With the stability of Chris Malloy’s Hoverbike in question and in its prototype form needing to be tethered for safety, perhaps the idea of transforming it into hoverquad instead is a better answer.

For the seventeenth year running, IBM has received more US patents than any other company.

Trevor Bayliss is perhaps most famous for inventing the wind-up radio, but now he's getting wound up about intellectual property rights.

This week just past Microsoft was successfully granted a patent for "emotiflags" despite this idea being present in Lotus Notes years prior. Microsoft is even denying current Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie’s involvement.

Australian inventor Ian Edmonds has developed a balloon engine that uses solar energy to power a large hot air balloon. One such balloon could produce enough power for ten average sized homes. And, you thought all balloons could be used for were birthday parties, parades, and balloon rides!

A UK company has developed the world's first powered luggage, and it seems to operate in a similar fashion to the Segway personal transporter.

Timothy Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web—www, the code for the Internet—in March 1989 while working for a physics laboratory at CERN. On its 15th anniversary of being placed in the public domain, the Internet and The Web has literally altered the world.

I’ve seen water powered digital watches and calculators on sale at markets – now Samsung is taking the technology a step further to transform water into a power source that could – in 2010 - literally juice up your future phone!

Previously regarded as the first person to make an audio recording, American inventor Thomas Edison lost this distinction when a recording was found that had been created in 1860 by Parisian inventor Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.