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Launch of ideas2IP

admin — Thu, 26 May 2011 01:44:45 +0000

ideas2IP is an online innovation platform designed to bring inventors and investors together to commercialise good ideas.
Targeted at giving creative Singaporeans an avenue to further their ideas, the platform provides a conducive environment to encourage disclosure of new ideas and presents the opportunity for the ideas to be brought alive by investors with the means and experience.
Aimed at bridging the gap between IP creation and exploitation, ideas2IP will allow individual inventors to come forth to share their ideas with potential investors in a safe environment. Investors with the means and experience can help to fund and guide the further development of the ideas into a form that has commercial potential. With this platform, we hope to encourage IP owners, intermediaries and private sector companies to help turn ideas into commercial reality.

The above was extracted from

http://www.ipos.gov.sg/topNav/news/pre/Launch+of+Two+Nationwide+Initiatives
+and+Appointment+of+IP+Ambassadors+at+10th+Anniversary+
Event+of.htm

The idea2IP website can be found at http://ideas2ip.sg/

SIAP (SIDA Inventor Assistance Programme)

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:42:02 +0000

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.

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.

Inventor of first cash machine dies at 84

admin — Sat, 22 May 2010 01:02:40 +0000

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

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12 years old Inventor ready to save planet

admin — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:35:42 +0000

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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Inventor's need for tools sparked TechShop

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 00:49:19 +0000

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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For a monthly fee of about $100, TechShop puts more than $750,000 worth of tools and software at the disposal of experienced and amateur tinkerers eager to breathe life into a new wooden or metallic concoction or simply pull something apart to see how it ticks.
“Anything you see in the world can be made with the tools we have,” said TechShop CEO Mark Hatch. “If you’re trying to make a spaceship, you’re going to have to make it in smaller sections, but we do have the tools.”
“It’s almost impossible to say what people are doing here. There’s more than 600 members and they all have a project,” said Newton.

Is 'golden age for inventors' at hand?

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:01:29 +0000

(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/ )

The life of an inventor

admin — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:59:53 +0000

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

Fellowship of Inventor

admin — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:54:05 +0000

(13 Jul 2008)

A new group of inventor in Singapore.

Taken from Strait Times, 12 July 2008

Talk “An Inventor’s Journey”

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:39:55 +0000

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.

At the talk Jim shared his views and key points to note in embarking on the path to inventing with the science students. Jim shared that the first step is to begin with the end in mind. That is to adopt a mindset with determination to complete the journey that has great challenges and obstacles in its path.

The speaker also related that very often ideation is difficult and he suggested that what is called SCAMPER be used. SCAMPER is to substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put to another use, eliminate, reverse.

The talk is part of SIDA’s activity towards promoting invention and development of invention. SIDA hope to inspire students and those who are interested to make their first steps into the Inventor’s Journey.

We thank the staff of Millennia Institute for organizing the talk and our member Jim for contributing his service to the association.