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To follow up on a previous post requesting feedback on topics and offering to highlight members of the community, I learned of NightHelpWatchers.com.—a company based on an invention by Lisa Charleston. Lisa started NightHelpWatchers.com in 2004 after being laid off from a nursing job in a home-hospice facility. She transitioned into being a stay at [...]

This week’s featured invention is “Skissors”, invented by husband and wife Dawn and Bob Kenny. The Kenny team works with our invention commercialization partner, Invention Home, to help them find marketing/licensing opportunities for their invention. They created, developed, and patented their unique product to assist children with the task of learning how to use and properly hold scissors.
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Skissors integrate finger covers over the holes in the handles of [...]

This week’s featured invention is “Rotatable Pill Splitter”, from inventor Walt Cheney.  Walt works with our invention commercialization partner, Invention Home, to help him find marketing/licensing opportunities for his invention.  Walt created, prototyped, and patented a unique product to ease the task of splitting medications in halves and/or quarters.
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Rotatable Pill Splitter gives individuals a convenient and simple way to halve [...]

This week’s featured invention is “PODillow”, from inventor Anthony Calvert.�
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Anthony works with our invention commercialization partner, Invention Home, to help him find marketing/licensing opportunities for his invention.  Anthony created, prototyped and produced a unique product to address a major “pain in the neck”.
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PODillow is a patent-pending, trademarked product which offers individuals a more comfortable way to lie when catching [...]

Ever call in your spouse, the one without the fear of spiders, to help escort the creepy crawley little monsters outside?
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Inventors Karen Quigg and Anthony Allen have patented a device that could save you arachnophobes countless nights’ sleep and put you in caring control of spider “situations” in your home. They’ve worked closely with our [...]

This week’s featured invention is “Chef-Aid” from independent inventor Annette Johnson, who was tired of messy spoons and spatulas dripping on her rangetop. Goodbye mess, hello to the now patented Chef-Aid.
Annette works with our invention commercialization partner, Invention Home, to help her find marketing/licensing opportunities for her invention.
Chef-Aid, with its unique, patented drain system, is an upright, [...]

This week’s featured invention is “DoubleUps For Beds” from inventor Kevin Robke who uses our invention commercialization partner, Invention Home, to help him find marketing/licensing opportunities for his invention.
Kevin may just have the solution to marital bliss with DoubleUps. As he says, “say goodbye to sheet competition!”
An improvement on traditional sheets, DoubleUps for Beds’ unique [...]

This week’s invention was created by Susan Drexler, who decided she needed a better way to clean up dog messes in the yard.
If you’re tired of stepping in your dog’s “Doodle” or cleaning it up each day with a plastic bag that makes your regular trash can smell, Susan Drexler has the solution - her invention [...]

This week’s featured invention is the “ Dryer Shoe Holder”, which was invented by Richard Jackson, Sr. and Glenda Jackson.   Richard and Glenda have an issued US Utility patent on their invention.�
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Along with the winter comes snow, sleet, slush…and ultimately grimey, muddy shoes.  Dryer Shoe Holder was developed to help consumers launder their tennis shoes, without all that bumping and banging around in the [...]

This week’s featured invention is the “ Expandable Power Strip”, which was invented by Yekusiel Teitelbaum.  Mr. Teitelbaum has an issued US Utility patent on his invention.  �
Most households contain multiple charging devices for cell phones, handheld gaming systems, cameras, MP3 players, etc.  The large plugs are bulky and sometimes prevent adjacent plugs from being used at the same time.  Expandable Power Strip enables the user [...]