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IdeaConnection Innovation Newsletter » May-14-14 Working confidentially with companies large and small, including several Fortune 500s.

INTERVIEW IdeaConnection Solvers Provide Solutions to Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater Interview with Steve Chambreau, Co-founder of Chemists without Borders [MORE INTERVIEWS] BOOKS The Frugal Innovator Creating change on a shoestring budget. By Charles Leadbeater [MORE BOOKS] NEW INVENTIONS Invisible DNA Invisible DNA erasing spray ensures your DNA cannot be stolen or used against you. Medical History Tattoo This invisible tattoo can be constantly updated with the individual's medical history while still maintaining a level of anonymity. [MORE NEW INVENTIONS] VIDEO Super-Strong Hydrogel A tough new hydrodgel could have applications in robotic or medicine, as well as a range of other uses. [MORE VIDEOS] INNOVATION ARTICLES Crowdsharing Innovation [SUBMIT AN INNOVATION ARTICLE] Featured Article Making Open Innovation Relevant to More Economic Players By Brian Ling [READ MORE ARTICLES] INNOVATIVE PEOPLE Promote Your Innovation Skills! Alasdair Bell developed novel methodology to characterize protein oligomerization. [ADD YOUR PROFILE] [BE A PROBLEM SOLVER]

OPEN INNOVATION SUCCESS STORIES Crowdsourcing Historic Ships to Improve Climate Modelling An open innovation project to transcribe the logs of historic United States ships is providing researchers with valuable data sets to improve climate modelling. [MORE OPEN INNOVATION STORIES] [WHAT CAN WE SOLVE FOR YOU?] INNOVATION CONVENTIONS & EVENTS Water Innovation Summit 2014 Sep 23-24, 2014 Berkeley, California, USA The summit will have no "audience" and no "speakers." All attendees will be true participants in workshop-style, interactive, highly moderated group discussions. We are looking for participants who will voice strong opinions, raise hard questions, and contribute to a spirited, fun learning environment. [MORE CONVENTIONS] [FREE: ADD YOUR INNOVATION EVENT] TECHNOLOGY SCOUTING $1,000 for each Accepted Lead: Creation of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Films in Situ A client is seeking a technology that would enable creation of hydrophilic and/ or hydrophobic films and/or nonwoven fabrics in situ. Creation of Flexible Absorbent Materials in Situ A client is seeking a technology to create flexible absorbent materials in situ, eliminating use of rolled goods or baled fibers. $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. [WHAT TECHNOLOGIES CAN WE FIND FOR YOU?] Are you more comfortable speaking in Swedish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Slovenian, Croatian, Malasian, Spanish or Arabic? IdeaConnection has agents in many parts of the world that can make it easier for you to communicate your open innovation needs. [TALK TO AN AGENT TODAY] or [CONTACT A BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT REP] EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Liquid Metal May Repair Damaged Peripheral Nerves Researchers have reconnected severed sciatic nerves in bullfrog legs and found that the nerves connected with liquid metal tubes conducted nerve impulses almost as well as healthy nerves, and several orders of magnitude better than tubes filled with Ringer's solution. [MORE EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES] [CONTACT US TO RECEIVE EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES] PATENT MARKETPLACE A System for Detecting, Monitoring, Recording and Transmitting Data on Power Consumption This invention is concerned with an energy exchange with the help of an energy monitor capable of detecting power consumption, recording and transmitting the same to a computer for necessary billing, power control, overload and assessing details of payment. [THOUSANDS OF PATENTS] Contact the patent owner for free! [LIST YOUR PATENT] It's FREE. INNOVATION CONTESTS Drone Social Innovation Award Deadline: Jun-20-14 The Drone User Group Network is offering an award for the most socially beneficial, documented use of a drone platform costing less than $3,000. $10,000. [FREE: POST YOUR INNOVATION CONTEST] [NOTIFY ME OF NEW CONTESTS POSTED] INVENTIONS FOR SALE Revolutionary New Cleaning Tool for Cooking Grates from Kitchen Stove and Outdoor Grill This new cleaning tool is small, about 2" x 4". Even though you try you cannot get splatter from the cleaning and in a few strokes the grates are like new. [MORE INVENTIONS FOR SALE] [LIST YOUR INVENTION FOR SALE]

"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity." – Michael Porter