(Photo: H-Concept)The Japanese design firm H-Concepts claims to have developed a totally new approach to the traditional umbrella. The Unbrella, as the company calls it, is…well, upside down. The stretchers are on...

(Photo: Discovery Education/3M)Peyton Robertson lives in Florida, America’s hurricane magnet. So he knows how much damage a flood can do and the value of a wall of sandbags when the water rise.Most sandbags used fo...

Automatic upper and lower full mouth toothbrushBat...  ...functions a little easier. He calls his series of inventions "Prototypes." You can find more at the link.They'...

It's like a tricycle, but it has skids instead of rear wheels. In his 1869 book Velocipedes, Bicycles, & Tricycles, the pseudonymous author Velox describes this tragically unpopular invention:The American ice velocip...

Got a hangover? Perhaps you should try this ice ma...  ...problem. WebUrbanist has a great list of idiotic inventions

Think about where your hands have been today. Why would you use them to clean your teeth? This invention by Adel Elseri and Said Fayad abandons the common toothbrush design for a radical new one. The two inventors recent...

What's that smell? It's the smell of refreshing air from the rear end of a cow. Two high school students in Indonesia developed air freshener from a plentiful source of foul odors--cow manure:Dwi Nailul Izzah and Rintya...

[http://youtu.be/oTasE9cgAQk] (YouTube link)As if we didn't have enough holidays this week, today is Inventor's Day. Celebrated on different dates in different countries, the date of February 11th was selected in the U.S...

As we near the end of a glorious Movember, remembe...  ...n the old days, moustache engineers devised great inventions to advance facial hair development, such as Louis...  ...d about this and twelve other brilliant moustache inventions at the link. Link -via The Presurfer

In the past few years, you've seen YouTube videos that scare you out of ever buying a pogo stick for the children in your family. They used to jump just a few inches off the ground!But not long ago, three inventors&mdash...