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TV, Google, and bendy straws: Bay Area inventions and discoveries
SFGate (blog) Since the Gold Rush days, when people like Levi Strauss set up shop in San Francisco, the Bay Area has been a hotbed of innovation. With UC Berkeley on one side and Stanford University and Silicon Valley on the other, many of the inventions and … |
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Cubans 'make do' with plenty of odd inventions
MiamiHerald.com In a country where Fidel Castro once proposed breeding mini-cows for pasturing in backyards, it should be no surprise that Cubans have become masters of improvisations and inventions in the face of their myriad scarcities. They punch holes in the … |
Slate Magazine |
What fictional inventions say about American ingenuity.
Slate Magazine Twentieth-century popular culture is full of frivolous, ill-conceived, ambitious inventions, as well as clueless or venal inventors. But some of the best invention humor has its roots in the 1920s and 1930s. Why was this period prime time for satirical … |
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Popular Science picks best inventions for 2014
CBS News Sign in. No statistics available yet. Report. Published on Apr 12, 2014. Dave Mosher, projects editor for Popular Science, joins "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to share some of the year's winning gadgets from the magazine's annual Invention Awards … |
The Stir |
Terrible Parenting Inventions That Solve the Wrong Freaking Problem
The Stir Do you watch Shark Tank, the show where entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a panel of potential investors? My husband and I are borderline obsessed with it; I can't think of another show that feels so interactive in terms of causing us to … |
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Competition has inventions from collegiate, community entrepreneurs
LocalNews8.com Inventors and entrepreneurs from around the area were at Idaho State University Friday, competing for the chance to have their invention go all the way. The BIG competition stands for business, innovation and growth. |