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Currently, GMD occupies an industry of one, but there is plenty of room for other generic manufacturers. Ideally, each new generic manufacturer would focus on a unique device segment in order to best meet increasing demand and maintain the highest levels of safety and efficacy.
Hong Kong University's Motorwind have made these tiny wind turbines that work with only 2m/second mini gales. More at Motorwind. Join YII online for the Intellectual Property for Start-Ups webinar with Suvashis Bhattacharya of Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner (Silicon Valley) on Thursday, March 22nd, 6 - 7 PM EST.
More at YII
convolute cardbored cores wrapped in Poly Propelene plastic and rubber pushlift partsI wonder if this is the same stuff found in the cores of fax spools and such...would that be strong enough? These cores can be pretty tough...other's like Japan's Shigeru Ban have made houses and other structures. What else can you come up with?
The tinkerers out there will like this post. Innovators, inventors, scientists, thought leaders, business and social entrepreneurs are part of the network and organization known as Young Inventors International. I am rarely a fan of entrepreneurship centers or conferences because they often hype up what is possible into empty motivational talks.This group is totally different.
Hype and excitement are replaced by thoughtful observation, intelligent feedback, and constant support and education. Just the kind of support you need to look around, plan a strategy and ramp up your project. It's the only support group of its kind that combines entrepreneurship + invention + social return in everything they do.
I can't say enough good things about this invention powerhouse. They offer an array of resources for those of us who are into product development and entrepreneurship. They have real guidance on starting taking your product from idea, to invention, to product, to business. There's no hidden agenda. The non-profit organization's focus is You, Inventor.
This is not your average entrepreneurship center. Anne Swift, the founder of YII, has a talent for finding and connecting people cutting across a wide array of fields. I've met friends working on collaborative software, solar-powered trash compactors, explosive tracking RFIDs, distributed hybrid transportation systems, and portable ice technology (I know ice is portable...you had to be there). I have gotten help from hand picked veteran medical device designers, international technology transfer experts, business people, attorneys...the list is long.
Coming up this month
March 22, 2007 6 PM - 7 PM EST
Intellectual Property Basics Webinar
Suvashis Bhattacharya, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner
and you just missed an excellent talk on outsourced manufacturing opportunities.
Tons more info at http://www.younginventorsinternational.com
Q: You wrote a book called Surviving the Extremes: A Doctor’s Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance. Do people who live their entire lives in extreme environments have different expectations of medical science than we do?
A: They don’t expect nearly as much. They’re accepting of injury and illness: If they fail to produce, they become a burden on their family and their village. I knew a Sherpa who worked for two years with a dislocated ankle. He had to—otherwise his family would have starved.
Q: What are the biggest obstacles to treating an astronaut injured on the moon—or Mars?
A: The time delay—the time it takes to transmit across vast distances. It’s not a huge issue with telemedicine, but for remote surgery it’s hard to see how the problem can be overcome. A surgeon, working remotely, can tie a suture with a two-second delay. With a three-second delay, hand-eye coordination is no longer possible; because neural circuits work on immediate feedback, it would be like trying to drive a car by looking out the back window. The time delay on the moon is 2.5 seconds. On Mars it’s 20 to 40 minutes.
Q: How does NASA envision solving that problem?
A: Surgery would have to be pre-programmed, as in a player piano. Magnetic resonance images would be radioed back to Earth and analyzed. Then doctors would figure out the operation needed, program it into a computer and send the information to a robotic surgeon on Mars. That’s the only way it could be done—unless you can speed up the speed of light!
A wearable malaria monitor that that doubles as a wristwatch to test for Maria 4 times a day.Fall 2005: The fablab helps on maxillofacial surgery patients in Iraq:
A lab-on-a-chip developed in Spain that can detect tuberculosis and other infectious diseases using technology that checks out the DNA chain of each disease.
A young victim of a bomb blast in Baghdad arrives at a U.S. army hospital requiring facial reconstruction. Surgeons upload data from scans of the boy's skull into a 3-D laser printer, which produces a ceramic bone substitute of his jaw within hours. Known as additive fabrication, or rapid prototyping, the process—in which cross-sections of liquid, powder or sheet materials are fused into objects of ceramic, plastic and metal—is used to create prosthetic devices and models of organs, joints and bones. Recently, surgeons in Dallas used a model (above) of a conjoined skull, replicating bone structure and vasculature, to guide them in separating twins.
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The Tech Awards program inspires global engagement in applying technology to humanity's most pressing problems by recognizing the best of those who are utilizing innovative technology solutions to address the most urgent critical issues facing our planet. People all over the world are profoundly improving the human condition in the areas of education, equality, environment, health, and economic development through the use of technology. It is the goal of The Tech Awards to showcase their compelling stories and reward their brilliant accomplishments.
Each year, candidates are nominated and then invited to submit applications. Individuals, for-profit companies, and not-for-profit organizations are eligible. International panels of judges review the applications and annually select 25 Laureates. Awards are presented in five categories: Health, Education, Environment, Economic Development, and Equality.
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