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Announcing the Winners – DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2012

October 24, 2012

Winner of the 2012 “Inventor of the Year Award” – Power Practical

There was no shortage of creativity on display at this year’s DaVinci Inventor Showcase. Inventors came from all across the U.S. to be part of one of the nation’s most prestigious inventor events.

Winning top prize at this years event was Power Practical for their ingenious Power Pot. Using the magic of thermoelectric power generation, the PowerPot is a cooking pot generator that uses the heat from cooking to run a 5W generator that can power up to 2-3 USB devices at a time. With 5 watts of output and a USB interface, the product is designed to supply the power necessary to charge devices anywhere.

The complete list of inventors receiving awards and honorable mentions included:

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Inventing the 3D Pill Printer

October 5, 2012

Futurist Thomas Frey: The next big innovation in healthcare may very well be a printer. But this is no ordinary printer.

Professor Lee Cronin heads up a world-class team of 45 researchers at Glasgow University in England. His team has figured out how to turn a 3D printer into a sort of universal chemistry set capable of “printing” prescription drugs via downloadable chemistry.

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Share decision making leads to better health outcomes for patients and lower costs

October 5, 2012

Shared decision making helps patients be better informed about their treatment choices and make better decisions.

Quality-improving and cost-cutting innovations don’t sit around for years while people keep muddling through with old technology in most industries. When an innovation is ready for widespread use, it disrupts the market, whether the market wants it or not. In the process, some entrepreneur usually makes a killing.

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Humans are getting smarter

October 5, 2012

Don’t be surprised when your toddler can operate your laptop. There’s a rise in IQ levels all around.

James R. Flynn explains how he came to understand how our minds have gained in cognitive skills during the 20th century in an excerpt from his new book, Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century.

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How organized crime is destroying the rainforests

October 5, 2012

Organized crime is behind the trade in illegal timber in the rainforests.

The illegal logging industry has become very attractive to criminal organizations over the past ten years. Up to 90 per cent of tropical deforestation can be attributed to organized crime, which controls up to 30 per cent of the global timber trade, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Program.

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Everyone who wants a drone will have one in the near future

September 28, 2012

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One day, in the near future everyone who wants one is going to have a drone. The price of these unmanned aerial vehicles is plummeting from two sides. On the one hand, you’ve got the toys like the $70 iHelicopter you control with an iPhone. This little guy even has two plastic missiles you can fire! (Videos)

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Top 5 future IT and web trends

September 28, 2012

Georges Nahon

A very inspiring keynote was given by Georges Nahon, head of Orange Silicon Valley, to a panel of blogger in in which he shared his vision with regard to what is happening in IT in general, and in the Silicon Valley in particular. Here is are the detailed conclusions of Georges’s presentation.

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The ‘Facebook Class’ that built apps, and fortunes

September 28, 2012

Stanford students ended up getting millions of users for free apps that they designed to run on Facebook.

Some Stanford student’s in 2007 were given a homework assignment to devise an app. Get people to use it. Repeat. It became known here as the “Facebook Class.”

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Sonic Clamp gives your guitar new powers

September 25, 2012

Playing guitar is a whole new experience with Sonic Clamp.

There are more than 50,000 apps available for guitar players – everything from amps to sound effects to drum machines to chords, lyrics and tabs. At Sonic Clamp, their mission is simple – they want to help guitar and bass players access their apps. Sonic Clamp mounts your iPhone4 or iPod Touch 4th generation to the body of your electric guitar or bass and allows guitar and bass players access to their apps and so much more!

Sonic Clamp 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 see this and many other amazing inventions and innovations.

Recently, inventor Brooks Hubbert took a moment answer some questions about company licensing, 3d printed prototypes and a new guitar experience…

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Five predictions on the future of gamification

September 25, 2012

Gamification – integrating game dynamics into your site, service, community, content or campaign, in order to drive participation.

Margaret Wallace, chief executive of Playmatics and moderator at the the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab event on gamification, asked where gamification, or the use of game-play mechanics in non-game applications, is going next. In 15 seconds or less, the panelists answered.

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First 3D printer retail store opens in California

September 25, 2012

Deezmaker store’s $600 Bukobot 3D printer.

California’s first 3D printer retail store opened this past weekend. That brings the grand total of 3D printer retail stores in America (and maybe the world) to two.

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How do we stop hospitals from killing us?

September 25, 2012

Medical mistakes kill enough people each week to fill four jumbo jets

If there is even a minor airplane crash in the U.S., it makes the headlines. There is a thorough federal investigation, and the tragedy often yields important lessons for the aviation industry. Pilots and airlines thus learn how to do their jobs more safely.

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