Apple’s next invention: The iPen? – CNET News

Apple has filed a patent application for an iPen stylus, Draw Something loses players, and Yahoo attempts a new spin on search with the Axis tool. In today’s show, we ponder a world with an iPen, lose our addiction to Draw Something, and tilt …
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Inventor of TV remote control dead – Entertainment Weekly Online

Beyond keeping TV viewers pinned to their chairs, Polley’s invention unchained technology from mechanical knobs and levers, opening vast possibilities, said Richard Doherty, CEO of suburban New York-based technology assessment and market …
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FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit (Declan McCullagh/CNET)

Declan McCullagh / CNET:
FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit  —  The FBI has recently formed a secretive surveillance unit with an ambitious goal: to invent technology that will let police more readily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications.  —  The establishment of the Quantico, Va.-based unit …

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The dirt on laundry pods: latest invention to clean your clothes – ABC Action News

CLEVELAND – It’s easy to overuse laundry detergent. The lines on the measuring cups are not always easy to see. There’s a new invention in the laundry business that has the industry spinning. Detergent is now put into a dissolvable pack or pod like the …
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Eugene Polley dies at 96; inventor of wireless TV remote control – Los Angeles Times


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Eugene Polley dies at 96; inventor of wireless TV remote control
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Polley felt he did not receive proper credit for his invention. Eugene Polley holds his Flash-Matic television remote control. “This is the greatest thing since the wheel,” he told the Chicago Tribune in 2007. (Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune / January
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National Inventors Month Everyday Edisons Program Showcases Local Inventions and Boy Scouts – Forbes

National Inventors Month celebrates invention and creativity during the month of May. This month also celebrates the latest round of Inventors Hall of Fame inductees, including Steve Jobs. Edison Nation is also celebrating and encouraging the …
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