a urinal for dogs, she immediately vowed to spread the word in the United States. "This invention is just so clever. It's a cute rubber cup attached to the post and a hose that pipes urine into the gutter," Richie, 26, told the Daily Star. Lennart Järlebro began designing a toilet for dogs after reading a newspaper report about the corrosive effects of dogs' urine on lamp posts....

The globalists are making a new attempt to circumvent and weaken a right explicitly recognized in the U.S. Constitution: Americans' exclusive ownership of their own inventions. Fortunately, Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and Sam Brownback, R-Kan., have exposed this mischief and called on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., to slow down and discuss the proposed legislation before making costly mistakes. As we've learned with "Comprehensive Immigration Reform," we should all be on guard any time politicians patronize us with pompous talk about "reform." The so-called Patent...

Share this with All your Friends... And SHOW this to your children and grandchildren !!!! THE YEAR 1907 This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine! The year is 1907. One hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes! Here are some of the U.S. Statistics for the Year 1907: ************************************ The average life expectancy in the U.S. Was 47 years old. Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. Had a bathtub . Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three-minute call from Denver to New York City Cost eleven dollars. There...

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP)-Secil Boyd keeps dreaming up new ideas from remote control flying gadgets to new table games and even space-matter theories. "My mind doesn't seem to turn off so easily," the 53-year-old inventor joked at his Holualoa art gallery.Boyd has invented a type of three-player ping pong, he's come up with a special relativity theory and even made a remote control flying toy out of a Christmas gift from his daughter.

A Pole wins American Inventor contest 19.05.2006 Poland’s Janusz Liberkowski has won one million dollars in the American Inventor show on ABC TV. His invention is a novel car seat protecting children in car crashes from all directions. An engineer by profession, 52 year-old Liberkowski lives in San Jose, California with his wife and one-and-a-half-year old twins. His older daughter died in a car accident seven years ago, which inspired him to work on a new type of baby car seat.

Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world's population, can lay claim to the following: Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world. Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin - 109 per 10,000 people - as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed. In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the largest number of startup companies than any other country in the...

Your morning cup of coffee, the watch on your wrist and the fantastic three-course meal you had last night are all part of Islam’s cultural legacy, according to an exhibition currently on in the UK. ‘1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage of Our World’, on at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester until June 4, charts one thousand years of Muslim contributions to medicine, science, education, architecture and astronomy. Organisers, the Manchester-based Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation, hopes the exhibition will show how hundreds of innovations now associated with the Western world owe their origins to Muslim...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Battle over RIM design exposes practice Prompts calls for changes to U.S. law ARLINGTON, Va.—They're known as trolls and they turn the predator-prey relationship in the business world on its head. They are the weak who slay the mighty. Critics call them extortionists. Their homes in office towers give them the sheen of legitimacy, but some do their work in dingy basements or garages and then slip their weapons into the back of cluttered drawers. The ongoing BlackBerry battle between Waterloo-based Research In Motion and NTP Inc. of Arlington, Va., has...

[...] Inventors have always held a special place in American history and business lore, embodying innovation and economic progress in a country that has long prized individual creativity and the power of great ideas. In recent decades, tinkerers and researchers have given society microchips, personal computers, the Internet, balloon catheters, bar codes, fiber optics, e-mail systems, hearing aids, air bags and automated teller machines, among a bevy of other devices. [...] A larger pool of Mr. West's colleagues echoes his concerns. "The scientific and technical building blocks of our economic leadership are eroding at a time when many other nations...

Great Scots - A to Z Thu 13 Jan 2005 John Logie Baird working on his early television apparatus John Logie Baird 1888-1946 Born: Helensburgh A CURSE as much as a blessing, television must surely rank as one of the most all-pervasive and important devices of our modern age, and the man credited with inventing the first practical version of it is John Logie Baird. Baird was born in Helensburgh, a small coastal town in the west of Scotland on 14 August 1888. He was one of four children raised by his mother, Jessie, and his minister father John. As...

Accidental Invention Points to End of Light Bulbs The main light source of the future will almost surely not be a bulb. It might be a table, a wall, or even a fork. An accidental discovery announced this week has taken LED lighting to a new level, suggesting it could soon offer a cheaper, longer-lasting alternative to the traditional light bulb. The miniature breakthrough adds to a growing trend that is likely to eventually make Thomas Edison's bright invention obsolete. LEDs are already used in traffic lights, flashlights, and architectural lighting. They are flexible and operate less expensively than traditional...

