Rampaging elephants may not be a particularly bothersome problem around your neck of the woods, but they are in India. Instead of anesthetizing them, an inventor's come up with a neat solution that's seems to have sprung from repeated ...READ»
If someone decided to do a list of innovative magazine lists, it probably wouldn't include Time magazine's "50 Best Innovations" list. The new one's out, and we've sub-selected some of the good items for you. But a broad swath of the ...READ»
Hookay. So, you think that this M3 sub-machine gun--with a shoot-first-and-ask-later curved barrel--is a really stupid, really dumb invention, right? I don't blame you. But, trust me, you don't know what really stupid, really dumb ...READ»
Nokia just made an unprecedented move: In an effort to boost the local Finnish economy, they're throwing open their thousands of unused patents so that any company in Finland can pursue ideas that Nokia has abandoned. The ...READ»
Last night the 2008 Dyson Product Design Awards were handed out in New York City. (Yes, that’s Dyson as in Sir James Dyson, TV’s most pretentious vacuum peddler.)
These prizes are awarded annually for inventions that ...READ»
