"Invent Help" Invention Newsletter - January 2009

Tomorrow's Electronics Debut at 2009 Consumer Electronics Show

The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) returned to its Las Vegas stomping grounds this year, full of mind-blowing new gadgets that make tech junkies swoon. Held January 8-11, 2009, this year's show featured nearly 3,000 companies who were hoping that what happens in Vegas won't stay in Vegas!

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What's the Most Annoying Invention of All Time?

It's a scenario that plays out in pubs and bars all over the country and around the world. You sit down at a table just in time to hear the local wannabe pop star step up to the microphone and blare out the lyrics to "I Will Always Love You." That could be why the karaoke machine has been named the most annoying invention of all time by U.K. newspaper The Telegraph.

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What does the invention of White Out® have to do with "The Monkees"?

Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out," the product that later became White Out®. She also had a hand in creating the 60's rock band, "The Monkees." After all, she is Michael Nesmiths's mom. Now we dare you to use White Out® again without thinking "Hey, hey, we're the Monkees – and people say we monkey around"!

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