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Creativity: The Next Generation

Robert Hormats | Posted 04.26.2013 | Business
Robert Hormats

Today, April 26, marks World Intellectual Property Day. Although this commemoration might go unnoticed by many, it's worthwhile to imagine for a moment what life would be like without innovation or the inventions innovators produce.

LISTEN: Inventor's Voice, Recorded in 1885, Is Heard Anew

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 04.25.2013 | Science

WASHINGTON -- Researchers have identified the voice of Alexander Graham Bell for the first time in some of the earliest audio recordings held at the S...

Mothers of Invention, Indeed

Ethlie Ann Vare | Posted 05.20.2013 | Women
Ethlie Ann Vare

Yes, it's Women's History Month, and I'm on the college lecture circuit. Like I tell the students: February is Black History Month, March is Women's History Month, and the rest of the year is for white guys.

Young American Innovators: America's Unfair Advantage

Bill Destler | Posted 05.04.2013 | College
Bill Destler

Where does this inherent American desire to be different come from? Whatever the reason, I'm convinced that the desire of our young people to be creative, if harnessed appropriately, can truly be an "unfair advantage" over foreign competitors.

Tech Has Always Killed Jobs

AP | By BERNARD CONDON | Posted 03.25.2013 | Technology

NEW YORK (AP) — To workers being pushed out of jobs by today's technology, history has a message: You're not the first. From textile ...

Why the Big-Company Monster Kills Creativity

Gil Laroya | Posted 12.18.2012 | Small Business
Gil Laroya

Creators and inventors alike dream of having a job where they can employ their skills to excite and teach their employers the wonders of innovation. Don't allow your organization's culture to become the monster that kills such aspirations, and watches creativity die.

College: Drop Out or Stay In?

Sierra | Posted 12.05.2012 | College
Sierra

By the time she arrived in Kenya, between her freshman and sophomore years at Princeton, Eden Full had already done the kind of hands-on work that can make a smart, ambitious student wonder whether getting a college degree is all that necessary.

Finally! A 3D Printer That You Can (Almost) Afford

The Huffington Post | Betsy Isaacson | Posted 11.13.2012 | Technology

Want to print yourself a filigreed bracelet? How about an action figure? Or a tiny to-scale model of the Eiffel Tower? All this and more could be your...

A Visit to Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Labratory and Tower (video)

Kim Mance | Posted 11.07.2012 | Travel
Kim Mance

I hopped in a zipcar and drove from NYC out to Shoreham, Long Island several months ago and trespassed around the site of inventor Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe tower and laboratory to see how it looks. As of April 2012, it's looking pretty bad.

American Inventiveness is Alive and Well in San Diego

Michele Nash-Hoff | Posted 09.12.2012 | Small Business
Michele Nash-Hoff

About 150 inventors, "wannabes", entrepreneurs, and service providers gathered for the annual San Diego Inventors Forum contest.

Top 3 Realities of Inventing Today (Part 2)

Patrick Raymond | Posted 08.26.2012 | Small Business
Patrick Raymond

if you are an inventor, here's downer news that few will tell you... you probably can't do it. The odds you face are just too long. So don't quite your day-job, OK? Here are the five forces working against us.

GUESS WHO: Six Inventor Dads Whose Kids Were Inventors Too

Posted 06.15.2012 | Science

By: InnovationNewsDaily Staff Published: 06/14/2012 10:19 AM EDT on InnovationNewsDaily Can inventiveness run in the family? In honor of Father's ...

Why Amateurs Reach The Top In America

Debra Ollivier | Posted 07.30.2012 | Fifty
Debra Ollivier

In Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character, author Jack Hitt contends that the Golden Age of American amateurism is far from over. On the contrary, the amateur's dream is the American dream.

10 Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions

Posted 05.30.2012 | Science

Inventors killed by their own inventions? It happens. You may know that Nobel-winning chemist Marie Curie died from the effects of the radioactive...

The Top 3 Realities of Inventing Today (Part 1)

Patrick Raymond | Posted 07.11.2012 | Small Business
Patrick Raymond

Yes, innovation and entrepreneurship are the key to unlocking vast personal wealth and ensuring continued national greatness. They're also over-hyped. So let's get real, here.

Are We Ever Too Old to Be Called "Promising?"

Holly Robinson | Posted 07.09.2012 | Books
Holly Robinson

It's not like writers are ballerinas who can't do splits without injuring ourselves after a certain age, or even football players too fat to run. Is it?

At Age 17, Sara Naseri and Emilie Kjeldsen Invent New Sun-Protective Technology

Women 2.0 | Posted 07.07.2012 | Technology
Women 2.0

Our initial idea was to cure skin cancer, but realizing that this is very complex, the aim and driving force of our project became to prevent skin cancer.

Seldom Acknowledged Innovation Was Edison's 'Greatest?'

Posted 04.08.2012 | Science

By: Jeremy Hsu, InnovationNewsDaily Senior Writer Published: 04/07/2012 09:45 AM EDT on InnovationNewsDaily Thomas Edison's record as an America...

WATCH: You Won't Believe These Crazy Walmart Product Ideas

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.26.2012 | Business

Walmart's latest must-have item may be chosen by shoppers like you. Walmart's "Get It On The Shelf" campaign, a competition allowing anyone from am...

Inspired Design: Young Inventors Solve Old Problems in New Ways

James Dyson | Posted 05.04.2012 | Technology
James Dyson

Simple observations can inspire leaps in understanding. In designing a vacuum that didn't choke on dust, I looked to a sawmill. I saw centrifugal force being used to separate dirt and wondered - could the same principle be used on a smaller scale?

WATCH: Young Latino Inventor Named One Of Forbes' 30 Under 30

Posted 01.25.2012 | Latino Voices

A 17-year-old inventor from Texas, Javier Fernández-Han, the son of immigrants from China and Mexico, was named one of "Forbes' 30 under 30" this yea...

FIRST Things First

Dean Kamen | Posted 03.05.2012 | Science
Dean Kamen

If kids looked at Nicola Tesla or Bill Gates the way they look at LeBron James and Tom Brady, then I guarantee that our students' enthusiasm for math and science would match their passion for Little League and Pop Warner.

Ben Craw

How This Kid Crashed The Major Leagues

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Craw | Posted 01.10.2012 | Small Business

Starting your own business is a noble -- not to mention exciting, rewarding and often crazy -- undertaking. The experience is an adventure, to say the...

Obama Signs Major Patent Reform Law

AP | Posted 11.16.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will sign the America Invents Act on Friday, the first significant change in patent law since 1952. The presiden...

Jason Gilbert

PHOTOS: The 8 Best Inventions From Quirky.com

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Gilbert | Posted 11.12.2011 | Technology

Quirky.com is one of the best-case uses of the Internet out there today; it is, in my opinion, exactly the way that the Internet, with all of its crow...