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INVENTIONS News, Aug 06, 2011


Inventions Ahead of Their Time: The Talking Doll
BusinessNewsDaily
It took years to develop a talking doll with that range of vocabulary, but it took even longer from the invention of the talking doll to the release of the first model people were willing to buy. Dolls uttered their very first words sometime in 1888, ...
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BusinessNewsDaily
Pics, Videos Of Inventions That Never Caught On
Post Chronicle
by Jack Ryan Pics and video of inventions that never caught on. Although these kooky concept inventions never caught on, the idea of selling inventions which never saw the light of day is nothing new. Metal detecting Sandals - these sandals use a ...
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Post Chronicle
Patents 'Invent' Problems for Entrepreneurs
WTVC
The world is full of inventions, but nobody knows the frustrations of how inventors got to their place of prominence We found out, it's a long, complicated process, that's wrapped in red tape, and it turns out, red tape was the very thing ones inventor ...
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Baltimore inventor gave hope to those with hip problems
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Collison later worked for NCR and several manufacturing companies before he began designing and building his own automotive inventions. "From 1917 to 1922, John was exhibiting his own engineering brilliance. He invented the Fluid Gasoline Gauge, ...
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Problem Patent Trolls Inspire New Legislation
U.S. Politics Today
Consequently, Lodsys simply owns the patents and demands payment whenever a developer invents an app that may use its technology, even if the other developer came up with the app that uses similar technology by independent invention. ...
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Soapbox: Socialists ignore facts about America's greatness
Hi-Desert Star
Even though we have less than 5 percent of the world's population, we have contributed to more than half of the innovation, patents, new medicines and medical technologies, breakthrough inventions, ie computers, software, and numerous other inventions ...
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Los Baños' 'Wonderama' popularizes science marvels
GMANews.TV
At an exhibit in the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) last July 28 to 30 titled “Wonderama," research, inventions, and products of the foundation were presented in a rather playful manner. According to Roberto P. Cereno, deputy director ...
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USPTO to Hold California Independent Inventors Conference
IPWatchdog.com
One of the most difficult questions in patent law is deciding how closely an invention can be to priorinventions and still be patentable. It's a question that every independent inventor should ask before they file an application. ...
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Remembering Hiroshima
MorungExpress
What terrible things happened in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 66 years back reminds the world of the horrendous consequences of the modern day nuclear wars; an invention of the human mind that could cause not only pain and sufferings to ...
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Stroh violin from 1920s has metal resonator
Windsor Star
As with most new inventions, it was expensive. It cost about $40, in the 1920s, when the average annual wage, in Canada, was about $1800. Modern versions are around and still in use today. Although a great number of Stroh violins were produced in the ...
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Optogenetics and Its Clinical Applications
MedIndia
Recently, research in neurotechnology took up this challenge and came out with some newinventions that could solve many scientific puzzles. Optogenetics is one of them! Optogenetics deals with a toolset of genetically encoded molecules, opsins that, ...
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Top 10 technical innovations of World War 2
Expert Reviews
While the inventions and technological improvements of this war can never be justified against the appalling loss of life, World War II completely shaped the technological world that we live in now. Without this conflict, we simply would not have ...
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Should critical thinking be the focus of education? (Our Turn column)
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
In a country so divided by differing cultures, would we have any culture at all without our inventionsand artistic expression? Another important attribute of critical thinking is it separates humans from machines. We live in an era dominated by ...
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Okene-Abuja road bloodbath: How mum, son perished
Daily Sun
Once again, as the cry rings louder on this dastardly invention, a businessman, Dayo Ogundeji, whose itinerary always involves travelling asked Saturday Sun rhetorically: “Does it mean Nigeria is getting worse by the day with these inventions that have ...
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Takuo 'Tak' Miyagishima Dies at 83
Hollywood Reporter
Miyagishima is credited with many of the ideas and inventions that made Panavision successful; he even designed the iconic Panavision logo itself. In 1999, Miyagishima earned the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation for dedicated service to the Academy ...
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Hollywood Reporter
Of Camels and Queens
Bahamas Tribune
His third invention was a throwaway remark made to Vogue Magazine in July 1958, to the effect that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. I wonder what frustrations he experienced before his other two inventions were launched on unsuspecting ...
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Indian IQ, Again
VDARE.com (blog)
Moreover, Indian historical inventions tend to be rather more esoteric than Chinese historicalinventions. For example, the medieval Chinese had a natural gas drilling and pipeline industry not all that different from the modern natural gas industry. ...
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A medieval outing fit for a king
Boston Globe
One part of the museum showcases some of Hammond's many inventions; the kids were fascinated by a hulking panel of metal, knobs, and labels built into the wall next to an enormous turntable - a prototype of an early stereo system Hammond had created....
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Boston Globe
Ziggy really sang, screwed up eyes...
