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IdeaConnection: Global Collaboration - Connected Innovation » Nov-27-13

INTERVIEW Something that Does Not Exist Interview with Jack Hipple, Author of the Ideal Result: What It Is and How to Achieve It, Part 2 [MORE INTERVIEWS] BOOKS The Innovator's Solution Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth. By Clayton M. Christensen [MORE BOOKS] NEW INVENTIONS Bloom Floating Farm The Bloom floating farm was designed to grow C02 reducing plankton, create fresh water, monitor sea levels, and send tsunami alerts. Eye-on Glasses This head-mounted device uses vascular imaging technology that will allow Doctors to "see" the veins beneath the surface of a patient's skin. [MORE NEW INVENTIONS] VIDEO The Matternet This is a concept video for the Matternet, a network of flying machines that would transport goods and supplies to the estimated one billon people on Earth who do not have access to year-round roads. [MORE VIDEOS] INNOVATION ARTICLES Crowdsharing Innovation Share your innovation and collaboration insights with the world! [POST YOUR INNOVATION ARTICLES] Featured Article 7 Steps for Open Innovation – A New Model for Embracing Open Innovation By Stefan Lindegaard [READ MORE ARTICLES] BLOG Advice on How to Crowdsource Successfully Crowdsourcing can produce good innovation results in quicker time frames and at lower costs. This article offers tips to crowdsource successfully. [INNOVATION BLOG] INNOVATIVE PEOPLE Promote Your Innovation Skills! Cameron Bell developed a dyke-and-piping system to contain a waterway which would otherwise regularly flood and destroy its surrounding environment. [ADD YOUR PROFILE] [BE A PROBLEM SOLVER]

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Owl Stealth Attributes Could Lead to Silent Aircraft Scientists have begun to determine the adaptations that allow some species of Owls to fly silently. The findings could help engineers design quieter wind turbines and stealth aircraft. TECHNOLOGY SCOUTING $2,000 for each Accepted Lead: Consumer Food Monitoring Device Seeking a device, or enabling technologies to perform real-time monitoring of food for pesticide residues, veterinary residues and adulterants. 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 Contaminated 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 New York's Open Innovation Search for Big Ideas New York's 'NYC Next Idea' is an open innovation launching pad for new entrepreneurial ventures that will turn into cutting-edge business ventures. A smartphone-powered key was awarded $35,000 to help launch the product in new markets. [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 CAPTCHA Crackers Here's one mighty stretch of an acronym–CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing (tests to tell) Computers and Humans Apart." Along comes a group that claims, "Computer cracks CAPTCHAs in step toward artificial intelligence". [MORE RIGHT BRAIN WORKOUTS] PATENT MARKETPLACE Solar-fin Nature is the most efficient collector of energy: a flower opens and closes with the sun to collect energy. So why can't buildings do the same? The Solar-fin system emulates this simplicity with two moving parts to heat or cool a thermal storage medium and to then transfer this energy as required to the building's thermal mass. The parts and materials are readily available to keep costs down so that payback periods are minimal. [THOUSANDS OF PATENTS] No charge to contact the patent owner! [LIST YOUR PATENT] It's FREE. INNOVATION CONVENTIONS & EVENTS Colorado Inventors Showcase Apr-04-14 to Apr-05-14 Denver, Colorado, USA During the past eight years, the DaVinci Institute has been developing the Inventors Showcase, a place where Inventors in all stages of development could share their inventions with people of interest. [MORE CONVENTIONS] [FREE: ADD YOUR INNOVATION EVENT] INNOVATION CONTESTS Digital Innovation Contest - Advertising Deadline: 2014-01-06 Start-ups and small businesses are presented with an opportunity to collaborate with advertising's finest by participating in a digital innovation competition run by IC tomorrow. Four business will be eligible for awards up to £25K each. [MORE INNOVATION CONTESTS] [FREE: POST YOUR INNOVATION CONTEST] [NOTIFY ME OF NEW CONTESTS POSTED] INVENTIONS FOR SALE The Adulation The invention is the Adulation, an iPad like personal computing device that wraps around the wrist and extends to the forearm. It's in the form of a cuff bracelet made from polypropylene, aluminium, glass, polycarbonate, and stainless steel. It has a 6.2 inch touch screen. It is designed to support and guides you through your day to day life. [MORE INVENTIONS FOR SALE] [LIST YOUR INVENTION FOR SALE]

"Ideas are at the fuzzy front-end of the innovation funnel. Concepts are in a later stage. Solutions are at a late stage of the innovation funnel." – Frank Mattes