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Wireless processor company Eleven Engineering is taking on the three giants of the gaming industry in a patent infringement case.

The answer to the problem of pollution-spewing vehicles is a bike that runs on human muscles.

Benjamin Wakefield provides a history of the death ray : The concept of the modern death ray was forged in the 1920s and 1930s, when various individuals theorized the application of a particle beam or electromagnetic weapon.

One of the most recent White House Blogs , posted by Dan Pfeiffer on November 27th, takes on an article written by Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post .

This would be an easy film to underestimate. From the trailers and the postering, The Invention of Lying looks like nothing much more or less than Ricky Gervais moving in on Jim Carrey's territory with a Liar Liar or Yes Man slice of pseudo metaphysical fluff.

Sometimes, history's turning points come in blood and gunfire, and sometimes in pen and ink.

For Bill Bennett, former commercial fisherman turned inventor, the road to innovation began one night on his regular commute, riding the bus home to the Cape.

Imagine a proud and prickly little land which flies its blue and white flag from every rooftop.

Nov. 28--OLYMPIA -- After a one-year absence, the Dancing Lights Christmas Show presented by Olympia Yacht Club member Jerry Budelman is back, bigger and better than ever.

One man is more responsible than any other for the way our listening habits changed in the past decade.

New Moon is nothing if not an international advertisement for the hungry virtues of virginity and young people can't get enough of it A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion Cock Restaurants David Sexton Kitchen W8 is a bargain for this area, if such sophistication is what you crave Kitchen W8 Adam, Harrow Too long and ...

With up to 180 million shoppers hitting the stores on Black Friday, an inventor's Website helps out with a list of hot and innovative Christmas toys! November 27, 2009 -- While every year around this time there are a ton of Top Ten lists covering everything from the best ways to cook a Tom Turkey to the best ways of breaking up with that turkey ...

WACKY races, solar-powered vehicles and weird and wonderful machines could fill the streets of East Oxford for next year's Cowley Road Carnival.

Remarkable romantic comedy set among a nomadic tribe in Kazakhstan. 2. An Education Nick Hornby's sensitive adaptation of journlaist Lynn Barber's excellent memoir of her first boyfriend.

Chiffon cake appeared occasionally on our Friday night table when I was growing up.

Southwark Crown Court heard how the 65-year-old investment banker had used the money like a "bottomless piggy bank" to fund a lavish lifestyle, splashing out on fine wines, golf club memberships and private school fees for one of his daughters.

Inventors are made, not born, and anyone has the potential to come up with new ideas, said Jack Mandelman, a retired electrical engineer.

Jacob Krippelz's long road from creation to vindication has taken almost 20 years.

When the computer-generated, 3D animation train was chugging full steam ahead five years ago, filmmakers Wes Anderson and Henry Selick decided to hop off and walk in the other direction.

Anna absorbs Mark's porkies in The Invention of Lying. Photo: AP General release Reviewer Jim Schembri AFTER the noble misfire of Ghost Town , Ricky Gervais scores a better story and bigger laughs with his second Hollywood effort, a self-penned featherweight fable set in an alternate world where nobody has ever told a lie.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco Wednesday upheld the conviction of a former Silicon Valley executive for a spiral of crimes that began with creating a phony inventor's notebook and ended with jailhouse plots to threaten witnesses.

At the DaVinci Inventors Showcase, Louis Foreman was a keynote speaker. Louis is the creator of the EmmyA Award winning PBS TV show, Everyday Edisons and serves as the Executive Producer.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 Source: Christie, Parker & Hale - Comments Christie, Parker & Hale LLP , one of Southern California's leading intellectual property law firms, announced today that the firm was instrumental in obtaining another major patent for its client Mojave Aerospace Ventures, LLC of Seattle, Washington, ...

LeTourneau University is calling for a retraction from Time magazine. A case of miss-placed credit stems from an article in the magazine.

