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The designs of certain household items seem to work well anywhere at any time. Susan Spencer of "48 Hours" takes a look at one that is timeless: At Tom Parr's Trap History Museum outside Columbus, ...

Taking old ideas and making them better – or at least shinier and more entertainingly complex – is the geek creed, and with that in mind we have quiet admiration for Jake Easton's "Better Mousetrap".

It’s hard not to admire the common house mouse, Mus musculus. Upon setting up a new home, it neatly separates kitchen, bedroom and toilet areas. It has evolved to make its own vitamin C, and it’s ...

AVON — Frank von Holzhausen, the only original founder left at Group 4, chuckles when he admits that from time to time, at a cocktail party, he will say: “I invented the better mousetrap.” He had help ...

If you’ve got a mouse problem, you’ve probably considered all kinds of traps to solve it. Everyone wants to design a better mousetrap, but we all might be a few centuries late. Youtuber Shawn Woods ...

Some of the oldest known mousetraps were catalogued in the late sixteenth century, by Leonard Mascall, the clerk of the kitchen to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Mascall published a series of books on ...

Inventors are always trying to build a better mousetrap. No, really, they are. Take the Rat Zapper Ultra, courtesy of attorney-cum-tinker Bob Noe. Fond of horses and open spaces, Noe long tried to rid ...

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs My mother has a mouse in her home. During a recent phone call, I couldn't get more than two words out before she ...

It’s hard not to admire the common house mouse, Mus musculus. Upon setting up a new home, it neatly separates kitchen, bedroom and toilet areas. It has evolved to make its own vitamin C, and it’s ...