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My weekly invention challenge – week #6

My weekly invention challenge – week #6

Here are some more inventions that should have been thought of decades ago; perhaps they were, but I haven’t seen them.

Adhesive learning tapes– There are many opportunities to put labels on things to remind you of something, and thus Post-it was created and it works well if you write the message. But how about things like learning a language, where the names of common things could be stuck onto…

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My weekly invention challenge - week #5

My weekly invention challenge – week #5

A couple of things bothered me this week that can be fixed easily and I wonder why they haven’t been fixed decades ago. For example:

Jar and bottle cap index markers– Vast amounts of time are wasted by every person trying to close jars, bottles, pill bottles, etc., because they can’t find the proper alignment of the corresponding threads. The simple solution is to have a mark built into the top…

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To some inventors that's obvious

To some inventors that’s obvious

Obvious – it’s a word we here almost every day in one form or another – as inventors we may here it a bit more. But what does it mean? This little seven letter word that seemingly defines a conclusion so easily arrived at.

The US Patent Office tells us it’s a conclusion one “skilled in the art” would develop. While Webster says it’s “something easy to see or understand” making no judgment of…

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