No. 1055: A very busy May Day, in which labor leaders organize, AI goes small and the Dark Knight rises
You May: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and not just any Friday but the first Friday of May – the first day of the new month, in fact, as…
Brian Fried
No. 1054: Wishes granted, supplies chained and shrimp scampi’d (check Roget’s … did we just invent a word?)
Whoa there: Welcome to a fast-moving Wednesday, dear readers – a penultimate bow for April, which ends tomorrow, and a busy hump day for everyone on the road to…
U invent, he coaches with AI-powered development tool
By GREGORY ZELLER // He’s baaaaack. Actually, he never left. Brian Fried remains one of the hardest working people in Long Island innovation, a badge of honor he’s worn since…
No. 648: On time travel, inventor mentors and overdue airport arrivals – and mmmmm, brownies!
Stress test: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as the Christmas 2021 countdown continues and we plow through another busy week of socioeconomic innovation. It’s Wednesday, Dec. 8, and there…
Episode 16: Brian Fried – Invention Comprehension
Brian Fried is an inventor in the truest sense. More than just a home-based (and commercially successful) tinkerer with a garage full of exciting contraptions, he has a real dedication…
No. 572: On Catholics, the infamous double helix and Long Island immigration, topped with pistachios
Winter rush: Amazing job, dear readers – five more workdays in the books, bringing us that much closer to socioeconomic greatness and another well-earned weekend. It’s Feb 26 on…
Always-thinking Islander takes Inventors Club national
By GREGORY ZELLER // An inventive thinker with a long track record of commercial success and creative coaching is expanding his mind once again (and maybe yours). Welcome to the…
USPTO, regional forces unite for Long Island inventors
By GREGORY ZELLER // Innovators, assemble – the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office is coming to Long Island. In another bringing-the-mountain-to-Mohammed moment, the USPTO is partnering with Farmingdale State College…
No. 356: Blacks in golf, women in Johns Hopkins and advanced aerospace manufacturing in Riverhead – thank you, veterans
Finishing strong: It’s Friday, dear readers – welcome to the end of another busy week of socioeconomic innovation and related delights. It’s Nov. 9 out there, and if you had…
Makers unite: (Re-)inventor combines creative clubs
By GREGORY ZELLER // And then there was one. And that was the plan all along, according to founder Brian Fried, who has merged the Nassau and Suffolk county inventors…
So, Brian Fried had this idea…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Perhaps Brian Fried should launch the re-inventors club. Boasting many notches on his toolbelt – several inventions, a few commercial scores and a pair of how-to…
Giving high school inventors the business
By GREGORY ZELLER // A sensor-filled table to assist the autistic, an innovative method to save subway stations from storm-surge flooding … no doubt about it, these students were thinking…
Eddie Cross wants to avoid fall cleanup
By GREGORY ZELLER // Eddie Cross got the drop on his first-ever invention 15 years ago, when he took a tumble inside a local bank branch, slipping on a wet…
Prototyping and production, right here on LI
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island tinkerers needn’t look to other domestic regions or overseas when they want to prototype or manufacture their designs – there are Island-based options that…
Collaboration, the mother of invention
By GREGORY ZELLER // Even Brian Fried was impressed. And he holds more than a dozen patents and trademarks. Fried, founder of the Inventors & Entrepreneurs Club of Suffolk County,…