Fast Company weaves an amazing story about Indian inventor Arunachalam Muruganantham, who lost his wife, friends, and, well, almost everything in his quest to build a better sanitary napkin by wearing one himself — along with a goat blood-filled bladder. More »
Alexander Graham Bell. Genius. Father of the telephone. Hardcore Tetrahedron nut. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 of his best pyramid-shaped wonders. More »
Wilson Greatbatch has died at the age of 92. He was a lifelong inventor. And like many inventors, his most notable creation, the implantable cardiac pacemaker, was discovered accidentally. More »
Steven Sasson is a pretty unassuming guy. But he changed the world. In this “video portrait” by David Friedman, Sasson briefly walks us through the birth of the digital camera, and muses about its implications since then. More »
Sir James Dyson, inventor of perhaps the most recognisable consumer vacuum on the market today, is completely comfortable with failure. He’s good at it—failure I mean—but most great inventors are. More »
“I am not sure why human-powered appliances intrigue me so much. They amuse me. I have designed, but never built, several such devices.” More »
It’s tough to think about inventors without remembering dear Dr NakaMats. He claims to have invented over 3000 items – frequently while almost drowning himself – and basically thinks Thomas Edison’s an uneducated wimp who quit at 1093 inventions. More »