Winnipeg Free Press
Here, especially, Trynka is a literate and exhaustive guide, detailing Bowie's many musical re-inventions. Whereas the Rolling Stones found their sources in Mississippi bluesmen, Bowie admired Little Richard: not just the festive voice, but the fashion ...
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10-Q: RAMBUS INC
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Monetize: License our patented inventions and technology solutions to customers for use in their semiconductor and system products. As of June 30, 2011, our semiconductor, chip interface, lighting, display and other technologies are covered by ...
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Anecdotes shed light on Boogie Board icon
OCRegister
Kids, chickens, crazy, zillion dollar inventions and riding the wave of life high in the nook of a hot little hook. One of the really open minds and free thinkers that I have ever met in the surfing world and also one of the easiest with a smile.
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International Primary Curriculum finding wider acceptance
Gulf Times
Themes such as time detectives, airports, I'm alive, inventions and machines and global swapshop are being used by teachers as the hook, the learning platform and the 'wrapping paper' in order to excite and engage children. ...
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'Baptism' by Jennifer Hudson to be presented at Red Filter Gallery
Bucks Local News
Experimenting with her artwork by offering insight and awareness about intensely personal experiences, she developed delicate “inventions.” These creations carefully allow environments and characters in her works to speak deeply about the human ...
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How to find hope beyond the gloomy job numbers
Christian Science Monitor
The usual way is to look at material inventions – the light bulb, for example. But new ideas are also possible in other areas, such as how to run a business – eg Wal-Mart – that can also expand wealth and create jobs. Last year, a total of 61900 ...
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Northcliffe -- the Irish press baron who made murdoch look like a wimp
Irish Independent
His first daily newspaper, the Evening News, was filled with sensational stories about crime, sex, gossip and new inventions. He himself went to interview a murderer in prison, noting that he wore red socks. "Crime exclusives are noticed by the public ...
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National business briefs for Aug. 6
Richmond Times Dispatch
Mattel accused Bratz creator Carter Bryant, a former Barbie designer, of being in its employ when he came up with the idea for the dolls and said he broke the terms of his "inventions agreement" by taking it to MGA. Isaac Larian, the chief executive of ...
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Rockin' Rotorua
Malaysia Star
If you're craving some action, just head on to the adventure section of Agrodome where you can jump off, fall from, fly, roll and ride in all sorts of Kiwi inventions. Zorbing is the most popular as everyone seems to want to roll down a hill in an ...
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Malaysia Star
Old, Weird Tech: German Potato Nose-Correcting Contraption
The Atlantic
The Zello was just one of several quirky inventions from German entrepreneur and marketing specialist Leo Maximilan Baginski. Baginski quit his first job following a mercantile apprenticeship to market and sell an all-purpose bottle cap he designed. ...
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The Score: Patent Wars Heat Up, People Really, Really Love Technology
Mobiledia
Smartphones are great inventions, and so is Facebook, but studies like the ones released this week show many people get addicted to the instant gratification that can come from checking their statuses and forget that without real-life interaction, ...
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Mobiledia
Alex Steinweiss
Telegraph.co.uk
But his design never made him rich – although Steinweiss filed a patent, his contract required him to waive all rights to any inventions made while a Columbia employee. As his career progressed he branched out into designing film posters (Casino Royale...
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Telegraph.co.uk
The Week in Uppers
Salon
(NYTimes) Octogenarian George Weiss has been tinkering with inventions for the past 50 years, with limited success, until now. A game he created called "Dabble" is now sold in 50 stores, and won Creative Child Magazine's 2011 Game of the Year Award. ...
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Salon
MTN throws application developers a challenge
Myjoyonline.com
He explains that there is a huge apps developer community out there, but many of their inventionsdo not get wide adoption. “The apps competition we are launching today will therefore give the developer community an alternative, and serve as a ...
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Newport Jazz Festival Saxophone Summit!
Jazzcorner
The Puerto Rican alto saxist Miguel Zenón, a profound and impassioned improviser, whose jazz-laced explorations into the vivid and varied inventions and dimensions of Latin music earned him the prestigious MacArthur Genius Grant in 2008, ...
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The family way
Kidderminster Shuttle
The book is in sections, including Games, Inventions, Missions, Experiments, and Creations. After Anna's dad John sent the ideas to a publisher and they took the book on, the friends had to spend a few months re-writing some of their ideas so they were ...
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Young Inventors Sought; Run for Diabetes; Prevent Suicide
Gazette Chicago
Open to boys and girls ages six through 18, participants create their own original toy or game inventions to be judged by popular vote by the fair's attendees. Winners receive prizes, and toy and game industry representatives will be on hand to provide ...
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Gazette Chicago
Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind
About - News & Issues
There is no straight-line history to water control: it's complex, with starts and stops, with inventionsand reinventions. Water-lifting devices, tunneling to access run off and ground water, gravity and pumping and water mills: all of these are part ...
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Microsoft to hackers: Cash for exploit mitigation inventions ...
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