Physicist and inventor, Bruno Berge, has created a liquid optical lens. Using a process known as electro-wetting, a water drop is deposited on a metal substrate and covered by a thin insulating layer. When a voltage is applied to the metal, it modifies the angle of the liquid drop. The liquid lens is comprised of [...]
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Inventor and entrepreneur, Aaron LeMieux, came up with the idea for the nPower® PEG while backpacking 1,500 miles on the Appalachian Trail. As a mechanical and biomedical engineer, Aaron recognized the kinetic energy that was being wasted as his backpack rubbed against his shoulders and hips with every step. He also had to stop at [...]
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Voyage-Air guitars are full-size, performance-level instruments that fold in half for easy portability. If you believe that every guitar player should be able to take their instrument anywhere - wherever there’s musical needs or inspiration – this might just be the guitar for you. How convenient would be to easily take your foldable guitar along when bicycling, [...]
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Believe it or not, toilet inventions are still popular. You would think the market is already filled with all kinds of fancy toilets, toilet lids and toilet personal hygiene systems. Just when you thought that every toilet invention human kind can comprehend has already been invented someone comes up with a new idea in the [...]
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Mom inventor and entrepreneur Tiffany Krumins created Ava The Elephant, a talking medicine dispenser that makes medicine time fun and anxiety free for children. This innovative medicine dispenser encourages children to take liquid medicine – “One, two, three…. Open wide!” – and rewards them at the end – “Good job!”. Inside Ava’s head there is [...]
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I’ve had a long ongoing fascination with alternative energy sources. I don’t know why, it’s just something that has fascinated me. And of course if you can take alternative energy and apply it to cars, that’s even cooler. So we all know about electric cars and many of us have read the stories about bio [...]
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Inventor Peter Brewin came up with a smart shower that can save the average household about $900 a year. As a superior alternative to well known slow flow showers that compromise comfort and fail to save energy, Brewin’s water circulating shower is able to work with 70% less water and energy than traditional showers. Brewin [...]
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We have been following Adam Wegener’s eco-friendly inventing journey for a quite a while. He recently got his Trash Amps product funded through an Indiegogo campaign, raising over $17,000 via crowdfunding. Congrats to Adam and much success to him in his inventing career! Trash Amps are portable speakers made of used soda cans. Adam’s cool [...]
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Touchfire is a true labor of love from two tech product veterans, Steve Isaac and Bradley Melmon. Steve has been passionate about mobile computing since the early 90s, when he was one of the first employees at a Silicon Valley company called GO that made one of the world’s first tablet computers. He also worked [...]
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