'Anti-Troll' Marblar Unites NASA Patents, Samsung to Crowdsource New Products - 1 views
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can be found in NASA technology, and the new crowdsourcing website Marblar is taking advantage of that to find the next big thing.
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The site Wednesday announced that several hundred patents from NASA and other organizations would be available for its users to play with.
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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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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
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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.
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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
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In the spirit of crowdsourcing, other Marblar users can help out a particular inventor whose idea they want to see come to life.
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"As you submit product ideas and contribute market data or technical data, you get more marbles," Perez said.
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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.
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"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."