Invention Archive

  • Autodesk TinkerBox App Now Comes to iPhone and iPod touch

    Posted on April 28, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Innovelis, Inc. Launches Essential Workout Accessory for the New iPod Nano G6

    Posted on January 5, 2011 | No Comments
    MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The new iPod nano’s small size and clip make it perfect for active lifestyles, but extra headphone cord length gets in the way. Innovelis’s Cord Shrink stores the extra cord...

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  • Innpu solves a problem you never had, introduces the ‘wired phone’ with built-in hands-free

    Innpu solves a problem you never had, introduces the ‘wired phone’ with built-in hands-free

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Ok, so I'm not one of those guys that goes around holding their phone in one hand, and a hands-free microphone (irony duly noted) in the other in an effort to lose friends. In fact, I'm not even one of those guys that unwraps their included hands-free kit when they get a new phone. I just don't use handsfree kits. If you call me when I'm driving, I let it ring out. So I may not be in the best position to talk about Innpu's new phone. You know, the one that has a permanently attached hands-free kit.

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  • Kindle DX failing out of Darden Business School

    Kindle DX failing out of Darden Business School

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    According to Ars Technica, Darden Business School students are unhappy with the Amazon Kindle DX in terms of academic usefulness. That's not to say that they're down on the DX in general: there's pretty high support amongst Darden students for the DX as a personal e-reader. It's just not quite the classroom supplement that Darden administration had hoped it would be.

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  • Symantec: 51 percent of all malware ever was detected in 2009

    Symantec: 51 percent of all malware ever was detected in 2009

    Posted on April 20, 2010 | No Comments
    It is an absolute miracle that I have never had a virus, trojan, or other form of computer bug on this PC. I mean, if we're to believe Symantec, then fully 51 percent of the viruses, trojans, and every other form of computer malware ever was spotted in 2009. That means that from 2008 going back to when Symantec first started keeping track of such things, all of those years only make up 49 percent of the viruses and so forth, while 2009 on its own accounts for 51 percent. That's pure madness.

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  • Creepy, creepier, Japan’s new Android (video)

    Creepy, creepier, Japan’s new Android (video)

    Posted on April 5, 2010 | No Comments
    If you still needed evidence Japan is the country churning out the most realistic androids out there, here's another hint for you. Meet Geminoid-F, the newest robot from one of Japan's most famous robot makers, Hiroshi Ishiguro. Ishiguro-san's invention is as realistic as it is creepy, but also very cool.

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  • The “Motorized Knee” makes your runnning 30% more efficient

    The “Motorized Knee” makes your runnning 30% more efficient

    Posted on December 16, 2009 | No Comments
    The researchers at Japan's Tsukuba University seem to be particularly active when it comes to enhancing human body functions. This is the institution where the famous robot suit HAL-5 was developed and now we have another invention that can help boost the efficiency of our bodies - if that's what we want and need, that is. A research team at said university has constructed a "motorized knee", which is actually a kit that - once it's attached to a person's body - supports the flexing of the knee. As a result, the runner may use 30% less of the muscle power that is needed to run unassisted. In experiments, runners could jog at 7.5km per hour wearing the kit, which is about 5kg heavy. So in other words, this isn't an elegant solution (yet).

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  • Hippies need automatic crossbows too

    Hippies need automatic crossbows too

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    When you live out in the country and have little else to do with your time, you need to make stuff. Take this self-cocking, automatic crossbow, for example. Made by a fellow called the Duckman, this sassy old man has some great facial hair and extremely inappropriate facial expressions as he ponderously loads and fires [...]

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  • Daily Crunch: Fireside Edition

    Daily Crunch: Fireside Edition

    Posted on November 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Shh! World’s largest radio telescope network goes live Space adaptive HUMANITARY INVENTION detects things and then calls you about them USB-powered Alien figure with illuminated tongue

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  • Space adaptive HUMANITARY INVENTION detects things and then calls you about them

    Space adaptive HUMANITARY INVENTION detects things and then calls you about them

    Posted on November 20, 2009 | No Comments
    So picture this: You are tasked with watching a volcano And you're totally like out to lunch one morning and the volcano explodes. You're like FUUUUUUUUUUU! With the HUMANITARY INVENTION you'll never be away from an exploding volcano! This device, which consists of a Piezoelectric system that pushes a rod out of a box. You are then supposed to put a phone next to said box. The phone will then call you and you can be totally like "OMG MY DISTANT PHONE IS CALLING ME! WOW!"

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  • Nokia Takes Apple To Court. If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Sue ‘Em.

    Nokia Takes Apple To Court. If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Sue ‘Em.

    Posted on October 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Nokia has filed a compaint against Apple for infringing on its GSM, UMTS, and WiFi "standards," which is as absolutely vague as it sounds. While Nokia states that forty vendors have licensed its patents in these areas there is no mention of the specific instances of infringement and, given that GSM, UMTS, and WiFi are the defacto standards for GSM-based phones across the board it's hard to tell what Nokia's real problem is here.

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  • Japan field-tests floating wind turbine

    Japan field-tests floating wind turbine

    Posted on September 8, 2009 | No Comments
    There can be no doubt "green" energy is becoming more and more important in Japan. And just like the many other inventions in this area, I am sure this newest invention that's potentially beneficial for the environment can one day make its way outside Japan, too: A floating wind turbine that's currently in prototype mode and is 12.5m tall (5.5m are above the surface).

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  • Feel free to drink your shower water, kids

    Feel free to drink your shower water, kids

    Posted on August 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Normally, you probably wouldn't consider drinking your own shower water after you had used it, but throw a couple of plants in there and you may well reconsider. Or, perhaps you'll react like the Drudge-ushered Daily Mail commenters and say stuff like “WHAT IS THIS GARBAGE, I EARN THE RIGHT TO WASTE WATER AND I'LL BE DAMNED IF SOME EGGHEAD SCIENTIST SAYS OTHERWISE.”

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  • What invention has changed the most from Version One to the Present Day?

    What invention has changed the most from Version One to the Present Day?

    Posted on August 25, 2009 | No Comments
    I'm now ripping off Ron and Fez bits wholesale. In a gripping discussion today, the radio show debated the following question that's 100 percent relevant to our interests here at CrunchGear: what invention has changed the most since its inception?

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  • Video: How to finally eliminate the scourge of tangled headphone wires

    Video: How to finally eliminate the scourge of tangled headphone wires

    Posted on August 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Don't you hate pants?! Wait, wrong post intro. Don't you hate when your headphone wires tangle?! There you go. Behold, a solution!

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