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INVENTIONS News, Aug 27, 2011




The Associated Press
Quirky is an invention website that takes ideas from its online community and makes them into real consumer products. Ben Kaufman, 24, founded the Manhattan-based Quirky two years ago with the aim of making invention accessible. ...
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The Associated Press
NewProductHelp.com Set to Represent Frugal Water Saver Invention to Potential ...
PR.com (press release)
Miami, FL, August 27, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Timothy L., Ohio resident and inventor, has contracted South Florida invention assistance leader NewProductHelp.com to represent his Frugal Water Saver concept to industry over the next 2 years. ...
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Get to know a real Renaissance man
Winnipeg Free Press
The touring exhibition by an Australian company presents constructions of 65 inventions that Leonardo sketched and described 500 years ago -- from a forerunner of the helicopter to an underwater diving suit -- as well as digital reproductions of his ...
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Islamic Science Rediscovered
San Jose Mercury News
Visitors educated in the Western world will be surprised to learn of discoveries and inventions in the Muslim World which predate by years, sometimes centuries, discoveries thought to be developed in the West. Designed to unearth the scientific ...
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Marvels for all seasons
The Hindu
The robots we see at Tepia, at the centre of technical advancement and inventions, in Tokyo, are not really a cause for surprise. The country that commercialised the transistor radio and the quartz watch cannot but think in terms that push the ...
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The Hindu
Google chief lambasts the UK for its technophobic 'luvvie' culture
The Independent
Mr Schmidt said Britain was "the home of so many media-related inventions", including photography and television. "You invented computers in both concept and practice," he added. "Yet today, none of the world's leading exponents in these fields are ...
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Let luvvie embrace boffin in the digital future
The Guardian (blog)
The UK is the home of so many media-related inventions. You invented photography. You invented TV. You invented computers in both concept and practice. (It's not widely known, but the world's first office computer was built in 1951 by Lyons chain of ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Inventors chosen to represent nation at international event
Taipei Times
Thirty-two inventions were chosen from this year's International Exhibition for Young Inventors (IEYI) and Taiwan Representative Try Out Exhibition, which concluded on Sunday, to represent Taiwan in a competition in Bangkok next year. ...
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Bolivia Mennonites guilty of rape
BBC News
The group follows a strict moral code and rejects modern inventions such as cars and electricity. An eighth man was sentenced to 12-and-a-half years for supplying the sedative used to drug the women. The rapes happened in the Mennonite community of...
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BBC News
Mastering the modern art of fire
Independent Online
Another invention by the prolific Jones was the Jones rotating cowl (1961), the familiar angular black, bird-shaped wind vane on top of many South African chimneys. The cowl prevents rain from falling down the chimney and sucks smoke out of the chimney ...
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Is Steve Jobs Really the One Who is "Dying for Us All"?
Christian Post
That is in no way to demonize the inventions or their benefits, but it does show that even the most “secular” realm of technology is bound up with a particular religious world-view. In contrast to the Gnostic, Buddhist and New Age religions, ...
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Christian Post
Are intellectual property suits stifling 'smart' devices?
The Hindu
He emphasises on the need for reforming the current patent regime, to find alternatives that “challenge the exclusive rights of patents, while allowing patent owners to benefit from reasonable royalties when their inventions are used... without ...
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The Hindu
Roll up the barbed-wire fence, farmers
Winnipeg Free Press
As inventions go, his has stood the test of time remarkably unchanged from its original design. But even though you can still buy barbed wire in the fencing department of farm-supply stores, fencing technology and culture has changed so much it is ...
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Nanotechnology and microscopy lab tours
ABC Online
Ever wondered how scientists and physicists come up with creative and useful inventions? Witness how scientists modify the structure of things on the teeny tiny nano-scale to create new innovative devices. Tours run on the hour from 10am to 3pm, ...
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Lush masterclasses at Westfield London
The Ecologist
... commission tests on animals, so the idea is to showcase the fresh, handmade nature of the Lush products and to talk to the children about the ethical decisions behind the inventions - the intention being that it will be both fun and educational. ...
