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Simply indespensible for patent-seekers.

Very helpful for negotiating the contract.

Highly regarded.

Good to give you a grasp on the process from a businessman's perspective.

A good grounding in toy inventing for those who know little to start with.

Hard to get (officially out-of-print).

Critics will tell you that this is heavy on generalizations and light on substance, but the author has had major success as an inventor.

Mosely tries to talk sense into upstart inventors.

This book delivers what it promises. It's surprisingly helpful!

This is a helpful primer in marketing for the budding but unconventional businessman.

An informative biography of inventors' patron saint.

An interesting look at how one of America's hottest design firms operates.

A clever, room-by-room look at household inventions.

A treasure trove of back stories about the toys you love!

This text will give you a deeper academic understanding of the product development cycle.

Basic info for beginning inventors.

Bios and fanciful drawings of many of history's great inventors. A wonderful vehicle to foster creativity and confidence in kids!

Bios and fanciful drawings of many of history's great inventors. A wonderful vehicle to foster creativity and confidence in kids!

Bios and fanciful drawings of many of history's great inventors. A wonderful vehicle to foster creativity and confidence in kids!

Don't be turned off by the name! This is an interesting history of products which the "experts" said would never succeed. How wrong they were!

Bios and fanciful drawings of many of history's great inventors. A wonderful vehicle to foster creativity and confidence in kids!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Classic! Fred MacMurray plays the part of the title character, a tinkerer who discovers a mysterious "flying rubber." Flubber, as he names the substance, becomes the source of comedy and ingtrigue, as a nefarious evil-doer played by Keenan Wynn tries to steal it!

Leonardo Dicaprio portrays legendary innovator and eccentric Howard Hughes, founder of both Hughes Aircraft Corporation and TWA, and father of the world's largest functional airplane, derisively nicknamed "The Spruce Goose" by his critics.

Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd star in this unforgettable time-travel trilogy. Lloyd perfects the look and demeanor of a misunderstood genius!

A cult favorite gross-out comedy about two slackers who invent a game which sweeps the country and makes professional athletes out of its inventors. The lesson? Dream big!

Tom Hanks stars in this well-written and acted comedy about a boy who makes a wish to be big. Much to his chagrin, his wish comes true -- overnight!

Jack Black and Ben Stiller play friends and neighbors whose friendship is strained when one of them invents a device which makes him rich overnight. Never to be described as a classic, Envy is diverting nonetheless.

This 1997 remake of "The Absent Minded Professor" stars Robin Williams as the inventor of the world's zaniest substance. Silly special effects!

Moranis is back in this sequel to "Honey I Shrunk the Kids." This time around Moranis' character accidently enlarges his two-year old son to massive proportions. Now the height of Godzilla, his son wreaks havoc on a stunned Las Vegas!

Rick Moranis plays an inventor-dad whose kids zap themselves with an experimental ray gun their dad has been perfecting. Hijinks ensue! A family favorite.

The third time's a charm for Moranis in this direct to video movie. Moranis' absent-minded scientist shinks himself, his wife, and their two friends, leaving the children to their own devices.

Tim Robbins plays a bumbler who makes a meteoric rise from Mail Room to Board Room at Hudsucker Industries, thanks to a Directorial Board who hope to capitalize on the company's planned demise. Little does the Board suspect that their new executive just might save the company with his invention, a thing which looks an awful lot like... a circle. As Robbins' character explains it, "You know, for kids...?"

Join 12-year old Lewis as he travels to the future to meet the family he's always longed for! Lewis, an orphaned inventor, begins to doubt his inventive credentials as invention after invention joins the trash heap. Little does he know that a friend from the future and a mysterious villain are poised to change his life, and erase his doubts!

The sequel to "The Absent Minded Professor." Doesn't live up to the earlier film, but is fun nonetheless.

Jeff Bridges stars in this homage to a great American visionary and fearless entrepreneur, Preston Tucker, who in 1948 gleefully envisioned (and built) the car of the future, only to have his factory shut down by Detroit's Big Three car manufacturers.

This ridiculously inaccurate biography of the father of modern physics will have you in stitches! Yahoo Serious stars as our youthful hero, an ... Ahem... Australian-born genius whose muse leads him to discover just how intoxicating science can be! We won't give away the secret, except to say that Serious' physics centers more around relaxants than relativity. Pure silliness!