inventions

No, Spotify, you shouldn’t have sent mysterious USB drives to journalists

Last week, Spotify sent a number of USB drives to reporters with a note: “Play me.” It’s not uncommon for reporters to receive USB drives in the post. Companies distribute USB drives

With $15M round and 100K tablets sold, reMarkable CEO wants to make tech ‘more human’

The reMarkable tablet is a strange device in this era of ultra-smart gadgets: A black and white screen meant for reading, writing, and sketching — and nothing more. Yet the company has sold 100,000

Quirky, The New York-Based Invention Machine, Brings On Doreen Lorenzo As President To Build Out Product Categories

In an effort to scale its product development capacity, Quirky, the creation funnel for crowd sourced invention ideas, has hired as president Doreen Lorenzo, formerly the president of design consultan

An Interview With Josh Bechtel, The Inventor Of The Bicymple

There's been quite a bit of disruption in bikes recently and the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bicymple.com">Bicymple</a> is no exception. Designed by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.linkedi

First Ever Sketch Of Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone Concept

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/AGB-phone.jpg" />It was only 135 years ago, today, that Alexander Graham Bell was awarded his patent for the <a href="http://www.crunchg

And while you're at it, why not turn that old cassette tape into clothing? I mean, really.

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/ohdear.jpg" />Someone call LATFH. This is “Sonic Fabric,” and it's made out of old cassette tape, um, tape. It's 100 percent ridiculo

Feel free to drink your shower water, kids

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/showerwater.jpg" />Normally, you probably wouldn't consider drinking your own shower water after you had used it, but throw a couple of p

What invention has changed the most from Version One to the Present Day?

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wright.jpg" />I'm now ripping off Ron and Fez bits <i>wholesale</i>. In a gripping discussion today, the radio show debated the following

CrunchGear interviews up-and-coming inventor ‘East Side’ Dave McDonald from ‘The Ron and Fez Show’

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/esd.jpg" />In our continued effort to bring you the best interviews with today's top talent, I'm happy to present my recent conversion wi

Stupid invention: the self-playing harmonica

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/player-harmonica.jpg" alt="player harmonica" title="player harmonica" />The aptly named <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StupidInventions

The Song of the PowerSquid: The Inside Story of the Life of an Invention Part 4

Hello, my name is Christopher Hawker. I am a professional inventor, specializing in innovative consumer products. My company is called Trident Design, LLC. I have developed many products in numerous i

The Song of the PowerSquid: The Inside Story of the Life of an Invention, Part 2

Hello, my name is Christopher Hawker. I am a professional inventor, specializing in innovative consumer products. My company is called Trident Design, LLC. I have developed many products in numerous i

MIT's EurekaFest showcases high school students' problem-solving prototypes

EurekaFest is a yearly event held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that showcases the prototype inventions of high school students from around the country. The inventions consist of variou

The ‘anti-stab’ knife that works just fine in the kitchen but can't kill a man

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/knife.jpg" />The average American probably doesn't know this, but there's a <i>huge</i> problem with knife-crime in the UK. (That's what

Hammacher Schlemmer looking for new product ideas, will pay handsomely

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/edisonnation-email.jpg">You guys read about gadgets all day, right? Some of you probably have great ideas for products you’d like to se

Remote-controlled hand gesture sign is seven gestures of electro-luminescent awesomeness

If this thing doesn’t make Time’s Best Inventions Of The Year list, I’m gonna burn this place to the ground. It’s right up there with the worms-to-ex-girlfriends pill from Brai

Atair's EXO-Wing and AeroSuit on display at The Met

Brooklyn defense contractor Atair Aerospace has two of its futuristic (and working) designs on display at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of a superhero exhibit that’ll be runnin

Scientists develop dog bark-to-speech program

[photopress:astro.jpg,full,right] Apple did not release a dog bark-to-human speech device yesterday, but scientists in Hungary have developed something close to it. They’ve come up with a comput

The top ideas of 2007 sorta includes 'that Britney Spears guy'

This week’s Old Gray Lady Magazine put together a list of the best ideas of the year, some of them tech-y and some of them a-waste-of-everyone’s-time-y. Of the many great ideas, you might

Australia's $4.4 million kinetic energy vest

Sure, you could build your own similar device for far less than $4.4 million (Australian) but would it look nearly as awesome as the vest that the bad mamma jamma on the left is wearing? My position i
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