Invention

ACTIVE Network’s New Venture Inspired by Its Own Employees

by | Feb 24, 2016
ACTIVE Network began in 1999 as a company that marketed 5Ks, half-marathons, and other running events. Before long, the firm branched out into the business of registering participants for such races and helping compile the results. Today, ACTIVE Network’s clients also include schools, churches, and youth sports leagues, all of which need help organizing different groups of people.
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Sir Joey
Dialexa’s Tiny Wheelchair Gives Dog New Lease on Life
by | Feb 22, 2016
The world of 3-D printing has a new, tiny face as a symbol of its myriad applications in innovation, and, well, just helping someone special get around.
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Dallas Has Its Fair Share of Patent Attorneys
by | Feb 22, 2016
For example, the State Bar of Texas told me that its Intellectual Property Law Section has 582 active members from Dallas County. But putting that number in perspective is difficult, because the American Bar Association’s Section of Intellectual Property Law declined to share statistics on its members’ geography.
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Essilor
Essilor Researchers are Looking Out for Our Eyes
by | Feb 19, 2016
If you’re reading this through a pair of glasses, there’s a better-than-zero chance your lenses were manufactured by Essilor. But there’s an equally good chance you’ve never heard of Essilor, much less noticed the French company’s U.S. headquarters along Interstate 35.
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From Trading Post to Hedge Funds

by | Feb 12, 2016
How three of our Mayors have made innovations to grow the city of Dallas.
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So You Want to be an Inventor?
by | Feb 10, 2016
In honor of National Inventors Day, I wanted to bring awareness to the hard work behind the inventions we see every day in retail stores.
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Company Seeks Exceptional Products It Can Market at No Cost to Inventors
by | Feb 5, 2016
If your invention can get on Exceptional Products' radar, be enticing enough to get tested, and be one of the 20 percent that passes all those steps, it may just get a national media campaign worth about $3 million.
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Meeting People Can Be Awkward: Enter Nawkr
by | Feb 4, 2016
Nawkr, a recently launched app, is the Tinder for everything else.
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How North Texas Helped Discover the God Particle

by | Jan 27, 2016
The God Particle, which is crucial to our understanding of the universe, was discovered in part by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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Katherine Berry
Beyond Books: Dallas Public Library Answers Inventors’ Questions
by | Jan 22, 2016
Patent and Trademark Resource Centers are designed to serve independent inventors and small businesses whose understanding of intellectual property issues may be rudimentary.
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Product Review: Vinli
by | Jan 19, 2016
Matthew Shelley is our resident gadget/app reviewer. Each month, he’ll take a look at a locally produced item and give us the lowdown.
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If You Can Dream It, You Can Make It at the Dallas Makerspace
by | Jan 15, 2016
Dallas Makerspace, a nonprofit workshop and laboratory in Carrollton, played key roles in SweetBot’s inspiration, development, and ongoing commercialization.
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Texas Inventors Get Help From Friendly Competition

by | Jan 6, 2016
Knowledge and insights are shared at these monthly networking session.
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TxACE at UT Dallas is Creating a Pathway for New Breath Analysis Technology
by | Jan 5, 2016
Researchers at the Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE) are working to make blood tests a thing of the past, as they seek to replace painful pin pricks with easy and affordable breath analysis through a technology referred to as the programmable electronic nose.
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Mary Russell Sarao and Barbara Russell Pitts
Got a Question About the Invention Process? Asktheinventors.com Is Here for You
by | Dec 28, 2015
Because these sisters from Plano created AskTheInventors.com, thousands of aspiring inventors have had an easier time obtaining patents for their ideas.
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Solutions for a Smarter, Safer, and More Connected City
by | Dec 18, 2015
Q&A with Dallas-based Verizon IoT Expert Thomas Grimes
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