Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase 2009
 UFO Micro Furnace is the world’s smallest, lightest, most portable, easiest to use and most affordable furnace for performing assays of precious metal ore.  It is the only one that can be taken to the mine site, and is so simple to use that a trip to the [...]

A blast from a heat gun has turned most of the black tile in this image white.
Anyone who has ever stepped barefoot onto blacktop pavement on a hot sunny day knows the phenomenon very well: Black surfaces absorb the sun’s heat very efficiently, producing a toe-scorching surface. In the wintertime, that can be a good [...]

Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase
Sculpture Brick is the newest veneer application process on the market today. Over the past 30 years this product has been developed into what is now patented versatile mortar enhancement process that simulates the appearance and texture of brick, but at up to half the cost. It can provide [...]

Featured Product at the Colorado Inventor Showcase
WebRecept™ is a proactive, web-based, customer relations management service that provides live website chat interaction and site monitoring through trained, qualified agents that increase your company’s online sales conversions by engaging visitors and building personal relationships from your website.
 

Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase 2009
Kwik Kover is a year-round windshield cover that is utilized on the outside of the vehicle and secured inside.
 

Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase 2009
Utilize all of your pool playing skills but add a whole new set of strategies and fun with a set of Card Parlour Pool Balls including a joker ball.
 

Featured Invention at the Colorado inventor Showcase 2009
 
An exercise device design to make your chin firm and youthful looking. Retightens neck muscles with regular use. Fast and easy, and very affordable. The best part is you don’t have to join a gym or even change your clothes. Use ChinUp at your computer, watching TV, or put [...]

Featured product at the Colorado Inventor Showcase 2009
ZipLS is an educational software system that will be sold to schools and individuals. The software uses a drill and practice approach primarily aimed at rote memorization and problem solving. Current subjects include math facts, math problems, geography, spelling, and foreign language vocabulary.
 

Above: CCD image sensor. Below: Optical fibers.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 with one half to Charles K. Kao, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong “for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication”, and [...]

Featured invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase 2009
The Reciprotating™ Combustion Engine is an innovative motor design that provides significant improvements in overall efficiency over the traditional internal combustion engine (Otto cycle). These improvements are described in and protected by pending domestic and international patents. The Engine creates a source of direct hydraulic pressure that can be [...]

ZIP-ZAC Beach Towel and Pool/Spa Towel
Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase 2009
The Zip-Zac Pocket Towel is a towel with a patented innovative zippered pocket lined with water resistant nylon.
 

 Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase 2009
The Lock-Bouie is a home safety device that prevents intruders from getting into a house through an open window, and prevents children from falling out of open windows.  The Lock-Bouie is a telescoping, adjustable window brace that sits inconspicuously in the track of a window frame and limits [...]

Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase 2009
For much of human history, and still in many indigenous cultures, the common method of removing mucus from children’s noses has been to directly suck it out. There is a certain wisdom in this, but most of us are not so adventurous – and rightly so. Now, there [...]

Late yesterday the Twitter Blog announced the introduction of a new feature to the service called Lists.
Lists is Twitter’s response to the demand for a better way to organize information and will allow users to tag Twitter feeds as belonging to different lists. Nick Kallen, project lead on Lists explains:
The idea is to allow people to [...]

Leopard gecko. A bird eating fanged frog, a gecko that looks like it’s from another planet and a bird which would rather walk than fly, are among the 163 new species discovered in the Greater Mekong region last year that are now at risk of extinction
A bird-eating fanged frog, a gecko that looks like it’s [...]

This four-fingered robotic hand contains sensors that help it pick up a variety of objects
Industrial robots have been helping in the factories for a while, but most robots need a complex hand and powerful software to grasp ordinary objects without damaging them.  Researchers from Harvard and Yale Universities have developed a simple, soft robotic hand [...]

The Cocoon, which would ‘grow’ its own meals, won the Electrolux competition
A controversial cooker that ‘grows’ meat and fish by heating animal cells in your kitchen claimed first prize in the Electrolux design competition.The invention, called Cocoon, could develop food with the make-up and nutrients of real meat. (Pics and video)
 

A miniature ‘egg whisk’ pump has been pioneered by a British doctor to help the heart pump blood round the body during life-saving surgery.  The pump, which rotates faster than a high-speed food blender, allows patients with weak hearts to have an artery unblocked without the risk of kidney failure or cardiac arrest.
 

A lamp that works bloody well!

Mike Thompson’s “Blood Lamp” is a single-use lantern that draws its energy from a drop of your blood, making you consider the cost of energy in a uniquely personal way.
For the lamp to work one must…

You can’t go anywhere these days without stepping on a robot.
Japan certainly hasn’t let the recession damp its enthusiasm for all things robot, even if much of the robotic workforce still suffers from unemployment idleness. The robot tiles emerged as the brainchild of Hiroo Iwata, a virtual reality researcher at the University of Tsukuba in [...]

A bed-shaped robot which can transform from a bed (top) to a wheel chair (bottom).
Japan’s Panasonic Corp. has developed a “Robotic Bed” that can transform into a wheelchair to make life easier for elderly and disabled people.  The invention is designed to help people with limited mobility maintain an independent lifestyle, the firm said in [...]

Sonea concept
The Sonea unit concept might look like some sort of ghetto blaster, but it gives back a portion of what it receives instead. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a machine that takes noise and convert it to energy for you to use it as you please.
 

Giant Space Mirrors. Isn’t it worth a try to help reduce emissons.
Risky and unorthodox technologies such as giant space mirrors or capturing CO2 from the ambient air may be required backups to blunt the effects of climate change if emission reductions prove to be too little, too late, says a new report from the Royal [...]

Six Millon Dollar Man here we come
A MONKEY sits on a bench, wires running from its head and wrist into a small box of electronics. At first the wrist lies limp, but within 10 minutes the monkey begins to flex its muscles and move its hand from side to side. The movements are clumsy, but [...]

Everyone needs their very own bat-mobile
Want your own Batman Tumbler but can’t afford to hire Morgan Freeman to build you a full-size one? Well fear not, intrepid crime fighter, because some guy on eBay is selling $30 plans to build one out of a go kart. Of course, if you don’t want to pay, I’ll [...]