Inventor's Stories

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One-of-a-Kind Process gets the Nod from FDA

Keith Everett, United States

When I was a introverted and antisocial senior in high school in the early 70s, I won a state botany award with a science project I completed evaluating the health of various duckweed populations in

Coming Full Circle

Chavah Golden, United States

I had just shaken off the world of psychiatry and a locked psychiatric unit where I had worked as a therapist. Having just competed a Masters degree in Organization Development, no company was looking...

A Sheep Feeder

Albertus Nicolaas Jansen van Rensburg, South Africa

Well to me, my best innovation must be my sheep feeder. The story started when I decided that I would like to learn how to make cheese. I thought a big yard in the South African rural areas would be...

Cloud Seeding by a New Method

Behzad Khosropanah, Canada

I decided to do this invention after watching a TV program on droughts in poor countries of the world, I told myself I should find a cheap way that any one can do cloud seeding and finally after an ex...

CREG Energy

Bruce Margison, Philippines

For the past year I was in the process of looking for financing for an alternative energy research center when a friend and business partner called me into a new project. Interestingly he had part of

The World's First Multifunctional Golf Shoe

Anthony Griffin, United States

The V-Groove golf shoe provides four support pockets located conveniently on the shoe which contains the golfer's golf tees, ball markers, and divot repair tool. The golfer always needs his or her gol...

The Story of Phrazzle Me!

Marcelo Montecinos, Canada

I was born in Santiago, Chile in 1964. My whole family moved to Toronto, Canada in 1973. I didn't speak a word of English. At 9 years old, this could be a very shocking experience to go through. Child...

Learn from Nature and make it Even Better

Stefano Biondi, Italy

If I look back and remember all the exciting discoveries and inventions that I have contributed to it is quite difficult to choose just one which is the best. All of them are filled with emotions, fee...

Serendipity and intuition leads to a new class of Fire Resistant building materials and several new US patents.

Michael Mabey, Canada

Four years later, I was working on solving fire resistance problems in curtain wall panels. We had explored using lightweight cellular cement - which took too long to set and cure. We also considered...

New Technology for Obtaining Biofuel from Wood and Plant-Based Raw Material

Yury Bodrov, Russia

Biofuel gains wide attention last two decades. Today biofuel plays important role in world economics and it will attract more and more interest. In country with developed timber industry like Canada,

Slot Car Technology for Maglev Trains

Eugene Reese, United States

I patented the described innovation.

Self Gravity in Living Mass - Unexplored Invisible Foundation Explored

Iresh Ranjan Bhattacharjee, India

How self-gravity could be strong in biomass at miniature scale? Gravity is the building block of the universe. Among the basic forces (nuclear, electro-magnetic & gravity), gravity acts on "mass".

Keep Home Invaders Away with DNA

Robert Simpson, United Kingdom

The Simpson Security System has been patented globally but requires a small amount of development for commercial availability with this in mind RDS Innovations Limited is seeking forward thinking org...

iBuckles: Personal Electronics to Wear

Gerald Thomas, United States

Well, I hope to have my product on the market soon, once I get a buyer, or licensing (any investors want in...? 60/40 me the latter) to develop my patented concept, to wear mobile technology as fashio...

Chopstick Adapter Saves Face

Vijay Atawane, China

Most tourists from Europe, North America, Asia and Middle East face a unique problem when traveling to China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. They do not know h...

Earthquake Resistant Technology

Golam Yasin Khan, Saudi Arabia

I am trying my best to bring my Earthquake Resistant Technology to reality. If I am able to successfully produce and market my technology I know it will save the lives and property of millions around

Grounded Innovation

Peter Lloyd, United States

I was creative director of the ad agency. Steve Deiters and Dave Fagin, my writer and art director, jumped at the chance to do the work. In those days, ever since the legendary 80s "This is your brain...

A Lifetime of Inventing, a Pocket Full of Awards

Ron Laswick, Canada

I have been fascinated with Inventions since a very young age. I self taught myself the world of science, physics, electricity and electronics, well in advance of any learning I received in schools, w...

Can You Hear Me Now

John Redon, United States

As a Commercial Black Water Diver I suffered multiple ear infections every year. There was no earplug that could be worn underwater which would keep the many harmful pollutants and infectious contamin...

Automating Puzzle Creation

David Leithauser, United States

About 20 years ago, I read an advertisement from a new puzzle magazine that planned to publish 50 word search puzzles every month. They offered to pay independent writers $12.00 for each word search p...

Time to move from IT to BT

Pradeep Henry, India

Every time a company brings in new software, it is probably adding another technology silo that does not fit with the overall business process where it is used. That's what could have happened when a

SEM (Solid Ejection Material) Shocks a New Crash Safety Technology with Applications in Every Field of Transportation

Steve Knotts, United States

As previously mentioned the SEM (Solid Ejection Material) shock technology has a number of applications in every field of transportation and even though we currently don’t have any production contra...

Glass Tile Breaking Machine

Mike Milroy, Canada

One of the best success stories for Milroy Engineering Ltd. (MEL) occurred in 2002, when Interstyle Ceramic and Glass Ltd. of Burnaby asked MEL if they could automate the breaking of scored glass blan...

Old Technology is New Technology – Creating the EverBlade

Chris Wilson, United States

My father and I couldn’t help but notice the staggering waste of material and enormous cost that accompanies the use of disposable razor blades. We asked ourselves if there was any way to keep razo...