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The Ecologist
Inventors Share Ideas With Quirky
NY Convergence
NY “social product-development” startup Quirky brings together a community to solve common problems through inventions. They accept submissions for new products from people and gives 30% of direct sales revenue and 10% of indirect sales to the people ...
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ED2011 Exhibitions Review: Left To My Own Devices (New Media Scotland)
ThreeWeeks News
Not your typical gallery, the silence is broken by frenetic irregular melodies, the works are more likeinventions, and interaction is actively encouraged. Whilst conventionally un-artistic, the works displayed do rely on visual or audible immediacy ...
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'Phineas and Ferb the Movie'
Deseret News
It's not the kick-back-and-laugh format that fans of the show are used to, but — like the boys' inventions — it works. The strengths of the show — subtle, smart dialogue with catchy tunes and quirky lyrics — are all here in mass amounts. ...
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Deseret News
Birth of the nerd
Boston Globe
Arnold Zwicky, a linguist at Stanford University, says that whimsical words like nerd “don't necessarily have a historical source of the ordinary sort,” but instead may beinventions drawing on “distant echoes of an assortment of existing words. ...
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Boston Globe
A Sense of Huber: Thoughts from the PGA Fall Expo
PGA.com
Large, well-known exhibitors like PING and Peter Millar and Ashworth shared space with some of my favorite people, the folks with wide-eyed, wild-haired, holy-moley exuberance for their latestinventions. It is one of my favorite parts of both shows, ...
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Model-making youngsters
Weston & Somerset Mercury
Youngsters attending the St Nicholas Chantry Out of School club during the summer holidays had the chance to sort through items of junk to build their own inventions. During a solar model-making workshop at St Nicholas Chantry Primary School they also ...
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Weston & Somerset Mercury
No laughs but plenty of relevance in 'The Trojan Women'
Los Angeles Times
The new adaptation by Jocelyn Clarke, a male dramaturge from Dublin who has worked frequently with SITI, aims to mend Euripidean flaws with fresh inventions. One is a climactic confrontation between Hecuba and Odysseus, whom Euripides had left offstage ...
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Los Angeles Times
Music review: LA Phil with Slatkin, Olga Kern at Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles Times
It was a mischievous account, suiting the composer's witty inventions, and Kern's delivery of the finale's surprisingly quiet coda elicited audible delight from the audience of 7903. A prolonged standing ovation brought Kern back for a single encore: ...
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Los Angeles Times
Invention site Quirky finds Edison in the masses
KIMA CBS 29
By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer Quirky is an invention website that takes ideas from its online community and makes them into real consumer products. Ben Kaufman, 24, founded the Manhattan-based Quirky two years ago with the aim of making ...
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Immigrants from the country of childhood
Salt Lake Tribune
Many of the stories are set amid the 19th century passion for sophisticated mechanical inventionsthat were revolutionizing daily life at the time. But for all the formal and historical erudition here, the stories maintain a saving innocence. ...
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Around The Classical Internet: August 26, 2011
NPR (blog)
Conductor and Bard College President Leon Botstein on Sibelius: "A modernist in traditional musical trappings, a globalist whose work spoke in a nationalist dialect, an innovator whose pleasing tonalities snuck his inventions into the popular ear, ...
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Back to School: 10 Awesome Fall Break Destinations
Huffington Post
And, don't forget to check out one of the south's greatest inventions, the Brew Thru drive through "convenience" store that sells adult beverages in the convenience of your car. Getting there: This one's a bit remote, so it's best to fly to Norfolk ...
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Oldest Utah residents talk history, celebrate long life
Salt Lake Tribune
“World wars, great inventions, athletic records, national achievements. This event and these Utahns inspire me.” McGregor, who has nine grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-granddaughters, was married to his late wife, Hazel, ...
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The value of free market capitalism
Free Malaysia Today
For example, Twitter, Facebook, blog, Ipad, and computer, and similar fine inventions, do not initiate from government bureaucrats, but from free enterprise and the values of entrepreneurship! Once the value of free markets is disrupted by the ...
