Brussels Innova 2010
Information sessions of the «Chamber of Innovation»
http://www.brussels-innova.com/newsletter/20100601/en.Aspx
You have an idea for a new product or innovative service? A project to start a new business? The Belgian Chamber of Innovation invites you to its free information sessions about the services its members have to offer you!!
During these sessions, experts in different domains (Intellectual Property, Business Angels, Start-up, Coaching, Marketing) answer your questions and show you the way, free of charge, whether you are a young project-bearer, an innovative company or a starter.
These sessions are planned as follows :
Plant incubator for harsh and inhospitable environments
In harsh and inhospitable environments, with hot days and cold nights, this invention creates a temperate and moist earthen nursery for protecting and nurturing seeds into trees with a self replenishing source of drip irrigation. It is a plant incubator that’s designed to cool faster than the night air, creating condensation.
Click here for detail: http://cleantechnica.com/2010/05/29/inventor-uses-biomimicry-to-create-dew/
Inventor of first cash machine dies at 84
LONDON — A Scotsman credited with inventing the world’s first automatic cash machine has died at the age of 84 after a short illness, his funeral director has said.
John Shepherd-Barron died peacefully in hospital in Inverness, Scotland, on Saturday, said funeral director Alasdair Rhind.
He started thinking about how to obtain cash outside business hours after being locked out of his bank, and the eureka moment came when he was in the bath, the BBC reported.
“It struck me there must be a way I could get my own money, anywhere in the world or the UK,” he told the broadcaster in a 2007 interview.
“I hit upon the idea of a chocolate bar dispenser, but replacing chocolate with cash.”
Barclays commissioned the invention and the first automatic teller machine (ATM) was installed at a London bank in 1967. It paid out a maximum of 10 pounds a time.
Click here for more detail: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jz3KqRh-rXkNHCHqGkLjquikC70g
12 years old Inventor ready to save planet
A 12-year-old inventor from Whitehall Township has been named one of the world’s top five Planet Saving Whiz Kids by Planet Green, a Discovery Channel website.
(Click here for detail: http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-mc-invention-planetgreen-whizkids.7276478may18,0,1740804.story )
Inventor’s need for tools sparked TechShop
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/04/BUTS1D98M3.DTL
Interesting extract from the article.
- Every mad scientist needs a laboratory. And for those who can’t afford it, there’s TechShop.
Your DNA may be patented (US context)
Below are some interesting extract from the article..
- “Myriad Genetics controls all testing on the two breast cancer genes because they own the genes, lock stock and barrel. They patented them and no one else can legally test for them, or look at them, or even develop potential therapies that are based on them without Myriad’s consent.”
WIPO now in YouTube
WIPO has set up a YouTube presence: the WIPO channel
(Click here: http://www.youtube.com/user/wipo)
WIPO Magazine (April 2010)
The WIPO Magazine 2/2010 (April) issue is now available on the WIPO website.
(Click here: http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/)
This WIPO Magazine focuses on:
- The WIPO Convention – Life begins at 40!
- The New WIPO Logo
- The 10th World IP Day and the 2010 Message from Director General Francis Gurry
- Innovation, the Environment and the Future
- Interview with Artist, Illustrator, Creator – Bob MacNeil