Full Circle

Keith Everett, United States

While I was a senior in high school in the early 70s, I attended the state science fair and won a botany award with a science project I completed evaluating the health of duckweed populations in vari...

Feed Your Mind

Steven Bohannon, United States

The Concept: The FEED YOUR MIND vending solution offers a variety of products that educate and entertain for all ages. Our product mix includes Crossword Puzzles, Sudoku, Games, New and Used Books,

Water is the Elixir of Life

Priya Verma, India

Underground water is one of the key earth resources. Unfortunately, this resource has been depleting at an alarming rate. It is a matter of great concern. Water is indispensable for not only human bei...

Innovation and retail product developments

Gavin Tonks,

I have given this a lot of thought and have finally come up with something I did which was innovative. Working in the South African market, is a difficult and taxing market place to be in, as consu...

A Rejected Solution to a Local Problem Fetched Me an International Award

Taslim Owonikoko, Nigeria

I’m a scientist in private practice and in a rural part of Nigeria. The local popular industry in my local county is hand-weaving of cloth and dyeing. I was challenged as chemical expert in the...

Devising a Program to Feed 100,000 Kids

Bertie Hechter, South Africa

These children were in schools scattered over 3 districts in +- 300 schools in the rural areas of the Transkei in South Africa. Some of these schools could not be reached by roads and the majority of

Petroleum Nut: Sustainable, Wonder Biofuel

Michael Bengwayan, Philippines

I have discovered a tree that makes in five to six years what millions of years takes to create – that is to make petroleum. My discovery is not just exciting but fascinating becuase by plan...

Three Jaw Adjustable Wrench

Angus R. Campbell, Canada

The Three Jaw Adjustable Wrench consists of five components assembled together as a wrench to enable the device to grip a hexagonal fastener on three sides or a round cylindrical object at three point...

Varable Displacement Compressor for Car Air Conditioning. Regeneraive Braking of Bicycle and Cycle Rickshaw. Improved Wood Stov

Sanka Subhra Datta, India

1. Variable Displacement Compressor for Car Air Conditioning: My best innovation is a newly designed light duty variable displacement compressor suitable for car air conditioning. My compressor for sm...

Adventures with a "Lunchbox" Computer

Marc de Piolenc, Philippines

This is "old hat" now, but in 1986 it was a big deal, and I was proud of my initiative and its results. I had been hired to work on an airship project based in Eugene, Oregon. The airship itself, a...

ReadingWise - A Highly Effective Literacy Program for Developing and Developed Countries

Victor Lyons, United Kingdom

In 2001, I walked out on my dotcom company in Miami, and then looked around to do something useful. I went to work with my friends who run an NGO called Development Alternatives in India. I wanted

So Simple It's Hard

David Croslin, United States

When I was a young man, I had done a lot of work with Wang Labs and Fortran. This was probably around 1984. Wang contacted me about a problem an eye glass manufacturer was having with their automated

Fireballs to Order

Anthony Lealand, New Zealand

Fireballs have always been the mainstay of special effects and film spectaculars. But they are messy to make, and are created as one off individual items. Mostly these use liquid fuels, or sometime...

The Lowest Common Denominator Theory

Chavah Golden, United States

The most interesting, innovative, exciting, clever thing I always do is to think in circles. Circles have endless capacity. They have no beginning and no end, no up and no down. The end is the beginni...

How I Increased the Motivation of Participants in my Creativity Workshops

Edward Glassman, United States

Here is how I dramatically increased the motivation of the participants in my creativity workshop to learn advanced creative problem solving techniques and to share them with their co-workers back at

3D Portrait Shooting and Printing made Cost Effective

Akos Demeter, Hungary

Quite surprisingly and despite all the fuzz around "3D", making 3D portraits cost effectively was not available to professional portrait photographers until I decided to make a complete service which...

USB port connectible Device Reminder

Chih-Cheng Kuo, United States

I invented "Secure Open Smart Card Architecture" in 1997, which was granted U.S. patent 5754762 and 6003134. This design added a security co-processor into a smart card chip to provide programmable a...

UAVs "Thinking" and Making Decisions

Helena Keeley, United States

We have created an interactive demo to “show” how two Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (AUVs) can fly around and process data in order to make “grey” types of decisions. [This behavior can be embed...

3D Billboard for the Colorado State Patrol

Paul Suggett, United States

The Colorado State Patrol had tasked us with producing advertising that warned motorists of the dangers of tailgating around big trucks and semis. Many deaths happen each year as a result. So, I came

Cycle Time Reduction - Necessity the Mother of Invention

Marc Hirsch, United States

Many years ago, I was running emulsion polymerization reactions, which took the better part of 8 hours using 5 liter reactors. The initial monomer charge, feed rate and residual monomer finish took a

I'm All Out

Alan Schechter, United States

Have you ever tried to fire up that barbeque on summer weekend only to realize that you are out of gas? Have you ever had the experience of trying to finish up painting that gate with spray paint and...

The SpoutOff - Clean Your Rain Gutters from the Safety of the Ground

Kevin Leahy, United States

In thinking about my rain gutter problem I came to realize it was not about the debris that was in my gutters, it was really about the CLOGGED OUTLET... where the gutter empties into the downspout. I...

Entrepreneurial Map of US Startups

Ruth Hedges, United States

The interactive map is being launched in response to lean times for start-up capital. Although start-ups contribute profoundly to job creation, the economic meltdown and the resulting recession have d...