COVER FEATURES
Impact Partners
IPWatchdog celebrates its silver anniversary as the gold standard for patent advocacy and intellectual property news BY REID CREAGER On
James Dyson Award 2024 U.S. Winners
2 UCLA students win for vaporizer to help overcome nicotine addiction One size fits all is not proving a successful
Street Smart
Former college roommates parlay inner-circle coolness into hot hip-hop jewelry brand BY ALYSON DUTCH What is it about fandom that
Pretty Resilient
Cara Brzezicki has created to help people all her life, and nothing’s going to stop her now. “She said it was the most stupid invention she had ever seen.”—A product development executive’s critique of the Flusher Blocker.
Nutty About Putty
The creative tsunami behind the desk toy and stress reliever Thinking Putty—and founder of Crazy Aaron’s, a physical and online wonderland of goopy, slimy stuff and special dough to captivate and engage the senses—is a software engineer-turned inventor/entrepreneur with a child’s energy, curiosity and vision who employs hundreds of developmentally disabled people.
Power Surge
As women entrepreneurs explode in numbers, groups build strength via networking and innovation. When Melissa Barker was a little girl, she knew marketing was going to be her career. She might not have known she was going be part of a revolution.