A French man paralysed in a night club accident can walk again thanks to a brain-controlled exoskeleton in what scientists said Wednesday was a breakthrough providing hope to tetraplegics seeking to regain movement.
Many people have a belief system that has them convinced that the world of tomorrow will look much like it does today, with the result that when they are confronted by the future, they dismiss it. Of course, they laughed at me.
Hmmm, but “Switzerland is the most innovative economy in the world in 2022 – for the 12th year in a row – followed by the United States, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. China is nearing the top 10 while TĂźrkiye and India enter the top 40 for the first time, according to the GII 2022.”
Global Innovation Index 2022 â Which are the most innovative countries
Here’s another technology that uses seawater to grow crops in the desert, but with the bonus of extracting salt from the water without the expensive desalination process.
Not a new material but is likely to be used for countless applications in the future. Great ideas will come out of these buckyball sheets I guess. Bring it on.
Cool. âOur biggest current challenge is embedding these smart sensors into a flexible and compliant material that can expand as the modules are inflated in space,â Kim says.
Sensors in Space: Keeping Astronauts Safe in Inflatable Habitats
At first, inflatable habitats in orbit around Earth may sound like a dangerous idea, given that the vacuum of space is littered with, as NASA says, âmillions of pieces of human-made debris or space junk consisting mainly of fragmented rocket bodies and spacecraft parts created by 50 years of explo... Read more
Now that sounds like a good application for buckypaper. According to this it can be used as a lightweight heat shield that can stand up to the impact of hypersonic speeds.
Carbon nanotubes key to next-gen heat shields for hypersonic aircraft
A team of scientists at Florida State Universityâs High-Performance Materials Institute is using advanced nanomaterials to produce lightweight heat shields that can stand up to the impact of hypersonic speeds. Based on sheets of carbon nanotubes called âbuckypaper,â the new experimental shield... Read more
An idea stock exchange might not work as anybody could just pinch the idea and start trading that one instead. But there are other options to make money from your ideas. Read this and let me know if you have had any success.
The Best Ways to Sell an Idea Without Getting a Patent
The Best Ways to Sell an Idea Without Getting a Patent. After coming up with a winning idea for a product, many inventors choose to pursue a patent for their invention. While this does provide you with protection for your idea, it can be a painstaking process that involves years to complete. If youâ... Read more
. Idea Market is a stock-exchange-like innovation portal that leverages on the power of the crowdsourcing and opens a space for people to express their ideas and collaborate with each other. As a result, it reinforces happiness among employees, leading to higher company growth.
Idea Market: A stock exchange metaphor for empowering collaborative innovation | Management Innovation eXchange
MIT are doing their bit too. Needs Bill Gates and that Bezoz to get on board and start dishing our incentives to make the world better, gawd knows they have it good and know they should be helping more, this would be a good way to do it. Don’t expect governments or regular businesses to put the money up.
ÂŁ50k has been put up to solve city problems by the surveyors in the UK there should be a single site that lists all the individual contests that each industry is putting a prize up for.
New global competition to encourage young people to solve problems facing the worldâs cities
A new global competition to encourage students and young people to find solutions to the issues facing the worldâs rapidly expanding cities was launched today.
Don’t think 2021 will have a contest, so it is time others took the lead from the example and set them up for all the different things we need. like curing nasty viruses etc.
No SpaceX, but a European competition for Delft Hyperloop instead
Seven years after Elon Musk first challenged innovators to develop a functioning hyperloop system, Richard Branson-backed Virgin Hyperloop and Hyperloop TT are in a race to bring the high-speed transportation technology into the real world. Photo illustration: George Downs
ELON Muskâs outlandish dream of a revolutionary transport system is slowly coming to pass. The futuristic Hyperloop concept he created in 2013 has been successfully tested and recieved massivâŚ
My advice is to just make it yourself and once it has started selling, contact individual potential investors. Less likely to get scammed and more likely to not look an idiot online or on tv.
20 Things All Entrepreneurs Should Know About Angel Investors
High-profile success stories like Uber, WhatsApp, and Facebook have spurred angel investors to make multiple bets with the hopes of getting outsized returns. Richard Harroch answers frequently asked questions about angel financing.
