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INVENTIONS News, Aug 18, 2011


'Made in Canada' inventions like RIM's BlackBerry celebrated on new stamps
Vancouver Sun
Canada Post has put the ubiquitous smartphone on a stamp, as part of a new series of stamps released Wednesday that feature four Canadian inventions. The other three Canadian creations are the electric oven, the electric wheelchair and the cardiac ...
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DOST 2 to conduct regional invention contest
Philippine Information Agency
by Purita S. Licas TUGUEGARAO CITY, August 18 (PIA) -- The regional office of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) will conduct its search for the 2011 Best Invention at the Mall of the Valley here on September 12-16. ...
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New Life Saving Medical Invention Announced by Perry Felix
PR Newswire (press release)
17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A businessman from Texas has invented a miraculous new medical laser machine haled as one of the most important medical inventions and scientific advancements in modern history. The miraculous machine uses laser light energy to ...
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New Invention The Last Straw in the Fight Against Date Rape Crime
Online News Heard Now
When it comes to new inventions in the fight against crime, scientists have come up with a straw that detects date rape drugs. Date rape drugs are drugs that render a person unconscious thereby allowing other people to take advantage of them. ...
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Online News Heard Now
NewProductHelp.com to Represent Martinez Headset Invention to Potential Licensees
TMC Net
By Anshu Shrivastava, TMCnet Contributor Inventor Blanca Martinez has contracted inventionassistance provider NewProductHelp.com to represent her Martinez Headset invention to potential licensees over the next two years. ...
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Portrait of a visionary
Winnipeg Free Press
The craftsmen have so far tackled about 130 of the inventions -- from a bicycle and a car to a chamber of mirrors. They have produced multiple copies so Grande Exhibitions can have four versions of Da Vinci -- The Genius touring simultaneously. ...
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Father of Invention: Kevin Spacey Reinvents
Movie Fanatic
Father of Invention is a new comedy starring Kevin Spacey and Anchor Bay Films has released a new poster and trailer. Kevin Spacey stars in Father of Invention with an ensemble cast that includes Heather Graham, Camilla Belle, Johnny Knoxville, ...
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Rhinestone Bra Straps Win NY Invention Contest (Congratulations Inventors ...
Gothamist
They chose that invention to bring to the big show, over their others: the Automatic Doggie Doo Doo Collector and the Flexible Window Washer. Other inventionsincluded a "Girl on the Go" portable changing room, and the Fun Sponge, which helps keep ...
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Gothamist
Peddling to new heights of innovation
Independent Online
Picture: Henk Kruger It is a popular misperception that the wheel is one of humankind's earliest inventions, like the first controlled use of fire (about 1.8 million years ago), first tools (1 million years), plough (75 000 years), musical instruments ...
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Independent Online
10 Inventors Who Were Killed By Their Own Inventions
Business Insider
Some inventions change the course of human history -- and some backfire terribly -- relegating their creators to the Wikipedia pages and Darwin Awards of our time. Here are 10 stories of inventors who should have stayed in bed the day they tried to ...
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Business Insider
Is Apple's Steve Jobs the Thomas Edison of Our Era?
International Business Times
The iPad: How Did We Live Without It? The above inventions are more than enough for one lifetime, but of course Jobs' next invention, the iPad, would further cement his status as a transformative figure of our time. The iPad has brough us that much ...
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International Business Times
George C. Devol, 99, self-taught tinkerer who invented robotic arm
Washington Post
In 2005, Popular Mechanics magazine named the robotic arm one of the top 50 inventions of the past 50 years, along with the jet airliner and the television remote control. Mr. Devol was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame this year. ...
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Govt molds 'technopreneurs' to propel growing economy
Jakarta Post
BPPT technology chamber (I-tech) marketing division head Sulhaji Jompa said anyone could proposeinventions to the agency, and the office would research to determine if the invention would be useful to society. “If we approve it, we will help find ...
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Students invent waste carrier
Inquirer.net
The tricycle fitted with a plastic container is one of the inventions showcased in the 2011 Central Visayas Regional Invention Contests and Exhibits organized by the Department of Science and Technology. The trashsikad container has three compartments ...
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Scrapyard alchemy on The Science Channel
South Coast Today
Folks appear on “JUNKies” (10 pm, Science) to consult salvage “genius” Jimmy Ruocco in Freeport, NY, and find the missing parts to their mad inventions. In the debut, a welding artist and his free spirit sidekick come in search of a key ingredient to ...
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Rural report Western Plains and Central West, Thursday, August 18th, 2011
ABC Online
"It was a great opportunity for the little guys to show their inventions off to the world. "Australian farmers are great innovators, often through necessity; they get badly squeezed by droughts." Australian Apple and Pear growers have lost the battle ...
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Descended From Apes, Acting As Slime Molds: Nathan Myhrvold
Bloomberg
By Nathan Myhrvold Thu Aug 18 00:00:51 GMT 2011 Comments Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief strategist and chief technology officer at Microsoft, is the founder of Intellectual Ventures, a company that funds, creates and commercializes inventions. ...
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Student briefs
Clinton News
Rachel chose to study inventions. In this curriculum, she created her own invention and learned how to market it. For more information about the program, visit the website at www.usm.edu/gifted or call 601-266-5236. Frank R. Hensley is joining the ...
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Local inventor lands on Sundance reality show
Bizjournals.com (blog)
Through that process, called influencing in Quirky parlance, Zabinski said she has made $5000 off the site that she puts back into her own inventions. So far, Zabinski's Ventu has 281 units presold, at $49.99 each. The goal toward production is 1800 ...