Yves Rossy was hoping to become the first person to make an intercontinental flight with a jet pack / Supplied Attempt to fly between continents Rescue helicopter called in THE jet-pack-propelled pilot known as the "Jetman" has failed in his attempt to fly between two continents and ditched into the sea between Africa and Europe.

New Delhi, Nov 25: The skill and thrill of pre-cinema era came alive at IFFI-2009 with the National Film Archives of India presenting an enthralling show of the Magic Lantern 'Shambharik Kharolika'. Shambharik Kharolika refers to a unique form of entertainment which is the precursor of cinema in the form of an animated slide show using colour glass ...

Richard Heene is not exactly the first name that comes to mind when thinking of model dads, but the father of Balloon Boy was exactly who Chris Elliott looked to when he joined How I Met Your Mother as Lily's estranged father.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office yesterday published a patent application Apple made way back in 2008 for a oePushing a User Interface to a Remote Device.a So, thenSmart Remotes.

Unfortunately, often times, I was not identifying a real solution but just the need for a solution.

Craig Robinson has a lot on his plate these days aside from being a staple figure on The Office as warehouse foreman Darryl Philbin.

Klausner sues Motorola, RIM over visual voicemail Visual voicemail lets phone users see who has left a voicemail and choose which messages they want to listen to Tuesday, November 24, 2009 NEW YORK, USA: Inventor Judah Klausner filed suit against Motorola Inc and Research In Motion, alleging infringement of technology patents related to visual ...

In my July 2002 column and the preface to the revised and abridged version of my 1988 book, The Hindu Equilibrium, I noted the astonishing post-modern turn in Indian history, whose canonical book Imagining India by RB Inden claimed that caste was an invention of the colonial British Raj.

Hey kids, grab those beakers and Petri dishes, the White House is going to hold a science fair.

Bryce Bayer, inventor of the color filter array used to determine color in virtually every modern digital camera has been given the UK Royal Photographic Society's Progress Award.

Interviewing Ricky Gervais feels more like my own private stand-up show than just an opportunity to quiz The Office star about his latest Hollywood outing.

TV'S BEST No. 10: The Chaser may have pushed too hard on occasion but no one had bigger pay-offs / ABC TV'S BEST No.

Gov. Bev Perdue intends to brand North Carolina as "the state of innovation." Yesterday, as Perdue created the state's first Innovation Council, she said she believes that a major byproduct of its actions will be elevating the state of hope for North Carolinians.

Fourth-grader Selena Salaiz with a model of her invention, the Portable Baby Bed, at Meneley Elementary School's invention convention on Thursday.

Aaron S. Kesselheim, M.D., J.D., M.P.H. On November 9, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Bilski v. Kappos, one of the most closely watched cases in the Court's current term.

Sand 9 caps its MEMS oscillator chips with a CMOS ASIC to create an integrated two-chip stack.

A Las Vegas man and his childhood friend says growing up in the valley helped them invent a new video poker game and strike a deal with slot maker IGT.

One of the interesting side-effects of Twitter is that it liberates bloggers from one of their original duties - that of providing a set of links to interesting stuff elsewhere on the Web.

There seems to be a mobile phone application for just about everything these days -- even illegal border crossing.

The market is flooded up with large variety of latest laptops. This new range of tiny devices can create turmoil among the generation.

Travelpro Announces - Win a Trip to Hollywood Sweepstakes' in Celebration of Paramount Pictures "Up in the Air" Movie - A Jason Reitman film starring George Clooney - , Boca Raton, FL - " The film, a dramatic comedy, stars OscarA winner George Clooney as Ryan Bingham, a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just ...

The Doodle Bra has turned into a booming business for teenage inventor Rachel Segal and her family.

A new immigration handbook that adds sections on military history, legendary inventors and some of the darker aspects of Canada's past seems to be a hit with the public, a poll suggests.

Car fuel Bioethanol is made by the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae from sugars obtained from plant biomass.

Spain and Latin American countries have an opportunity to take the lead in two small biotechnology sectors.

