SIDA

We are in the mist of setting up a SIAP (SIDA Inventor Assistance Programme)  system with the following mission…

• Assist SIDA members to test and prototype their idea.
• Assist SIDA members to write and apply for their patent themselves.
• Guide and develop Inventor mindset and confidence during their invention journey.
• Provide limited financial resources and help to seek sponsorship.
• Built up a SIAP fund to help other SIDA inventors.

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For all SIDA member who are interested to participate in this project, please drop us a message at out contact page (http://www.sida.org.sg/contact-us).

Please use your email address according to your SIDA membership account so that we know who you are.

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.

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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 )

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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.

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(CNN) — Some people follow rock stars. Steve Greenberg follows inventors.

Greenberg calls himself an “invention groupie.” The author of “Gadget Nation,” he’s written about quirky inventors who have dreamed up everything from a talking toilet paper dispenser to a “Vidstone” grave marker that displays a video tribute of the dearly departed.

Now is a great time for an inventor to become a rock star, Greenberg says. The economy may be slumping, but he and others say inventors are poised to enter a golden age.

(The above text are taken from http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/01/12/invent/ )

This is an interesting article.

Inventors want more help from the law to stop their ideas being stolen. As foldable bike innovator Dominic Hargreaves writes, an inventor’s life is full of promise and pitfalls.

The first thing is that I don’t call myself an inventor. It’s a humility thing. I don’t think there are many who would actually call themselves an inventor.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8233455.stm

(13 Jul 2008)

A new group of inventor in Singapore.

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by SIDA Member, Mr Jim Gan at Millennia Institute 25 April 2008
(25 Apr 2008)
SIDA has pleasure in relating that the staff from the Science Department, Millennia Institute had organised a talk “An Inventor’s Journey”. Our member, Jim Gan gave the talk on 25 April 2008 at the Institute’s Centre Stage.

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