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29 December 2016

Amazon and its "airborne fulfillment center"

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I've just heard about Amazon's astounding patent Airborne fulfillment center utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles for item delivery . ...
24 December 2016

Debit cards to become more secure

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Today's Daily Telegraph has an article titled " Enigma technology to make new ultra-secure bank card " (online version). It...
7 November 2016

A 1913 court case for a patent

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I came across an interesting British court case concerning a patent the other day in the newspapers. The Western Times of the 21 November...
13 October 2016

Heath Robinson Museum

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William Heath Robinson was a British artist who drew extraordinary machines, all from his imagination. He was the UK's Rube Goldberg. ...
27 August 2016

Innovators working together

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The Daily Telegraph today alerted me to a paper by an academic at Brown University in the USA, Anton Howes. His The improving mentality: ...
22 May 2016

Inventors and saying "thanks" and "sorry"

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A couple of months ago I was contacted via e-mail by two strangers, one in the UK and one in the USA, asking for (free) help about their inv...
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9 February 2016

Designs of the Year 2015

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Each year London's Design Museum hosts the Designs of the Year exhibition . The 2015 exhibition opened last March but I've only just...
3 February 2016

Inventing a better mousetrap (book review)

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During the nineteenth century the American patent system required the submission of a model so that inventors could secure patents. Inventin...
13 January 2016

Brick-laying robots

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Increasingly we are seeing repetitive tasks carried out by workers being replaced by robotics. This can even involve skilled workers, such a...
11 January 2016

Unventional: Ideas too good to patent, book review

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Some books about inventions are serious and are designed to enlarge knowledge. Some books about inventions inspire. And then other books a...