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Thanks to the creativity and innovative spirit of Charles Foley, the co-inventor of Twister, who passed away earlier this month, millions of people have had the curse and delight of attempting to contort themselves into awkward and uncomfortable positions while playing the sometimes controversial board game. With the slogan “The Game That Ties You Up …

In a recent UK Telegraph article examining some of the world’s “weird and wonderful” workplaces, reporter Chris Bell ranked eight offices that he found “odder than Google.” The office at the top of Bell’s International List? Our very own creative design facility, Inventionland! Bell compared our creative wonderland to”… the barmy corporate equivalent of The …

On this day in 1968, a patent was granted to a fellow named Fred Schollhammer for a hand-held portable beam generator. We now know that portable beam generator today as a laser, which is an acronym for “Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.” Now, Mr. Schollhammer didn’t invent the laser, in fact there …

As temperatures rise in these summer months, we all know the joy of entering a cool building or store and saying “Ahhhhh, it is air conditioned.”  But as our grandparents are so fond of reminding us, we didn’t always have this comfort. It wasn’t that long ago that it was just hot. Air conditioning, as …

Much of what we do is dictated by where we go on the Internet. We go to Yelp for restaurant information, Fandango for movie listings and Angie’s List for washers and dryers. So what if all this information came to us as we were walking down the street? Brooklyn-based creative agency BREAKFAST NY has harnessed …

While you’re out celebrating our nation’s independence, WOW your friends and family with a few 4th of July fun facts, thanks to this awesome infographic we found on HISTORY’s website: Click on the image to enlarge or visit HISTORY to see the original post. Have a safe and happy 4th! Copyright Davison 2013