It is hard to believe that this blog has been around for five years now…
[Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931, punching time clock on his 74th birthday anniversary, February 11, 1921, standing, rear view, source]
Category Archives: Historical & Interesting
Happy Fifth Birthday!
Patents on Electronic Games
Very cool article on patents on electronic games (e.g., Simon, Atari 2600). See: Patentmania: The Golden Age of Electronic Games | Technologizer.
[Via Gizmodo]
Thomas Edison used “click wrap”?
Matt Buchanan’s new blog on “Friday fun – Edison’s mark” (referring to terms and conditions Edison used on a marking plate for his Amberola Phonograph).
Funny Patents
I have a book review up over on the What the Funny…Patents website, reviewing Scott Seegert’s book “It’s a Guy Thing: awesome real innovations from the underdeveloped male mind.” Check it out.
Fore Inventors Only — Golf Channel
In case you missed it, the Golf Channel has a new show “Fore Inventors Only” directed towards inventors of golf related inventions.
[It] will uncover the next big thing in golf. Aspiring inventors will showcase their inventions and compete for prizes as they attempt to be the last person standing in the competition. This series [...]
“What the Funny…Patents” blog (wtfpatents.com) goes live
For a few years we have irregularly updated one of our side projects…the patent humor site “IP Funny.” Thanks to those of you who have put up with our childish senses of humor (and provided your own funny patents for us to post) over the past couple years.
Recently, we decided it was time to [...]
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Legal Pads?
Via Evan, the History of the Yellow Legal Pad.
I’m back…with a question from a reader
Sorry for the light posting…I took some vacation and have been buried in other projects.
I did receive the following question from a reader today:
I have my grandmother’s old hand-operated meat grinder. On it is imprinted:
PAT.MCH. 4.’02.
Does this mean that it was the fourth patent issued in 1902?
I’ll appreciate any information you can provide.
My response would [...]
By chance?
Via Blawg Review 65, a post on David Jacobson’s External Insights blog called “Designing for ‘accidental innovation’” which points to a Harvard Business School Working Knowledge article on “The Accidental Innovator”
Accidental Innovation is not to be confused with yelling “Here, hold my beer” before doing something stupid. That is called natural selection.