This blog focuses on the nuts-and-bolts of space technology. We're interested in the hardware that's actually going into orbit and beyond.

After years battling with a ladle to lift the last portions of casseroles from a heavy dish, a housewife from Kent has invented her own gadget.

President Obama initiated his new Strategy for American Innovation to create sustainable growth and quality jobs, restore American leadership in fundamental research and harness technology that will address the "grand challenges" of the 21st century.

Main Category: Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Also Included In: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Article Date: 19 Nov 2009 Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company announced it has further expanded its protein homeostasis program with the initiation of a Phase I clinical trial for an oral formulation of MLN9708, the Company's second-generation ...

TOPICS: History ; Music/Entertainment ; Religion ; TV/Movies KEYWORDS: catholic ; milhist ; realtime ; worldwarii First session: September 1, 2009.

The old Xerox 914 copier tucked into a small alcove on the second floor of Xerox Square barely shows its age, with a few flecks of rust on the table-sized piece of beige office equipment.

Humans have always had a desire to fly. From Leonardo da Vinci and his studies and drawings of flight to Orville and Wilbur Wright's flying machine to Amelia Earhart and her famous disappearance, the world has always craved learning about those daring individuals who have risked life and limb to soar.

Diskeeper Corporation launched Diskeeper 2010 performance software saying it actually prevents fragmentation before it happens.

News A recent Apple patent filing reveals an invention for hand-writing recognition for pen-based computers.

As Steve looked into things in more detail, research that he had done over the last year on wheelie bin crime, showed that there was a major problem across the UK.

Arizona State University has been awarded nearly $3 million in federal stimulus funds from the National Institutes of Health.

WE GOT IT in the early '70s: a Kimball organ that sat in our living room for 20 years or more.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Nov. 9 in a closely watched case that could have a profound impact in several high-tech industries, including software and finance.

I might be justified these days to look at the shelves of cake mixes in supermarkets with a superior smirk, but I actually would never do that.

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The legal challenges to Intel Corp.'s sales tactics mounted Wednesday as New York's attorney general accused the world's biggest computer chip maker of using "illegal threats and collusion" to dominate.

Gadget inventions of the 21st century include smaller specialized electronics or mechanical devices that lend outstanding service to our society.

Under terms of the agreement, KACST will purchase an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer to enable KACST scientists to perform complex simulations and computational modeling.

Inside Innovation at Xerox: Scientists Develop Chemical Armor to Extend the Lifespan of Printer ComponentsInside Innovation at Xerox: A peek inside the Xerox photoreceptor manufacturing process -- Xerox scientists have developed a protective armor th ROCHESTER, N.Y., BUSINESS WIRE -- Tasked with developing ways to extend the lifespan of printer ...

"Got Invention Radio," a new live talk radio show for inventors, hosted by Brian Fried, to premier on wsradio.com on November 19th, 2009.

The death of a 38-year-old University of Ottawa professor, who had no known underlying medical condition when he succumbed to the H1N1 flu this week, highlights a medical mystery that continues to dog researchers: Why does a tiny minority of otherwise healthy young Canadians become gravely ill or die from swine flu? Why does the novel virus seem to ...

It's the most obvious combination since the invention of the word "duh." Throw the supercharged, 6.2-liter LS9 V8 from the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 into the nose of a 2010 Camaro.

Chat at 11 a.m. with Courtney Hollands on upcoming events in Boston. Chat at noon with Matthew Gilbert and Joanna Weiss on TV.

Dr. Ganz passed away earlier this week at the age of 90. "We are deeply saddened by the loss of Dr.

An antibiotic-soaked sponge that dissolves after surgeons place it in a wound is one of several ideas the FedEx Institute of Technology is helping become reality.

The World Wide Web Foundation, Tim Berners-Lee's latest brainchild, is now officially open for business and involved with two initial projects, as it embarks on using the Web to empower people worldwide and bring about positive socio-economic change.

