"I thought there should be a way to make sure you never leave home without a rain jacket," said an inventor from Salisbury, ...

"I do hair, and it's very difficult to do braids when a client is falling asleep and their head is falling to the sides," said an inventor from Grand Rapids, Mich. "This was inspired by me and all ...

It's hard to imagine a time when fast food restaurants didn't have drive-thru windows, but before this burger joint invented ...

Former Brazil star Juliano Belletti settles the debate, explaining how 2002 World Cup winner Ronaldinho invented the ...

A small solar-powered box developed in the East of England is providing power to people in Nigeria and "transforming how they ...

The United States has spent its quarter millennium of existence creating tools that reshaped the modern world. As the country ...

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...

By Day 91, Canada Day, when I drew the Maple Leaf flag, I understood that the objects, inventions and people I’d been documenting are what make this country worth defending. I never expected my ...

Conventional wisdom holds that innovation is the domain of bold entrepreneurs and private enterprise, with government at best ...

The tens of thousands of attendees at the Outside Days festival last month in Denver had to wend their way through a menagerie of small-town Colorado outdoor innovators and their home-grown creations ...

Since The Rocky Horror Picture Show, queer cinema has excelled at producing crowd-pleasing midnight-movie oddities: exuberant, defiantly niche works that transform limited resources into virtues. Emma ...

Patenting an idea is one of the most effective ways to protect your intellectual property and secure a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Whether you are an individual inventor or a growing ...