9 Inventions I Hope to See on Kickstarter in 2017
There is lots of brilliant and crazy stuff on Kickstarter, but for 2017 I want more! Starting with something to pair my socks.
Continue ReadingThere is lots of brilliant and crazy stuff on Kickstarter, but for 2017 I want more! Starting with something to pair my socks.
Continue Reading‘Timeline’ is a cute card game that’s all about getting your dates in a row.
Continue ReadingIn ‘Great Scott!’ the whimsical 19th-century parlour game that never was, players use cards to build ridiculous inventions and explain them to each other.
Continue ReadingDaily #DadJoke for March 30, 2016: On this day in history, the shovel was invented…
Continue ReadingFor those weekend afternoons when your kids come to you, yet again, saying, “Mom, I’m bored,” here are a few new suggestions to give their play some direction.
Continue ReadingTed Brull, a young inventor from Kansas City, has a Kickstarter project to promote his vacuum forming tool.
Continue ReadingLEGO, inspired by a 7th grader who combined his love of LEGO with the genuine desire to do something good for people, issued the Build for Good Challenge to seven companies in Seattle.
Continue ReadingWrite a science-fiction story or comic, or create a new chemistry set. New competitions award your creativity and love of science!
Continue ReadingAlmost a year after a record-setting 50-second flight by the University of Maryland, a team from Canada made a successful claim on the 33-year-old Sikorsky Prize for human-powered helicopter flight. They earned $250,000, thanks to a $34,000 Kickstarter campaign.
Continue ReadingIn this episode, GeekMom Nicole Wakelin gets to do a face-to-face interview with the kids on the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam from Nashua North High School in Nashua, New Hampshire
Continue ReadingFIRST stands for “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology” and is part of Dean Kamen’s mission to promote his own love of science and technology. One of his most well-known efforts is FIRST Lego League, which reaches kids as young as six years old.
Continue ReadingI stopped by the MaKey MaKey booth at Maker Faire on Sunday and was very impressed by what I saw. They appear to have everything needed to make a successful Kickstarter campaign: a cool product, working versions of the product, …
Continue ReadingHey, kids, do you have an idea for a product or an invention that could help people in their daily lives? Then you should check out the Innovation Challenge, a new contest from the Boy Scouts and Edison Nation, the …
Continue ReadingPopular Mechanics’ 5th annual breakthrough awards, held last week, honored 250 technologists, scientists and journalists. The test pilot for Sikorsky’s radical new X2 helicopter rubbed shoulders with astronomers seeking life in other solar systems via the Kepler space telescope, while …
Continue ReadingDo your geeklets have an idea for the next great invention? Well, LEGO is giving out $25,000 in savings bonds to salute kids’ smartest ideas. In honor of National Inventors’ Month, LEGO Systems Inc. today launches its LEGO® CLICK! Awards, …
Continue ReadingThe other day, doing some house-watching for an out-of-town friend, I pulled up to the mailbox so my daughter could reach out from the passenger seat and pick up the mail. The letters had scooted all the way to the …
Continue ReadingSeven-year-old Quaid Guarino has been in the news lately for something we can’t tell you about. Well, sort of. Quaid’s a fascinating kid: he has a budget for LEGO bricks and goes bargain-hunting on eBay, and has built Star Wars …
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