This blog is dedicated to inventors and their inventions. We will have posts on how to be more creative, help with patents, cool and not so cool inventions and inventor spotlights. The invention spotlight is your chance to promote a product that you invented. We’ll provide a link to your website so readers can learn [...]

I recently met a gentleman named Billy, who 15 years ago had aspirations to be an inventor. Billy had an idea for a product he wanted to take to market. Instead he got taken and was fleeced by a company that claimed they were going to help him get his idea patented. They kept asking [...]

This is one of my favorite quotes to help get me inspired and moving in the right direction. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is debate among scholars (I guess that is what scholars [...]

Have you ever heard the expression, “the ‘good’ is the enemy of the ‘best’”. There are plenty of good things that can be doing right now but I need ask myself is what I’m doing really the best thing? Is what you are doing bringing you closer to your goal or are you putting off [...]

Here’s me in a nutshell. I figured if you are reading my blog, it would be nice to know more about me than can fit in a blogger profile. First some numbers and abbreviations. I have three degrees, AA, BSME and MBA. I’ve worked for three large corporations (10,000-70,000) employees and one company of 500 [...]

Since I was a kid I always wondered how stuff works, what makes things tick. Like the perfectly good telephone I took apart because I thought it was broken … but it wasn’t. Or the working six cylinder engine of my 1966 pick-up truck that I took the cylinder head off so I could see [...]

My last posted ended with me graduating college, finally! So I graduate from the University of Florida (with honors) on a Saturday. The following Monday, I start at Hercules Defense Electronics Systems in Clearwater, Florida. No time to tour Europe and take some time to decompress. BYW, if you never heard of Hercules other than [...]

I was away for three days with no internet. Going through withdrawal but getting better now that I’m blogging. I spent three full days with 18 students, 11-year-old 5th graders, on a class trip to our Nation’s Capital, Washington D.C. It’s been 30 years since my school trip and as an adult and Dad the [...]

I found out about an organization dedicated to designing products for the other 90%. What does the other 90% mean? The other 90% is the percentage of the world’s population living in poverty. In the Western world, we think we are the majority, NEWS FLASH! we’re not. Clean water, shelter, sanitation, food that does not [...]

Do you agree with this? “We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.” -Frank Tibolt Frank Tibolt (1897-1989) was a writer, motivator and success trainer. His most famous work is “A Touch of Greatness” which many in the self-help industry consider as [...]