Don’t Look for Inventions Before Their Time – Wall Street Journal


Wall Street Journal

Don't Look for Inventions Before Their Time
Wall Street Journal
Yet some inventions seem to have occurred to nobody until very late. The wheeled suitcase is arguably such a, well, case. Bernard Sadow applied for a patent on wheeled baggage in 1970, after a Eureka moment when he was lugging his heavy bags through

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iPhone design: Documents from the Samsung trial reveal more than ever about Apple’s secretive design process (Farhad Manjoo/Slate)

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
iPhone design: Documents from the Samsung trial reveal more than ever about Apple’s secretive design process  —  New documents reveal how Apple really invented the iPhone.  —  Like many of Apple’s inventions, the iPhone began not with a vision, but with a problem.

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Cool motorcycle invention Ventz set to go global – This is Gloucestershire


This is Gloucestershire

Cool motorcycle invention Ventz set to go global
This is Gloucestershire
Ideas for the invention, which is patented, were ignited after a personal experience with the issue. Martin said: "Often when touring myself, and as many other motorcyclists I'm sure are aware, when you're riding for a long time and in the sun, the

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Lunch with the FT: Tim Berners-Lee (Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson/Financial Times)

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Lunch with the FT: Tim Berners-Lee  —  Over iced tea and eggplant pita, the inventor of the world wide web talks about Apple, Facebook and the digital divide  —  Sir Tim Berners-Lee is an intimidating interviewee.  It’s not so much the worry about keeping up with the brain that invented the world wide web …

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Quirky Raises a $68M Round Led by Andreessen Horowitz to Reinvent the Invention Process (Nathaniel Mott/PandoDaily)

Nathaniel Mott / PandoDaily:
Quirky Raises a $ 68M Round Led by Andreessen Horowitz to Reinvent the Invention Process  —  Quirky, a crowdsourced invention platform, has raised a $ 68 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, joined by Kleiner Perkins and existing investors.  The company, which has raised $ 97 million to date …

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Internet Interview: Tesla Documentary Needs $2000 in 2 Days to Win Funding – DailyTech

Internet Interview: Tesla Documentary Needs $ 2000 in 2 Days to Win Funding
DailyTech
Working together, Wilhelm is able to decipher Tesla's dangerous and extraordinary experiments that led to his inventions, and Carole studied in-depth his struggles with OCD and every other aspect of his personality. His soul lives in my words. Our

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