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In one of Aesop’s fables, The Crow and the Pitcher, we are introduced to a thirsty bird. As luck would have it, the bird happens to stumble across a pitcher, which has a pool of water at the bottom.

Hosted by Alie Ward, "Did I Mention Invention?" brings viewers fascinating stories of invention while shining a light on every day innovators. With each episode, Alie presents reports of human ...

Technology companies large and small employ creative individuals to develop new inventions. Many utilize formal processes to document and protect, via the patent system, inventions that are conceived ...

Horace Dediu is trying to convince us all to accept a new word of his creation, innoveracy, to aid in explaining new products like Apple's iPhone. Truly ground breaking new products, ones that are ...

Was Google Glass an invention or an innovation? What about the iPhone or Post-it Notes? I would argue that Google Glass was an invention while the rest of the the things are innovations. Innovation is ...

The Torrance Unified School District held their third annual Innovation Festival on Saturday, April 18 at El Camino College.

It’s hard to imagine a time when these things didn’t exist…but it wasn’t all that long ago! Each and every day, there are brilliant minds working behind the scenes to develop inventions and technology ...

Whether a film is a documentary or a fictional drama, all modern cinema is in a sense docu-fictional, because most viewers know that a documentary is carefully crafted to yield a narrative and that ...

First Invention of the World: The story of human progress begins with invention—the creation of tools and technologies that transformed survival and daily life. The first known invention dates back to ...

There are a handful of artifacts in the Smithsonian Institution that I call “signature Smithsonian objects.” One-of-a-kind objects, intimately associated with the Smithsonian, that visitors feel they ...