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Got a Baby? Got a Window?
This “baby cage” was marketed for families living in tenements without easy access to outdoor spaces. Suspended from the side of the building, the baby would have access to fresh air and sunlight...
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Microsoft Developing a Shape-Shifting Touchscreen
This week, Microsoft filed a patent for a new type of touchscreen that can display variable textures: Whereas previous screens produced only an illusion of texture, Microsoft proposes producing a real...
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Courts Fine Troll Lawyers for Filing Phony Lawsuits
Real life “trolling” has taken the form of corporations who file many patents on products that they don’t actually produce in an effort to file patent lawsuits against others in hopes of getting large...
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Self Defense Fashion From The US Patent Office
The US Patent Office sees the a lot of strange inventions coming through their submission process, hoping to get a patent. However who knew that there was a whole category of “Self Defense Fashion?”...
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Whiz Kids: 5 Amazing Young Inventors
Here are the stories of four young inventors who have already made their mark on the world, and one who hopes to in the years to come. 1. Chester Greenwood: Easy on the Ears All 15-year old Chester...
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Gorgeous 19th Century Patent Models
A model of an electromagnetic engine. Rothschild Patent Model Collection, Scherzi Photography Inventors today have got it easy. If they want to patent something, all they have to do is file some...
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Black Patent Leatherette Hello Kitty Backpack
Black Patent Leatherette Hello Kitty Backpack – $44.95 (sold individually) Attention Hello Kitty fans! Behold the very chic Black Patent Leatherette Hello Kitty Backpack from the NeatoShop. This...
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Patent Trolls Cost the Economy $29 Billion in 2011
Troll lure, Patent D378308 by Douglas R. Roe et al. Patents are supposed to protect inventors from having the results of their blood, sweat, and tears from being stolen by others, but recently,...
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A System to Allow Tankers to Fire Their Biological Waste at the Enemy
Tank crewmen under fire can’t just step outside for relief. They have to keep their, uh, waste inside their tanks. But that may change, thanks to a patent filed by Aleksandr Georgievich Semenov:...
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12 Cat-Related Patents That Are Really Quite Bizarre
To visit Google’s patent website is to lose yourself in a black hole of totally weird wannabe inventions—a surprising number of which are for your feline friends. From toys meant to encourage exercise...
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