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Lee-Sisson-0506-12.JPGInventions may lure fishes, but not riches
The Birmingham News - al.com
I asked Sisson what the options would be if some basementinventor actually come up with a great, marketable lure. His answer surprised me. "There's not really anything they can do," he said. He said none of the major lures companies will even talk to ...
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Northside students brainstorm for Invention Convention
Chicago Tribune
The 2012 Invention Convention features projects from the oldest students at the elementary school and is a right of passage for the past 26 years. TheInvention Convention was started in the early 1980s, and every year students have to find a problem ...
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Sean Lahman: Evolution preceded revolution in digital cameras
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Jim McGarvey, inventor of digital SLR, with one of his early cameras, the DCS 520 in the basement camera archive George Eastman House in Rochester, NY on Thursday April 26 2012. / CARLOS ORTIZ/staff photographer Kodak's Steve Sasson built the first ...
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Students' Inventions on Display at MOA
KSTP.com
Students had a chance to share prototypes of their inventionsand describe how they came up with their ideas. The Young Inventors Program and Fair is put on by Success Beyond the Classroom, a nonprofit offering enrichment programs to students in the ...
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Blog: SnapIt wins big at Walmart
The Wenatchee World Online
SnapIt and two other products beat over 4000 inventions to grab the top three spots in the nationwide contest. It was a kind of “American Idol” for ingenious devices, with the winner being chosen by hundreds of thousands of voters across the country.
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Allen Green, photographer and conservationist
GalesburgPlanet.com
While these were perhaps important achievements, he was also an expert photographer and inventor – a renaissance man with a great variety of talents and interests. Green was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1878 and moved with his family to a farm ...
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The story of the world's best zippers
Columbia Daily Tribune
By SETH STEVENSON Slate The zipper is one of those inventions — along with the bicycle — that seem as though they should have occurred much earlier in history. How complicated could it be to assemble two wheels, two pedals and a chain?
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Television, computer have impacted many lives
Houma Courier
I don't know about you folks, but I think my life has been enriched by many of these new-fangled inventions. Televisions and computers have introduced me to a world I never knew existed. Some of the older inventions have been a wonder in my world.
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UI researcher, foundation headed to trial
Iowa City Press Citizen
The foundation is a nonprofit that files patents for inventions made at the university, and looks for ways to profit from them by setting up licensing agreements with companies. Some of its revenues go back to the inventors as profit and the university ...
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Baldwin County TSA students excel at state competitions
Press-Register - al.com (blog)
Inventions and Innovations: Cameron Jones, Brett Buck and Grant Weaver, first place; Leanne Phillips, Carleigh Geeck, Rileigh Carver and Sam Burks, third place. Medical Technology Issues: Jordan Johnson, Carleigh Geeck and Madeline Seale, first place; ...
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Press-Register - al.com (blog)
Design Fiction: Neri Oxman, "Imaginary Beings: Mythologies of the Not Yet"
Wired News
From Da Vinci's human-powered aircraft as inspired by the wings of Icarus, to inventions of material self-repair and regeneration dating back to the myth of the Promethean liver, design has consistently dealt with amplifying human powers or ...
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Music Piracy, the Way Forward
AllAfrica.com
Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs.
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My Southern perspective: Like mom says: Take it, it's good for you
Anderson Independent Mail
Most of the major inventions and innovations that have shaped life as we know it in the United States came about when someone facing an economic challenge found a new and better way to do something. Remember, Bill Gates created Microsoft during the ...
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Red, White & True: Three-year-old boy's injury leads to creation of new alphabet
Bolivar Herald Free Press
A number of important inventions were inspired during wartime. These include: frozen concentrate orange juice, the first electronic digital computer (which was the forerunner to modern computers), penicillin, the JEEP, the first ambulance system in the ...
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Derek Lam: The practical dreamer - Entertainment News Now
San Francisco Luxury News
Plans are always evolving, inventions are a constant process of trial and more trial. Generally speaking, people will have to keep coming to Tod's to see for themselves what special ideas and things we have in store for our friends.
