Inventor's Handbook: Chapter Ten
Given the time it takes for a patent to be issued, it may be a good idea to start marketing your invention immediately after you've filed the patent application. Developing a business plan is one of the first items on the agenda. A business plan ... [... more]
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Where Stuff Comes from: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, ...
 No toaster is an island. In fact, as Harvey Molotch demonstrates in this sparkling tour of how things are created, the everyday objects of our life are a delicate and clever intermingling of design, timing and functionality that mirrors contemporary life. [... more]
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Inventor's Handbook: Chapter One
To encourage the creation of valuable ideas, and protect them from being stolen, the U.S. legal system developed the concept of intellectual property. A grant issued by the federal government giving an inventor the right to exclude others from ... [... more]
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The Fireman and the Astronaut: Stories of Space ...
From life-saving equipment used by first responders to the latest medical research devices and food-safety protocols, this book describes the process by which both NASA and commercial developers bring products from the space laboratory to the marketplace. [... more]
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Inventing for Dummies
Full coverage of the ins and outs of inventing for profit Protect your idea, develop a product - and start your business! Did you have a great idea? Did you do anything about it? Did someone else? Inventing For Dummies is the smart and easy way to turn [... more]
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The Inventor's Pathfinder: A Practical Guide to ...
Most inventors' self-help books overlook the crucial steps of creating and maturing inventions. The Inventor's Pathfinder fills this void, carefully examining each step leading from the moment of inspiration to product release. Drawing on forty years of [... more]
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The Naked Inventor
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Patents: Bubblewrap, Bottlecaps, Barbed Wire, and Other ...
In the novel tradition of Black Dog's How to Stay Alive in the Woods (rubber cover) and How Things Are Made (denim cover), Patents is covered in bubble wrap, one of man's more ingenious creations. It includes dozens of notable patents, from the airplane, [... more]
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New Sphere of Virtual Reality
VirtuSphere provides a mechnical basis for truly immersive virtual reality environments. VirtuSphere provides a mechnical basis for truly immersive virtual reality environments, permitting the user to move about in virtual space by simply ... [... more]
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Powerful New Map: Where the Wind Blows
A new map highlights spots where there is enough wind to provide electricity to the whole world âEUR" and then some. Map of global wind speeds observed at 80 m and averaged over all days of the year 2000 at locations with 20 or more valid ... [... more]
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A Step Toward Personal Windmills
Inventors create basis for a system that would work in light winds to generate power in your back yard. Workbench windmill: The generator (left) and the motor used as a turbine emulator. Credit: Andy Knight Engineers have developed the guts of a ... [... more]
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Freaky Fractal Fingers, Fingers, Fingers
Dactyl Fractal Zoom at Zapato Productions will weird you out. Heinlein also pursued similar ideas a bit earlier in his 1940 novella Roboticist Hans Moravec conceived of a more "fractal" version of this idea; a "bush robot" (also [... more]
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