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Hot Topics: Steve Jobs, the Ultimate Boomer
SecondAct (blog)
Instead, Jobs was the business leader with the imagination and daring to see potential in inventions that didn't yet have a practical application or clear market. But that visionary gift is only part of how Jobs transformed Apple from a Microsoft ...
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SecondAct (blog)
Edible: Mexican Paletas A Spicy, Cool Treat
NY1
But I still want people to experience that, you know the salty, spicy flavoring" Gerson's also makes pops that are purely her inventions, based on what's in season or what she's inspired by. She's made apricot pistachio, candied pumpkin, ...
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NY1
Community Unlimited Campers Made Summer Memories
Battle Creek Enquirer
Afternoons were full of enrichment choices based on weekly themes including: Science, Blast from the Past, Pay it Forward, Sports, Inventions and Culture. Staff member, Teasha McIntosh, spent a great deal of time putting together community resources ...
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Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature: Margaret Atwood Interview, In Which She ...
Huffington Post
Genres, anyway, are inventions of people who need to rank things on bookshelves. Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time. You know that part on the back of the book where it says “Romance,” for example? ...
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At Tourterelle, couple bring taste of northwest France to northwest Vermont
BurlingtonFreePress.com
She also provides more fanciful inventions such as a stand-out peach parfait flavored with ginger and the herbaceous aperitif Lillet and crowned with a buttery caramel mousse. If it's available, pair the framboise lambic beer with your dessert. ...
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Quantum Conundrum announced by Square Enix and Airtight Games
Capsule Computers
In the game you have a genius uncle named Professor Fitz Quadwrangle who is an avid and eccentric inventor, problem is that some of his inventions work too well. Your uncle has been trapped in another dimension and the only way to save him is using his ...
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Reading From Wall Street's Script
CounterPunch
They are based on highly abstract theories – venerable, academic inventions, half misunderstood by those who are applying them today, and based on assumptions which are contrary to the facts…Our main task, therefore, will be to confirm the reader's ...
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People & Events
Visayan Daily Star
He also challenged them to use unique musical instruments so that they can also produce unique sound. Each barangay can actually create its own style and presentation merging live drumbeaters and dancers, and even their own percussion inventions, ...
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Ben Franklin featured in upcoming exhibit at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential ...
MLive.com
Artifacts related to Franklin's inventions—including bifocals, the Franklin stove, the armonica (glass harmonica), microscope—and his activities in publishing, firefighting, postal service, libraries and education, abolition of slavery, and diplomacy ...
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MLive.com
Apptha Adds More New Attractive Themes, Templates and Enticing Extensions For ...
SBWire (press release)
The craving attitudes of our developers are a result of never ending inventions and keep checking our blogs and forums for product updates. Apptha is another promising venture of Contus Support Interactive. With the ambition of providing high quality ...
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Stereo Vision Reduces 3D Bandwidth and Storage Requirements by Licensing ...
TMC Net
The list of companies that have licensed the team's previous inventions reads like a who's who of the media and technology industries with companies like Sony, Motorola (News - Alert), and DirecTV leading the way. Their pursuit of this endeavor is ...
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Invention site Quirky finds Edison in the masses | Technology | KVAL ...
Quirky is an invention website that takes ideas from its online community and makes them into real consumer products. Ben Kaufman, 24, founded the Manhattan-based Quirky two years ago with the aim of making invention accessible.
KVAL - News - Tech
SRN News : Invention site Quirky finds genius in the masses
Stay current with breaking news and daily news updates in national, ... Quirky is an inventionwebsite that takes ideas from its online community and makes them ...
srnnews.townhall.com/.../invention_site_quirky_finds_genius_...
Invention | Patent News
For public disclosure and protection of an invention, the inventor needs to apply for a patent. A patent is an exclusive right granted to an inventor for a limited ...
www.patent-law.co.za/blog/tag/invention
Top 10 Accidental Inventions ... - CrazyChucks.com News
These inventors hit the science jackpot -- by accident. Source: Discovery Channel News - Discipline: Technology...
crazychucks.com/news/Top+10+Accidental+Inventions

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