I wish I had been there, in the late 1930s, when Sister Rosetta Tharpe first plugged her guitar into her little transistor ...

James Bruton, who builds all of his inventions in a secret location in Hampshire, used to work in IT and was a toy maker ...

"I wanted to create a lifelike decoy for waterfowl hunters that would better mimic the quacks and mating calls of live ducks," said an inventor, from Jamaica, N.Y., "so I invented the TRAITOR. My ...