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INVENTIONS News, Aug 19, 2011


Inventions: What will we think of next?
Washington Post
Send us your suggestions for other great inventions via Twitter @washpostbiz and we'll add them here. The Falcon HTV-2 is an unmanned, rocket-launched, maneuverable aircraft that glides through the Earth's atmosphere at incredibly fast speeds ...
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Which Canadian invention do you want to see on a stamp?
CBC.ca
The other inventions in the series span the last century. Thomas Ahearn invented the electric oven in 1892. The stamp depicts the original brick electric oven that was touted at the time as hot enough to "roast an ox." Prolific Canadian inventor George ...
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CBC.ca
Creative design for creative museum
Coolum & North Shore News
The Museum of Ideas and Inventions of Barcelona (MIBA), is spread over two floors, connected by this glorious slide. THE brainchild of inventor Pep Torres, the Museum of Ideas and Inventions of Barcelona (MIBA), is spread over two floors, connected by ...
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Canada Post issues BlackBerry stamp, for your less urgent BBMs
Engadget
A bit of an ironic choice, perhaps, considering that it could also be seen as contributing to the decline of the postage stamp itself, but Canada Post acknowledges that the "invention freed information workers from their desks and changed the way the ...
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Tesla, Chicago, and the War of the Currents
WBEZ (blog)
Though not a household name, Tesla's many inventions and his hundreds of patents in areas of electronic and mechanical engineering formed the foundation of the electronic age. He was a pioneer in radio and remote control. A few of his more creative...
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WBEZ (blog)
5 Cebuano students invent 'trashkad' to collect garbage, promote clean env't
Philippine Information Agency
The innovative 'trashkad' is on display at the Ayala Center Cebu as one of the inventions vying for the Student Creative Research Award (Sibol) for College Category for the 2011 Central Visayas Regional Invention Contests and Exnibits. ...
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Violinist who helped spreadSuzuki method in US dies
Tulsa World
Behrend's musical family included an uncle whose inventions led to the development of the phonograph. As a toddler, she tried to enroll herself in violin lessons. Her musical ability earned her a scholarship to New York's prestigious Juilliard School, ...
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Do we need a street address?
Groundviews
Educated at two of the most prestigious universities in the world (Cambridgeand Harvard), he excelled in many different areas of human endeavour: agriculture, aviation, engineering design, inventions, renewable energy technologies and water sports. ...
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Groundviews
Dabble For IPad: 84-year-old Inventor Celebrates His First App Launch
Daily Markets
Weiss finally was able to see one of his inventions brought to market earlier this year when his 'Dabble' board game was produced by Ideas Never Implemented (INI) and picked up for distribution by Barnes & Noble. And now, just a few short months later, ...
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Paul Toback takes softer approach to re-enter fitness business
Chicago Tribune
"Usually what would happen is that the inventions didn't involve natural motion, and people would look silly doing them. One example I've seen a couple of times now are mechanical devices that try to simulate swimming. You've got someone laying there ...
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Chicago Tribune
Pre-Marketing: Why HP is banking on Autonomy
Fortune (blog)
By Dan Primack August 19, 2011: 7:42 AM ET * Tweet of the Day: @cdixon The only thing in the market that seems to be going up is the right to sue other companies over obvious softwareinventions. * Tweet of the Day II: @ComfortablySmug: Happy 50th ...
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Unimas and EPC Synergy aim to give rural folk clean water and sanitation
Malaysia Star
Looked upon as an innovative engineering collaboration, the joint effort will see inventions to provide clean water with sustainable elements, particularly in areas where potable water and electricity supply are not available or lacking. ...
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Tabloid: movie review
Spero News
It was, as one of Mr Morris's interviewees put it, "the perfect tabloid story," and this is borne out by the probability that "sex slave" and "spread-eagled" and "chained" were all most likely journalistic inventions. ...
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Spero News
Nathan Myhrvold: Could this laser zap malaria?
Exchange Morning Post (press release)
Nathan Myhrvold and team's latest inventions -- as brilliant as they are bold -- remind us that the world needs wild creativity to tackle big problems like malaria. And just as that idea sinks in, he rolls out a live demo of a new, mosquito-zapping ...
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Review: Eden for iPhone
iSource
I loved the idea of taking simple bricks and turning them into unique and creative inventions. I spent hours building everything from cars to entire cities. I was happy to find an app that brought back some of those nostalgic feelings of building ...
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An Overview of the PCT International Patent Process
IPWatchdog.com
During prosecution, if the patent office finds earlier inventions (prior art) that are similar to your invention, you and your foreign attorney will need to respond and explain how your invention is different. You can make amendments (within reason) ...
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IPWatchdog.com
From toy to medical gadget
Scope (blog)
This is very cool: An MIT scientist, described as “the MacGyver of medical inventions,” reconfigures toys and other everyday items like bike bumps into medical gadgets that can be used in low-resource areas of the world. CNET blogger Boonsri Dickinson ...
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world's oldest iPhone app designer?
The Next Web
Weiss spent the last fifty years coming up with 80 inventions that never got anywhere. Dabble is now Game of the Year for 2011, and with the help of developers at Flashy Substance and Itch, he's now created an app version of the game which is being ...
