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The WIPO Magazine 1/2011 (February) issue

The WIPO Magazine 1/2011 (February) issue is now available on the WIPO website. This WIPO Magazine focuses on: 6th Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting & Piracy Interview with Lawrence Lessig Penguin turns 75 Online Music Licensing – A Way Out of the Maze Parmesan – The King of Cheeses Also in this issue: Vaccine delivery …

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Scientists Create World’s 1st Practical Artificial Leaf 10x as efficient as the real thing

…creating the world�s first practical photosynthesis device… The playing-card-sized photosynthetic gadget creates uses sunlight to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, which can then be used to produce energy, and is reputedly 10 times more efficient than a natural leaf. If the device is placed in a one-gallon bucket of water in bright sunlight, …

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Entrepeneurs get hands-on with ideas at TechShop

The massive DIY workshop occupies a 15,000-square-foot space in San Francisco’s South of Market neighboorhood, and it’s already a thriving community oozing with ideas. With staff and classes that help bring concepts to reality, there’s just about everything here, including gizmos and facilities you might otherwise never get a chance to use: laser cutters; a …

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Japanese inventor builds machine that turns plastic bags into fuel

Japanese inventor Akinori Ito claims to have that solution. He has created a machine that can turn plastic bags into fuel. Plastic bags are made from crude oil, after all, and Ito’s machine can revert the plastic to its original state. His invention is actually a non-polluting, fully contained process that heats up the plastic, …

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The WIPO Magazine 1/2011 (February) issue

The WIPO Magazine 1/2011 (February) issue is now available on the WIPO website. (http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/) This WIPO Magazine focuses on: 6th Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting & Piracy Interview with Lawrence Lessig Penguin turns 75 Online Music Licensing – A Way Out of the Maze Parmesan – The King of Cheeses Also in this issue: Vaccine delivery …

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Spring SME award

…free loan, training programmes and support in capability development. The competition is supported by RSM Chio Lim, SpringSingapore, NUS Extension, Acorn Marketing & Research and SingTel. http://www.spring.gov.sg/NewsEvents/ITN/Pages/SME-award-now-open-for-submissions-20110119.aspx

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Prototyping with 3D Printer

This article was taken from My Paper (http://mypaper.sg/) on 18 Jan 2011, Page A13

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Good Design for Everyday Living

WIPO Magazine 4/2010 (August) issue

The WIPO Magazine 4/2010 (August) issue is now available on the WIPO website. This WIPO Magazine focuses on: Goal-Line Technology – Getting it Right – a close-up of technologies that can support referees in officiating matches. A Tribute to the Man behind the Swatch – Mr. Nicolas G. Hayek. Rwanda Transforms its IP Landscape – …

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2010 International Innovation and Invention Conference

Interested members may contact SIDA at https://www.sida.org.sg/contact-us/ (For SIDA member, please use the email address that you registered with SIDA so that we know who you are)