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100% Design Singapore Exhibition

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Barcode 60th Birthday

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19849141 There are now more than five million individual barcodes in use around the world… Sunday, 7 October is the 60th anniversary of the barcode patent, filed in the US in 1952. However the distinctive black-and-white stripes did not make their first appearance in an American shop until 1974 – because the laser technology used …

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WIPO Magazine September 2012

WIPO Magazine is now available online at http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/. In this issue: Maintaining relevance in a changing world: an interview with WIPO Director General Francis Gurry Handmade in Thailand: building brands for local communities Building South Africa’s innovation ecosystem Singapore: a home for innovation Sports, Sporting Goods and the Sports Business Also in this issue: Costa …

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IV Protection Device

Heitkamp’s invention is an IV protection device. The product is used to hold IV lines in place to prevent needles from falling out or being pulled out of place and causing irritation http://www.wahpetondailynews.com/news/article_6883dbb8-0659-11e2-b6b5-001a4bcf887a.html

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The Era of Retail 3D Printing Begins

A quirky kind of store has opened up at 298 Mulberry Street in downtown Manhattan.  It’s the first retail location for MakerBot, one of the leading consumer 3D printer companies. …just-released Replicator 2 printer from MakerBot that costs $2,199… Silicon Valley, for some reason, has shown very little interest in 3D printing…venture capitalists have ignored …

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Boon and Bane of Crowdfunding

(Article taken from http://mypaper.sg/ on 19 Sep 2012) Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, IndieGogo and Quirky are letting designers connect with audiences who want to finance their dreams… But, for the creators of these projects, getting the money is sometimes the easy part. They then have to turn their dreams into reality, with crowd keeping an …

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How to encourage Invention

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/how-to-encourage-us-inventions/2012/09/12/4b48cb9c-fcd8-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html “The plain truth is that schools really don’t matter much when it comes to education. What matters is the family environment where a student lives, and how motivated the child is to learn,” wrote TheElJamo. Innovation is not just for the talented few…There are systematic processes by which ordinary individuals can come up with …

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Apple Patents War

Morphology, a new board game

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  

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. It’s 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 Yang’s creations in the past …

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