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Brussels Innova 2012

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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 …

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Singapore National Day 2012

SIDA wish Singapore 47th birthday. May she continue to enjoy happiness and prosperity in the coming years.

“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 …

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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?’

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Annual Furniture Exhibition: My Home 2012

Creative inventions by SP students! This range of elderly care products makes home living safer and better for them. When: 4 to 12 Aug 2012, 12 noon to 10pm Where: Singapore Expo Hall 6 Admission: Free

Singapore Mini Maker Faire

http://makerfairesingapore.com/  The event is the Singapore Mini Maker Faire, a festival in honour of tinkers, inventors and do-it-yourself creators, to be held at the Science Centre Singapore in Jurong East. Thrity-eight groups of inventors, some of whom are coming from Japan, China and Malaysia, will share their creation with the public.. …it has been held …

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Crazy Phone Patents

http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3569151/16532077/335404/0/ Amazon Crash Publication No.: 20110194230 Filed: February 11, 2010 Company: Amazon when the device is being dropped and then deploy a safety mechanism to protect itself

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FIRST WORLD INVENTOR AWARD FESTIVAL (WIAF) 2012

SIDA members who are interested to join may apply it through SIDA by dropping us a message at http://sida.org.sg/contact-us/ (Please state your name, email and contact according to SIDA membership record)

Thermal Kinetic Energiser (TKE) system

http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/local-inventor-goes-global-with-new-heat-transfer-technology-2012-07-13  Sovereign Steel…revealed the technology, known as the Thermal Kinetic Energiser (TKE) system

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