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1 hr ago | Hugh Hewitt

Creating Real Jobs: QuantumSphere and the Challenge of 2010

QuantumSphere is seven years old, founded and operated by a University of California Irvine grad in Santa Ana, one of the country's most impoverished cities, with capital he raised for himself.

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Related Topix: US News, UC Irvine, Science / Technology, California, US Politics, US Senate, Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat

6 hrs ago | MyFox St. Louis

Patent case before Supreme Court could have major implications for software

With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections for software.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Patent / Trademark Law, Law

10 hrs ago | The Fence Post

Time for tea

Delsa often gives presentations of her teapot collection. She had 26 of her collection on display for a group of assisted living residents and later served them white tea, apple tea and oohlong, of which the latter was the resident's favorite.

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Related Topix: Tea, Drink, World News, Queen Elizabeth, Science / Technology

15 hrs ago | India eNews

CSIR asks sacked Indian American scientist to vacate house

An Indian American scientist was Saturday asked to vacate his government house here in three days, nearly two weeks after being sacked from a senior post at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research .

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Related Topix: Indian-American, Asian-American, Science / Technology

19 hrs ago | HometownAnnapolis

Child's Play: Explore the genius of Da Vinci at science center

The Maryland Science Center is offering a rare look at Leonardo da Vinci - arguably the greatest genius of all time - in a special traveling exhibit direct from Italy, "Da Vinci - The Genius." The brilliance of da Vinci from aeronautics to medicine, artistry to weapons of war - all on display in this extraordinary exhibition's first visit to the ...

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Baltimore, MD

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Wisconsin Technology Network

Ideas to Profits Conference encourages innovation in Wisconsin

Inventors seeking ways to move their product ideas forward toward commercialization found a wealth of information and resources at the eighth annual Wisconsin Innovation Service Center 2009 Ideas to Profits Conference.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Wisconsin Government, Wisconsin, Viroqua, WI, Waukesha, WI, Milwaukee Metro

NetSquared blogs

Blog Your Way to Hyderabad with Ashoka

Ashoka and the Lemelson Foundation invite bloggers covering the intersection of technology, invention and social change to be the official blogger at the upcoming Tech 4 Society conference in Hyderabad, India where 100 Ashoka-Lemelson Fellows will be attending, in addition to other changemakers, to share ideas and projects that are changing the ...

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Related Topix: Blog News, World News, India, Science / Technology

MediLexicon

New Published Study Shows Masimo Rainbow SET(R) Pulse CO-Oximetry(TM) ...

Main Category: Blood / Hematology Also Included In: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Masimo , the inventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry and Measure-Through Motion and Low-Perfusion pulse oximetry, announced that a new peer-reviewed clinical study published in this month's Inhalation Toxicology demonstrates that Masimo Rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximetry provides ...

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Related Topix: Masimo, Healthcare Industry, Science / Technology, Health

Times-Transcript

Where have all the caribou disappeared to?

Caribou herds aren't shrinking; scientists are just looking in the wrong place. That's the opinion of some aboriginal elders and at least one outfitter determined to expose what he calls a fraud.

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Related Topix: Canada, Science / Technology

Guardian Unlimited

Collector finds unseen Charlie Chaplin film in tin sold for A 3.20 on eBay

Photograph: Tom Hevezi/AP Morace Park was footling around on eBay looking for antiques when he stumbled on an item that was listed casually as an "old film" a ' and even then he was really more interested in the tin it was in.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Telegraph Herald

Death Elsewhere

Robert H. Rines, a lawyer, composer, inventor and physicist whose discoveries led to sharper resolution in radar, sonar and ultrasound imaging and who claimed to have seen the Loch Ness Monster, has died.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Boston, MA

The Age

Phones too complex: mobile inventor

The inventor of the mobile phone says the devices have become too complex, with a range of features from cameras to music, since he made the first-ever wireless call over three decades ago.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics, Science / Technology, Cameras

Times Online

X-ray machine voted most important invention in Science Museum poll

The X-ray machine has been named the most important invention in the history of science, in a poll by the Science Museum.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Science Daily

Applause For The SmartHand: Human-machine Interface Is Essential Link ...

Our opposable thumbs and our hands' unique structure allow us to write, paint, and play the piano.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Chattanoogan.com

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs: An IMAX 3D Experience Opens Friday

Photo by Courtesy of Sony Pictures Animation Flint Lockwood and Sam Sparks watch in amazement while it rains hamburgers in Sony Pictures Animation's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

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Related Topix: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: An IMAX 3D Experience, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Natural Disasters, Flood, Theater, Arts, Hurricane, Science / Technology

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Customer Interaction Solutions

Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing

SUMMARY: The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally- funded research and development.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Rockville, MD

The Wilson County News

Deception pays off in 'Invention of Lying'

Neil Pond American Profile November 3, 2009 Comment on this article The Invention of Lying / Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner & Rob Lowe / PG-13 Imagine a modern-day world in which everyone tells the truth all the time and people say exactly what they're thinking.

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Related Topix: The Invention of Lying, Science / Technology

The Herald Bulletin

Aerospace inventor wows students

"You don't see something like that every day," seventh-grader Tristan Dixon said Tuesday, after he and his classmates got a firsthand look at the future.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Anderson, IN

Physics Blog

Scientists are first to 'unlock' the mystery of creating cultured pearls from the queen conch

The queen conch is the largest molluscan gastropod of the six conch species found in the shallow seagrass beds of Florida, the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Caribbean Islands and the northern coasts of Central and South America.

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Related Topix: Florida Atlantic University, Science / Technology

China Daily

Cities host shows about da Vinci art, inventions

In New York , " Leonardo Da Vinci 's Workshop: Inventor + Artist + Dreamer," opens Nov.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Berkshire County, England, United Kingdom

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