Robert Dick’s Glissando Headjoint and Other Inventions

For many composers, synthesizers are last decade. Innovations like the mutantrumpet and the flute with a glissando headjoint are expanding the range of concert sounds.

Mr. Sportsknowitall, 9.5.2010

Dear Mr. Sportssmartiepantalones: American football.Canadian football. Australian football. I'm confused.J.H.

Randy Bartz, Minnesota's goose guru, has spent decades studying and pioneering tricks and gadgets to lure the elusive ...

LOUISBURG, Minn. — Randy Bartz, 70, stood in a dark wheat field, contemplating the desires, foibles and wiliness of the Canada goose.

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Barefoot shoes race the black market

Imagine: You make a really ugly shoe, but one that takes a unique approach to ergonomics. A best-selling book heaps praise on your funny-looking footwear. A scientific study in a national journal confirms your shoe's structural excellence. Athletes go ballistic about your shoe, creating fan websites and buying the shoes faster than you can supply retailers.

How great is the automated lacing system? | Hadley Freeman

Ask me to choose my favourite US TV advertising invention? You can't get more stupid than the automated lacing system As anyone who has ever lost, I don't know, three hours in front of one of those TV channels in the US devoted solely to infomercials knows, Americans are no slouches when it comes to advertising inventions one had heretofore never thought needed inventing. To pick my favourite ...