(Photo: Morella)British designers Andrew Tan, Ross Malcolm and Jordan Schlipf invented the Morella, a cup holder for umbrellas. It pivots, so that as you turn the umbrella up or down, the drinks stay stable and won't spi...

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAhxzpv0GSY](Video Link)With scrap iron, welding equipment and a bit of Russian ingenuity, this man now has a tool to quickly and easily load logs into the back of his truck. All he has to...

On Thursday, Google’s Motorola Mobility division filed a patent claim in the U.S. It’s for a very thin electronic device that attaches the skin of a user’s throat—what the inventors call an &ldquo...

(Photo: H-Concept)The Japanese design firm H-Concepts claims to have developed a totally new approach to the traditional umbrella. The Unbrella, as the company calls it, is…well, upside down. The stretchers are on...

(Photo: Discovery Education/3M)Peyton Robertson lives in Florida, America’s hurricane magnet. So he knows how much damage a flood can do and the value of a wall of sandbags when the water rise.Most sandbags used fo...

Automatic upper and lower full mouth toothbrushBat...  ...functions a little easier. He calls his series of inventions "Prototypes." You can find more at the link.They'...

It's like a tricycle, but it has skids instead of rear wheels. In his 1869 book Velocipedes, Bicycles, & Tricycles, the pseudonymous author Velox describes this tragically unpopular invention:The American ice velocip...

Got a hangover? Perhaps you should try this ice ma...  ...problem. WebUrbanist has a great list of idiotic inventions

Think about where your hands have been today. Why would you use them to clean your teeth? This invention by Adel Elseri and Said Fayad abandons the common toothbrush design for a radical new one. The two inventors recent...

What's that smell? It's the smell of refreshing air from the rear end of a cow. Two high school students in Indonesia developed air freshener from a plentiful source of foul odors--cow manure:Dwi Nailul Izzah and Rintya...