Inventions

Your cell phone, the mobile remote control

Before long, your cell phone will also be your wallet, keys, and garage-door opener. These mobile applications transform cell phones into life management devices. www.fastcompany.com

The Inventor’s Pathfinder: A Practical Guide to Successful Inventing

Jim Cairns was a boy, he invented a way to hang pictures in his room without making the holes in the wall that so irritated his mother. He mixed iron powder with paint and spread it on the walls, then he put magnets on his pictures and stuck them to the iron treatment. It worked [...]

Death of the cell phone charger

A Pennsylvania entrepreneur has developed technology that gives you all the battery juice you need directly from the air. How much money could you make from a technology that replaces electrical wires? A startup called Powercast, along with the more than 100 companies that have inked agreements with it, is about to start finding out. [...]