Tag Archives: Commercial and Industrial

Tattoo Robot Created By French Designers Makes Its Internet Debut

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Getting a robotic tattoo (image via Vimeo screengrab)Robots are inching their way into our lives. Now there's a machine with a robotic arm that applies simplistic tattoo designs to humans. Find out who's behind it and what the plans are for this futuristic machine and its application as far as commercial use.

Tattoo Robot Created By French Designers Makes Its Internet Debut

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Getting a robotic tattoo (image via Vimeo screengrab)Robots are inching their way into our lives. Now there's a machine with a robotic arm that applies simplistic tattoo designs to humans. Find out who's behind it and what the plans are for this futuristic machine and its application as far as commercial use. (VIMEO)

Serial Inventor Offers Tips & Discounts To InventorSpot Readers

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Serial Inventor Offers Tips & Discounts To InventorSpot ReadersMany inventors fantasize about becoming the next great serial inventor — where they can continuously sell one successful product idea after another. It’s the American dream to create something from nothing, have it resonate with the masses, and then sit back and watch the shekles coming rolling in. Roger Brown is one such inventor who has not only entered that rarefied stratosphere, but has also been reaping the benefits of his creativity for over two decades now.

Repellent Paint Splashes ‘Pee’ Back At Drunken Urinators

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San Francisco has found a way to keep public urination in checkCity leaders in San Francisco have found a way to combat public urination with a new repellent-type paint that makes public pee-ers think twice. The innovative product has seen success around the world at curbing a very real problem with funny, if not disgusting, results.

Epson EcoTank Printers Drop Ink Cartridges For Ink Tanks

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Epson EcoTankIt's really about time: Epson's latest lineup of consumer and business all-in-ones ape the ink systems of large-format printers, snubbing disposable ink cartridges for user-refillable ink tanks. Not only are these much cheaper to refill than your average set of ink cartridges, but they apparently last much longer before you need to top up.

Calling All Garage Inventors! Invent FOR Your Garage

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Keter 7-drawer tool set systemThere are plenty of us around; 'garage' inventors, we are called.  Inventing isn't usually our day job and we may not actually invent or create things in our garages, but prototypes of our ideas abound, and we generally make and store them somewhere in our homes, if we're not lucky enough to have an actual garage.  But let's see if we can invent something for a garage... or other storeroom.

Fujitsu Labs’ Smart Ring Interprets Your Air Writing

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Fujitsu Gesture RingHead-mounted devices like Google Glass may be convenient for some things, but writing stuff down – let alone maneuvering basic UI elements like dialog boxes – isn't one of them. Luckily, Fujitsu are developing a wireless ring that recognizes characters you trace in midair. It's accurate, too... or so the firm claims.

Calling All Inventors! Help Solve A Global Food System Challenge

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Biomimicry Global 2015 Design Challenge

The world's food supply and distribution methods are being challenged by a growing population, climate change, over-cropped soil, chemical contaminants and other environmental factors. The challenges are many and so are the possible efficient solutions, and you are being invited to develop a solution based on one of nature's ways of solving them. Sponsored by the Biomimicry Institute and the Ray C. Anderson Foundation, The Biomimicry Global Design Challenge (BGDC) awaits your solution with a $100,000 "Ray of Hope" prize for the winner and access to the tools you need to get your design manufactured and ready to go to work!