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kozak30k

RobotShop Accelerator for Inventors & Developers - The World's Leading Source for Domes... - 0 views

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pitching product electronics robot_finger_project inventors developers leading world domestic robot technology

shared by kozak30k on 15 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • As the inventor, you collect royalties on all sales and can focus on enjoying life and inventing new things. RobotShop is here for you and expedites what used to take years and thousands of dollars to make happen.
  • kozak30k on 15 Feb 13
     
    For inventors.
Tiberius Brastaviceanu

'Anti-Troll' Marblar Unites NASA Patents, Samsung to Crowdsource New Products - 1 views

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article paper IP

shared by Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 30 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • can be found in NASA technology, and the new crowdsourcing website Marblar is taking advantage of that to find the next big thing.
  • The site Wednesday announced that several hundred patents from NASA and other organizations would be available for its users to play with.
  • many companies' research and development departments spend millions of dollars on such patents, more than 95 percent of them sit unused.
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  • what if people saw the patents
  • aying dormant
  • new ways that we can incorporate these patents into new products?"
  • Marblar also obtained access to many patents from the University of Pennsylvania and from ETRI,
  • The site also partnered with Samsung,
  • or its potential to bring the patents of Marblar users to life.
  • Any idea that Samsung likes could find its way into Samsung technology, with 10 percent of the royalties going to the Marblar users who brought it to life
    • Tiberius Brastaviceanu
      Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 30 Oct 13
       
      Samsong decides what to develop or not... this is still top down, when it comes to choosing the technology to be developed. But at least the list of ideas has been curated and refined.
    • Tiberius Brastaviceanu
      Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 30 Oct 13
       
      Using the crowd to curate and refine ideas/inventions
  • The contributors to a Marblar project might be helping an inventor out of the goodness of their heart, but they also stand to gain if a particular product gets the green light. Marblar rewards users who provide useful data or information by giving them "marbles," the websites namesake currency.
    • Tiberius Brastaviceanu
      Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 30 Oct 13
       
      They do have some sort of value accounting system in place. See the open value network model http://valuenetwork.referata.com/wiki/Value_accounting_system 
  • In the spirit of crowdsourcing, other Marblar users can help out a particular inventor whose idea they want to see come to life.
  • "As you submit product ideas and contribute market data or technical data, you get more marbles," Perez said.
    • Tiberius Brastaviceanu
      Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 30 Oct 13
       
      Quirky developed prototyping, manufacturing and distribution capabilities
  • The more marbles a person earns, the bigger the cut he or she gets in the royalty check if the product makes it to market.
  • Another website, Quirky
  • have a store dedicated to selling its users products
  • patents have become more associated with litigation than productivity.
  • "Patent trolls buy up patents to extract money, with no intention of actually creating a product," he said. "Marblar is like the anti-troll. We're looking for new ways to commercialize."
kozak30k

Starter Kit for Arduino - Flex - SparkFun Electronics - 0 views

www.sparkfun.com/11226

robot_finger_project starter kit arduino flex electronics sensor fiber

shared by kozak30k on 01 Feb 13 - No Cached
    • kozak30k
      kozak30k on 01 Feb 13
       
      Users want starter instructions/project cookbook, spec sheet, ideas for cool projects.
  • The package I received contained some warranty info, but not even a spec sheet for the Duo R3. I was hoping to have it programmed to make an LED blink today, but I’m at a dead end from the get go here.
  • Inventors Kit Guide too.
  • kozak30k on 01 Feb 13
     
    Feedback and comments from users for the Arduino Starter Kit
  • Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 01 Feb 13
     
    Nice discovery Tony
Francois Bergeron

A model for device development | Researchers at the Stanford University Program in Biod... - 2 views

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medical device development

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  • clinical need.
  • estimated market size and clinical impact associated with each.
  • prior art related
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  • barriers to further development exist from an intellectual property perspective
  • Inventors must also determine if they are in a position to efficiently seize the market opportunity.
  • regulatory considerations, reimbursement strategies, intellectual property, and business development objectives. This leads to Phase I of the development model.
  • R&D in Phase II is responsible for generating early concepts. Brainstorming sessions are often held during this stage of development with members of R&D, marketing, and physician consultants. Computational analyses, such as stress and flow studies, are conducted to further understand the behavior of a proposed device. The team often develops a 3D CAD model of a proposed device
  • Francois Bergeron on 10 May 12
     
    medical device development steps
Steve Bosserman

physician inventors flock to ohio - 1 views

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  • Steve Bosserman on 06 Jul 12
     
