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Million Dollar Ideas on Display at the Colorado Inventors Showcase

Brett Greene | Posted 11.04.2009 | Denver

Read More: Inventors, Shop Salus, Davinci Institute, Impact Lab, Fish Food Bank, 9news, Colorado Inventors Showcase, Inventions, Entrepreneurs, Ready Bottle, Denver News
Brett Greene

I was expecting an adult version of the school science fair at the Colorado Inventors Showcase, but was greeted with a much bigger spectacle.

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7 Inventions That Are Changing The World

Posted 10.28.2009 | Impact

Read More: Slidepoll, Xo Laptops, Energy Innovation, Hybrid Cars, Smarthand, Lifestick, Inventions, Innovation, Dean Kamen, Zipcar, Impact News

Digging around for Impact stories can bring up a lot of bad news. Extreme poverty and widespread injustice can seem omnipresent. That's why, today, we...

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Interesting Innovations that Generate Growth and Shape Markets

Jenny Darroch | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Cell Phones, Marketing Research, Post-Recession Growth, Post-It Notes, Inventions, Innovation, Marketing Strategies, Strategies for Growth, Suitcases, Swifter, Powermat, Pampers, Business News
Jenny Darroch

Sustainable competitive advantage comes about by developing innovations that solve consumer problems -- innovations that shape behavior and create new markets.

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Great Products Launched During A Recession

Mainstreet | Seth Fiegerman | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Ipod, General Electric, Twinkies, Monopoly, Inventions, Photocopier, Basketball, Fortune Magazine, Miracle Whip, Recession, Diet Coke, Scotch Tape, Coors, Nestle, Heinz, Business News

More than half of the companies on this year's Fortune 500 list were founded during a recession or bear market. The next breakthrough business could b...

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The Economy "Doesn't Need You Anymore"

Piers Fawkes | Posted 09.24.2009 | Technology

Read More: Piers Fawkes, Hank Williams, Recession, Economy, Energy, Solar Panels, Food, Inventions, Innovation, Technology, Wind Turbines, Technology News
Piers Fawkes

We are nowhere near where we need to be, but it is obvious that eventually everyone will be able to produce his or her own energy, with things like rooftop solar panels and less expensive wind turbines.

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Can You Hear Me Now? The Story Behind the Invention of the Cell Phone

Kate Kelly | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Martin Cooper, Inventions, First Cell Phone, NY Times, New York City, Bell Labs, Motorola, Iphone, Blackberry, Cell Phone Industry, Living News
Kate Kelly

Young people can barely remember a time when we weren't all telephonically tethered, and yet, cell phones are actually a relatively recent development.

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All that Economic Jazz

C. L. Max Nikias | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Jazz, College, Venture Capitalists, Research University, Inventions, Venture Capital, Housing Bubble, Universities, Business News
C. L. Max Nikias

The pieces are in place for a renaissance of America's inventive spirit. Wall Street is no longer the envy of the world, but our top 50 research universities most certainly are.

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A Spotless Mind: Would You Take A Memory-Erasing Pill?

dailymail.co.uk | David Derbyshire | Posted 03.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Advances in Medicine, Inventions, Erase Memories, Science, Drugs, Ethical Medicine, A Pill to Erase Memories, Happiness, Human Identity, Ethical Science, Health, New Medicine, Ethics, Memory, New Drugs, Living News

A drug which appears to erase painful memories has been developed by scientists. The astonishing treatment could help sufferers of post-traumatic stre...

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My Beef with Burger King's "Flame" Cologne

Disgrasian | Posted 01.19.2009 | Style

Read More: Burger King Flame Cologne, Meat Cologne, Fragrance, Perfume, Burger King, Fast Food Fragrance, Cologne, Men's Fragrances, Inventions, Burger King Cologne, Fashion, Flame Cologne, Style News
Disgrasian

The thing is, I don't like when people smell like meat. It reminds me of our own fleshy-ness, and my mind drifts to cannibalism and mortality, two unappetizing thoughts.

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The U.S. Military: Molecular Gastronomist?

Sophie Brickman | Posted 01.07.2009 | Style

Read More: Inventors, Military, Army, Military Food, Food, Inventions, Culinary School, Molecular Gastronomy, Mres, Style News
Sophie Brickman

Years ago, my father let it slip that his cousin had invented the powdered egg in the late 1930s, thereby contributing the war effort. Aha! A fellow Brickman inventor and culinary whizz!

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Losing Grip on Reality: What Ails the American Economy Runs Deeper Than the Credit Crisis

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 11.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Investment Banks, Education, Economy, Economic Crisis, Science, Inventions, Innovation, Future, Business News
Shawn Lawrence Otto

Public investments in basic research and education have been our most reliable economic engine. And yet in recent years we have failed to maintain that engine and to refill our tank.

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China Gains Tech Trophy; Wake-up Call to the West

Rebecca Fannin | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: China Products, New Technology, Inventions, Information Technology, Technology, China Economy, China, Silicon Valley, Business News
Rebecca Fannin

Once it was Japan that threatened to be the major technological rival to the U.S. Now that trophy goes to China and its rapid climb from a low-cost producer to a high-tech inventive nation.

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China Labs

Rebecca Fannin | Posted 06.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Iphone, China Products, Inventions, iPhone China, Technology, China Economy, China, Business News
Rebecca Fannin

China is becoming a lab for the world; by 2009, China's position will rise to 4th globally for new patent applications, right after the US, Japan and Germany.

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Real Artists Ship

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Strategy, Grassroots, Innovation, Inventions, Business, Malcolm Gladwell, Patents, Myhrvold, Microsoft, Business News
Margaret Heffernan

Whichever innovation guru you read, you won't find references to customers. But nothing compares to the creativity that could come from consumers if companies only knew how to talk to them.

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Wafer-Thin TV, Smile Reader Among New Finds At Tokyo Gizmo Show

The Guardian (U.K.) | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Technology, Inventions, Tokyo, Business News

The Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies - or Ceatec - is a gizmo geek's paradise. The cavernous exhibition halls of the Makuhari Messe comple...

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