{"id":5162,"date":"2011-08-22T13:36:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T18:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwp.davison.com\/blog\/?p=5162"},"modified":"2025-04-18T09:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T13:13:37","slug":"inventionland-featured-on-cbs-early-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/inventionland-featured-on-cbs-early-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Factory Featured on CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video\"><iframe title=\"Inventionland turns dreams into retail reality\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/300849359?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Davison&#8217;s Inventionland was viewed by millions of Americans in an outstanding piece on the CBS Early Show!<\/p>\n<p>In the segment, Founder and CEO George Davison takes wide-eyed CBS reporter Taryn Winter Brill through the secret entrance into the facility that, she says, \u201cwould make Willy Wonka jealous.\u201d Brill tells the audience that the one-of-a-kind workspace is \u201can invention in its own right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As he takes her on a tour of &#8220;the world&#8217;s most creative workplace,&#8221; the reporter explains how Inventionland came to be and how products are invented using Davison&#8217;s nine-step method and assembly line approach, which has led to products in over 1,000 different stores!<\/p>\n<p>Jean, inventor of the Meatball Baker, also is featured and shows how the company turned her dream into a reality. The interview with the Minnesota grandmother affirms Davison&#8217;s assertion that the best thing about Inventionland is the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInventionland brings in wonderful people,&#8221; says Davison. &#8220;When they come in, I get to feel the inspiration; I get to see them just light up, and that, to me, is everything because they\u2019re in one of my ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We could go on and on, but the video speaks for itself. View the awesome segment on the CBS Early Show!<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about our Inventionland design facility, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/our-experience\/factory\/\">check out these photos &amp; videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an invention or product idea, <a href=\"\/submitidea.html?campaign_name=blog\">you can submit your idea to Davison for a no-cost consultation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A typical project does not get a royalty agreement, sell in stores or generate a profit.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cbs.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cbs\" width=\"62\" height=\"63\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5195\" \/> Our factory, which \u201chelps wanna-be inventors turn their dreams into retail reality,\u201d was viewed by millions of Americans in an outstanding piece today on the CBS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,160,161],"tags":[158,159,25,34,330,94],"class_list":["post-5162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-davison-news","category-george-davison","category-inventionland","tag-cbs-early-show","tag-davison-design","tag-davison-news","tag-george-m-davison","tag-invention-factory","tag-inventions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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