Mental Floss presents this priceless list of products that are popular today yet had dubious beginnings as products of a different type. Some of these are hilarious — including the abovementioned use of Lysol as a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/13/Eleven-Successful-Products-Originally-Invented-for-Something-Else/Roombas are a great idea in theory, but having a vacuum that doesn't work all that well bump around the walls isn't as great as the idea of a robotic vacuum. That's why Dyson has been working on their own robotic vacuum...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/11/Dyson-Aims-to-Take-Out-the-Roomba/When she was 8 years old, Kylie Simonds of Naugatuck, Connecticut was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer of the connective tissues. She is now in remission and recovering from the ordeal. Kylie is also putting her...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/08/08/11-Year-Old-Cancer-Survivor-Invents-a-Chemotherapy-Bag/Parenting is a long period of anxiety punctuated by moments of sheer terror. Parenting a baby is a particularly stressful time because a child is at a very physically vulnerable point and the parent may be inexperienced...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/06/27/11-Year-Old-Invents-a-Gadget-to-Prevent-Parents-from-Leaving-Their-Babies-in-Hot-Cars/From 1790 to 1880, the U.S. Patent Office required... ...ffice required that patent applications for a new inventions must have a model accompanying them. When the req...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/06/12/The-Patent-Model-Quiz/(Image: Wera)When using a Phillips screwdriver, you may experience the tip slipping out. It can loose its grip on the screw, particularly when applying high torque. Here's a clever solution by the German toolmaker Wera....
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/03/How-to-Improve-a-Screwdriver-Tips-Purchase-Laser-Etched-Gooves/When elderly people fall, the consequences are often disastrous. B-Shoe Technologies, an Israeli start-up company, has developed a shoe that it claims will reduce the incidence of falling.When it detects that the user ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/31/These-Motorized-Shoes-Are-Designed-to-Keep-You-from-Falling/[http://dai.ly/x1jk9vs/172499](Video Link)For Dela... ...e you? Would you dispute the home of any of these inventions ?-via Blame It on the Voices
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/25/The-Coolest-Thing-Invented-in-Each-State/(Photo: Morella)British designers Andrew Tan, Ross Malcolm and Jordan Schlipf invented the Morella, a cup holder for umbrellas. It pivots, so that as you turn the umbrella up or down, the drinks stay stable and won't spi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/14/Finally-Cup-Holders-for-Umbrellas/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAhxzpv0GSY](Video Link)With scrap iron, welding equipment and a bit of Russian ingenuity, this man now has a tool to quickly and easily load logs into the back of his truck. All he has to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/12/Clever-Improvised-Log-Loader/
