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Inventor's dreams take (short) flight
News After years of design and testing work, he began testing the contraption late last month, achieving lift-off right around the 98th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' historic first flight -- an analogy that isn't lost on the inventor.
[January 17, 2002, 13:24]
SKP Export for Inventor
Downloads SKP Export for Inventor is a SketchUp SKP file export add-in for InventorÃ? This add-in gives Inventor the ability to export geometric data from Inventor to SKP files. SKP Export for Inventor tessellates the solid bodies in an Inventor part or...
[November 19, 2009, 7:36]
Q&A: Mobile phone inventor says dream isn't real yet
News Cellphone inventor Martin Cooper doesn't get any special treatment from carriers just because he created the now ubiquitous cellphone three decades ago. Even his Motorola V-60 from Verizon Wireless cuts off callers in midsentence, he said.
[April 7, 2003, 15:37]
Brit inventor designs in-shoe mobile charger
News British inventor Trevor Baylis -- designer of the world's first clockwork radio -- has come up with a concept to charge a mobile phone by walking. Baylis claims he has around 20 different ideas to achieve the locomotion powered mobiles.
[January 12, 2000, 9:04]
Genome pioneer wins inventor prize
News Segway inventor Dean Kamen won last year's Lemelson-MIT Prize. Leroy Hood, a pioneer of the project that mapped out the complete set of human genes, was awarded the $500,000 (about £320,000) Lemelson-MIT Prize on Thursday for inventing "four...
[April 25, 2003, 7:54]
Tech visionary gets inventor prize
News In short order, the peripatetic inventor learned he was $500,000 richer, the recipient of the Lemelson-MIT prize. The Lemelson prize is named after Jerome Lemelson, a former toy industry executive and inventor famous for filing patent infringement...
[April 26, 2001, 8:53]
Q&A: Mobile phone inventor says dream isn't real yet
Talkback I absolutely agree with Mr. Cooper that the dream is far from realization, in my view my thoughts should be wirelessly transmitted to others at the speed of my thought, and I hope that dream is not far away.
[January 4, 2004, 8:51]
3G is dead, says mobile phone inventor
Talkback Hmmm. Svedish national telephone company Televerket, now known as Telia had automatic mobile phones in the mid 1950. Som mobile phones has been around in sweden for 55 years now, with help by LM Ericsson, which is now known as Ericsson (or Sony...
[February 21, 2006, 21:39]
Inventor celebrates 30 years of Ethernet
Talkback arpanet didn't introduce packet switching, the uk National Physical Laboratory did it in 1963 or thereabouts.and it didn't stay in the lab either. When I started work in computing in 1975 at BNF Metals Technology Centre in Wantage, UK they were...
[November 17, 2005, 12:35]
3G is dead, says mobile phone inventor
News 3G has problems, according to Marty Cooper, and he should know -- the chief executive of high-speed wireless company ArrayComm is credited with inventing the mobile phone while working at Motorola. We engineers knew years ago that 3G as presently...
[October 31, 2002, 14:53]
Ethernet inventor welcomed into Hall of Fame
News I was the principal inventor, so my name appeared first on the patent. At the age of 61, Robert "Bob" Metcalfe has led a storied career, but he isn't resting on his laurels just yet. The engineer-turned-entrepreneur-turned-columnist/publisher...
[May 8, 2007, 17:54]
PGP inventor downplays encryption flaw
News A flaw found by two Czech researchers in the popular OpenPGP digital signature standard is real but relatively minor, Phil Zimmermann, chairman of the open source group, said on Wednesday. This is not a practical attack," he said.
[March 22, 2001, 9:58]
Web inventor 'Briton of the year'
News Sir Tim Berners-Lee has scooped the award for 'Best Briton 2004', 14 years after combining HTML with URLs to come up with the Web. At a ceremony held in central London last night and attended by politicians and celebrities from all walks of life...
[January 28, 2005, 8:30]
Inventor of the integrated circuit dies at 81
News Jack Kilby, whose work on integrated circuits in the 1950s ushered in the digital era, died Monday after a battle with cancer. He was 81. In the summer of 1958, while working at Texas Instruments, Kilby built the first electronic circuit in which...
[June 22, 2005, 9:15]
"Ginger" makes an appearance on Amazon
News If you're looking to buy "Ginger", the mysterious device from inventor Dean Kamen, look no further than Amazon.com. IT' also known as 'Ginger', has not yet been released by its inventor, but we'll be glad to notify you by email when we actually...
[January 26, 2001, 8:29]
US government considers action on patent trolls
Talkback Patents take years to develop which put the inventor thru a gaunlet of test to get to market. This just another method by rich corporate assholes to rip off the small inventor. I think the small inventor will have a good lawsuit for defamation of...
[June 18, 2006, 17:17]
Microsoft loses appeal in Office patent spat
News A US appeals court has upheld a ruling that Microsoft's Office software infringes on a Guatemalan inventor's technology, lawyers for the inventor said on Friday. Morrison & Foerster said that on Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the...
[June 19, 2006, 9:50]
Patent campaigners make government breakthrough
Talkback If you happen to be a hapless inventor, pack your bags and move to the States! A hapless inventor? Simon Gentry wrote: "P.S. Such a Microsoft who have patented the double-click, or Amazon, who patented one-click shopping?
[December 16, 2004, 9:29]
Tech visionary foresees mobile-phone revolution
News The mobile phone is already revolutionising societies around the world, but its impact is increasing as phones become more powerful and find their way into the hands of more and more people, according to futurist, inventor and author Ray Kurzweil.
[May 20, 2008, 12:39]
Germans rank Berners-Lee alongside Einstein
News Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee was hailed on Thursday as one of the world's greatest scientists by the organisers of Germany's national Quadriga awards. The Web inventor will receive the Quadriga award on October 3, the date when Germany...
[August 19, 2005, 11:45]