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The case for interdependence
Metropolis Magazine
She blasted the notion that there could be monopolies on seeds, and referenced her decade-long fight, with other activities, to combat Monsanto's attempts to patent seeds as their owninventions. “This is a creation boundary,” Shiva said.
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Metropolis Magazine
A story of courage, conviction and determination
Arab News
Since then I have dreamed of nothing else but to be an inventor— to make a qualitative difference in the lives of people through myinventions.” Mohannad once convinced his brother to hand over his car to him to experiment on.
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Arab News
【Brain Teaser Time】 Can You Guess What These Cute Little Guys Are Used For?
ROCKETNEWS24 (blog)
Our modern world is so full of useful products that we are often very cynical of new inventions. In simpler times, when whoopee cushions, pogo sticks, and pet rocks could be considered “cool” much maligned developments like spray-on hair and Mr. T's ...
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Right Words From the Good Book
Southern Pines Pilot
I like to think of crickets as one of God's nicer little inventions, adding a relaxing touch to these warm spring nights, nature's lullabye. And didn't the apostles have beards? To tell you the truth, I'm tempted to email this particular Jesus Christ ...
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Words of caution
Mid Sussex Times
Looking back into history I am amazed at man's progress, from the time of our caveman ancestors, when they had to kill a dinosaur for breakfast, until the present day when we reap the benefit of modern inventions such as electricity, radio, TV, ...
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Innovation Quotes of the Week – May 6, 2012
Innovation Excellence (blog)
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize ...
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One hundred gadgets of loneliness
MSN India
It's a noble idea, as is the case with all ridiculous inventions, which drives the pillow phone. In a world where the cell phone is our only link with people we care about, the pillow phone is the closest we can get to being physically close to a ...
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Obama coin bank, hitch covers take Utah Dems by storm
Salt Lake City Weekly
A reporter told McGinnis, who is based at an Oregon ranch, that his inventions—along with the PrezHead bank, he's also developed an Obama hitch cover—could change the direction of the presidential race, with the president's face staring out at people...
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Salt Lake City Weekly
Tech Roundup: Dialogic to Demo Mobile Video Conferencing over 4G/LTE, Cisco to ...
Patch.com
It has also spawned patent lawsuits around the globe over inventions that make lights brighter and more economical. In the US alone, multiple states are currently embroiled in patent-infringement lawsuits. Luckily for Milpitas' Leotek,...
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Fabric art fits with jovial atmosphere at New Orleans Jazz Fest
NOLA.com
For example, one popular piece depicts true stories of inventors killed by their own inventions. Her work remains on display today in the Contemporary Crafts area. The Eagles plays at Jazz Fest.
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NOLA.com
Small-business Q&A: True crowdfunding investments coming
Houston Chronicle
These websites facilitate raising money for ideas, inventions, social projects and, yes, even businesses. But these sites encourage gifts and loans, not investments. You do not get an equity interest in the venture in return for your contribution.
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11 best places to start a business
OCRegister
Business startup is relatively easy in the United States because of a tradition of entrepreneurship, the rule of law and contracts, an enforceable patent and trademark system to protect inventions and trade names, developed sources of finance from bank ...
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Alltopics.com Offers New Scoops On Internet
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The user has instant and free access to any of the current information about new inventions, new apps, updates on technological devices, and hundreds of other topics. If it's good and people like it, Alltopics has it. Alltopics.com is a daily "all-in" ...
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Work with India on transfer of technology
Poughkeepsie Journal
Brian Baird, D-Wash., “Good ideas, good people and good inventions can come from anywhere in the world, and when they do we all benefit from them. There are a lot of good people and good ideas in India. The more we share that, the better off we'll all ...
