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Women Inventors Who Changed the World

Dec 8, 2022 | Inventing

Women Inventors Do you know how many women inventors have changed the world? As you sip your morning coffee you probably don’t give any thought as to how the actual process of coffee brewing came to be. If it wasn’t for a frustrated housewife in Dresden, Germany, you...

The Future of Hospitality

Dec 4, 2022 | futurism, Innovation

It's nice to see after 2 years of being couped up that people are involved in the hospitality industry again. According to Wikipedia, "The hospitality industry is a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes lodging, food and drink service,...

Inventor of the Shopping Cart

Dec 3, 2022 | inventors

Smart businesses are always trying to figure out how to get their customers to buy more. So was the case with the inventor of the shopping cart, Sylvan Goldman. He was the owner of the Humpy Dumpty supermarket chain in Oklahoma City. The struggling supermarket chain...

5 Major Benefits of Hiring an Innovation Keynote Speaker

Nov 28, 2022 | Innovation

In today's uber-competitive environment innovation is more important than ever. If you're not innovating your competitor is and you will fall behind. Customers, even your best ones, can fall prey to the "shiny new thing syndrome". If you're not innovating you're not...

Inventor of the Electric Guitar

Oct 12, 2022 | inventions, inventors

Blues legend B.B. King loved his electric guitar so much he risked his life to save it in a fire. Afterwards he named all of his guitars Lucille. We can't imagine blues or rock without the electric guitar. But who was the inventor of the electric guitar? Like many...

Accidental Innovation – Cheese

Oct 5, 2022 | inventions

If it wasn't for an Arab merchant traveling through the desert I wouldn't be able to enjoy my favorite food - pizza. Or at least that's how one story goes. Invention of cheese Ancient Greek mythology gave the credit for the invention of cheese to Aristaeus. In Homer's...

Invention of the Nail

Oct 3, 2022 | inventions

Anybody who has accidentally struck a nail the wrong way and smashed their finger might have cursed them. But nails are one of the most important inventions we have. They are used in construction to build homes, (the average house uses between 20,000-30,000) by...

Inventor of Dental Floss

Sep 19, 2022 | inventors

I'm sure your dentist has lectured you about flossing. But a US dentist Levi Spear Parmly went a step further with his patients. He is the inventor of dental floss. His invention started after he was shocked at how bad his patients' teeth had become. He encouraged his...

Disruption in the Travel Industry

Sep 5, 2022 | disruption

Disruption in the travel industry was never so glaring as it was in 2020 when the whole world shut down because of Covid. According to the World Tourism and Travel Council's Economic Impact Report, the travel industry suffered a whopping $4.5 trillion dollar loss in...