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Did you know that Thomas Edison got his first job as a telegraph operator after saving the daughter of a station agent from an oncoming train? Or that he didn't invent the lightbulb, but instead created t... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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You might not realize it when you've been trapped behind the same red light for five minutes, but traffic lights, when they're timed and tuned correctly, are actually pretty good at making traffic move. Re... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Babies are incredible waste producing-machines, speeding through approximately 10 diapers every day. If you are in possession of a poop-maker, you've got options for dealing with their impressive output: d... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Alexander Graham Bell. Genius. Father of the telephone. Hardcore Tetrahedron nut. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 of his best pyramid-shaped wonders. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Ladies and gentlemen, these are our ancestor's Billy Mays infomercial products. Judge them lightly, but laugh heartily, for in 50 years' time our great grandkids will laugh openly at our version of the Be... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Wilson Greatbatch has died at the age of 92. He was a lifelong inventor. And like many inventors, his most notable creation, the implantable cardiac pacemaker, was discovered accidentally. More &... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The USPTO granted its first patent in 1836 and 175 years later, the government body now has a database that is eight million strong. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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George Devol (above right) died last week at his home in Connecticut. He invented the Unimate, the first programmable Industrial Robot. But his creative genius did not stop there. Check out these five lit... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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First, man discovered fire. Then a bunch of random stupid unimportant stuff happened. Then, man discovered pizza delivery. And Serious Eats takes it from there, with a fantastic rundown of the evolution o... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Steven Sasson is a pretty unassuming guy. But he changed the world. In this "video portrait" by David Friedman, Sasson briefly walks us through the birth of the digital camera, and muses about its implic... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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When John Muir's name comes up, technologically progressive inventor is not the first thing that comes to mind. But as The Atlantic points out, the author and lover of nature dreamed up a few ingenious in... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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I'm not saying I'm as bad as Howard Hughes, but I will confess to always tearing a bit of toilet-roll of paper towel off and using it to open public bathroom doors with on my way out. More »... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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In 1942, a group of Nazi agents landed in Florida in bathing trunks and Wehrmacht caps. Another one landed in Long Island. Meanwhile, in Europe, a secret band of blondes spread all over armed with microbe... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Most people don't live to be 94. Most people don't receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Most people also don't invent, by accident, an extremely useful and widespread super-substance. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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135 years ago today, Alexander Graham Bell was awarded a patent for what would eventually become known as the telephone (one of his minor inventions among many others, NBD). This is one of the first sketc... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Back in 1950, someone thought that they could put the spare tire to work when stored: Just use it to park the car. Why do manufacturers still not install this invention in every single car they make, I d... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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South Korean inventor Mok Young Bak took his apparent obsessive compulsive disorder—an intangible thing—and put it into Caduceus, a very real thing. It serves one, mad purpose: Simultaneous ce... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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I don't know if I should pity Princess the Hamster or celebrate the fact that designer Crabfu has crafted an ingenious, slightly mesmerizing way for her to antagonize the family cat on an entirely new, mo... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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This one may be too easy, but I had forgotten how beautiful it can be. So, what is it? Stylized ornaments? Blowing glass? Maybe even earrings? No, the answer is much more functional than that. More&nbs... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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We're pretty obsessed with the idea of a death ray. After all, we constantly see these weapons of mass annihilation in movies, read about them in books, and run from them in nightmares. But why haven't we... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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There's something very incongruous about Eric Jacqmain's video where he demonstrates a solar death-ray with the intensity of 5,000 suns (or so he claims)...backed by plip-plop music you'd normally find in... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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While other scientists have been wasting their time trying to cure diseases, one Harvard researcher has invented a device that lets you inhale food vapors. Finally, we're free from the burden of shoving d... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Your LCD or plasma has a great, great grandfather. And it's not the chunky CRT that preceded it in the 90s. No. Eighty five years ago, public eyes first hit TV—while it broadcast the head of a dummy... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Lazy Sundays require lazy skiing. Enter the Skizee, which turns the skier into an impromptu snowmobile, courtesy a 10.5 horsepower 4-stroke engine. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, making today his 305th birthday. Here is a list of things you may or may not have known sprang from this impossibly talented man's mind. More »... