Have you been looking for ways to use your old CD case? Do you hate stale bagels? Do you have the desire to work all the time, even when going for a s...
They say that necessity is the mother of invention. Actually, necessity is the mother of good invention. Boredom and laziness are the parents of many ...
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...
As NeuroSky Vice President David Westendorf tells it, it was a shy product planner at a Japanese high-tech fashion company,who came up with the idea. ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Our friends at TruTV have shared with us these amazing inventions that we'll likely never be able to use. We think these 18 inn...
Is anyone today using Listerine as a cure for gonorrhea? With maybe one or two bizarre exceptions, the answer is no. But in the 19th century, the odds...
A pair of graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab have launched MaKey MaKey, a Kickstarter project with a noble goal ...
From the "Penis Exercise Machine" to the "Penis Retractor," some inventions seem like nothing more than torture devices for men....
The latest innovation in the world of smart home products is a fridge magnet/button that lets you order pizza to be delivered with a simple touch. Yes...
Prone to dropping your iPhone? What if there were a way for unsightly scratches to disappear, on their own? That's the promise of a new type of pho...
Necessity is the mother of invention, but is a museum dedicated to inventions that didn't work a necessary invention? Fritz Gall thinks so. A f...
While they come across as arcane now, the DeMoulin Brothers catalogs are an extraordinary spyglass into a little known part of our past. Selected for my book are 100+ of my favorite pages from thirteen DeMoulin prank catalogs printed from 1897 to 1930.
Hybrids have an important tool for inventions ever since the first chocolate bar collided with a jar of peanut butter. But there are some hybrid ga...
Sure, Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb and the record player, but he probably never even thought of creating a dress that looks like a vending mac...
If you’ve ever wanted to be pregnant, a new device invented by Japanese scientists may inspire a pregnant pause. It’s a dress that simulates th...
