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INVENTIONS News, Aug 03, 2011 (2)


ALLEN PARK: Create your invention at TechShop
Southgate News Herald
He created TechShop simply because he wanted a place to go to create all of his inventions. Before founding TechShop, he was a BattleBots competitor and former full-time science adviser on the Discovery Channel's hit show “MythBusters. ...
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7 Cool and Strange Inventions So Far this Year
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (blog)
By IMT Staff From digital health care to crime-fighting arm wear, 2011 is shaping up to be a big year for breakthrough inventions. Here we look at some of the more interesting devices grabbing headlines. As in 2010, inventors have been keeping busy ...
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Patentable Subject Matter and the Supreme Court Myriad Preview
Patently-O
Human-Made Inventions: According to the Court, "human-made inventions" sit at the opposite end of the spectrum from products of nature. To be distinguishable from products of nature, a human made invention must be "markedly different" or express ...
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The Octane 120 Beer Arcade Blends Two of Man's Greatest Inventions – Beer and ...
GamerLive.TV
Dream Arcades has crafted the ultimate man cave centerpiece. The Octane 120 Beer Arcade is a sit-down driving arcade simulator that has a beer tap built into its trunk. Under the hood is your choice of a high-end PC packed with racing games like Need ...
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Hands-on: Summer Honors students assist with camp
Indiana State University
Other projects ranged from decoding mysterious messages to building new inventions. One boy rushed up to demonstrate the gravity-defying abilities of his homemade hovercraft. "Look! I can make it fly!" he said. As busy elementary-aged kids, ...
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Personalized Media Communications Receives a Patent for Digital Rights Management
Business Wire (press release)
The '169 patent is based on inventions created in the 1980's. US Patent No. 7992169 has a term of 17 years and will expire on August 2, 2028. This is PMC's 59th issued patent. All of PMC patents have priority dates of either 1981 or 1987. ...
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Author's character meets Hitler
Marion Star
Known for her sometimes bizarre and destructive inventions, Addie was warned, repeatedly, that she was forbidden to invent even one more device, and, yet, it was that one more device that led her to a toe-to-toe meeting with Adolph Hitler. ...
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A Tribute to Cuban Writer Eliseo Alberto 'Lichi' Diego
Huffington Post
I remember some afternoons in his house in Vedado when he would tell us these anecdotes, and we couldn't say precisely whether they were total inventions or whether they might have some smidgen of reality, because this big kid full of laughter delights ...
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Varsity team wins at US expo
Malaysia Star
Inpex is a trade show where numerous inventions, new products and innovations are displayed. It brings inventors and entrepreneurs together with industry representatives in a forum which is considered the largest exhibition in the US.
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OPINION - The Suwannee Scribbler
Branford News
When most folks talk about Edison, the first inventions that come to mind are his light bulb, phonograph or movie camera. In fact, his first patent was actually awarded for a device that automatically counted ballots. ...
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Hellgate Global Client
AusGamers
Available in both third person and first person perspective, this dark world of futuristic demons utilizes random maps and monster inventions during gameplay. Hellgate also offers a choice for players to join other parties in multiplayer mode, ...
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US Supreme Court clarifies ownership of federally funded inventions under the ...
Lexology (registration)
Pursuant to the Act, a contractor (small businesses and not for profit organisations such as universities and research institutions) may elect to retain title to an invention conceived or first actually reduced to practice under a federally funded ...
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New center helps bring medical technology to market
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Ideas for new inventions previously have come from Georgia's universities, medical practices and others groups, but many weren't developed because the ability to build prototypes and other support structures weren't there, and the projects were moved ...
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Opera review: David Robertson conducts 'Wozzeck' in Santa Fe
Los Angeles Times
Each of the 15 scenes is built upon a different musical form -- suite, movements from sonata, march, lullaby, theme and variation, and a devastating series of inventions accompanying Wozzeck's rampage in the last act. Robertson is a detail man, ...
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Doug Ames Atherton
Stockton Record
These inventions revolutionized farming methods in the San Joaquin Valley and the world over. Doug was proud of his strong Stockton family heritage. His grandfather, Warren Atherton, was known as the "father of the GI Bill of Rights". ...
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Novi Resident Shares Quadcopter at Maker Faire
Patch.com
Talked to a lot of good people. Made a lot of good connections.” Merrill said he creates hisinventions just because he enjoys doing it, not for financial gain. He plans to publish the design files for his cell phone remote-start invention for public ...
