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NBC on the search for the perfect tire
In a warehouse in Nevada, a couple of dreamers nurture an idea that, as it turns out, they’d independently shared for nearly three decades — to find a synthetic replacement for rubber that would...
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Video: Video: Whiz kids at work
Pa. high school students create a device that reads product labels for the blind (NBCNews.com)
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Would-be inventors lose money in scams
Would-be inventors beware: Many firms that promise to obtain patents and market new products instead take their clients' money and vanish. By one estimate, it's a $300 million-a-year business. By...
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U.S. patent office swamped by backlog
For most inventors, developing and perfecting an idea takes far more time, energy and money than it does to get a patent. But with the U.S. Patent Office drowning in paper, the patent process has...
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Small firms targeted in patent cases
Patent holders have begun demanding licenses for Internet technologies seemingly used everywhere. Some are succeeding, some are not. By MSNBC.com's Bob Sullivan.
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The next Big Thing
With no more than a high school education and a creative way of looking at problems, Frank Polifka invented the “Tornado in a Can” — a system he says can safely harness the enormous power of a funnel...
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That 'Eureka!' moment
The adage "luck favors the prepared mind” applies more to the process of inventing than romantic notions of serendipity. Just ask the inventor who conceived of the implantable pacemaker and the...
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The urge to innovate
The current pace of invention leaves little doubt that some recent brainstorms will change our lives the way mass transporation did at the turn of the last century, experts say. FULL STORY.
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