Inventor Peter Carl GoldmarkDesigning and patenting improvements to existing products can be a huge opportunity, as long as the improvement is substantially better than the original product.You don’t have to start from scratch! According to Smithsonian.com, the “potters wheel” was invented around 3500 B.C. but it wasn’t until 3oo years later that it was adapted to […]

Here at AON Invent, we feel that two things have turned America’s cemeteries into its biggest innovation depository: 1) the fear of failure, and 2) the lack of resources. The trouble is that if you have the idea for a product (and we believe that every person at some point in their life probably comes […]

Idea vs Invention: A while back, we met with a creative, energetic young man who was passionate about an idea that he had for a safety device that could prevent children from drowning. During our consultation, I could tell that he had given a lot of thought to what his invention did in terms of […]

The value of a complaint:When I was fourteen years old growing up in Rolla, Missouri, my orthodontist, Dr. Royce G Thomas, DDS, MS offered me what had to be one of the best jobs any fourteen year-old ever had. I worked in his lab, making plaster models of his patients’ teeth, developing x-rays, and making […]

Advice for Inventors This is an excerpt from an email from a consumer-product designer, who is also a repeat customer of AON Invent. His testimonial offers some great advice for other inventors… “As an inventor myself, I have the advantage of being able to design and engineer my own innovations. That is a big help […]

Two Invention RulesRules were made to be broken, right?  Read on and see if you feel like breaking or keeping these two invention rules. How does one make the inventing process easier? Why does one invent? Wherein does the benefit of the invention lie?Invention is not some magical gift imparted to a few illuminated ones. I […]