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Unsocial media
Stabroek News
By Stabroek staff | 0 Comments | Editorial | Thursday, August 18, 2011 History is replete with examples of inventions that ought to have been used specifically for the betterment of mankind being hijacked, misused and abused. ...
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Fancy of field days picks up TV inventor gong
Land
One of the TV show's judges, agricultural scientist, Chris Russell, described the Swing Gate as the “invention of all inventions”. It beat a subsurface salt water irrigation tape system, developed by the University of Sydney, and a laminated timber ...
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Students can gain competitive edge with new University of Akron program
NewsNet5.com
UA's School of Law has created a joint Juris Doctor (JD) and master of laws program (LMM) in Intellectual Property (IP), or creations of the mind: Inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, images and designs used in commerce. ...
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NewsNet5.com
Giving it away at Angel Stadium
Sacramento Bee
Call them what you want - bazookas, muskets - the wide-mouthed guns used to zing T-shirts into the stands are one of America's greatest inventions, along with Weber grills and the telephone, not merely life-altering advances but social achievements ...
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Foreign investor: 'Come to respect and love China'
China Daily
In more than a millennium from the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) to the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), Chinese science and technology took the lead in the world, and contributed greatly to the progress of the human civilization with inventions such as of compass ...
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Another Earth
Artvoice
by M. Faust Fans of the genre will tell you that the best science fiction is never about spaceships or robots or impossible inventions, but about human concerns brought into focus by fantastical plot contrivances. In the case of this independent film, ...
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CANADA IN BRIEF
TheChronicleHerald.ca
The stamp is one of four being released to recognize Canadian inventions. The three others recognize the electric oven, the electric wheelchair and the cardiac pacemaker. WINNIPEG — A longtime volunteer with Scouts Canada has been accused of sexually ...
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Zapatera HS students present alternative cure for gallstones
Sun.Star
"In Cebu, most of the inventors look to (creating products based on) the demand of the market and most inventions are for the furniture business," he said. The winners of the exhibitors' competition, which is organized by the Department of Science and ...
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Letters: Voluntary pay cuts
Longview Daily News
Economic decisions are based on government directives and capable individuals are not free to develop inventions, industries or jobs. This reduced productive involvement results in limited job creation and slows growth. The free market system pays ...
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Government releases Shs 14b for agriculture
Daily Monitor
“The money will be channelled through Naads to make timely inventions in either seed promotion extension to make them available to farmers,” Mr Buchanayandi said during a seed forum at the Ministry headquarters in Entebbe early this week. ...
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On Black Pepper, Green Energy and New Ways of Doing Things
Huffington Post (blog)
So who's going to build the crazy new inventions that bring the efficiency and performance improvements that really change the renewables market? The same sort of people that built the telecom and Web booms: startups. Renewable energy is the new ...
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Suven Life gets four patents for new chemical entities
Moneycontrol.com
Products out of these inventions may be out-licensed at various phases of clinical development like at phase I or phase II, it said. The company has 12 internally developed therapeutic drug candidates currently in pre-clinical stage of development ...
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Moneycontrol.com
Indo-China Case Study on Regulatory Challenges
JD Supra (press release)
Invention refers to the act of devising or fabricating a novel process, product, or service, including initial conception, but not the act of putting it to use. Inventions are protected by patents, which may be licensed or assigned, and may further be ...
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Apple, Nokia show continued interest in InterDigital patents
Apple Insider
Companies in the wireless industry are interested in securing those inventions as patent infringement lawsuits involving all of the major industry players continue to mount. Sources also reportedly said it's unknown whether Google will remain in ...
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Fact or Fiction: science survey discovers interesting results
Nine to Five
They were then asked to identify what inventions they would like to see in the future, providing results that confirmed that the lines between Science Fiction and fact remain extremely blurred. It was found that 76.1% of us incorrectly believe in life ...
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Nine to Five
Opinion: Don't tinker with first-to-invent
Newsday (subscription)
The first-to-invent rule gives these individuals a reasonable time to perfect theirinventions without risking the loss of their patent rights by filing second. And yet its protections are equally available to both large and small entities. ...
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Newsday (subscription)
Microsoft's Greninger builds nuclear reactor with students
TECH.BLORGE.com
Some may have workshops and a few have led to great inventions. Bill Gates started Microsoft in a garage. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple in a garage. Now a Microsoft project manager has built a nuclear reactor in a garage with the help of ...
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TECH.BLORGE.com

Jamaica Gleaner News - China, the mother of world-changing ...
One significant invention was paper. It is recorded that about 40 BC, ... These two inventions were to be matched by the discoveries of Gutenberg in the ...
mobile.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110814/arts/arts2.php
Canada Post honours BlackBerry, other Canadian inventions | LATEST ...
Canada Post has put the ubiquitous smartphone on a stamp, as part of a new series of stamps released Wednesday that feature four Canadian inventions....
www.headlinenewsonline.com/.../canada-post-honours-blackb...


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