Innovation and Inventions News

The Walk n Play app allows players to compete in real time with another iPhone user or against a simulator as they go about their daily walking.

Move over, drills, saws, and jackhammers. Now there's something much faster for search-and-rescue missions. And, Homeland Security's new Concrete Buster just won a technology Best-of-the-Year Award from Popular Science.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have set a world record in solar cell efficiency with a photovoltaic device that converts 40.8 percent of the light that hits it into electricity.

Aethlon Hemopurifier[R] is effective in capturing circulating West Nile Virus, Hepititus C, Ebola, and many others.

A team of London scientists have taken a major step in making the use of artificial veins and arteries in coronary bypass grafts a reality.

U.S. patent awards continue to rise sharply, feeding a perception that those laying claim to intellectual property are at an unfair advantage.

Pulp and paper plants in the future may operate at lower energy levels as the result of a new joint technology developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Swagelok Company of Solon, Ohio.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new approach to increasing the capacity and stability of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.

A Queen’s University Computing professor’s invention – to be unveiled today at Google’s corporate headquarters in California – provides a unique, affordable way for advertisers to track the effectiveness of their messages.

Diagnostic 3D ultrasound of fingers could be used for biometric identification based on matching paired images using internal fingerprint structures that would be difficult to fake, offering the possibility of a unique automated fingerprint identification