MCLEAN, Va. (Army News Service, July 22, 2005) - Two of the Army's top 10 greatest inventions for 2004 have their roots at units that belong to the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. The Army honored the teams of inventors from the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research in San Antonio for its Chitosan Hemostatic Dressing and the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center from Fort Detrick, Md., for its Electronic Information Carrier at a June luncheon in McLean. "The ceremony recognizes ... their commitment to improving readiness and the innovative technologies that positively impact Soldiers," said Gen....

Nikola Tesla: Unsung genius or raving loony? The history of technology is populated with a marvellous cast of characters. On the one hand you have the colourful, hard-working inventors like Thomas Edison who slaved away morning, noon and night to produce many of the wonders that we take for granted such as the incandescent light, the telephone, and the garlic peeler. On the other you have the moonbat crazies who show up at the patent office with a cardboard box stuffed with wires and a torch battery claiming that they've made contact with John Kerry's charisma. And then there is...

Troy Hurtubise has done the seemingly impossible with his newest invention and defied all known rules of physics, he says. The Angel Light—Hurtubise claims the concept came to him in a recurring dream—can reportedly see through walls, as if there was no barrier at all. That’s not all, though. http://www.baytoday.ca/content/news/details.asp?c=6657

Inventor Nikola Tesla is beginning to remind me of the Michigan Mushroom—that underground fungus, nearly as large as its native state. He keeps cropping up unexpectedly like a truth suppressed. In 2004 this once forgotten scientist peppered films as motley as the smoky Coffee and Cigarettes, the silicone-sleek Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, and the shoestring Primer. Tesla, beside inventing the radio (check with the Supreme Court, Marconi fans), the radar, remote control, and alternating current (AC electricity), also tinkered with a series of dreamy though equally ingenious ideas: plans to light the oceans, photograph thoughts, use insects...

Burlingame, CA, Jul. 8 (UPI) -- Application for a U.S. patent has been filed by a California man for his system that allows the dead to speak from their tombs, New Scientist reported Thursday. Robert Barrows of Burlingame has devised a hollow headstone fitted with a flat LCD touch screen. It also houses a computer with a hard disc or microchip memory that allows the deceased to speak from the grave through a video message. The tombstone would draw its electricity from the cemetery's lighting system, and as a civil touch, comes with wireless headphones so as not to disturb...

If there was a single word to describe how Burt Rutan and his team felt on the day before their historic flight, it would be confident. All the work preparing SpaceShipOne for its flight has been completed days earlier, and Rutan noted that on Saturday, two days before the planned flight, the hangar was dark all day long. Mike Melvill, the pilot selected to fly SpaceShipOne, could barely contain his enthusiasm during the preflight press conference. “I am ready to go, boy, I am ready to go!” he said in a manner not unlike an athlete revving up for a...

I'm posted "I was once prochoice...GOD showed me! GOD also gave me wireless energy saving inventions which I list on the "Personal Page of Ernestine Standberry" i.e. Geocities.com/loudproductions60609! I applied for a Grant with the U.S. Department of Energy...on my grant application were the "wireless iron," the "wireless hair-blowdryer" the "wireless hotplate," and the "wireless clock/lamp/radio combination" all with removable digital AC/DC! Mr. James P. Damn from the Energy Department called my home after writing me a letter stating that I received a "YES" on Merit but "We will not give you the money." The "wireless iron" is now in...

BEWARE OF WEAR Inventor: Adam Whiton and Yolita Nugent Ready for a shocking fashion statement? The No-Contact Jacket may look pretty fly, but it's also a piece of serious personal-defense technology. If the wearer feels threatened in any way, she (so far it's only for women) can activate a switch in either palm that blasts an 80,000-volt electrical pulse through the jacket's material. That's enough to knock anybody back a few paces. Powered by a regular 9-volt battery, the No-Contact Jacket is fully insulated, so the wearer won't feel a thing. Even when it's not in use, it crackles with...

