Playful Invention Co., a child-oriented tech start-up, was warned that "gender-neutral robotics set" was an oxymoron--but the company is hoping to challenge that notion with its new PicoCricket Kit.

In 2018, New York Times journalist Pagan Kennedy was working on a column about the origin of everyday objects when she became obsessed with finding out who created the rape kit. Rape kits are boxes ...

A rapid prototyping platform called VIK (Voxel Invention Kit) enables makers without engineering expertise to create large-scale interactive devices using a series of reconfigurable electromechanical ...

"I wanted to create an all-in-one kit for dogs that would offer convenient and mess-free feeding/watering and options for urinating/defecating," said an inventor, from Lake City, Fla., "so I invented ...