"SOME of the best-loved technology on the planet" is how Apple describes its products when recruiting new employees.

The Camera book spans almost 200 years of photographic progress. ROCHESTER, NY.- For the first time in the two centuries of photographic history, a book has been produced that celebrates both the camera and the art of the photograph - displaying images alongside the cameras that created them.

Gerald Hurst, a chemist and inventor, offers his services for free to help individuals he feels were wrongly convicted of arson.

The news that Brazil and Mexico have come out of the recession and are poised for solid growth in 2010 should be celebrated, and both countries' leaders should be given credit for their sound economic management.

In 1995, at the outset of a major expansion and acquisition binge, networking pioneer 3Com Corp.

Gary Sheldon Hutcheson apologized to his family and the victims of his $2 million Ponzi scheme at a federal court hearing Thursday that resulted in him being sentenced to serve five years in prison.

British comedian Ricky Gervais rarely disappoints. His BBC hits The Office and Extras garner the chuckles unlike any other shows.

Categories Affiliations Elsewhere Friday, November 13, 2009 If therea TMs one significant voice in the PR profession that attracts attention and influences opinion within the industry and outside of it on a global scale, that voice is Steve Rubel : PR practitioner at Edelman Digital , blogging pioneer, social media early adopter and evangelist, ...

Classmates: Hasan defended suicide bombings, held Islamist views . Money quote: Despite the controversy that his schoolwork created, classmates did not view Hasan as mentally unstable or psychotic, the source said.

They certainly don't at Microsoft, or at the U.S Patent Office. Over at slashdot a story tells about the Microsoft move to patent a command, SUDO, that has been running on computer hardware since 1980, and was originally run on a VAX minicomputer.

Top News Latest Videos watch-it! watch-it! watch-it! watch-it! watch-it! watch-it! Fri, 13 Nov '09 NASA will hold the 2009 Astronaut Glove Challenge on November 19th at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Silicon Valley entrepreneur and inventor Robert Goldman in the office of his San Jose home on Tuesday, Nov.

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Woop woop! Project Natal has been named by Time Magazine as one of the inventions of the year.

Software major Infosys Technologies and Nvidia, world leader in visual technologies and inventor of Graphics Processing Unit, on Wednesday announced a partnership to develop Nvidia Cuda Technology-enabled software solutions.

Main Category: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Also Included In: MRI / PET / Ultrasound ; Stem Cell Research Article Date: 12 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST The National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers at Rice University and the Texas Heart Institute a $1 million Challenge Grant to refine cell-tracking nanotube technology that could make magnetic ...

A new technology to prevent lithium-ion batteries from catching fire or exploding in laptops and mobile phones may be on the market as soon as the first quarter of 2010, its inventor said.

Dr. William Ganz, a pioneering cardiologist and one of the inventors of a specialized catheter, has died.

Inventor Luciano Marabese displays a prototype of his holy water dispenser at his office in Capriano Briosco, around 40 km north of Milan November 10, 2009.

Dr. Robb Akridge, inventor of the Clarsonic, joins FOX13 to demonstrate how his facial cleansing device can give you a glow that you would usually pay big bucks for at a salon.

AKRON, Ohio, DuPont has announced that Kevin Westgate of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio, is a recipient of a DuPont award that recognizes the commercialization of an impactful new technology.

A two-year-long legal battle between Samsung Electronics and Sharp is expected to continue for the time being, with the two LCD panel makers showing no signs of budging in the prolonged disputes, watchers said yesterday.

Jude Law, left, as Watson and Robert Downy Jr as Holmes in Sherlock Holmes, Guy Ritchie's take on the Conan Doyle detective stories.

Red Army tank commander Sgt. Mikhail Kalashnikov invented his first machine gun in 1942, during the Second World War, as he sat in a hospital bed recovering from a wound that he got in western Russia.

A judge has ordered a woman to stay away from Justin Timberlake for the next three years.

