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Lowell Martinson is an Ahwatukee, Arizona resident who has been handed an opportunity of a lifetime. Martinson, who has invented the ScopeOut safety mirror, has been invited to show his ScopeOut product on the popular national television program, The Home Shopping Network.

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Hey everyone at Shop4Patents.com!

This week’s audio tip from Stephen Key and Andrew Krauss of www.inventRight.com asks and answers the question . . .

I hear you talking about selling benefits quite often. What do you mean by that and why is it so important inventors focus on selling benefits?

Please use the comments section below to comment on this audio. Stephen and Andrew will be checking in and respond to the comments made below.

This weekly inventing audio tip is courtesy of Stephen Key and Andrew Krauss of http://www.inventRight.com.

An inventor from the Midwest community of Rock County invented a device which ultimately saved his own home. Stacey Babiarz invented a machine that can fill sandbags in seconds. The device can fill a sandbox in one minute. And when recent flood waters threatened his own home Stacey Babiarz used his machine to save his home as well as the homes of his neighbors.

Babiarz was inspired to invent his sandbag filling machine, which is called the Bucket Bagger, while watching news reports on Hurricane Katrina. After watching the reports of people trying to keep flood waters out with the use of sandbags, Babiarz set out to find a mechanized, portable and affordable way to efficiently fill sandbags.

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A college student Yao, from Shanghai has created lamps that not only saves energy but also transforms.

Man kind is now very well aware of the importance of natural resources and therefore is looking-out for new ways of saving energy. In their surge for conserving electricity, most of the scientists have invented various devices that can help in saving electricity, but are not fully successful in launching those devices due to some drawbacks in their technology or prevailing market conditions.

But a college student Yao, from Shanghai has created lamps that not only saves energy but also transforms. The lamp is given a shape of a smiley face as can be seen in the picture. These lamps are designed in a way that people can also play with them by making the smiley face bigger or smaller in size. The more you expand the lamp shade the more light it will provide and vice-versa.

In one contest organized by a lightning company named as Philips Lamp Contest 2008, for developing innovative designs and technologies, Yao, a student at East China Normal University, participated and had won the first prize. Yao Yi’s lamp illuminates using more than 40 LED lights, which are cooler than traditional bulbs. Energy experts say LED lights use about a tenth of the power that old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs need. They’re even more efficient than the “green” compact flourescent bulbs, with LED lights using one-third of the power. They also said that the technology is also exceptional in the sense as it saves the expenses and the amount of work that will need to be done.

Yao said that he only needs to work with the builders and designers before launching it in the market for up gradations.

2008 DIT Inventor’s Competition Cultivates Young Inventors

The 2008 Inventor’s Competition, held by DIT set out to inspire young inventors to pursue new realms of invention. The DIT inventor’s competition has been described as the incubation program hot house for up-and-coming inventors. The theme for this year’s competition was taken from Alan Kay, the famous computer scientist, who stated that the best way to predict the future was to invent it. (more…)

Keith M: “…Then I found Invent Right…..I now have two more products going to market in 2008, “Pool Rockets” & the “BarknBat”. I currently have various new products being reviewed by 26 different companies. Now, it is not a matter of if,…its only a when.”

Independent Inventors Conference Set for August 8-9

Registration Now Open

It will be held on the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)’s campus in Alexandria, Virginia during August 8-9.

 A pre-conference workshop,

Anyone interested in learning about the basics of patents and the importance of intellectual property protection, will be able to attent a pre-conference workshop to be held on August 7 from 5 to 7 p.m. The workshop is for beginners and is a good foundation for the conference.

To learn more about this event please visit http://www.uspto.gov/main/homepagenews/2008jun26.htm

Attention all Inventors,

ICKC’s 3rd Annual National Invention Contest

August 12, 2008

Sponsored by Faultless Starch/ Bon Ami/ Garden Weasel

Submission Deadline: July 8^th

Inventors are invited to submit their US Patented or Patent Pending products for a chance to win the opportunity to have their consumer product marketed and sold in retail stores.

submit asap…. Only 20 invention spots are available. All product submissions will be reviewed and screened by the ICKC Board of Directors and 20 inventors will be selected to present their products to Faultless, owner of Bon Ami, Garden Weasel & Trapp Candle. Fore more info go to: www.inventorsclubofkc.org

The world consumes 86 million barrels of oil each day and the price of gas is at an average of $4 a gallon. Although the dream answer would be to find an alternative to oil, we know that we are years away from that type of technology. So the oil industry and inventors around the world are searching for ways to increase oil products. (more…)

Two very different inventors are each developing headgear that is intended to be used with various Apple iPod products. One of the inventors is Aaron M. Phillips who is from Granite Bay, California. Mr. Phillips’s headgear invention is intended to be used to accommodate the iPod Nano or Shuffle. The headgear is expected to appeal to the athlete who is used to wearing caps or headbands.

The second inventor is Marcio Mar Abreu who is from North Haven, Connecticut, and his invention is much more complex. (more…)