Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011
Well Lit Art is a system of lighted art panels to transform shoddy and unsightly spaces into luminous, adaptable spaces of beauty.
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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011
Turn your last breath of oxygen into minutes for Escape and Rescue. The Butterfly Smoke Seal will help protect lives by stopping poisonous gas and smoke from entering though the door in case of a fire. Poisonous gas and smoke is the #1 killer of children 14 and under. It’s been said that if a butterfly crosses your path it will bring you luck.
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We are here with a world renowned futurist, Tom Frey at the DaVinci Institute Vault, actually sitting in the ‘vault’ at the Vault. Tom explains the Vault is a co-working space. There are more and more people working from home and they suffer from two problems, either isolation or distractions. If you have a lot of kids at home [or even one] you understand distraction, we’re sure. After working at home for a while, one begins to crave conversation with like minded people, and that’s what you get at the DaVinci Institute. “You’re around people doing similar type work…” Tom says the true value is in all the sidebar conversations that go on here.
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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011
The Xero-g is the world’s finest eReader holder. The eReader holder is engineered to last a lifetime.
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Massive change on a distant planet.
Quite snickering! Something on Uranus has erupted and now scientists are all in a tizzy about what and why it might be.
The news is exciting for a number of reasons. The simplest being we know very little about Uranus, mostly due to its incredible distance form Earth and because it’s, well, frankly one of the more “boring” planets out there…
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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011
The tugo® is a cup holder that keeps your drink suspended between the upright handles of your rolling bag. Its unique design keeps your cup level to prevent sloshing. Easily attached and removed, tugo collapses to fit in any pocket of your carry-on luggage.
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Hackers are breaking into hundreds of thousands of Facebook accounts every day.
Out of more than a billion logins to Facebook every 24 hours, 600,000 are impostors attempting to access users’ messages, photos and other personal information Facebook said.
The difference has to do with the way car safety systems are designed.
According to a study by the American Journal of Public Health, women who wear seat belts are 47% more likely to be injured in a car accident compared with men who wear seat belts.
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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011
The Track It is a GPS (Global Positioning System) driven locator unit that comes with corresponding chips that allow you to track items/things of importance. Design intent is to provide a convenient handheld portable unit that easily locates items frequently misplaced or lost, saving the consumer time and frustration.
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A paper lightbulb?
Designer Tien-Ho Hsu has come up with a concept idea to reduce the amount of waste created by lightbulbs and their packaging. The solution, as this design presents, is emulsion-covered paper that glows when hooked up to an electricity source…
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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2o11
AltaShot is excited to offer a unique new advertising tool that showcases your entire property by providing an elevated photograph without the need of a helicopter.
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The poll found that on average 38 was the age at which people felt most content with their lives.
A survey of adults of all ages found that, on average, people were most content with their life at 38.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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