November 10, 2009 - Greenbuild Expo 2009-- Autodesk, Inc. , a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, announced that building product manufacturers including Reilly Windows & Doors and Mestek, Inc., are successfully using the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping to collaborate with the building information ...

Microsoft Corp. said Monday it will buy some assets of SourceGear LLC that will bolster its software design products.

The Bilski case - which could affect business method patents - is often conflated with the idea of software patents, leading to the conclusion that a loss for inventor Bilski is identical to a loss for all software companies.

Ruckus over call for reform at national science agency raises questions about attracting expatriate talent.

It's a given with series and season finales; they are never as satisfying, groundbreaking or revolutionary as you hope they will be.

Dollars to doughnuts, Robert Rines will be mainly remembered not for holding more than 800 patents, starting a law school or writing music for the stage, but for his dogged pursuit of the Loch Ness monster.

The birth origins of the Pharmaceutical Industry can be traced back to more humble antecedents than just chemistry labs.

Vacuum cleaner mogul Sir James Dyson saw his salary slashed last year as profits slid at his technology firm, it was revealed today.

MANY OF the joyous moments of parenthood sneak up on you, but none so much as the day, when, at the conclusion of the afternoon nap, you walk into the baby's room to find your toddler -- once clad in a diaper and those adorable footie pajamas -- standing at the rail of the crib wearing nothing but a smile.

I had been intrigued with the idea of Park Avenue for several years; with it's seasonal re-invention and freshness.

When the new Volvo FE truck goes on sale , waste management companies will be able to opt for a truck that produces no noise, at low least some of the time.

They use their hands to fashion the components, their minds to create function and strategy, and their hearts to feed the passion that drives their work forward.

Chocolate is pretty much commonplace in today's society and can be purchased in a variety of ways from boxed chocolates to candy bars.

When designing Makey the Robot for MAKE, Volume 19 , I ran into a problem that plagues all kinds of designers -- how to continually redesign a body to accommodate changes in whatever's crammed inside it? Once I'd sketched out Makey's configuration and modeled the major parts in Autodesk Inventor 3D modeling software, I really got into some of ...

In the 1890s, well before orderly rows of stucco-clad homes were built across the Sunset District, a colorful and unique bohemian community flowered in sandy hillocks near today's 48th Avenue and Lincoln Way.

QuantumSphere is seven years old, founded and operated by a University of California Irvine grad in Santa Ana, one of the country's most impoverished cities, with capital he raised for himself.

With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections for software.

Delsa often gives presentations of her teapot collection. She had 26 of her collection on display for a group of assisted living residents and later served them white tea, apple tea and oohlong, of which the latter was the resident's favorite.

An Indian American scientist was Saturday asked to vacate his government house here in three days, nearly two weeks after being sacked from a senior post at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research .

The Maryland Science Center is offering a rare look at Leonardo da Vinci - arguably the greatest genius of all time - in a special traveling exhibit direct from Italy, "Da Vinci - The Genius." The brilliance of da Vinci from aeronautics to medicine, artistry to weapons of war - all on display in this extraordinary exhibition's first visit to the ...

Inventors seeking ways to move their product ideas forward toward commercialization found a wealth of information and resources at the eighth annual Wisconsin Innovation Service Center 2009 Ideas to Profits Conference.

Ashoka and the Lemelson Foundation invite bloggers covering the intersection of technology, invention and social change to be the official blogger at the upcoming Tech 4 Society conference in Hyderabad, India where 100 Ashoka-Lemelson Fellows will be attending, in addition to other changemakers, to share ideas and projects that are changing the ...

Main Category: Blood / Hematology Also Included In: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Masimo , the inventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry and Measure-Through Motion and Low-Perfusion pulse oximetry, announced that a new peer-reviewed clinical study published in this month's Inhalation Toxicology demonstrates that Masimo Rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximetry provides ...

Caribou herds aren't shrinking; scientists are just looking in the wrong place. That's the opinion of some aboriginal elders and at least one outfitter determined to expose what he calls a fraud.