Away from the high-profile entertainment of the BBC's Dragons' Den programme, thousands of UK entrepreneurs attempt to raise capital by pitching their companies to so-called angel investors.
This would be a good idea if a site had templates that were legally binding. There is no real reason why you need a solicitor just to check you are not infringing on someone else’s patent. Google do a patent checker for free btw.
Good idea, indeed thousands of students from many countries have already signed one that reads: âI promise to work for a better world, where science and technology are used in socially responsible ways. I will not use my education for any purpose intended to harm human beings or the environment. Throughout my career, I will consider the ethical implications of my work before I take action. While the demands placed upon me may be great, I sign this declaration because I recognize that individual responsibility is the first step on the path to peace.â
T he tremendous advances in pure science made during the 20th century have completely changed the relation between science and society. Through its technological applications, science has become a dominant element in our lives. It has enormously improved the quality of life. It has also created grea... Read more
There should be similar to a Nobel peace prize but for goons who’s inventions killed the most innocent people. Their names should be remembered and shamed.
10 Deadly Inventions in History - Some We Used Everyday
Wondering who are the most evil people in the history of the world? Itâs not just Hitler but many other notorious men in the history who did unimaginable crimes against humanity!
This is amasing – better is that eco-activists and artists with laser lighting equipment could go around projecting environmental messages onto waterfalls in inner-city fountains near busy roads.
Hard to argue with this. But I don’t think God or some alien had to think something like a Universe up in order for it to exist. One thing is for sure though, all things AND ideas will perish, leaving no-thing and no-idea.
Saw the idea of projecting on to water years ago and often wondered what real-life applications it could have. So I guess this is it. Any more examples on how this could be used?
Like the idea but some things were just things before anyone thought of them, such as planets and atoms. Other things may not have been real things, but they are universal ideas that seem to exist independently of our cultures and social norms…
“there are the ideas that do not distinguish themselves by what can be seen or heard, but by what can be felt. Their names are truth, justice, faith, hope, love, they do not seek to be known but to be felt.”
Adding this link to another idea on ideamill. Lots of good comments, especially relating to the idea of nobody having original ideas anymore. Thing is, surely all ideas were original at one point?
All of history has led you to read this idea - IdeaMill
I have been looking for a site that does this for years now. Best I come up with is this answer on stack exchange / patents “Yes, there is a list. No, it is not exhaustive. In fact, the patent system is expressly designed for this purpose. We want people to know about expired patents and to use them as they see fit. The USPTO Patent Database provides patent images for all patents since 1970, and text files for all patents since 1976. Every patent issued before 4/10/2000 (as of this writing) is expired. Some patents after that date are expired, depending on whether the patent has been abandoned. There is no list of every single expired patent, but you can produce a list of the bulk of expired patents, and then search more recent ones on a case-by-case basis as necessary.”
C’mon UK Govt, we pay you to manage this information, it would be easy to just feed it as RSS on a site for all to use. After all you do want innovation right?
I like this, from an answer on quora “Small minds discuss people- Some people are so jobless, Iâm sorry if this brings offense to anyone but, theyâre so jobless, they back-bite or they talk about another individualâs decisions. They âdiscuss people,â. They waste their own lives by discussing about the lives of other people.
Average minds discuss events- The same. They discuss events. Not people, events. Events that happen around the world. But events. Something happened at this place earlier? Ah let us talk about it- sort of a thing.
Great Minds discuss ideas- Yâall have a life. One. Life. Why would you waste it discussing about other people or events? Why not make some use out of it and discuss your own ideas to improve your own life rather than loitering around & preventing people from aiming their goals? Use. Your. Life.”
Why do small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas?
Answer (1 of 10): Small minds - We all know the saying, if you canât say something nice, say nothing at all, but many donât live by it. Why? The first reason is simple, because it feels good⌠When a person knows something about someone else that no one else knows (aka a secret or the âinside... Read more
Here’s a funding campaign for an AI-powered exoskeleton for adventure enthusiasts.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hypershell/one-horsepower-ai-exoskeleton-powers-your-everyday-adventure-0?ref=recommendation-no-result-discoverpage-4
You could wear one of these when running.
