Any new toy that wants to get its product into retail needs to appreciate that they will not be alone. Retail buyers are inundated with calls from start-ups, inventors and product designers, almost daily. To get noticed you really need a ...
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Munich-based Can2Close was founded in 2012 by Andreas Kleiner, Robert Kruetten and Moritz von Grotthuss. It said that its 'c2' resealable end is a new mechanism that replaces the standard stay-on tab opening of beverage cans with a simple ...
Inventor and TAFE educator Keith Higgins has criticised the lack of support in his home country, after he had to look to China for help developing his LED lighting innovations. Higgins told the Blacktown Sun that, over five years, he ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, lighting
The U.S. Congress needs to shut down so-called patent trolls whose infringement lawsuits are diverting company resources from hiring and research, a group of technology companies told lawmakers Thursday. Representatives of Cisco Systems, ...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE North Miami Beach, Florida, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) March 9, 2013 -- If you have discovered the latest technological wonder or figured out a way to satisfy the common woe shared by millions, ...
Tags: GloberDesign, invention, patenting
The first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering to five men whose work was fundamental in creating the World Wide Web. Engineers Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin, Tim Berners-Lee and Marc Andreessen were today announced as the ...
More and more small toy businesses are using sites like Kickstarter to acquire funding and bring their products to market. The crowdfunding website has seen a number of fresh toys manufactured and shipped, including Atoms (pictured), a ...
Tags: Toy, toy businesses, toys manufacture
Ming Ma, a doctoral student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has been named the winner of the 2013 Lemelson-Rensselaer Student Prize which (along with prizes for students ...
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The Green Inventors Competition, part of the Sustainable Living Festival, invites RMIT students and recent graduates to present their ideas for a sustainable future. Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) graduate Ms McDonell won the ...
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Samsung filed more patent applications in Europe last year than any other company, according to figures released by the European Patent Office (EPO) on Wednesday. In 2012, the EPO received a record number of patent applications, with ...
Tags: Samsung, European Patent Office, digital communication
IBM's Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer, Watson, may have started out the size of a master bedroom, but it will eventually shrink to the size of a smart phone, its inventors say. The supercomputer is currently performing "residencies" at ...
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After an earlier complaint against Nichia was rejected, Everlight has uncovered additional details to bolster its claim that fictitious results were included in a Nichia patent application. Further activity has taken place in the patent ...
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The contest, which is inspired by the BBC’s Dragon’s Den, pits packaging inventors against a panel of packaging experts drawn from major brands and retailers. It takes place at the Packaging Innovations show today at 2pm in the ...
Two U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require a losing plaintiff to pay legal costs in many patent infringement lawsuits, in an effort to discourage so-called patent trolls from filing court cases. The Saving High-Tech ...
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3Doodler, the world's first 3D printing pen, has smashed its Kickstarter goal by over 3,685 percent as of 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21, raising over $1 Million in funding from the internet community in less than two days (44 hours). The ...