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Half-eaten cookies and milk weren't enough for inventor Thomas Crane, who in 1996 filed a patent for a "Santa Claus Detector." Strung between two inconspicuous stockings, the detector would start flashing... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Thomas Edison is an inventor known for great things. We also know he had a pretty good sense of humor. Some of these er, lesser known contributions from Mr. Edison were ahead of their time; others are ju... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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23-year-old Emily Cummins started her career as an inventor as a young girl tinkering in her grandfather's shed. Now, thanks to a solar-powered fridge that's already in use across Africa, Nobel winners ar... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Awkwardly-coiffed magician Penn Jillette is an inventor. His greatest triumph: a "hydro-therapeutic stimulator" for women with jetstreams directed to "stimulation points (e.g., the clitoris) of the female... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Jets, spacecraft, and giant robots—some people build amazing things in their garages. Makes you feel a little self-conscious about that "cherry" 1981 Malibu and the stack of National Geographics you... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Strange, radical, and just plain ugly gadgets are commonplace today—and the same was the case a century ago. The Daily Mail shares a gallery of oddball devices that, for whatever reason, didn't surv... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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There are just four days until the international winner of the James Dyson Awards is announced from one of the following 15 finalists. Some amazing inventions are up for it, including that water steriliza... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Typhoons are a deadly problem along eastern Asia, killing dozens yearly. Their lifeblood? Warm ocean water. Which is exactly what Japanese inventor Koichi Kitamura wants to fix, with subs that would pump ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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"I am not sure why human-powered appliances intrigue me so much. They amuse me. I have designed, but never built, several such devices." More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Because we're apparently running out of things to invent, a man named Perry Watkins has concocted a Queen Anne dining table that reached top speeds of 130mph in a recent track test. No word on how the sou... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Bob's updated his washer launcher. It's now got 10 capacitors in it, capable of generating enough force to partially crush up to three beer cans or throw a CD way up into the sky above his house. More&... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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When Lee de Forest accidentally created the first electronic audio amplifier—the Audion—he "inaugurated the age of electronics." You can learn about it in this excerpt from Nicholas Carr's boo... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Thomas Edison was not an inventor for the love of the game. "I always invented to obtain money to go on inventing," he said. For a tireless mind like that, a lab had to be far more than a lab. More&nb... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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It's tough to think about inventors without remembering dear Dr. NakaMats. He claims to have invented over 3,000 items—frequently while almost drowning himself—and basically thinks Thomas Edis... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Patents! They're a big deal. Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures depends on patents to make money, and they file a lot of 'em. So I asked him how he'd change the patent system. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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A lot of amazing inventions, ideas, and technologies came about in the 21st century, but we want to know: Which tech invention do you think was the most important during this time? More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits," Thomas Edison once said. But is hustling all it takes? Is progress always deliberate? Sometimes genius arrives not by choice—but by chance. Belo... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Intellectual Ventures founder and modern day Merlin Nathan Myhrvold explains why it costs a lot of damn money to create new ideas. Hint: Think Hollywood. [Eureka on Gizmodo] More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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If anyone today can be considered an inventor, it's Sir James Dyson, the man who took the bag out of the vacuum and the blades out of the fan. Here's the first time we talked to him, last fall. [Giz] M... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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"Did airplanes come from the R&D department of a train company or a steamship company?" Nathan Myhrvold asks, rhetorically, his voice cracking. He's explaining how his company, Intellectual Ventures, is... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Wired recruited Will Ferrell to help them remember some technologies that were long promised but never delivered. Among Wired's most lamented: supersonic airlines and roboservents. Among Will's: A birthda... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Weeds, aching backs, and dignity: all things that stand no chance in the face of the Wunda Weeder, a magnificent solar-powered gardening exo-skeleton that allows its wearer to soar over invasive plants li... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Our modern media spring from a common source, an invention that is rarely mentioned today but that had as decisive a role in shaping society as the internal combustion engine or the incandescent lightbulb... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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I think each of the 4,000 Brits who participated in a survey of the 10 greatest inventions ever should have their toilets taken off them for life. See if there's an app for that! More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Years ago, Floridian inventor Michael Powell pitched Home Depot a device that would keep its employees' fingers safe when cutting wood for customers. It worked so well that they stole his idea. Now Powell... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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