The 10 most influential consumer and home inventors

Post-it Notes became a durable everyday tool and one of the United States’ bestselling office products.

The Dual Cyclone system is documented as a foundational consumer-vacuum technology.

Fiftieth-anniversary coverage documents the Rubik’s Cube’s continuing cultural prominence.

The K-Cup made pod-based single-serve coffee a mainstream appliance format with billions of portions sold annually.

Nespresso established a premium capsule-coffee system copied across the single-serve market.

Roomba made autonomous floor cleaning a mass consumer category, selling tens of millions of units.

More than 100 million George Foreman Grills were sold, making it one of the defining countertop appliances of its era.

Scrub Daddy reached more than $1 billion in sponge sales.

The Geox sole technology grew from a five-person venture into a global footwear business employing more than 5,000 people.

Good Grips brought universal design into mass-market kitchenware and entered MoMA’s permanent collection.