Davison’s Top 5 Holiday Helpers ________________________________________________ Top 5 Must-Have Products For The Holiday Season!  For many of us, the holidays can be the most stressful time of year. This is why we decided to put together our top 5 products to help you through the holiday season!  So, whether you’re preparing for what can feel like an endless number of people at your house this holiday season or if you are looking for ways to de-clutter for the new year, these products might just help you achieve a stress-free holiday.  Let’s check them out!    1. The ..read more

Voting for the US President  started in 1776, the same year the Declaration of Independence was signed. Since that time, it has gone through multiple changes aimed at providing a better, more secure, and more accurate vote count and preserving the integrity of the election. These innovations of the process, equipment, and management of voting have revolutionized the way we select our leaders of this nation. Each innovative step led to the next to take a simple paper ballot system all the way to touch screen voting.  The word ballot comes from the word ball in Italian, ballot, and so ..read more

Society does not progress in a straight line. It makes jumps, leaps, and bounds ever upward.  Society’s goal is to change for the better and, to facilitate that, big changes must be made.  It is not people in positions of power that make these changes, not the rich, nor the most influential.  It is the inventor that provides those changes that lead to the jumps in society’s progress.  Looking over the past 100 years, where would be without the microwave, the smartphone, and the computer just to name a few?  Each of these inventions changed the way people behave.  ..read more

Throughout history women have been critical innovators, artists, creators, influencers, and entrepreneurs. From life rafts to rocket fuel, women have made some ground-breaking discoveries that have translated into amazing things. But, what about the day-to-day? Do women innovators impact our lives? Well, if you use the GPS on your cell phone, turn on your windshield wipers, or have a chocolate chip cookie today, you can thank women innovators for that! But that’s not all female inventors did. Check out a few female inventors that discover a better way ultimately impacting the world as we know ..read more

Patents have long held a distinction in human history, much further back than most realize. Like many aspects of life, it started with our most primal necessity: food. Robin Jacob, a British intellectual property expert, believes the earliest concept of a patent was in 600 BC. A chef had created “some kind of newfangled loaf of bread,” a trend that would spread to 500 BC Sybaris. This was the first case of intellectual property protection- giving chefs the option to keep the recipe for a unique dish to themselves and enjoy the profits alone. A Roman judge in Alexandria, Vitruvius, tried and fo ..read more

Where do some inventors get the inspiration they need in order to revolutionize a product? The simple answer would be nature. Nature has solved most of the problems we face with evolution over the years. While most products change many times between concept and production, occasionally a product makes it all the way to market before it’s changed, looking nothing like the original product. These are just a few examples of how some items we now know and love had a bit of a rocky (and sometimes dangerous) start. Baby in a window cage in the early 1900’s.THE PLAYPEN You’ve probably seen a photo li ..read more

So you’ve decided it’s time to start working on your invention. Maybe you have an idea already in mind, maybe you’re hoping inspiration will strike while you’re working. Either way, before you can build a working model, you need to start with the fundamentals. Here are the building blocks to any great invention. (These are also good things to have on hand when approaching investors!) PENCIL AND PAPER Sketching, detailing, or just taking notes…nothing beats a pencil and paper when you’re first starting out. Any kind of creator, not just inventors, can testify to the usefulness of a blank noteb ..read more

The idea of virtual reality, as we know it, is recent. People living a century ago wouldn’t have any way of picturing headsets capable of reading our movements and translating them into a 3D digital space. But they did have their own version of virtual reality, even if it doesn’t resemble what we imagine today. All these iterations of VR have resulted in huge strides for many industries, especially inventing. View-Masters were predecessors to VR headsets. According to the Virtual Reality Society, the first known example of “creating the illusion that we are somewhere we are not” are panoramic ..read more

For inventors, traditional advertising isn’t always the best option. Commercials are expensive to produce and you buy time for them to run on the air. While you could film and edit them yourself, a subpar commercial will often make your product look terrible. This is why many inventors are turning to social media to promote their creations. The question is: when is the right time to start advertising? Elements of social media. Ideally, you should have a finished version of your product. A prototype could work in a pinch, but only if you’re looking to attract investors. The average consumer wan ..read more

Inventors have a large toolbox filled with different skills and talents, and sketching should be somewhere in the mix. Making quality sketches is a talent, and it’s a talent that all inventors should work on. If the rough drafts of your new product or idea don’t impress, it’s that much harder to get funding or assistance. Here’s the thing: even if you’re convinced that you’re just not genetically pre-disposed to be a good artist, you can improve. Doodling your idea or ideas is a great place to start.WHY IT’S IMPORTANT You may be thinking that your invention idea is enough to sell on its own ev ..read more