"Invent Help" Invention Newsletter - May 2009

Inventors Wanted for New ABC Reality Show "Shark Tank"

ABC has teamed up with Mark Burnett, producer of the popular television shows Survivor and The Apprentice, for a new series that offers a bailout to struggling entrepreneurs. The network has ordered seven episodes of Burnett's Shark Tank, an adaptation of the U.K. reality hit Dragon's Den, in which eager entrepreneurs present their business ventures to five multimillionaire tycoons.

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Search Engine Inventions Personalize Your Results

We at InventHelp wonder if sorting through search results is really the most effective use of our time. Luckily, some tech-savvy folks agree with us and are working on a slew of new innovations to make web searching quicker and easier!

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What did Marion Donovan use to create the prototype for the disposable diaper?

Marion Donovan, a young mother during the baby boom era, was unhappy with messy cloth diapers that needed to be laundered, so she used a shower curtain to create the "Boater," a plastic covering for cloth diapers. A year later, she added a disposable absorbent material to the Boater design to create the first disposable diaper. Donovan received a negative response from manufacturers, who thought her invention would be too expensive to produce, so she went into business for herself.

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