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Eureka – A new era for scientists and engineers
UC Berkeley (blog)
The combination of Venture Capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great businessinventions of the last 50 years. It provides private funds for untested and unproven technology and entrepreneurs. While most of these investments fail, ...
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YMCA Inspiring Future Scientists and Engineers at the Region's Largest Eco ...
Washington Informer
At the Y's Thingamajig Invention Convention, local youth became eco-friendly innovators, using recycled materials to create a variety of inventions, including a competition for on-the-spot creations! The arena was filled with recyclable robots, ...
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Many enjoy Maker Faire at THF
Dearborn Press and Guide
This weekend marked the second go-round for Maker Faire-Detroit, which featured roughly 1200 makers who were excited to share their ideas and inventions. “It's for folks who like to make things,” says Sherry Huss, Maker-In-Chief. ...
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Dearborn Press and Guide
Samsung considers bid for InterDigital as Apple patent dispute heightens
Apple Insider
InterDigital CEO William Merritt said in April that its patents, which include inventions related to high-speed mobile networks, are "deeper and stronger" than those of Nortel, which recently sold its 6000 patents to Apple and a consortium of companies ...
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2011 National Inventors Hall of Fame
ThomasNet Industrial News Room
"Their ingenuity has transformed the very way we interact with the world, and their patentedinventions have built businesses that have created jobs and inspired new technological development for generations to come."
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Veteran Jazz Stars Shine Veteran Jazz Stars Shine at Newport Jazz Festival
Jazzcorner
The ageless octogenarian pianist/bandleader Randy Weston has orbited all of the jazz and blues-based inventions and dimensions of the African Diaspora for more than six decades. Though born in "The Village of Brooklyn," Weston is a proud global citizen ...
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The 10 Googlers Facebook Needs To Poach To Beat Google In Search
Business Insider
Then they narrowed the patents to search inventions; they found 1254 of them by 485 people. Of those inventors, only 134 had 10 or more patents. They slimmed that group down to people who had filed their patents after 2008, and therefore would soon be ...
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Business Insider
Aim High, Lift Others Higher
Huffington Post
Our campuses are the breeding ground for new ideas and inventions that shape the world. If I were to summarize what Morehouse has taught me in my two years there, it would be to aim high and to lift others higher.
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Breast cancer gene patent reinstated
New Scientist
In a ruling last March, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York declared the patents invalid because they describe genes found in nature, which cannot be patented as they are not inventions. Last week, the Court of Appeals for the ...
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Talkin' Turkey in Holmdel
Patch.com
Sliced turkey between bread is one of the modern man's best inventions, especially when it has the perfect amount of mayonnaise. Patch's Scott Greenberg purchased turkey sandwiches in several delis in the Holmdel area in an effort to see which ones ...
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Business Ebook of Talk Radio Shows Marks 200th Entry
Online PR News (press release)
The Business Ebook covers workplace issues, innovation, entrepreneurship, business strategies, careers, banking and finance, small business, sales, home-based businesses, customer service, investments, inventions, insurance, green business economics, ...
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Great expectations
Business Times - Malaysia
Having an alliance with museums, gardens, inventions, and arts may not appeal to the youth as they have a thirst for 'fun and entertainment' that needs to be quenched. A 'Sunday school' environment already exists in the homes, therefore, ...
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A prescriptivist confronts Twitter — and blinks
Scholars and Rogues
So it's my prescriptivism versus their linguistic inventions and generational conventions. John Gross, controversial Niagara Falls contractor, was back in federal court this morning on 2 fel. chgs. He faces up to 23 yrs in jail. “2“? Instead of “two“? ...
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Will Agent Orange Hurt the US–South Korea Military Alliance?
TIME
(Read about Agent Orange and 49 other bad inventions.) This rural town in southeastern South Korea is witnessing the most recent eruption over the US military's possible storage and disposal of Agent Orange more than 30 years ago. ...
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A honey of a good time
Brookings Register
Adee Honey Farms' parade entry incorporates this year's theme, “The Roaring '20s,” by featuring yellow and black flappers and gangsters, plus a number of inventions from the 1920s. - “Them Guys” provide music in the park during the burger feed. ...
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Reinventing the American Dream, Abroad!
Uncommon Wisdom Daily
They also provide the innovation that has created some of the world's most important inventions, such as electric light, computers, space travel, medical advances, entertainment, and on and on. The achievements and the contributions Americans have made ...
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Moonwalk or cakewalk: Which leap will you make?
