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Eliminate the worry of harming the environment or beneficial insects with Dragon Juice®


Dragon Juice naturally helps eliminate many common plant problems.

Dragon Juice®is a natural plant spray conditioner. It is the most effective foliar spray available for your plants! It provides trace nutrients to your plants as well as giving them what they need (foliarly) to be healthy. Properly maintained plants make happy & healthy plants, therefore helping them eliminate most common problems on their own.

Dragon Juice® is an “all in one” product meaning it helps your plants to take up more nutrients in it’s existing system or medium. It effectively eliminates the need for additives and many other toxic and ineffective products.

Dragon Juice® is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart. This is your chance to find out how Dragon Juice® work and see a wild variety of other amazing products and innovations!

Recently, inventor Juan Diaz took a moment to answer some questions about non-pesticide plant products, targeting the organic conscious people, and becoming a household name…

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Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Entertainment, Great New Product, New Discoveries, New Inventions, People Making a Difference

Detangle your earbuds and view your phone in style with PopSockets

 

 

 All wound up with PopSockets.

PopSockets is an iPhone case with expanding buttons for propping, gaming, holstering, headset management, and looking good.

The case has two expanding sockets that function as a kickstand, a headset management system, a pocketless clip, a gaming cradle, a shoulder stand, and a one-hand stand. The sockets are replaceable and come in a range of designs, so it’s easy and fun to control the look of the case. (more photos after the jump…)

PopSockets is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart. This is your chance to check out how PopSockets work and see a wild variety of other amazing innovations!

Recently, David Barnett took a moment to answer some questions about the frustration of tangled knots of headset cords and using insurance money to finance a business…

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Breakthrough Thinking, Great New Product, New Inventions, New Viewpoints, People Making a Difference

Let tugo provide a safe haven for your coffee when travelling.

 

Save on drink spillage with tugo.

The tugo  is a drink holder for rolling luggage that suspends between the extended handles of the rolling luggage allowing for easy traversing of concourses while in the airport or busy transportation hubs.

The tugo is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart. This is your chance to check out how the tugo works and a wild variety of other amazing innovations!

Recently, inventors Tom and Karen Porte  took a moment to answer some questions about giving that travelers an extra hand, finding large scale distribution and domestic air traffic…

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Breakthrough Thinking, Entertainment, Health & Fitness, Human Behavior, New Inventions, New Viewpoints, People Making a Difference

Goose Guardian

Scare unwanted animals away with the Goose Guardian.

Goose Guardian is a wildlife deterrent that utilizes a patent-pending image-based object recognition system to detect the presence of specific species and triggers a hazing device to scare the animals away.  Applications in development for the object recognition system include a deer/elk detector for highway traffic safety and a bed exit detector to reduce the risk of patient falls resulting in injury.

Goose Guardian is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart. This is your chance to check out the Goose Guardian and a wild variety of other amazing innovations!
Recently, inventor Neil McClure took a moment to answer some questions about  wildlife deterrents, device triggers and image analysis algorithms…

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bicycle, Breakthrough Thinking, Education, Entertainment, Great New Product, New Inventions, People Making a Difference

Bowerbags are like 7 backpacks in 1

 The World’s Greatest Backpack: Bowerbags

A BowerBag is a messenger bag that transforms into a backpack if you need more space, and then into a saddle bag if you don’t want to carry anything at all. You can just strap it to your bike or motorcycle and carry everything from an I-pod to an elephant!. Bowerbags are a 3 way configurable backpack that feature a new springless snap-on clasp.

Bowerbags are one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart. This is your chance to check out what Bowerbags and many other amazing innovations are all about.

Recently, creator Jamie Bowerman took a moment answer some questions about the backpack and courier bag industry, Kickstarter and incorporating his name into the product  …

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Breakthrough Thinking, Culture, DIY, Education, Entertainment, Historical Perspectives, Latest Trend, People Making a Difference

Why every single one of you should learn a little code

Either you get with the code or get left out in the cold.