Photograph: Tom Hevezi/AP Morace Park was footling around on eBay looking for antiques when he stumbled on an item that was listed casually as an "old film" a ' and even then he was really more interested in the tin it was in.

Robert H. Rines, a lawyer, composer, inventor and physicist whose discoveries led to sharper resolution in radar, sonar and ultrasound imaging and who claimed to have seen the Loch Ness Monster, has died.

The inventor of the mobile phone says the devices have become too complex, with a range of features from cameras to music, since he made the first-ever wireless call over three decades ago.

The X-ray machine has been named the most important invention in the history of science, in a poll by the Science Museum.

Our opposable thumbs and our hands' unique structure allow us to write, paint, and play the piano.

Photo by Courtesy of Sony Pictures Animation Flint Lockwood and Sam Sparks watch in amazement while it rains hamburgers in Sony Pictures Animation's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

SUMMARY: The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally- funded research and development.

Neil Pond American Profile November 3, 2009 Comment on this article The Invention of Lying / Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner & Rob Lowe / PG-13 Imagine a modern-day world in which everyone tells the truth all the time and people say exactly what they're thinking.

"You don't see something like that every day," seventh-grader Tristan Dixon said Tuesday, after he and his classmates got a firsthand look at the future.

The queen conch is the largest molluscan gastropod of the six conch species found in the shallow seagrass beds of Florida, the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Caribbean Islands and the northern coasts of Central and South America.

In New York , " Leonardo Da Vinci 's Workshop: Inventor + Artist + Dreamer," opens Nov.

Brace yourselves for a flashy flood of food when Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs storms onto the giant screen at the Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 3D Theater.

To you, that cute pink bra with black lace trim might conjure up thoughts of sexy lingerie.

The Russian-born inventor leaves behind a legacy that touches several technical and creative disciplines.

The most clinically advanced malaria vaccine so far should be ready for use in three to five years after Phase three trials began in May, researchers said Tuesday.

Early last year, the Polaroid Corporation ceased producing its iconic film. The 9th October 2009 will see the final 'Use by' or Expiration date of the last batch of Polaroid film manufactured.

The Hood Museum of Art presents The Art of Sonia Landy Sheridan, an exhibition of over eighty works by the pioneering artist best known for her experiments with the emerging forms of imaging technology that would spark the late-twentieth-century communications revolution.

Even if Robert H. Rines had never seen what he believed was the hulking hump of a creature break the surface of Scotland's Loch Ness, his life would have captured imaginations and filled a lengthy resume.

SEG 2009 -- NVIDIA and Visualization Sciences Group , a leader in 3D development solutions for the oil & gas industry, announced today that the newest release of the Open Inventor 3D Graphics Toolkit will employ the NVIDIA CompleX scene-scaling acceleration engine, enabling the visualization and manipulation of huge data sets required for energy ...

Communicating market dynamics to researchers is just one function of university commercialization units.

It should be the stuff that economic-development dreams are made of in struggling southeastern Ohio.

Back in the 1970s, while watching an angioplasty to widen clogged coronary arteries, John Simpson, Ph.D., M.D., thought there had to be an easier way to perform the procedure.

Rob Day waited two decades for a cure to his rare blood condition. For the 41-year-old Lexington man, the day never came.

Ricky Gervais plays a man who dreams up the very first lie ever told in this comedy that satirizes religion, romance and the human condition.

Companies big and small monitor Twitter to find out what their customers like and what they want changed.

Published: Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 5:18 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 5:18 a.m. A POPULAR children's song has a refrain - "the more we get together the happier we'll be" - that may sound like a simplistic formula for solving the complex challenges of climate change and sustainability.

There seems to be no end of interest in Coco Chanel - much more than you would have suspected could have been generated by a collarless white jacket or a little black dress.

The Commerce Department's United States Patent and Trademark Office has designated Sacred Heart University's Ryan-Matura Library as an official Patent and Trademark Depository Library .