Weird, wacky inventions honoured with Ig Nobel prize – Hindustan Times


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Weird, wacky inventions honoured with Ig Nobel prize
Hindustan Times
Koji Tsukada yells into his invention the "SpeechJammer" during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University on September 20. The Ig Nobel prize is an award handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for silly …
Are useless inventions really useless?The Voice of Russia
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BlackBerry Creator Lazaridis Puts $100M Into Nano Labs (Hugo Miller/Bloomberg)

Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
BlackBerry Creator Lazaridis Puts $ 100M Into Nano Labs  —  Mike Lazaridis, whose invention of the BlackBerry smartphone more than a decade ago redefined the way people send e-mail, is drawing inspiration from the early days of computing for his next act.  —  Backed by his $ 100 million donation …

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Zike inventor bucks odds to become entrepreneur – Greenville News

Zike inventor bucks odds to become entrepreneur
Greenville News
Nathan Scolari, founder and CEO of Zike, decided to take the plunge and turn his bike-scooter hybrid invention into a business after seeing an idea of his brought to life by another company. / MYKAL McELDOWNEY/Staff …

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


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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


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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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