Doubts, shmouts – great hope for hoverbike’s reality

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.
 

IBM tops US patent charts again

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

What has wound up Trevor Bayliss?

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

Microsoft wins patent for Lotus Notes emoticon idea

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.
 

How about generating green energy with hot air balloons?

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!
 

The suitcase that thinks it's a Segway

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.
 

WWW inventor says Internet “still in its infancy”

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.
 

Phone battery flat? Charge it up again – with water!

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!
 

Scott de Martinville records sound earlier than Edison

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.