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INVENTIONS News, Aug 12, 2011


Muslim Inventions Dazzle California
Onislam.net
CAIRO – Discovering a neglected part in the history of mankind, California students visiting “1001 Inventions” exhibition for Islam's early contributions to science were introduced to the historically missed golden age of Muslim civilization that paved ...
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FATHER OF INVENTION Trailer
Collider.com
by Jason Barr Posted:August 11th, 2011 at 6:03 pm A promotional onslaught is in effect for director Trent Cooper's comedy Father of Invention as a new trailer, poster, and a slew of new images from the film have gone online. ...
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The Truth About Patents -- They're Worth Saving
San Francisco Chronicle
In all the talk, it's easy to lose sight of what patents actually do: they force inventors to disclose information about an invention to the public. In exchange, they get a time-limited monopoly on thatinvention. The end result is MORE innovation, ...
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Stuff Top 10: Inventions you never knew you needed
Stuff.co.nz
They're the small, quirky objects that while at first you think 'that's ridiculous' - you ultimately end up purchasing them, using them and loving them. We've derived a top 10 list of small, novel items that have made life a bit easier. ...
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Science Comes Alive At Camp Invention
Garden City News
The excitement was palpable as dozens of young inventor scientists excitedly scurried between work stations, pieces of duct tape at the ready, testing and re-testing their robots, aqueducts, and rolling ball machines for Camp Invention's Inventors' ...
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RIT inventors display today
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
More than 100 Rochester Institute of Technology undergraduate students will show off theirinventions and research today at RIT's annual Student Research and Innovation Symposium. On display will be a variety of student inventions that are being ...
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Camp Invention Sparks Creativity
Patch.com
By Jennifer Tornopsky Mt. Pleasant Teacher Theresa Galati helps students create their Rube Goldberg machines in Edison's Workshop At West Orange's Camp Invention, 100 West Orange elementary students are learning how to make inventions of their own. ...
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Useless inventions
Patheos
By Fred Clark, August 11, 2011 10:49 am Somewhere out there, the next Thomas Edison is perspiring toward some great new invention — some ingeniusly clever New Thing that will prove to be indispensably useful and will launch the next great industry,...
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Kids play with innovation at camp
Juneau Empire
“We're working on different animals and how they innovate inventions.” One day they learned about the fire beetle and how it sees infrared. Another focused on the iron-plated snail, which was discovered 12 years ago. The shell helps protect it against ...
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Schools digest for Aug. 18, 2011
Niles Herald-Spectator
Resurrection hosted the Camp Invention SPARK Program, sponsored by Invent Now Kids, a subsidiary of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation. Camp Invention is a hands-on camp program that explores science applications through inventions, ...
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Ladies and gentlemen, leave the drying to us
Catskill Daily Mail
By Doron Tyler Antrim SOUTH CAIRO — On the long list of inventions that have made domestic life easier — the refrigerator, vacuum cleaner, dishwasher — Susan Schieren's creation isn't near the top. Nevertheless, it has a quality shared among all ...
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NASA's "next big thing" could actually be small
Orlando Sentinel
If these fantastic, futuristic ideas are to be turned into inventions, it will happen in Pasadena and La CaƱada Flintridge, home to one of the greatest concentrations of scientific minds in the world. This week NASA awarded $100000 grants to four Jet ...
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Mom turns entrepreneur with redesign of product ages old
News Transcript
A ll inventions have room for improvement. Millstone Township's Jessica Mashkevich has always had a mind for making everyday things work better to suit her lifestyle. As a wife and a mother of two active children in a household with pets where there is ...
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The Rootkit War Has Begun
pc1news
It is established that cyber criminals are not only developing new computer infections and improving their previous inventions, but they are also trying to gain advantages over other hackers. Furthermore, developers of computer viruses even use them ...
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Software Is Just Math. Really.
Forbes
Look a little closer and it's easy to see that the boundaries between “just math” and “patentableinvention” are pretty fuzzy. Every invention is “just math” when it comes right down to it — traditional mechanical inventions are really just the ...
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Cavewoman comic Tiffany Stevenson returns to the Edinburgh Fringe.
stv.tv
"The other thing I look at is inventions and innovations and how obviously we've evolved - we've moved forward because we have all of these great inventions. But when, actually, you look at the need behind them it's quite primal. ...
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Quirky gift ideas for dad
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
These new and funky inventions from around the world are sure to get the kids thinking of out-of-the-box ways to spoil dad this year. The latest, greatest flavour from Chuao Chocolatier, as unveiled at the 57th annual Summer Fancy Food Show, is, ...
