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Invention makes exercise easier for overweight people

Local Detroit inventors, Denard Bailey of Detroit, left, and Erik Thompson of Roseville have a unique fitness product called “The Body Crank” that they are holding. Thompson created this unique apparatus that helped his friend and business partner Denard …
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Invention makes gardening possible for disabled people

ISHPEMING — Gretchen Preston loves her garden. It’s something that she enjoys doing without much help from others. Gretchen uses her Seeing Eye dog, Lloyd, to get around. Now, she can plant crops and flowers by herself, thanks to an invention by Earl …
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SoHo Teen Wins Award From City For Invention to Help Deaf People

Daniil Frants, right, won an award for an invention that helps deaf people follow conversations. His classmate Ilan Pesselev, left, helped with some of the later stages of the project. View Full Caption SOHO — A rising high school junior from SoHo won an …
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Mocktale: People disagree with Narayan Murthy’s ‘no invention’ claim

Stories in Mocktale are works of fiction intended to bring a smile to your face. They bear no connection to events and characters in real life. Narayana Murthy recently said there has not been a single invention from India in the last 60 years that became …
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31 Awesome Inventions Made By Ordinary Chinese People

But these days, many inventors are coming from a different economic juggernaut — China. According to China Daily, 210,000 invention patents were given out in the country last year, a 25% increase over 2011. In this slideshow we’ve included pictures from …
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People have spent 10 million nights in strangers’ beds, thanks to Airbnb (Jennifer Van Grove/VentureBeat)

Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:
People have spent 10 million nights in strangers’ beds, thanks to Airbnb  —  Four years after inventing a crafty marketplace for spaces — couches, castles et al.  — San Francisco-based startup Airbnb has helped travelers book more than 10 million nights (likely to the chagrin of landlords everywhere).

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