An “online magazine rack” of popular topics updated every hour. Pick a topic by searching, news category, or name.

News of how animal adaptations inspire invention and innovation.

Tool for storing and retrieving ideas.

Brainstorming process that outlines your challenge, stimulates creative thinking, and collects ideas from participants around the world.

Collection of techniques, software, and training.

Tutorial from the Brainstorming site.

Random Male and Female first and last name pairs.

Helps capture, store, organize and present ideas and information.

A directory of companies from the internet who supply and provide information on puzzles.

Ideation and mind-set breaking techniques.

Fun ways to tap and improve your creativity, increase your creativeness, expand your creative thinking skills, and spark your creativity in 15 minutes.

A list of the best creativity quote pages from quotAmaze.

Alphabetical list of more than 200 techniques categorized and explained on Mycoted site.

Techniques from the Idea Champions.

Collection of tools on goCreate.com

Instant, collaborative brainstorming tool

Displays photographs from places you select on a world map.

Exercises for developing creativity.

Creativity software from Gerald Haman of the Solution People.

List of sites that offer free tools and techniques. On Innovation Tools.

Socially innovative non-technological ideas and projects with £1,000 UK sterling awards annually for the best ideas or projects submitted.

English, computer, dream, and medical dictionaries, plus Thesaurus.

Collaborative problem solving, creativity and idea exchange website. Buy, sell or license inventions, innovations, new products, ideas, intellectual property and patents.

Idea management software.

A bridge between an Idea and a Business Empire.

Social open innovation with a twist.

Audio CDs designed to promote health and mental clarity.

Subscription to a monthly delivery of new and proven innovation tools from Gerald Haman of the Solution People.

The world’s largest website focused on business innovation, creativity, and brainstorming.

A visual idea-development and thinking tool.

Takes inspiration from occupations.

Creative stimulation tool from Gerald Haman of the Solution People.

Online version of the refrigerator kits.

Free online dictionary and thesaurus with a simple interface, complete inflections, auto-suggest, adult-filtering, frequent updates, a browsable index, support for mobile devices, and millions of external reference links for definitions, audio, and etymology.

Real-time brainstorming with mobile access.

Descriptions of a wide range of career skills. Popusp.

Suggests 100 ways to think about naming.

Script Werx customizes Microsoft Word into a versatile tool kit for crafting film and video scripts

Brainstorming software.

Web design and Photoshop tutorials.

Creative stimulation tool for the iPod from Gerald Haman of the Solution People.

A cooperative thinking game.

Classic challenges and riddles on Mycoted site.

Online lesson.

A freely associated stream of consciousness through great creative minds.

From the Brainstorming site.

Rhyming tool with references and definitions

Uses playfully distorted proverbs as prompts.

More books on creativity than you’ll ever be able to read.

Aerobics for your creative side in hypertext.

Lexical reference system and brainstorming aid.

Instructional videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy.

Draws inspiration from advertising slogans.

Asks how famous people might solve your problem.

Software that creates stories for novelists and screenwriters.

Alerts for crime, shopping, events, travel, real estate, jobs, sports.

Plays chords based on numerical input.

Software to improve your capacity to think.

Visual idea generation tool.

Ultra-simple guide, written to show beginners how to set up a website.

Roger von Oech’s deck of cards.

Creates new words to inspire you and challenges you to define them.

Combines word parts and rhymes with your entry.