Chindōgu is the Japanese practice of inventing things that are not exactly useful but neither are they useless; they’re more ...

This year’s Invented at Duke event earlier this month brought nine inventor teams under one roof, each showcasing early-stage ...

From the smartphone in your pocket to the cordless vacuum cleaner in your closet, NASA’s technological advancements have found their way into our everyday lives. These inventions, initially designed ...

Since recorded history, people have looked to nature for knowledge. Today, the study of animals, insects, and plants has led ...

Unfortunately, natural disasters can happen anywhere, and at anytime. The last sad example is the earthquake in Turkey. Luckily, people always come up with new, sometimes even crazy, stuff that will ...

News AssistantVirginia Tech?s invention licensing and evaluation company, Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. received the ranking of No. 11 in the number of disclosures of inventions of ...

One of the things that we’re working on right now at MIT is a tool that will help all kinds of people to create more applications based on the new technology that we have. There’s so much coming out ...

Smithsonian’s Eric S. Hintz, a historian of invention, details how scholars are envisioning a more inclusive ecosystem for the innovators of tomorrow Scholars say that Afrocentric notions of invention ...