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For those of you who follow the blog, you may or may not know, but this design blog is authored from Inventionland. Well, Inventionland has gone big time and will be airing as the newest reality TV show on the History Channel Saturday the 24th at noon. So check your local listings and see the world’s most creative workplace, on TV!

History Channel – Check Your Local Listings:

* DirecTV, Channel 269
* Dish Network, Channel 120
* DSTV, Channel 254
* Verizon FiOS, Channel 128 (SD), Channel 628 (HD)
* Time Warner Cable, Channel 40
* Comcast, Varies by Area (75 in parts of Pittsburgh)

Peel, julienne and grate with these hand-held kitchen gadgets. Or maybe a negi cutter better suites your need for thin slicing.

These 7 things were featured in an article for having one thing in common: all were invented by children!  Louis Braille, blinded at the age of 3, set out to create a way to read using raised bumps on paper when only 15 years old. The popsicle, first known as the Epsicle, was stumbled upon by 11-year-old Frank Epperson after forgetting about his soda on the porch overnight. Click here to read more…

James Dyson is most famous for his vacuum cleaner design, but he also hosts a design challenge that yields very interesting inventions, as you can see from the examples below. Glance at the pictures then take a look at the video demonstrations to see how each design works.

Chance and close observation are sometimes the catalyst to the wonderful inventions we find all around us. Gizmodo recently listed the Top 10 Greatest (accidental) Inventions of All Time. Yes, of course they are, comically, not the greatest of all time, but they certainly include great stories of inventors discovering that what they stumbled upon was more successful than what they had intended on creating.