Parents wanting to spend quality time with their small children and exercise at the same time often invest in a jogging stroller. A more innovative version of a jogging stroller is the Zigo Leader: a hybrid carrier bike system that converts from a front mounted child carrier to a stroller, baby jogger, rear trailer or [...]
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I cannot imagine a better time to be a creative person who is making it his or her goal to come up with ideas. People will use any excuse they can find not to take action. And people with ideas are often so afraid of failure that they’ll use any excuse they can find not [...]
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Tom Chudleigh is the inventor, manufacturer, and distributor of the Free Spirit Spheres; tree-mounted spheres created to give people a bird’s eye view of nature and to provide adults with the ultimate tree house experience. Tom has graciously accepted our invitation to be interviewed by Inventor Notes. He took the time to give us deep insight [...]
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If you have been ignoring your workout needs because you just can’t seem to catch up with the hundreds of emails pilling up on your inbox every day, there is now a treadmill on the market that can make your life easier and healthier. The ProForm Trailrunner 4.0 features a built-in web browser, allowing you [...]
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I wrote One Simple Idea to help people bring their ideas to market and to take fear out of the process. But it’s bigger than that. The ten steps I outlined in the book can be applied to so many different tasks. I think they can be applied to anything you want to achieve or [...]
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History states that clothes hangers were invented in the late 1800’s by several people. These people are President Thomas Jefferson, O. A. North from Connecticut, Albert J. Parkhouse from Michigan and Christopher Cann from Boston. Even though many inventors have worked on improving this indispensable product throughout the centuries, one could argue that there is always [...]
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We don’t usually feature many bizarre products on our New Ideas column for the Inventor Notes magazine. However, we feel that some products are an absolutely perfect fit to be featured as bizarre products because they are unusual while also being functional and creative. Creativity is a result of hard work, but it can also [...]
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Can you license your idea to more than one company? It’s possible. You may not have to grant a company an exclusive right to your idea. I would begin any discussion of exclusive rights by analyzing your potential licensee’s strengths and weaknesses. What are they good at? What markets do they cover? Ask them where [...]
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Inventor and industrial designer Sakura Adachi created CAVE, a bookcase that provides a private reading space within its form. One of the hectic urban life effects on people seems to be the difficult many of us have in finding our own personal space that we require from time to time. This modern piece of furniture [...]
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