Tomato robot helps marathon runners keep up strength while sprinting

A nifty Japanese invention called the tomato robot, or Tomaton, has been created by a food firm based in the Asian country. On Feb. 20, the English version of Techon announced that Japan’s largest supplier of tomato juice and tomato ketchup came up with …
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Houston native’s invention going into Oscars swag bags

A Houston native’s invention landed her first on the ABC hit show Shark Tank and now her samples will go inside celebrity swag bags at the Oscars. “Slowly but surely I turned my passion into profit,” said Lydia Evans, who started experimenting with all …
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Tap honey like beer with revolutionary hive filter invention

The process to take honey from the hive to the table includes a lot of labor– no to mention the risk of multiple stings. Now a new invention allows hive owners to collect fresh honey straight from a tap, much like pouring a beer, thanks to an internal …
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This Smart Gun Could Be the Colt .45 of the Future

The above Terminator-like weapon is Colt’s latest, greatest invention. Developed with Defense Research and Development Canada, (our northern neighbors’ version of DARPA) this is the smart gun Canada wants to fight the wars of the future. And it’s hard to …
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Sunshine holds Invention Convention

Fourth grades present homemade inventions. An automatic turtle feeder, a bunk caddy and snow plow boots were among inventions featured during a fourth-grade Invention Convention on Friday. The classes at Sunshine Elementary School showed off homemade …
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The Invention Mob

As inventions go, Jake Zien’s was a clever fix rather than an imaginative breakthrough: Irritation was the mother of his invention. He found the standard power strip maddening because electric plugs would often block the adjacent sockets. So after his …
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