This inventor designed a 4,000 kg robotic #exoskeleton.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/beakerhead-return-calgary-science-art-1.6594877
I want to wear one of these!
These would be perfect for people with disability or mobility issues.
These were in the Avatar movie.
There are some alternatives, but a dedicated site would be good considering this and the advantage the dragons get over the inventors…
I first heard this quote in a great move from way way back and just found the clip on Youtube – how true some of this movie became.
and âSarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.â â Oscar Wilde. And anything by Twain…
People will laugh, that’s fine – but groupthink laughter is a dangerous thing according to Jim Caroll.
I’ve always wondered if there’s a connection between sleep and our surroundings. This idea is intriguing!
I’ve read about ancient methods of relaxation. This paint concept seems like a modern twist on old practices.
I’m curious about the science behind this. How does the paint induce sleep?
Hmmm, but “Switzerland is the most innovative economy in the world in 2022 – for the 12th year in a row – followed by the United States, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. China is nearing the top 10 while TĂźrkiye and India enter the top 40 for the first time, according to the GII 2022.”
Actually, this is what he said, and his speech writers before him
Not so fast, and not at any cost though right?
Here’s another technology that uses seawater to grow crops in the desert, but with the bonus of extracting salt from the water without the expensive desalination process.
What a fantastic idea! With seawater, we can be able to transform deserts into fertile lands.
Seawater-grown crops can boost food production and improve food security.
Whoever said food cannot be grown using saltwater?
Not a new material but is likely to be used for countless applications in the future. Great ideas will come out of these buckyball sheets I guess. Bring it on.
Cool. âOur biggest current challenge is embedding these smart sensors into a flexible and compliant material that can expand as the modules are inflated in space,â Kim says.
Now that sounds like a good application for buckypaper. According to this it can be used as a lightweight heat shield that can stand up to the impact of hypersonic speeds.
An idea stock exchange might not work as anybody could just pinch the idea and start trading that one instead. But there are other options to make money from your ideas. Read this and let me know if you have had any success.
Anyone for monkey tennis? Wilson, the tennis equipment brand buy ideas.
. Idea Market is a stock-exchange-like innovation portal that leverages on the power of the crowdsourcing and opens a space for people to express their ideas and collaborate with each other. As a result, it reinforces happiness among employees, leading to higher company growth.
MIT are doing their bit too. Needs Bill Gates and that Bezoz to get on board and start dishing our incentives to make the world better, gawd knows they have it good and know they should be helping more, this would be a good way to do it. Don’t expect governments or regular businesses to put the money up.
ÂŁ50k has been put up to solve city problems by the surveyors in the UK there should be a single site that lists all the individual contests that each industry is putting a prize up for.
Don’t think 2021 will have a contest, so it is time others took the lead from the example and set them up for all the different things we need. like curing nasty viruses etc.
Challenge Prizes sounds like another good way to get more clever minds focussing on the problems of today.
Think Elon would be pleased others are taking the challenge on board. It’s a great idea. so is having similar contests for other things.
Weird, now the bearded Virgin overlord is going for a hyperloop now that he is having trouble getting his. already paid, customers to space.
My advice is to just make it yourself and once it has started selling, contact individual potential investors. Less likely to get scammed and more likely to not look an idiot online or on tv.
Interesting. does this exist?
I think you can send a pitch on the Angel Investors website
“Patents Pending” status is free – at the cost of ÂŁ270 ahem.
This would be a good idea if a site had templates that were legally binding. There is no real reason why you need a solicitor just to check you are not infringing on someone else’s patent. Google do a patent checker for free btw.
You can’t file a patent without a solicitor but this site lets you search them for free.
A good start might be to implement the Nobel laureate Joseph Rotblatâs Hippocratic oath for graduating scientists
Good idea, indeed thousands of students from many countries have already signed one that reads: âI promise to work for a better world, where science and technology are used in socially responsible ways. I will not use my education for any purpose intended to harm human beings or the environment. Throughout my career, I will consider the ethical implications of my work before I take action. While the demands placed upon me may be great, I sign this declaration because I recognize that individual responsibility is the first step on the path to peace.â
There should be similar to a Nobel peace prize but for goons who’s inventions killed the most innocent people. Their names should be remembered and shamed.
