Tag: inventions
Dyson's Top 10 Best Inventions: Bagless, 'Ballbarrow', boats and more!
James Dyson is a British engineering legend. A graduate of two of the UK's most prestigious design schools (Byam Shaw School of Art – now part of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design – and The Royal College…
What will Dyson launch next week? Motors? Cars? Irons???
They've re-invented the vacuum cleaner, the hand dryer, the heater and the fan, and now Dyson have announced a trio of brand new products to launch next week. But what will they be? Details are scarce. We've just been…
Introducing…The Tech Digest Tech Timeline Project!
If you're a regular Tech Digest reader, you may have noticed that we've been a little bit quiet over the last few days. That's because we've been secretly working away on a new feature that we're excited to reveal to…
RIP: Super Glue inventor Harry W. Coover, aged 94
Harry W. Coover, the inventor of the ingenius adhesive Super Glue, has died aged 94 of congestive heart failure. Coover, who held over 460 patents, first discovered the recipe for the sticky substance in 1942 whilst working on plastic gun…
Microsoft and BT to sponsor up-and-coming software authors
Microsoft and British Telecom have launched an initiative that should help turn the ideas of bright technology students into working, commercial products. The 2007 Imagine Cup Innovation Accelerator will see six student teams from six countries participate in an intensive…