<p>Ultra-wideband: Imagine a television that can wirelessly send three different programs to separate monitors. Low-power, low-cost, and with roughly 45 times the data transmission speed of run-of-the-mill Wi-Fi, this wireless technology is finally ready to debut in the living room.</p>

Documents marked "confidential" that recently were found buried in the archives of the Science Museum in London suggest British telephone executives covered up the fact that a German science teacher invented a working telephone 13 years before Alexander Graham Bell created a somewhat similar device... Full article HERE

WASHINGTON - Every cramped air traveler may have the right to lean his seat back, but Ira Goldman sees airplane justice from another perspective - that of the person behind - and he's found a way to even the score. Goldman invented the Knee Defender, a beeper-sized block of plastic that lets passengers prevent the seat in front of them from reclining. The gadget, which went on sale about a month ago on the Internet for $10, has sparked heated debate in online chat rooms, and aviation officials worry about the disagreements that will be generated at 30,000 feet. Alison...

The battery of the future could be powered by nothing but water following the discovery of the first entirely new way to generate electricity in more than 160 years.Though hydro-electric uses water to drive turbines to generate electricity, the technique found by two Canadian scientists is the first to convert water directly into electricity. The last new forms of electricity discovered was solar power and proton exchange membranes in 1839.Initial applications could be mobile phones and other electronic devices that use rechargeable batteries, but Larry Kostiuk and Daniel Kwok, researchers at the University of Alberta who made the discovery, think...

<p>The engineer, inventor and aspiring tycoon has spent half his life working on a project that he believes could revolution ize a mainstay of the industrial age: the internal combustion engine.</p> <p>Yeah, right, you're probably thinking.</p> <p>The DeFazio Rotary Engine, its creator said, needs no transmission. It requires no coolant system. It's 50 percent more fuel efficient and far more powerful than a typical engine.</p>

The Creation Story, By Hilary Leila Krieger Jul. 10, 2003 In search of the miraculous in the everyday: drip irrigation, the Arrow missile, and eight other inventions that make Israel great For nearly two decades Americans have been trying without success to create an anti-ballistic missile system that can bat down incoming enemy missiles. It took Israeli aeronautical engineer Dov Raviv and his Israeli Aircraft Industries crew just seven days to come up with a successful solution. The year was 1986 and the Israeli government had just signed on to develop an ABM defense system. Other experts proposed mechanisms involving...

Easy-Feeder Bottle Sling, invented by former Millington resident Cherie Alexander, allows hands-free feeding of a baby in a car seat. The sling is no substitute for holding and feeding a baby, Alexander said. "It's only to be used when you really need it." Necessity inspires mother's invention... but will it sell? Patent Pending By Linda A. Moore lmoore@gomemphis.com May 27, 2003 The problem is simple and nothing new to anyone who has ever cared for a baby. How do you give a baby a bottle when you can't hold the bottle yourself? Cherie Alexander, a biomechanical engineer formerly of...

Setting the Record Straight By Christopher Westland Those on the left insist they have the A.N.S.W.E.R. for all of us. But the veneer of their thought process has worn extremely thin, along with the patience of most rational minds. It's not an exaggeration to say that anti-Americanism has been the main marching tune of the modern left for decades. Almost uniformly, they insist that America, her competitive private corporations, and the capital system are evil. But the left has conveniently exempted the nationalized corporations of socialist states and third world dictators — the true monopolies of the world. Pretending...

Toothbrush tops invention survey Students, adults asked which tool they couldn’t live without MSNBC Jan. 21 — What’s more important, your toothbrush or your computer? The answer seems obvious, but what if the question becomes: “Which could you not live without?” A survey released Tuesday found that the lowly toothbrush beat out computers, cars, cell phones and microwaves as the “must-have” tool.

It's the GasBGon flatulence filter, and it's helping provide relief for thousands of gas passers who have cleared rooms or blamed the dog for far too long. "People tell us, 'Thank you for giving my life back. Now I can go out in public again,'" Sharron Huza, the cushion's creator, said in an interview. "They'll bring it with them to the movie theatre, to work, in the car or on the airplane." Huza said more than 1,000 cushions have been sold in just over a year on the market. The company has been approached by people interested in taking GasBGon...

<p>Kamen loves to work: "I’m somebody who is absorbed by work," he says. "And some people, I think, misunderstand that, and think that's a problem, or I don't get a chance to have fun. To me, life is a blur of my activities, I mean it's only a job if you'd rather be doing something else.”</p> <p>Kamen lives in a magnificent home in the hills of New Hampshire, a home he shares with the machines he so worships.</p>