    Opportunities for collaboration?
Francois Bergeron

Tandemlaunch - Call for Proposals - 1 views

www.tandemlaunchtech.com/proposals.php

shared by Francois Bergeron on 20 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • AUGUST 15th DEADLINE
  • suited for entrepreneurial university inventors who want to develop their multimedia inventions for the consumer electronics market.
Tiberius Brastaviceanu

Cesar Harada » Inventor, Environmentalist, Entrepreneur - 0 views

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  • Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 02 May 14
     
    Cesar Harada, founder of Protei. This is his blog where he explains how they are going about creating their structure, legal framework, etc. Marc Tirel knows him.
Francois Bergeron

Accelerometer and devices using the same - Patent # 6649905 - PatentGenius - 1 views

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baseball bat accelerometer optic fiber

shared by Francois Bergeron on 05 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • The forces involved in hitting a baseball are enormous. Estimates place them as high as 100 g. Not only must the instrument be able to measure them accurately in the first place but it must also be able to survive these extreme forces. Further,the instrument must be sufficiently miniaturized to be able to fit within a bore hole in the bat without fatally diminishing its strength. Preexisting accelerometers known to the present inventor fail on all scores. Solid state accelerometers have poorsignal to noise ratios and a relatively low dynamic range. Further, they have a long recovery time after a large impact.
Kurt Laitner

Siri's Inventors Are Building a Radical New AI That Does Anything You Ask | Enterprise ... - 0 views

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Siri Viv founders intelligent agent AI

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  • Kurt Laitner on 13 Aug 14
     
    marry this with sensors...
Tiberius Brastaviceanu

Dark Intellectual Property. Why We Need a Kickstarter for Patents - 0 views

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ip academia paper argument Tibi Greg university dark IP

shared by Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 06 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • “dark IP,” the intellectual property (IP) that remains on the shelf: undiscovered, unexplored, untapped
  • our ability to catch so much in the net by dragging the surface (to use Mike Bergman’s analogy) actually still misses the invisible wealth of what lies beneath.
  • But dark IP is different than the other hidden-depths knowledge since it’s also unfair. Because taxpayers paid for much of the research — whether basic understanding with long-term benefits or more applied research with shorter-term benefits — that now lies collecting dust on university shelves.
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  • the people of the United States spent an average of nearly $40 billion every year supporting institutional research
  • 65 percent of invention disclosure bundles remain, on average, unlicensed and unused … each year.
  • ”…the street finds its own uses for things.”
  • most of the IP (much of which we paid for) isn’t actually on the street, where entrepreneurial folks can do something with it.
  • the overworked and understaffed tech transfer offices
  • their models
  • There’s not necessarily room for exploration and discovery
  • byzantine bureaucracy of large organizations
  • But let’s face it, there’s also the hoarding and the overprotecting
  • So much IP is generated that it’s far too much for any one entity to ever make sense of
  • very few people are aware of — let alone able to access — an invention outside the social circle of its inventors, the scientific community involved, or even the “crowd” that’s sometimes harnessed in open innovation
  • we need new ways of democratizing it
  • Not democratizing the IP itself — institutions should still own and generate profits from the intellectual property they’ve created — but democratizing the ways in which we allow this IP to be discovered and licensed.
  • idea contests
  • marketplaces
  • competitions to find uses for on-the-shelf IP
  • missing out on the transformative potential of what technology can do here
  • promoting new ways of interacting around intellectual property
  • Marblar, where I’m an advisor
    • Tiberius Brastaviceanu
      Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 06 Aug 13
       
      The guy is not entirely for open innovation but proposes an intermediary model to democratize the use of IP
  • This turns off the average entrepreneur, who doesn’t have the patience and bandwidth to engage in all the unnecessary overhead of searching, browsing, and licensing IP.
  • Many small startups don’t even bother with IP
  • Another missing piece is ways of allowing the crowd to interact with each other and decide which technologies should be licensed
  • bidding wars
    • Tiberius Brastaviceanu
      Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 06 Aug 13
       
      competitive dynamic for acquiring IP and using it effectively. This doesn't solve the problem, because some companies will still buy it for defensive purposes or block others from using it, unlike with truly open innovation. 
  • Most of the examples I listed above haven’t changed much over the past decade or broken into the mainstream.
  • why not a Kickstarter for IP?
  • Such a website would bring together not just funds and transactions, but communities — with their attendant feedback mechanisms — that are interested in creating something novel around unused patents.
  • such a model would help get the ideas of a few into the minds of many.
  • open up the currently closed shelf to virtual browsing
  • inventions are not only ‘filed’ or ‘granted’ but ‘browsed’ or ‘licensed’.
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