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This week’s audio tip from Stephen Key and Andrew Krauss of inventRight asks and answers the question . . . When is an inventor truly in the game?

Please use the comments section below to comment on this audio. Stephen and Andrew will be checking in and respond to the comments made below.

This weekly inventing audio tip is courtesy of  Stephen Key and Andrew Krauss of http://www.inventRight.com.

One very interesting kid’s invention: The Suction (Bike) Tires
A boy pedals his bike upside down across the ceiling, thanks to some crazy retrofitted tires. The CGI effects make the feat look utterly real, but a discreet DO NOT ATTEMPT disclaimer points to its being a delightful put-on.

Anything is possible.

WASHINGTON D.C. — President George W. Bush announced and congratulated the 2007 laureates for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

This is the nation’s highest honor for technological and scientific achievement. President Bush will present the six individuals and two corporations with their medals at a White House ceremony on September 29, 2008.

One of the 2007 National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates is Paul Baran.

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Find your drink in the middle of the night, without switching on the bedside light. These stretchy rings are made from luminous silicone to glow in the dark, and they stretch to fit over any glass or mug.

Attend the InventBay.com National Inventors Expo and Learn How to Protect, Promote, and Advance Your Invention/Idea

You may have not of realized it, but to getting your invention/idea produced is a big time commitment. Costs can run into the thousands just in the preparation efforts in beginning the invention process and possibly even before you have a working prototype.  The InventBay.com National Inventors Expo is specifically designed to educate the inventors and to minimize those costs and efforts associated with the invention processes.

To learn more about this event, go visit:

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We have been told to never swim alone and Armando Rositas has shown that this can be true even when you are alone in the water.

The Swimming Buddy is a creation that he fashioned as a vertical column that is clipped onto the back of life jackets.

Rositas had the hope of using this invention as a method of quickly finding people that might fall overboard from boats. The Swimming Buddy has proven to not just mark the person in the water to the boat that may have lost them, but to also nearby boats and those along shorelines.

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The Martin Jetpack is one of the latest additions to the world of interesting gadgets. The science fiction gadget was revealed to the public for the first time in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Glenn Martin, the proud Kiwi inventor also known as the Rocket Man, demonstrated the device to people by allowing his 16-year-old son Harrison, to fly the maiden flight. 

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According to Eric J. Sosenko, Ann Arbor patent attorney, golf has more patents than other sport. Sosenko is one of the shareholders of intellectual property and law house, Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione. Sosenko states, a minimum of 16,500 patents related to golf have been granted since the year 1976.

Baseball is a distant second,  with only 1,900 patents. Sosenko also said that the golf patents are issued mostly to individuals instead of big manufacturers.

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If you love to create, invent or design, this contest is for you! Rubber bands are all you need to get started.

First-ever Rubber Band Contest for Young Inventors
for students in grades 5 - 8

Students can demonstrate their ingenuity by creating an invention that incorporates the use of rubber bands.

More than $20,000 in prizes will be awarded!

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The British Library recently opened a new display of Weird and Wonderful Inventions.

The Display include such off-the-wall inventions as a self-pouring teapot, a grenade that puts fires out, a moustache protector, a peach peeler and periscope spectacles.

This display of Weird and Wonderful Inventions will be open at London’s national library through to November 10.

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