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"Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world," the inventor Elon Musk likes to tell students.

Every modern household needs a second husband - a practical man who can take care of any mechanical or structural failure around the home that is beyond the ken of the actual husband.

The history of process improvement is more interesting than you might think, and it also reveals some of the cornerstones of modern process-improvement practices.

Often thought of as the center of the home, the kitchen island is a recent invention that is now a feature in about 50 percent of new homes.

It's hard to know how to describe the Maker Faire , the two-day "festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness" that's taking over the San Mateo Event Center this weekend.

When Noam Kedem was strolling around the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, he was struck by the fact that business seemed to slow down every afternoon.

Another day, another batch of geeky Facebook Timeline covers. Unlike the others, however, these five examples think outside the box, and we don't mean the stuff Amazon ships your goodies in.

Since 2008 the majority of U.S. patents have been awarded to non-residents. This pattern marks a renewed contribution of foreign inventors in recent years.

Dr. Brady Frank Dentist has been recognized by many dentists in the past for his contributions to the field, namely through his revolutionary techniques and willingness to teach his methods to others.

Quirky.com is a site where people with invention ideas can go to turn concepts into tangible realities.

Quirky.com is a site where people with invention ideas can go to turn concepts into tangible realities.

The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress and profits are forever around the next bend.

This article arises from Future Tense , a collaboration of Slate , the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels helped several young entrepreneurs sell lemonade at the Statehouse Friday afternoon in an effort to increase entrepreneurship.

A Holistic hula-hoops, robotic dogs, science geeks and craft enthusiasts are all descending on San Mateo this weekend for the 2012 Maker Faire at the San Mateo County Event Center.

She has worked at three start-ups, a consulting firm, an investment bank, a disaster recovery firm at Ground Zero, and The Economist .

As part of Gawker's ongoing effort to keep readers apprised of innovation in the underwear supplement industry may I now present Camelflage , "the original visual privacy undergarment" for eliminating camel toe with a labia-obscuring insert.

Life isn't going to just hand you a flame-throwing metal robot with a giant tool that looks like a chain saw mounted on it -- you will have to make your own.

But doesn't inventing in this day and age take all kinds of advanced technical knowledge? Well, with MaKey MaKey, all you need is a pair of thumbs, a preexisting webpage or computer program, and some imagination.

Policies buried in college student handbooks are being cited by universities asserting that they are due a cut of the profits from inventions conceived on campus.