There have been some bad ones for sure, see this video.
If you make it, include the names of those who paid for the inventions too.
Could be dangerous adding all that water to the road surface, unless you used something like a water repellant covering.
Glass windows that clean themselves
(5 upvotes)Spacecraft and aircraft coatings that prevent ice build-up
(1 upvotes)Phone cases that float
(3 upvotes)Waterfall road signs
(6 upvotes)Liquid medicine containers that leave no residual medicine
(3 upvotes)Non-stick ketchup bottles
(4 upvotes)Toy balls that bounce on water
(1 upvotes)This?
Another great use for a type of compostable plastic
Biodegradable baby shoes
(5 upvotes)Waterproof ‘plastic’ books
(5 upvotes)Pallet wrap that is biodegradable
(1 upvotes)Reusable bags made from vegetable starch
(3 upvotes)Supermarket bucket shopping to reduce packaging
(2 upvotes)Temprature indicator plastic cups
(-1 upvotes)Greenpeace charity shops
(20 upvotes)There are a few ways you can “waterproof” existing books, somewhat.
They exist. They don’t have to be plastic as such, but more like coated paper like modern bank notes.
This is amasing – better is that eco-activists and artists with laser lighting equipment could go around projecting environmental messages onto waterfalls in inner-city fountains near busy roads.
Hard to argue with this. But I don’t think God or some alien had to think something like a Universe up in order for it to exist. One thing is for sure though, all things AND ideas will perish, leaving no-thing and no-idea.
Saw the idea of projecting on to water years ago and often wondered what real-life applications it could have. So I guess this is it. Any more examples on how this could be used?
Like the idea but some things were just things before anyone thought of them, such as planets and atoms. Other things may not have been real things, but they are universal ideas that seem to exist independently of our cultures and social norms…
“there are the ideas that do not distinguish themselves by what can be seen or heard, but by what can be felt. Their names are truth, justice, faith, hope, love, they do not seek to be known but to be felt.”
So cool, in the UK, you would just need the projector and use the regular rain đ
Adding this link to another idea on ideamill. Lots of good comments, especially relating to the idea of nobody having original ideas anymore. Thing is, surely all ideas were original at one point?
I have been looking for a site that does this for years now. Best I come up with is this answer on stack exchange / patents “Yes, there is a list. No, it is not exhaustive. In fact, the patent system is expressly designed for this purpose. We want people to know about expired patents and to use them as they see fit. The USPTO Patent Database provides patent images for all patents since 1970, and text files for all patents since 1976. Every patent issued before 4/10/2000 (as of this writing) is expired. Some patents after that date are expired, depending on whether the patent has been abandoned. There is no list of every single expired patent, but you can produce a list of the bulk of expired patents, and then search more recent ones on a case-by-case basis as necessary.”
This exists, though it is not exhaustive, wish it was.
C’mon UK Govt, we pay you to manage this information, it would be easy to just feed it as RSS on a site for all to use. After all you do want innovation right?
Ideadrop looks like a good place to get random ideas, though not a member so unsure if you can add faves or find crowdfunding projects there.
I like this, from an answer on quora “Small minds discuss people- Some people are so jobless, Iâm sorry if this brings offense to anyone but, theyâre so jobless, they back-bite or they talk about another individualâs decisions. They âdiscuss people,â. They waste their own lives by discussing about the lives of other people.
Average minds discuss events- The same. They discuss events. Not people, events. Events that happen around the world. But events. Something happened at this place earlier? Ah let us talk about it- sort of a thing.
Great Minds discuss ideas- Yâall have a life. One. Life. Why would you waste it discussing about other people or events? Why not make some use out of it and discuss your own ideas to improve your own life rather than loitering around & preventing people from aiming their goals? Use. Your. Life.”
Actually Socrates said this. Great presidents’ wives only discuss other people’s ideas – or they would have been president no?. Hmm
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