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Review: 'Fifty Inventions' Falls Short of Its Ambitions
New York Times The subtle name change from podcast to book — “Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy (Riverhead: 2017)” — reflects an emphasis on humility. Mr. Harford repeatedly emphasizes that he is not trying “to identify the 50 most economically … |
A group of inventors on a warm Thursday afternoon marched out to their water balloon battlefield, a patch of grass outside Pleasant View Elementary School divided into four quadrants, ready to test their creations — shields fashioned from cardboard, duct …
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Blueprints behind famous inventions
New York Daily News … the patents behind some of the world's most famous designs and reworked them into a series of vintage-inspired blueprints that reveal both the mechanics and the history of the iconic objects. Take a look back at the origins of these classic inventions. |
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Revisiting Inventions and Cellphone Contracts
New York Times Quirky.com began in 2009 to promote inventions and develop products. People can submit ideas free (unlike in its earlier days, when Quirky charged participants $ 10 a submission or $ 100 for a year of unlimited submissions). The site receives a few … |
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Designers Show Off Payphone Re-Inventions in New York
techPresident Since last year New York City has tested ways to update its increasingly disused (but revenue producing) infrastructure of over 11 thousand payphones. But the city's experiments with touch screens and free wifi seem tame in comparison to what designers … |
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“Invention USA”
New York Post Food Network's “Invention Hunters,” is a quest to find the next great food invention while PBS has “Everyday Edisons,” which, being PBS, is looking for inventions that will change the way we live. Then there's Planet Green's “Dean of Invention” hosted … |