The Wright Experience EAA Air Venture
For 100 years, light and invention have gone hand-in-hand. From Orville and Wilbur, to Burt Rutan, American inventors have continued to pioneer new frontiers of flight. Contributing editor Glen Kotapish rapidly takes us through the past 100 years, including a look at Oshkosh - the annual fly-in where innovative pilots and aircraft designers present their latest inventions.

An Interview With Dean Kamen - Inspiring Tomorrow's Inventors Today
You may have already heard of Dean Kamen’s Segway Human Transporter, the two-wheeled gyro-stabilized wonder designed to increase individual mobility. But have you heard of his earlier creation called FIRST?

FIRST (For the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a robotics competition for high school students that is intended to transform education rather than transportation. Teams from different high schools compete against each other by creating robots designed to perform specific tasks. The competition combines high technology and teamwork to make high tech education exciting.

Creating Winning Inventions and Successful New Products
treetlights shining through the puffs of smoke rising from the machinery on your workbench late at night begin to shape the outline of your latest invention. After another sip of 7-11's best coffee, you exclaim "Finished - This one is going to be a winner!

Pigtail Fastener Takes Grand Prize in Nation's Premiere Inventor's
Hammacher Schlemmer, world-renowned retailer of highly-innovative consumer products, and PatentCafe, the world’s leading on-line inventor’s resource, announced that the Pigtail Fastener, invented by Stephan Kuslich, MD and Francis Peterson, has been chosen the grand prize winner in its annual National SEARCH for INVENTION 2002 competition.

Asteroids as Beacons: Improving the Verification of Space Courses
The Earth is sometimes likened to a big ship. If this is so then stony asteroids are the equivalent to dangerous reefs, and icy-stone comets to icebergs. Sometimes they change their drifting courses without warning, or emerge unexpectedly from the depths of space. Perhaps one of them will some day collide with an ocean liner or crash into the earth. Though the risk is low, such a collision could cause catastrophic results with far-reaching outcomes. But the play of waves reflected by rocks could help tackle the potential threat.