My first patent, which I filed during my time in IBM over the summer of 2005, is now available via Google patent search. It’s pretty dry, but that’s the nature of these things. 
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- Human-Computer Interaction
The history of HCI-- Key people, events and innovations:
- Chindogu Challenge
A Chindogu cannot be for real use. It is fundamental to the spirit of Chindogu that inventions claiming Chindogu status must be, from a practical point of view, (almost) completely useless. If you invent something which turns out to be so handy that you use it all the time, then you have failed to make a Chindogu. Try the Patent Office.
- How to be religious - and enjoy a Shabbat espresso - Haaretz - Israel News
A coffee machine that you can operate on a Saturday morning without violating the sanctity of Shabbat. Alarm systems that neutralize sensors at preset times. A pen with ink that vanishes by itself, so the person can write on Shabbat. All these wonders and much more are the results of clever inventors seeking technological solutions for the shomrei Shabbat (Shabbat observant) to bypass halachic restrictions on what and what may not be done on the Sabbath.
- Can Do - And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog - NYTimes.com
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- Gems of Unnoticed Problems | UI and us
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A great talk from the GEL conference on inventing solutions to problems people don't even realise they have.
- Inventor's 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world's poorest see better | Society | The Guardian
The wearer adjusts a dial on the syringe to add or reduce amount of fluid in the membrane, thus changing the power of the lens. When the wearer is happy with the strength of each lens the membrane is sealed by twisting a small screw, and the syringes removed. The principle is so simple, the team has discovered, that with very little guidance people are perfectly capable of creating glasses to their own prescription.
- As We May Think - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As We May Think is an essay by Vannevar Bush, first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1945. Bush argued that as humans turned from war, scientific efforts should shift from increasing physical abilities to making all previous collected human knowledge more accessible.
- The Straight Dope: In Nintendo's "Duck Hunt," how does the TV know when you've hit a duck?
- Jeff Bezos on the next web innovation | Video on TED.com
Bezos likens the rise of the web to the gold rush, and secondly to electricity, and suggests we are only on the cusp of the innovation that lies ahead.