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Fashion through the ages
The Express Tribune
What is interesting to note is that the trends and cuts discovered in the 60s paved their way for the current fashion trends; bell-bottoms, miniskirts and the classic pantsuit are all inventions of the 60s. The turn of the millennium was as complex for ...
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The Express Tribune
Originals By Weber Invention: New Way To Stop The "Loose ...
The obvious answer to these questions is the use of this new invention by Originals By Weber, the always-soft Weber Denture Liner that requires no mixing, is easy to use and lasts a long time. | Virtual Strategy Magazine is an online ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine - Your...
Loving inventions - Xinhua | English.news.cn
Maybe it was just natural to expect that inventor Liu Tie'er would turn his attention toward helping his wife deal with rheumatoid arthritis.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012.../c_131551964.htm
MSU invention could help pharmaceutical ... - e! Science News
Two Michigan State University researchers have invented a protein purifier that could help pharmaceutical companies save time and money.
esciencenews.com/.../msu.invention.could.help.pharmaceutical...
Pepsi formula inventor's heirs sue Pepsico Inc
Reuters TV · Reuters News ... damages for what it called Pepsi's "improper interference with their rights in the Ritchie invention and the Ritchie documents." ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-pepsi-formula-lawsuit-idUSBRE8431O...
McGovern Institute honors inventor of brain scan technology - MIT ...
David Cohen honored for his invention of magnetoencephalography. ... MITnews | 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 11-400 | Cambridge, MA 02139-4307...
web.mit.edu/.../mcgovern-institute-honors-meg-inventor.html
News Arkansas Inventions: Klipsch speakers - Fox 16
Arkansans have changed the world through inventions. Paul W. Klipsch is one of America's most celebrated audio pioneers who started hand-making speakers ...
www.fox16.com/.../MRjJHr_HmUOOzKPIhQEcWg.cspx
Young Inventor News Update
Updates following the Spring 2012 Young Inventor workshop at the Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah. Whirler · Jiggle. The YI concept has generated a lot of...
rogerburrowsimages.com/.../young-inventor-news-update/
Children's Museum of Houston to host annual invention competition ...
Children's Museum of Houston (CMH) will host the 24th Annual Young Inventors' Showcase of Houston on May 19.
www.yourhoustonnews.com/.../article_0a4e4472-d567-5eaa-9...
Mom-Inventor Launches New Lace Lock Product - Yahoo! News
News: Mom-Inventor introduces new shoelace lock invention to aid in child safety .Fullerton, CA (PRWEB) May 01, 2012 Snap-n-Step, a mom-owned company, ...
news.yahoo.com/mom-inventor-launches-lace-lock-product-0...
Northside students brainstorm for Invention ... - The News Herald
Northside students brainstorm for Invention Convention | northside, panama, students, brainstorm, city, convention.
www.newsherald.com/.../northside-102495-panama-students.h...
George Roby Dempster: Inventor, politician, civic leader » Knoxville ...
George Roby Dempster never learned to think small. While the steam shovels chugged day and night, he left his home in Knoxville, lied about his age and ...
www.knoxnews.com/.../dempster-inventor-politician-civic-lea...
Google unzips for inventor Gideon Sundback - 14 News, WFIE ...
On the inventor's 132nd birthday, the search engine literally unzips to honor the man who brought you the Hookless No. 2 - also known as the zipper.
www.14news.com/.../google-unzips-for-zipper-inventor-sund...
Invention could help pharmaceutical industry save money
ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news and science breakthroughs ... The details of the invention, which appear in a recent issue of the journal ...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120430192623.htm
Preview: Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention - Local News - News ...
AS part of an internationally touring exhibition Wallace & Gromit will leave the UK and set up a lifesize replica of their home, 62 West Wallaby Street, ...
www.melbourneweeklyeastern.com.au/.../2540751.aspx
Senior engineers put inventions, ideas to the test - News - The Daily ...
West Virginia University's Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering senior students had the opportunity to showcase personal designs ...
www.thedaonline.com/.../senior-engineers-put-inventions-idea...
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