The New Inventors (Australian TV)

www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors

Scientists Accomplish

Saul Griffith: award-winning inventor

Saul Griffith offers a glimpse into the future with this compelling overview of his works-in-progress and materials-in-progress. The award-winning inventor shares the inspiration (a droplet of water) behind his low-cost prescription lenses, produced by a machine the size of an inkjet printer. Other projects include Howtoons and Instructables (comics that show how to build things and understand things), "smart" rope that can tell how much it's carrying, and a house-sized kite for towing boats.

Innovation in the News (& the Blinkx Database)

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Finding new cures for migraine, depression

Accepting his 2005 TED Prize, inventor Robert Fischell makes three wishes: redesigning a portable migraine treatment, finding new cures for clinical depression, and reforming the medical malpractice system. He also shares three new inventions that could improve the lives of millions: His Angel Med Guardian System -- a pacemaker-sized device wired into the heart -- detects an elevation in the electric signal of the heart, the first sign of a heart attack. His transcranial magnetic stimulator treats migraines with a magnetic pulse. Finally, the Neuropace prevents epileptic seizures by transmitting electric signals in the brain.

Simple designs that could save childrens' lives

Simple designs that could save childrens' lives
Amy Smith designs cheap, practical fixes for tough problems in developing countries.
Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. MIT engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but simple solution: a tool for converting farm waste into cleaner-burning fuel.
Plain-spoken and passionate, Smith talks about some other tools she and her students are creating, including an incubator that stays warm without electricity and a grain mill that frees women from hours of grinding every day. These are basic tools with world-changing results.

Understand innovation.(PowerPoint)

Get your head around it. This short, introductory presentation can help business students and business practitioners better understand innovation.

NCSL Hotseat: Teachers as Innovators (PowerPoint)

Presentation for NCSL Hotseat about Teachers as Innovators project

The Art of Innovation (PowerPoint)

Keynote presentation from "Entrepreneurial Thinking" conference, the 4th Annual Sebo Series in Entrepreneurship, April 13, 2007, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. By Guy Kawasaki.

The rise of the amateur professional

In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore.
Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can’t. He describes the rising role of serious amateurs ("Pro-Ams," as he calls them) through the story of the mountain bike.

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