Invention & Innovation

In November 2008, Bitcoin’s creator, known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, published a paper via the Cryptography Mailing List titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.”5 In it, he describes blockchain as “[a] purely peer-to-peer […]

February 2017 By Ania Jedrusik, Consultant, IP and Innovation, Switzerland, and Phil Wadsworth, IP Consultant and former Chief Patent Counsel, Vice-President and Legal Counsel of Global IP at Qualcomm Inc., USA Technology is the backbone […]

With 42 percent of the major urban highways in the U.S. congested and the problem only predicted to increase, there is a great need for our road and traffic systems to be modernized to prepare […]

From Labs to Labels: ASU’s Cutting-Edge Medical Devices Win Global Recognition and FDA Approval ASU is a university on the forefront of biomedical ingenuity, even without a traditional in-house medical school. ASU-linked medical inventions and […]

There are endless famous (and not so famous) inventions worthy of curiosity and wonder. Of course, the lists below are by no means complete, but do provide a ‘greatest hits’ list of inventions, both past […]

This preview shows page 1 – 2 out of 2 pages. Invention An invention is something genuinely new – something that has not been done before. It could be a substance, a product, a process […]

They’ve been in existence for more than a thousand years and have affected warfare — and society in general — in ways almost no other weapon can match. Guns nearly made technical expertise an afterthought […]

Innovations that Changed the World by Mary Bellis Mary Bellis covered inventions and inventors for ThoughtCo for 18 years. She is known for her independent films and documentaries, including one about Alexander Graham Bell. Updated […]

Home Countdowns Introduction (Image credit: igor.stevanovic / Shutterstock.com) Humans are an ingenious species. Though we’ve been on the planet for a relatively short amount of time (Earth is 4.5 billion years old), modern Homo sapiens […]

What drives invention? Sometimes, it’s back pain. Here’s how to prime your own creativity to make something new. When Pagan Kennedy was writing her Innovation column for The New York Time Magazine, she and her […]