The invention and the inventor

	Prizes $27,000 Worth For the Best Undergraduate Inventor
...An event meant to encourage young inventors will be held on Monday and Tuesday, February 11th and 12th in the University of Wisconsin Madison. The UW-Madison Invention Days competitions will house 14 inventions designed and built by 49 UW-Madison undergraduate students. Among the presented inventions there will be solutions for ice fishermen, for tailgaters, for potato farmers, for modern laptops and even for airlines. ...
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	Inventor of LSD Drug Dies
... Albert Hofmann, a well-known inventor of hallucinogen drug LSD died of heart attack at age 102 on Tuesday. Hofmann, discovered LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide-25) in 1983 working as a chemist at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel. He was studying the medicinal properties of the fungus found on grains and was the first to test the drug describing it as "sudden feeling of unease and mild dizziness". When he l...
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	Humanoids continue invading
...The 21st century is not the time, when people can be easily impressed, this can be refered to another, whether weird or wise, invention of the Japanese, that is a humanoid robot. On the other hand the most impressive thing is that people are still striving to create somebody, or something, to resemble themselves. This game has ended up in a demonstration of bots to help the aging population of Japan in their everyda...
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	Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery
...A new type of battery invented in Japan, in the University of Waseda. This is a flexible rechargeable battery, based on polymers. The development of this type of battery was conditioned by the permanently developing industry of portable devices, which become smaller and smaller each year. Researches on this device have been conducted for several years, but the scientists, working on this battery are Drs. Hiroyuki Nishide...
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	Google's List of Class-Action Lawsuits
... function MLnkMk(str) { s=''; for(i=0;i#iuuq;00xxx/uifsfhjtufs/dp/vl031170140280hpphmf`xjot`vtfofu`dpqzsjhiu`dbtf#!!ubshfu>#`cmbol#?Sfbe!npsf//=0b?'))) "Parker, who represented himself in the suit, publishes online under the name "Snodgrass Publishing Group". One of his publications was an e-book entitled "29 Reasons Not To Be A Nice Guy" and at some time he posted Reason 6 from this book onto a Usenet forum, the wo...
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	Microsoft Comes up with New Visitor Attracting Strategies
...Half a year ago Microsoft decided to try another approach in their search engine business, so that they could at least somehow compete with the "big G" - Google. Microsoft tried to convince the public that the Google's mathematical algorithm gave too many results and actually annoys its users. Microsoft thought it would be better using some other concepts of searching. They said that they'd develop absolutely ground-bre...
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	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
...An American Science Community has concluded after one of its researches that Mendeleev's periodic table of elements was the most important discovery the humanity made... even more important than the discovery of iron. The Community has published a list of 10 most important discoveries the humanity ever made. The results of this research were based on answers of a survey conducted by the community. According to that...
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	Schools include MySpace in the curriculum
... function MLnkMk(str) { s=''; for(i=0;i#iuuq;00efm/jdjp/vt#!!ubshfu>#`cmbol#?Efm/jdjp/vt=0b?')) feeds for educational purposes. If earlier, the access to these sites were seen as a an obstacle and were banned, now many teachers see it a helpful tool as this attracts great interest among teenagers. Every participant taking part in the project will have a blog with profile page, and have an opportunity to shar...
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	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...One of the latest inventions in the field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power. Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of ...
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	Nano-nose to help identify illnesses
...Nanoparticles are used by U.S. researchers to 'smell' the scent of illnesses in fluids of the body. The researchers used nanoparticles of gold with different coatings to distinguish among different proteins and detect the illness, as reported by the New Scientist. According to Vince Rotello from the University of Massachusetts the human nose has a series of receptors, which react differently to different compounds. Thu...
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	School to be Guarded by a Robot
...The world's first robot to guard children was developed in South Korea. Scientists dubbed the robot OFRO, and it's main goal is to protect children in Seoul's middle school. Placing a robot in the school is a test that the developers are going to make before launching the robot into the market. According to the developers the robot could be useful in alerting staff in case outsiders intend to seduce students. Chief Exe...
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	British Invents Anti-Paedophilies Software
...A computer program that is aimed at haunting internet sex offenders, who are chatting under kids mask was released by a British inventor. The innovative software is able to analyze the user's language patterns in relation to his age. This program is based on the knowledge that adults use more complicated phrases and punctuations when writing in the chartrooms. Even those who try to pretend they are kids cannot dodge t...
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	The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think
...Scientists of the research projects that "first make people laugh, and then make them think" were awarded with Ig Nobel Prize. The 17th ceremony of Ig Nobel Prize or also called Improbable Research took place at Harvard's Sanders Theatre on Thursday night, October 4. The Ig Nobel Prizes that are parodies of the real Nobel Prizes, are awarded annually to celebrate unusual, creative and improbable achievements in sci...
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	NASA Starts 2007 Competition to Build Space Elevator
...The Spaceward Foundation launched a 2007 Beam Power Challenge competition where the teams could compete to build a Space Elevator. The NASA project is aimed at stimulating "innovation and competition in space exploration and ongoing NASA mission areas". The final competition event will take part at October 21 at the Davis County Event Center just outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, where teams from US, Canada, Spain, J...
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	Scientists to Create a Silence Shield
...Scientists unveiled a plan to produce a breakthrough device that could make objects resistible to sound waves, creating an acoustic shield. The idea of the acoustic cloak was fulfilled by Spanish scientists, who believe that their invention will contribute to the creation of sound-proof homes, sophisticated concert halls and stealth warships. To create a sound cloak scientists had to find the right material. They d...
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