Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said, "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door." But a California company says that when it achieved that goal and won a patent for a device ...

VENTURA, Calif. -- Bob Noe's idea for a better mousetrap is called the Rat Zapper. Sold under the slogan "The Power Tool for Rodent Control," it is a blue plastic box about the size of a milk carton ...

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 ...