http://www.startribune.com/business/167378335.html Kate Ryan Reiling, founder of Minneapolis game developer Morphology Games… a board game in which players use beads, blocks, string and other objects to build words for teammates to guess. 20120828A1_GameInventorWantsToPlayInBigLeaguesStarTribune
August 2012 archive
Aug 27
China Inventors’ Stories
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/8/26/asia/11904260&sec=asia Yang invented and is producing a spherical ark 4m in diameter that weighs six metric tonnes. Its designed to withstand collisions, radiation and high temperatures. Three people could survive for up to a year on the pilot biscuits, water and oxygen it carries. The ark is just one of Yangs creations in the past …
Aug 19
Crowdfunding using KickStarter
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/aug/18/website-can-become-inventors-windfall/ In April, three-person startup Pebble Technology sought to raise $100,000 to make 1,000 wristwatches that can be programmed with different clock faces. Donors on Kickstarter showered them with more than 100 times that amount: $10.3 million. Kickstarter is the largest of dozens of sites devoted to crowdfunding, in which donors contribute small sums of …
Aug 16
SIDA Meeting on 1 Sep 2012, Sat, 2pm
Dear All, Notice is hereby given that the SIDA Meeting will be held on Saturday, 1 Sep 2012 from 2.00 pm, Venue: Mr Tans Office. The agenda items are: * NP Bootcamp: Schedule update (30 min) * NP Bootcamp: Discussion on presentation material (3 hr) * Project Silly (30 min) * Others Total duration expected …
Aug 09
Singapore National Day 2012
SIDA wish Singapore 47th birthday. May she continue to enjoy happiness and prosperity in the coming years.
Aug 05
“We Own Your Brain”: Doctor Moonlights As Inventor, Judge Says MGH Owns His Ideas
http://bostinno.com/2012/08/03/we-own-your-brain-doctor-moonlights-as-inventor-judge-says-mgh-owns-his-ideas/ Dr. Joseph Grocela is an MGH urologist who moonlights as an inventor of medical devices. And yet a judge today ruled that MGH�s parent company Partner Healthcare owns all his IP � even from work done in his own home The judge argued that 1) he could always have chosen to work somewhere without …
Aug 04
Israeli Inventor Izhar Gafni Makes $9 Bicycle Out Of Cardboard
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/03/izhar-gafni-bicycle_n_1735439.html (Click here for video link: http://vimeo.com/37584656#at=1) Israeli inventor Izhar Gafni started with a question. ‘Can you make an affordable and practical bicycle out of cardboard?’