Inventors

Dezso Molnar is living his childhood dream, travelling America and the world as a wandering inventor. He’s in the process of starting up a flying car racing league, into which he’ll enter his own flying motorcycle.

Many great inventions throughout history were initially scoffed at before they went on to take the world by storm. That's not a likely scenario when it comes to the following list of oddball contraptions ... but you never know.

Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano at the University of Nagoya, and Shuji Nakamura working at Nichia Chemicals in Tokushima, Japan have been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention of the blue LED, which is the key to modern energy-efficient lighting.

Virgin Media Business has announced the winners of its inaugural Three New Things competition. The contest was launched as part of the company's search to uncover new technologies that have the potential to change the way we live. This year's winning tech includes shoes, solar power and satellites.

In April, General Electric’s opened its patent vault to the crowdsourcing company Quirky. On Monday, the fruits of that partnership were apparent as the first four products under the joint Wink brand were unveiled.

A US team from the University of Pennsylvania has taken out the 2013 James Dyson Award with the Titan Arm, an upper body exoskeleton that augments human strength. The team will receive the £30,000 (US$48,260) first prize, with an additional £10,000 (US$16,100) for their university.

This year, James Dyson has 20 finalists from which to select the 2013 James Dyson Award winner. And like previous years, it looks like being no easy task. Here are the entries still in the running for the first place prize that has been upped to £30,000 (US$48,500) for 2013.

Douglas Engelbart, who introduced the world to the computer mouse in 1968, has died aged 88.

Seventy years to the day since the Dambusters raid, Gizmag talks to the Science Museum's Dr. Andrew Nahum about the life and works of Barnes Wallis.

A selection of the noteworthy projects successfully crowd-funded on the Kickstarter website in 2012.

Dan Watson has taken out the 2012 James Dyson Award with his SafetyNet system that lets juvenile and non-target fish escape commercial fishing nets.

We take a look at the 15 projects still in the running to claim a slice of the £20,000+ (US$32,385+) prize pool up for grabs in the 2012 James Dyson Award.