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Inventions take more than 'Eureka!' moment
Suburban Life Publications Editor's Note: Due to a production error, the following story did not appear in full in your town's local newspaper. The complete version can be read below. Admittedly, it was an unlikely place for inspiration to strike — a water balloon fight at a … |
 Hindustan Times |
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? 2012 Ig Nobel Prizes Announced, Celebrate Year's Goofiest Achievements In … |
 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 … |
 IBNLive.com |
Beyond jugaad: Amazing inventions from India
IBNLive.com Remya Jose from Kerala demonstrates the pedal-powered washing machine she invented. Jose was forced to do laundry by hand when her mother became sick because her family had no washing machine. So she invented a washing machine/exercise bike … |
 CBS News |
Notable inventions discovered by Indian professor
CBS News Notable inventions discovered by Indian professor. In this undated photo provided by the National Innovation Foundation, Nattubhai Vader stands next to a machine called Cotton Harvester, which he invented in India. Vader, a farmer from the state of … Professor Anil Gupta On Quest For India's Hidden Inventors |
NEW YORK (WABC) — Two of the winning teams of an international competition for student inventions that help fix real world problems are from the New York and Connecticut area. One invention, what looks like an ordinary pitcher, is actually a prototype of …
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