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Universities' Licensing Activity Held Its Own in 2010, Survey Finds
Inside Higher Ed
The number of new US patent applications filed by the institutions in the AUTM survey soared to 12281 in in 2010, from 8364 in 2009; the number of patents issued also rose, and licensed technologies and inventions at the surveyed institutions produced ...
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Boomer Talk: Ruled by technology
The Daily News of Newburyport
Some of us, already mature adults, readily adopted the new technology and continue to crave all the latest inventions guaranteed to speed up our lives and make us better able to respond immediately to any outside message. Others were dragged into this ...
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'French Cinema' Is a Tangled, Rumpled Jumble of a History
PopMatters
Never mind that in explaining the basics of the inventions – that Edison's camera was heavy and cumbersome and the LumiĆØre's lightweight and portable – Drazin has already rationally explained how they came to radically different visual approaches. ...
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Gulf News readers
gulfnews.com
There are countless recipes and inventions that form the basis or cultures across the world and have blended into different cultures as a result of war and trade. It is extremely ignorant of a person of authority to rob their society of something ...
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Remembering Les Paul
antiMUSIC.com (blog)
Busy with ideas, busy with inventions, busy with improvements. And Les Paul's hands and mind stayed in near-constant motion from the day he was given his first harmonica until his final Monday night performance at New York's Iridium Jazz Club in June ...
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Elements are in fashion at Lake Forest's J. Crew store
Lake Forester
Like most great inventions, the table is as simple as it is useful. Mendeleev arranged the elements in a grid where each element in a horizontal row has a higher atomic weight than the one on the left. Vertically, he grouped the elements by their ...
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Ludus Baroque, Canongate Kirk
Herald Scotland
... to be heard in the course of the evening, to the flourishes of the final Grand Chorus, which needed fewer than 20 alert voices to make its effect, the performance conducted by Richard Neville-Towle said much for Handel's illustrative inventions. ...
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Tullamore Show at 20
Offaly Express
These range from a flower show, dog show, horse and pony jumping and showing, vintage show, livestock, home industries, inventions, fashion, performing arts, and the best horticultural show in Ireland. At the livestock end of things, the AIB National ...
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e.Digital Announces First Quarter Results
MarketWatch (press release)
Digital's ideas and inventions have impacted the evolution of consumer products. Today, e.Digital innovations, including its Flash-R(TM) portfolio of flash memory-related patents, are essential to many portable consumer electronic products. ...
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'Final Destination 5' review: Fatal attraction
San Francisco Chronicle
Inventions like the light bulb and the phonograph are a lot easier to respect, but there is a place for more humble creations, like the Frappuccino and the "Final Destination" series, which do absolutely nothing except liven up the day.
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CONTOUR DESIGN, INC. v. CHANCE MOLD STEEL COMPANY, LTD.
Leagle.com
After identifying the "Product" as inventions, designs, methods and related information concerning computer mouse products, Section 1 of the NDA precludes Chance from disclosing, using, or copying Contour's "Confidential Information," and Section 3 of ...
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St. Jude Inventor to Head U's Device Innovation Pgm.
Twin Cities Business (blog)
Since the Innovation Fellows Program launched in fall 2008, its fellows have filed inventiondisclosures on more than 30 new medical device concepts. Two start-up companies have been launched based on their inventions—Minneapolis-based Labyrinth ...
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This Week's Calendar: Aug. 12 - Aug. 18
Tico Times
21, venues throughout country, download full program here 21st Credomatic Music Festival program “Da Vinci: The Genius”: Traveling exhibit of 200 replicas of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions, drawings and paintings, tours guided by European art curators,...
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Social Innovation: See What I See...
Justmeans
Adlens has been selected as a finalist in the Asian Innovation Awards 2011; an awards system that is committed to finding the next big ideas in Asia, from entirely new inventions to the advancement of a classic. I want to end with this last commercial ...
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Damballa Principal Scientist to Present at USENIX Security Symposium
Business Wire (press release)
Kopis is one of two recent inventions from Damballa Labs, the research and threat intelligence arm of Damballa, and can detect emerging cyber threats many weeks or months before the initial malware samples are discovered by the security community.
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Google claims Microsoft improperly showed Android code to expert
Computerworld
"Motorola needs to stop its infringement of our patented inventions in its Android smartphones." Yesterday's move by Google was little more than delaying tactic, said patent activist and analyst Florian Mueller today. Mueller writes the FOSS Patents ...
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Weld County teachers awarded grant from Community Foundation
Greeley Tribune
»Diane Odbert, Knowledge Quest Academy — for the implementation of a mechanical engineering “inventions” elective. »Sarah Pentzer, Harold S. Winograd K-8 School — to provide instruments for all sixth grade students to participate in band or orchestra ...