As technology becomes more and more ingrained in our everyday lives, you have to make a choice: Are you a consumer of tech, or are you someone who understands it?

Buying the latest iPhone and keeping up with the who-works-where, who’s-launching-what tech gossip is all good and fine, but if you can’t code, you ain’t no kind of techie.

Startups like Codecademy are making it easy to learn coding online — easy enough for school children, in fact. More intense programs like DaVinci Coders take learners from total noob to novice programmer in an 11 week bootcamp. And one game, Coderacer, will have you on the ground and coding in just five minutes…

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

Anticipatory Computing: Unlocking the Ultra-Human in All of Us


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Futurist Thomas Frey: Wouldn’t it be great if you could turn on your television and it instantly knew what show you wanted to watch?

We all dream of an easier life, so what if we got into our car and it knew where we wanted to go, or turned on a radio and it played the perfect music, or pressed “call” on our phone and we would instantly be connected to the person we most wanted to talk to.

 

 

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Analysis, Business, People Making a Difference

Vendor relationship management makes free customers more valuable that captive ones

The best way to fix the customer’s experience problems is from her side of the marketplace: the demand side.

“Put down the customer. Step away from the marketplace,” Craig Burton once said to a clueless marketing officer   That also comes to mind when you hear about unwanted surveillance of customers rationalized for marketing purposes, or how Big Data lets a company know a customer better than she knows herself.

 

 

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Analysis, Big Problems, Business, Economy, Education, Historical Perspectives, New Viewpoints, People Making a Difference

First generation of computer programmers to die and skill shortage will leave software vulnerable

 Where will qualified younger programmers come from when the older generation retires?

T’S a looming crisis not even dreamed of when computers were the new frontier, and all those working on them were young pioneers.

But fast-forward a few decades – and now experts warn that essential systems that control areas like defence and banking are about to be left without qualified people to run them, as the first generation of computer programmers retire and, sadly, die.

Seventy-two-year-old US digital forensic examiner, Robert E Johnston, said that the skills shortage in computer programming carried with it serious consequences…

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Analysis, Business, Current Events, Entertainment, Historical Perspectives, People Making a Difference

DaVinci Institute’s 15th Anniversary Bash

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DaVinci Institute, the futurist think tank based in Louisville, CO, celebrated its 15th Anniversary on Aug 9, 2012. As part of the celebration there was a ribbon cutting ceremony and an open house to show off its many accomplishments made over the years…

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Animals, Baby Gadgets, Entertainment, Great New Product, New Inventions, People Making a Difference

FlashPals are the world’s cutest USB flash drives

Cuddle up with your data.

The cuddly animal designs that FlashPals uses support wildlife conservation efforts through online sales and donations – Save data. Save the WILD!

FlashPals is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart. A whole lot of innovation comes to Denver on this day, so don’t be left out!

FlashPals CEO & Founder, Doug Stienstra, took time to answer a few questions about the difficulties of finding just the right adhesive, funding with a Kickstarter project and turning intangible ideas into a tangible reality…
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Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Hot Issues, Human Behavior, New Inventions, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

When seconds count SafeAwake smoke alarm aid gives you an edge

  Saving lives when fire strikes.           

In addition to conventional smoke alarms, tactile response is proven more effective in saving lives. SafeAwake is designed to work in conjunction with a functioning traditional smoke alarm by adding a flashing light and a loud, low frequency audible sound that even the hearing impaired may hear. It also sets off a motorized bed shaker that literally pulls each and every sleeper from deep slumber; and warns them of smoke and possible fire.

When seconds could mean the difference between life and death, the SafeAwake provides a significant edge for you and your family.

SafeAwake is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart, so come can check out this and all the other amazing inventions!

Recently, company spokesman Timothy Shaffer took time to answer a few questions about safety for the deaf and hearing impaired, SBIR Grants and international patents…

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Discover the Hidden Patterns of Tomorrow with Futurist Thomas Frey
Unlock Your Potential, Ignite Your Success.

By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.

Learn More about this exciting program.