East Valley Tribune
If the focus shifted from Twinkies to inventions? From advertising gimmicks to curing cancer? From vapid television shows to a garden? We wouldn't flounder in self-pity. We wouldn't eat to obesity. We wouldn't sit so long that our bodies became ...
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Seminar unites science & business
Times of India
If a bill similar to the Bayh Dole Act in the US encouraging research institutions to collaborate with industry is tabled in the Monsoon session of Parliament, I hope you will be ready to commercialize your inventions," Mitra told scientists present. ...
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Potential Consequences Had The U.S. Defaulted
San Francisco Chronicle
Patents for high tech inventions and copyrights for computer software applications, may not come as frequently as they did when these sectors were powerful drivers of a booming economy. Much needed infrastructure repair and rebuilding will of necessity ...
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Smart Girls Invade St. Louis -- Teaching Conservatives to "Fight Like a Girl"
Riverfront Times (blog)
​And of course St. Louisan Phyllis Schlafly was there, delivering her own patented brand of anti-feminism, crediting wonderful, time-saving inventions such as the washing machine for improving the lot of the modern woman. (God bless the Kitchen Aid ...
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Riverfront Times (blog)
US Companies Race to Provide Clean Water in Africa
Voice of America
That is another race which is on, involving many different inventions trying to turn any dubious water into drinkable water. Eugene Cloete has been developing one of these efforts in South Africa at the Water Institute of Stellenbosch University. ...
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Heart pump goes wireless, and UPMC's part of it
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
(Tesla, who worked for Thomas Edison and later George Westinghouse, developed the alternating current system and patented more than 700 inventions.) Although devices such as implantable pacemakers and insulin pumps work on internal batteries, ...
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New Drug Made From Herb, Naturally
Wall Street Journal
But Mr. Jiang said companies like Simcere are few in China, making the nation far from being recognized as a global innovator in the pharmaceutical industry because inventions are largely limited to modifications to existing medicines. ...
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Xilinx Honors LabVIEW FPGA Innovation Award Winners at NIWeek Graphical System ...
PR Newswire (press release)
"Tonight we celebrate all of the talented engineering teams who submitted inventions that tapped into the power of programmable logic. I'm especially proud to honor this year's LabVIEW FPGA award recipients from the Max Planck Florida Institute and ...
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Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere debate the fate of the book
Straight.com
Early on, Eco makes a captivating argument that the book, in its simplicity, is one of our essential inventions, so fully self-contained that it's beyond technological improvement. “The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel,” he ...
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Straight.com
Film File - Captain America
Meath Chronicle
Despite his obvious physical frailty - one of the film's clever inventions - his obvious spunk to do battle marks him out from the common herd. Tired of continual rejections at recruiting stations, he takes one last shot while out on the town with his ...
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A Poet, an Archbishop, and a Prime Minister's Wife
Country Life
He wrote a number of books, including The Prevention of Poverty (1674) and A Model Government (1678) and was responsible for a number of patents for inventions, including a spinning engine in 1678. Richard and Mary Haines lived at West Wantley for 30 ...
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'America's Got Talent' 2011 - Kinetic King Runs into Kinks on Season 6
Gather.com
At least that was the plan as designed by this nerdy quarter-finalist from Minneapolis who had made it a long way with his many inventions as seen on the NBC talent show. But sadly, for Fort and for the America's Got Talent audience, this crazy-making ...
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Perl: The Essential Extravagance of Art
New Republic
... English brand of anti-abstract modernism, but also Alex Steinweiss, the graphic designer who revolutionized the packaging of 78 rpm records in the 1940s and whose witty visual inventions have a secure if small place in the mid-century imagination. ...
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New Republic
How my life would change without the worldwide web
Spalding Today
The internet has infiltrated every aspect of our lives; whether or not you agree its advent is for better or worse, but one thing is for sure – the web is one of, if not the most, important inventions of the 20th century. So how could we ever manage ...
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Spalding Today
InventHelp Client Patents “Bumper Sticker Holder” – Invention ...
By ABMN Staff
InventHelp Client Patents “Bumper Sticker Holder” - Invention Could Serve as an Alternative Automotive Accessory Pittsburgh-based InventHelp® attempts...
American Banking News
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Be Wary of Ill-Intentioned Invention Promoters - BBB News Center
Every year, thousands of promising inventors attempt to patent and market their ideas to the public, turning to invention promoters, but BBB warns that not ...
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RI man sentenced to 16 years in invention scam - Yahoo! News
Read 'RI man sentenced to 16 years in invention scam' on Yahoo! News. A former Rhode Island art dealer has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for duping ...
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