Nov 30
ASIAN YOUNG INVENTORS EXHIBITION (AYIE) HELD CONCURRENTLY AT ITEX 2010
14-16 May 2010, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia
http://www.cisnetwork.com/itex2009/eNews/01/ITEX.php
Note: This exhibition is meant for young inventor from the ages of 20 years and below (as of 1 January 2010)
Nov 26
9th Invention and Innovation Awards 2010.
The event will be held in conjunction with the 9th Malaysia Technology Expo from 4 -6 February 2010. You may also visit their website for more details http://www.mte.org.my/2010/
Oct 26
The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and SPRING Singapore ideas.inc. Business Challenge encourages you to act upon your ideas and entrepreneurial aspirations. By submitting an executive summary based upon your idea you may be among those who receive substantial funding support and expert help to develop it further. This is a unique opportunity for you to turn your idea into a real product or service!
http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/ideasinc/
Please note that this is meant for “Any young people below the age of 26 years-old can participate.”
Oct 20
“Dyson, the company behind those amazing but expensive vacuum cleaners, has invented a new kind of fan. The bladeless device looks like a giant hi-tech bubble wand and puts out an uninterrupted stream of smooth “amplified” air.” From Salt Lake Tribune (http://www.sltrib.com/technology/ci_13594551)
Image taken from http://www.dyson.com/fans/default.asp
Oct 10
To all those lonely-heart inventors out there looking for sugar daddies, the state has created an online dating service just for you.
New Jersey has launched a web portal designed to bring patent-holders together with investors looking to make money off the next big thing. The service, dubbed a patent bank, is a searchable place inventors can upload information about their ideas that are available to be licensed. It can be found at www.nj.gov/patentbank.
Click below for article
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2009/10/patent_banks_designed_for_nj_i.html
Oct 06
This is an interesting video clip about the invention of the tunneling machine.
Sep 26
Remember the Google Project to gather idea from all over the world.
https://www.sida.org.sg/2008/10/03/google-call-for-idea/
They have managed to collect over 150 thousand idea.
Voting for the best idea is now open at
http://www.project10tothe100.com/vote.html
Sep 25
This is a new product that make lots of sense to drivers.
(Taken from Today Online, 25 sep 2009, Page B11, http://www.todayonline.com/index)
Sep 22
The world can be a rough place for independent inventors. They can often find themselves in court, battling big corporations, spending piles of money on lawyers and leaving it up to judges and juries to determine the value of their hard-won patents.
That could be changing.
Sep 20
This is an interesting article.
Inventors want more help from the law to stop their ideas being stolen. As foldable bike innovator Dominic Hargreaves writes, an inventor’s life is full of promise and pitfalls.
The first thing is that I don’t call myself an inventor. It’s a humility thing. I don’t think there are many who would actually call themselves an inventor.