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1 lakh laptops to be distributed among high achievers: CM
Frontier Post
... been completed transparently in a record period of time and now lakhs of boy and girl students from Attock to Rahim Yar Khan are benefiting from modern technology and gaining latest information about the changing world scenario and new inventions. ...
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Barefoot With Beer: 2005 Interview Reveals CEO's ...
Huffington Post
"He felt quite strongly that what he would do with his life was come up with lots of cool ideas andinventions and launch them, then get other people to run them for him. He viewed himself more as an inventor than a manager." So how did Zuckerberg go ...
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Computicket celebrates its 40th Birthday
Artslink.co.za News (press release)
The concept of 'Computicket' was among the top 10 Great South African Inventions Exhibitions held in Cape Town and the 'Computer Week' honoured him as the first business visionary in SA to recognise an opportunity arising from Networking Technology. ...
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How Mitt Romney Outlived His Greatest Weakness
The Plank on TNR.com (blog)
Romney's public record may be the mother of all re-inventions, but the standard attack lines are growing stale, partly because they were all used during the 2008 campaign. Is there a new put-down that any Republican can come up with about Romney's ...
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iPad vs Galaxy: Should designs be protected?
Jerusalem Post
Unlike inventions and creations, designs usually do not cost a fortune and they are easy to invent around. But the combination of qualities makes design a good candidate for protection. Apple puts more emphasis on design, compared with technological ...
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Petro unveils 'Enterprise University' plan
Cincinnati.com
One example: UC generated only $480602 in royalty income from its researchers' inventions last year. By doing things faster it can dramatically increase that amount, Petro and the colleges argue. The plan would free all of the universities from more ...
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Plastic bags and their history
The Downey Patriot
Well, in the United States, paper grocery bags had evolved from patented inventions beginning prior to the Civil War, and these square-bottomed pleated bags became normative with the proliferation of supermarkets in the 1920's and 30's. ...
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When Startups Fail, Investors Recoup by Selling Patents
Wired News (blog)
(I worry that posing a hurdle like this would be “solved” by companies doing the bare minimum to qualify as “practicing,” whether through clever accounting or creating Intellectual Ventures-style showrooms for inventions that will never be brought to ...
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Wired News (blog)
Thomson Reuters Provides Insight Into Emerging Market Innovation With New DWPI ...
Sacramento Bee
DWPI contains more than 20 million unique inventions covering 45.2 million individual patents and is used globally by thousands of organizations and 36 patent offices, making it the world's most trusted and authoritative patent database. ...
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InventHelp Client Patents “Gift Wrap Cutter” – Invention Could ...
By ABMN Staff
InventHelp Client Patents “Gift Wrap Cutter” - Invention Could Offer Efficient Solution for Wrapping Gifts Pittsburgh-based InventHelp® attempts to...
American Banking News
American Girls Sweep Google Science Fair! | Davison Inventions Blog
By peggy
The other winning projects dealt with the effects of air quality on lungs, and reducing cancer-causing compounds produced by the grilling of meat (news: lemon juice and brown sugar marinades – good; soy sauce marinade – not so good!) ...
Big Ideas & Inventions | News & Resources | Armstrong Teasdale
Big Ideas & Inventions. 08.08.11 ... Home · People · News & Resources · Press Releases · Client Alerts · Articles · Events · Recent Advertisements ...
www.armstrongteasdale.com/big-ideas--inventions-08-08-2011/
Columbus Local News: Region > Schools > Camp Invention gets kids ...
Camp Invention began Monday, Aug. 1, and runs through Friday, Aug. ... In no way do they represent the view of Suburban News Publications. ...
www.columbuslocalnews.com/.../allghinven_20110803_0326...
Top 5 Accidental Inventions | Intellectual Property News
Top 5 Accidental Inventions. Wilson Greatbatch, Alexander Fleming, William Perkin, Henri Becquerel, Leo Hendrik Baekeland,
www.svw.co.za/blog/top-5-accidental-inventions.html
Photos: Underwater inventions | Juneau Empire - Alaska's Capital ...
Juneau Empire - Alaska's Capital City Online Newspaper. Site ... Photos: Underwater inventions. Posted: August 7, 2011 - 8:40pm. Photos. Back | Next ...
juneauempire.com/local/2011.../photos-underwater-inventions
Inventions, utility solutions - Information and News
Inventions, utility solutions Information and News Intellectual Property.
tuvankhanhhoa.com.vn/.../inventions-utility-solutions.html

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