IdeaConnection Newsletter Oct 2013

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IdeaConnection: Global Collaboration - Connected Innovation » Oct-09-13

BOOKS The Neccessity of Strangers: The Intriguing Truth about Insight, Innovation, and Success. By Alan Gregerman [MORE BOOKS] NEW INVENTIONS Cota Remote Charger From as far as 30 feet away, the Cota remote power system is able to wirelessly deliver power to your device. Tumor Filter Chip This highly sensitive microfluidic chip is able to capture circulating tumor cells from blood and keep the cells alive for analysis. [MORE NEW INVENTIONS] VIDEO Smartphone Interfaces The Docomo team demonstrates some ways head-mounted interfaces could be used with smartphones in the future. [MORE VIDEOS] INNOVATION ARTICLES Crowdsharing Innovation Share your innovation and collaboration insights with the world! [POST YOUR INNOVATION ARTICLES] Featured Article Creating Employee Networks That Deliver Open Innovation By Eoin Whelan, Salvatore Parise, Jasper de Valk and Rick Aalbers [READ MORE ARTICLES] BLOG New Open Innovation Gateway for Intelligence Agency The Defense Intelligence Agency is reaching out to garage inventors and graduate students alike to help it keep pace with change and produce better innovations faster. [INNOVATION BLOG] INNOVATIVE PEOPLE Promote Your Innovation Skills! Xavier Raurich has developed a desktop and web application to manage all the public light inventory in a city, based on geographic information systems. [ADD YOUR PROFILE] [BE A PROBLEM SOLVER]

Experienced facilitators wanted to work online guiding teams of professionals working to solve research and development challenges. [REGISTER HERE] TECHNOLOGY SCOUTING $2,000 for each Accepted Lead: Mobile Biomass characterization Device or Technology Seeking a platform or technology that enables real-time biomass characterization for multiple feedstocks.  Mobile Raw Materials Characterization Device or Technology Seeking a platform or technology that enables real-time raw material identification and characterization of wide range of plastics and polymers. High Voltage Power Supply Seeking a power supply designer/developer that can, in the short term (6-8 weeks), provide 5-10 units of the specified power supply configuration intended for a proprietary high power based application. $10,000 for each Accepted Lead: New Leads for GM Water Optimization in Corn (Maize) A client is seeking new GM technologies for trait improvements for water optimization in corn. OPEN INNOVATION CHALLENGES Contaiminated Water Treatment "Tool Kit"  Design a portable tool kit for treating water for major contaminants (biological, organic, inorganic) that is effective, inexpensive, and easy to manufacture and use.  Electronic Waste Challenge Design an action plan or strategy so members of the global community of professional chemists and their networks can alleviate the growing hazards of electronic waste (e-waste). Arsenic Penny-per-Test Challenge Design an arsenic test that costs less than a penny per test and which can be manufactured and distributed locally, throughout Bangladesh and elsewhere. Contaminated Water Testing "Tool Kit" Design a portable, easy-to-use analytical tool kit for testing water for major impurities that affect human and environmental health globally, with information and/or instructions for treatment method(s). Arsenic Removal Water Filter Design for Cottage Industry Manufacture Design an inexpensive water filter that removes arsenic to less than 50 ppb (Bangladeshi standard) or, ideally, to less than 10 ppb (WHO standard). OPEN INNOVATION SUCCESS STORIES Open Innovation Gives Lifetime Brands a $50 Million Boost Lifetime Brands, a North American company that designs, develops and markets a range of branded kitchenware, home and lifestyle products sought the help of outside innovators to improve its bottom line. [MORE OPEN INNOVATION STORIES] [WHAT CAN WE SOLVE FOR YOU?] RESEARCH FUNDING Research Crowdfunding IdeaConnection Research Crowdfunding is a service where scientists, engineers and researchers can raise funds in order to complete a research project. [RESEARCH PROJECTS SEEKING FUNDING] [POST A PROJECT] RIGHT BRAIN WORKOUTS Turn Your World Upside Down We say, things are looking up, when prospects seem positive. We say, I'm feeling down, when we don't feel so hot. And, things went south, when they don't go the way we might have liked. This "north-up" assumption can come at a creative cost. [MORE RIGHT BRAIN WORKOUTS] PATENT MARKETPLACE Topical Anesthetic for Dental Procedures  The patent is for a topical anesthetic capable of pulpal anesthesia allowing practitioners to perform various dental procedures without injection. It can heal cuts, burns, chronic wounds, diabetic wounds, herpatic lesions, shingles rash, insect bites and stings, stomatitis, and radiation burns. Most lesions heal in 24 to 36 hours without infection or reported pain. University studied with pre-clinical and clinical trials. [THOUSANDS OF PATENTS] No charge to contact the patent owner! [LIST YOUR PATENT] It's FREE. INNOVATION CONVENTIONS & EVENTS World Innovation Summit for Health Dec-10-13 to Dec-11-13 Doha, Qatar The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) is a high-profile conference that aims to promote and facilitate innovation in the delivery of healthcare around the globe. This event will bring together governments, business leaders, academics, clinicians, new media pioneers and the third sector to help unravel some of the most pressing global health challenges. [MORE CONVENTIONS] [FREE: ADD YOUR INNOVATION EVENT] INNOVATION CONTESTS Productizing Science® Competition 2013 Contest Closes: Nov-25-13 Dolomite's 2nd Annual Productizing Science® competition challenges the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of researchers, scientists and engineers providing them with the opportunity to propose a novel scientific discovery related to microfluidics and turn it into a commercial product. A commericial contract is to be awarded. [MORE INNOVATION CONTESTS] [FREE: POST YOUR INNOVATION CONTEST] [NOTIFY ME OF NEW CONTESTS POSTED] IDEA RALLY Need Ideas?  Invite hundreds of IdeaConnection's targeted experts to participate in an Idea Rally™ focused on your topic of choice. Top thinkers and innovators with expertise in your topic area will come together in a virtual think tank for a week-long dialogue, feeding off each other's ideas and coming up with new approaches and solutions to your challenge. [LEARN MORE]

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." – George Bernard Shaw