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.

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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 six years. He has 300 to his credit and holds 36 patents…Twice he was cheated when looking for investors in neighbouring cities. “The fraudsters took my schematic drawing, and that was the last I saw of them,” he said.
  • In January 2008, Premier Wen Jiabao met Yang Zongfu in Beijing when he submitted his idea for snow removal equipment, at a time when continuous snow and icy rain wreaked havoc in South China…Yang Zongfu has a plan to open a training centre for inventors, to produce more good ideas and help them apply for patents.

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Brussels Innova 2012

http://www.brussels-innova.com/

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 money to get a project off the ground.
  • Inventors, artists and entrepreneurs post their projects on a Kickstarter page, usually with a video presentation.
  • Usually, the contributors get something beyond the satisfaction of knowing they helped turn a dream into reality — like a ticket to a theater production, or in the case of Pebble, a programmable watch.
  • Starting a project is free, but Kickstarter takes 5 percent of contributions if a project is funded, and Amazon.com Inc. takes another 3 to 5 percent for processing the payments. The funds are usually subject to taxes as well.
  • http://www.kickstarter.com/

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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 Tan’s 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 ~ 4 hours.

* For Sida members who are interested to join in the meeting, please drop me a message at http://sida.org.sg/contact-us/

Regard,
SIDA Webmaster

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 such requirements, and 2) he benefits significantly from the clinical resources at MGH, a factor that enables his ability to invent.
  • Someone tinkering on a medical device may or may not do so with a big financial payout in mind, but one thing that will certainly make them less likely to build new things is the knowledge that someone else will swoop in and steal it from them for a profit.
  • Just think of how many great companies started out as side projects.

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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 in more than 30 locations worldwide since being launched in California in 2006.
  • Where: Marquee, Science Centre Singapore, 15 Science Centre Road
  • When: Aug 4 and 5, 10am to 5pm
  • Admission: Free (Please take note that you need to purchase a S$9 ticket to enter Science Centre first)
  • Check out the photo of the event below…

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