Dear Readers,

This is not the normal sort of thing I post on Inventricity but it will affect the site for a while so please bear with me.

Last month I was given the news we all dread.  My Doctor matter-of-factly informed me that – ‘Yes, Mr. Wardell, you do have cancer’...

 When, in Victorian England, Colin Pullinger invented his 'Perpetual' mousetrap he wasn't kidding!  Now, some 155 years later, an example of his invention is on display at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) and still living up to its name.  Museum staff were supri...

Time is short - only two weeks to go!  The EPO is seeking nominations for the prestigious European Inventor Awards.  The competition is open to inventors from all over the world - as long as they hold a European Patent.

If you know of an inventor deserving of rec...

The European Patent Office (EPO) has a slick promotional team well versed in the art of social media.  Recently they've been tweeting, amongst other things, the above image of a cartoon from their 'Seven Deadly Sins of the Inventor' advice page.  This cartoon, number f...

A British invention, the Real-Time Anti-Poaching Intelligence Device (RAPID), hopes to help halt the dreadful predation of rhinoceroses by poachers.  To satisfy the deluded belief that there is some magical medicinal power to be found in rhino horn (made of keratin, li...

"The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do" – Steve Jobs

I’m always blown away by the realisation that every time I look around me I’m surrounded by objects and things that someone invented.  Seriously, everything.

I’m not jus...

The European Inventor Awards were announced yesterday in Paris.  Winner of the Popular Prize (from a 32% share voted by some 47,000 of you) is Australia's Ian Frazer and the late Jian Zhou, from China, for their invention of the world's first vaccine against cervical c...

 We’ve been hearing about self-repairing materials for some time now and every year a new breakthrough is trumpeted.  Tomorrow it’s the turn of Professor Duncan Wass, Bristol University School of Chemistry, who will address The Royal Society’s scientific discussion mee...

A spin-off company from Tel Aviv University, Unispectral Technologies, promises to unveil their prototype ‘Tricorder’ this month.  They claim to have developed very powerful optical lens and image processing software that can transform a smartphone into a hyperspectral...

Ever since the 18th century, when Volta and Galvani were doing unspeakable things to frogs legs, inventors have been on the quest to improve the humble battery.  At present there is a huge amount of effort and expenditure being channelled into research and development...