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The Next Web
“The Cities” awards: Cleveland Clinic Innovations named The Paragon
MedCity News
In its second decade of existence, CCI spins out more than 200 new inventions per year. Last April, CCI opened the doors to its state-of-the-art, 50000-square-foot Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center on Cedar Avenue, which now hosts 27 ...
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News daughter is undoubtedly a prominent Television show for the majority of
KUsports (blog)
Containers in one of the considerable tools the fact that be construed as the present day'sinventions. Well-liked cases are typically endorsed because of pretty much every perfect and design setter. Artists hold discovered some people weird designs ...
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Castleton artist has a music muse
Northumberland News
27, with a reception from 2 to 4 pm The show, titled 'Diverse Inventions' runs until Oct. 2 at the gallery. An interest in art started in Ms. Osborne's public school years but she was encouraged to study nursing after high school, she said. ...
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Origin of flight dates back to ancient times
Schriever Air Force Base
The invention of kites in China at that time were used in ceremonies and eventually to test the weather, which surpassed the inventions of balloons and gliders. Heron of Alexandria, in the first century, described the construction of a rocket-like ...
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At 101, the PNE still offers good entertainment value
Vancouver Sun
It's easy to forget amid the rides, arcades, concerts and candy floss that the fair was a showcase forinventions as diverse as the rotary telephone and early rocketry, and the precursor of the trade and consumer expositions that now seem to crop up ...
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HTC files new lawsuits against Apple: report
India Infoline.com
... and a ban on the use of three patented technologies by Apple. This is the third case before the ITC in which Apple is infringing company's intellectual property. Apple needs to stop its infringement of company's patented inventions in its products. ...
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An idea clicks at 2 am - how to grill without the burn
TriValley Central
So Nabors has a lot riding on his invention. And he's invested heavily hoping to get it on the shelves of hardware stores and home and appliance centers. That investment — paid to a company that specializes in marketing inventions — has added up to ...
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Bendigo inventors show their talents
Bendigo Advertiser
Bendigo Inventor steering committee chairman Herbert Hermens said the second year of the awards had demonstrated inventions benefited from the advice of experts and past winners. City of Greater Bendigo business development manager Peter Jeffrey said ...
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Darpa's Expensive Sci-Fi Projects from the Future
The Atlantic Wire
Designed to enable soldiers to carry loads of 200 pounds or more over long distances, the hydraulic-powered robotic addition was named one of the best inventions of 2010 by Time Magazine. Insect Cyborgs - Darpa's been working on tiny drones that ...
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The Atlantic Wire
New investment club sets out to create jobs in Dallas' southern sector
Pegasus News
bSecurity Systems LLC, founded by Dallas inventor Ray de Beasley, has been called one of the most innovative inventions designed to help protect people's social security numbers. It has the potential to create more than 200000 jobs and estimates that ...
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Phineas & Ferb The Movie: Across The 2nd Dimension
West End Word
8 Deleted Scenes - "Mysterious Force," "Doof's Lair," "Vanessa Meets Doof," "Blimp Ride," "Memory Wipe," "Danville Newscast," "Inventions Revealed" and " Robot Riot Extended." • Animatin' Music Video - a behind-the-scenes music video performance by ...
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Madison Born Dentist had Impact on Civil War
Madison County Courier
His inventions would earn him international acclaim in places like Prussia and Sweden. Maynard died in Washington, DC, May 4, 1891, and is buried in Congressional Cemetery. His impact on American history is twofold, something very difficult to do. ...
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Madison County Courier
Fantasia 2011: Short Film Highlights
FANGORIA
For its pervasive horror, structure of infantile exploration, tackling of themes of morbid, deathly and self-sacrificing curiosity as well as its unbelievable visual bravura—known monstrous elements colliding with pure inventions, in a beautiful blue, ...
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'Meg'-nolia: Meghan Linsey Shares Her Hair-Care Secrets
The Boot
TREsemme dry shampoo -- I think dry shampoo may be one of the best inventions in the last few years! Especially, living on a bus most of the time! I use it in between washes. It soaks up the oil and gives you that "just washed" look. ...
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'Golden' Lambs Farm celebrates the '60s
Chicago Sun-Times
The free exhibit showcases 11 inventions — on loan from the Tesla Museum in Belgrade — created by the Serbian-American engineer for whom the all-electric Tesla vehicle (also on display at the southeast end of Dock Street) is named. ...
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QR codes come to campus sites
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
Scanned with a smartphone, the codes play short videos about UI discoveries, inventions and accomplishments. And for the next couple of weeks, the Alma Mater has her own sign and QR code. The new QR reader project cost the campus less than $100, ...
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'One Day': A Stutter-Stop Affair to Forget
Wall Street Journal
A work of fiction, Mr. Féret's film is ardent in its inventions, modest in scale, playful in its speculations about Nannerl's influence on her brother's music, and graced by the filmmaker's daughter, Marie Féret, in the title role. ...
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The Next Big Tech Thing Has Already Been Done
PSFK
A pioneer in computer graphics who is now a principal researcher at Microsoft, he thinks paradigm-busting inventions are easy to see coming because they're already lying there, close at hand. “Anything that's going to have an impact over the next ...
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PSFK
Ear Muffs And Four Other Great Kid Inventions
Ear muffs are already a cool invention, so is the braille alphabet and the flat- bottomed shopping bag. ... weird-news?2. The Huffington Post ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../5-great-inventions-made-by-kids...
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