It might seem that swimming is something we can all learn and do, but what about someone who, for example, has only one leg? Here is an idea meant for them: it is called Neptune, a very aquatic name for this attachable and adaptable flipper that can replace a missing limb, allowing everyone to enjoy swimming and the water.

You can see how it works in this video:

Its creator, Richard Stark, has also designed other concepts that can be very useful to people with mobility problems. Here is his website

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We wanted to let you know that today Friday July the 23th the service will be interrupted for 15-30 minutes, during which the access to the ideas4all webpage will not be possible.

This interruption of service will take place between 12:30pm – 3pm Spanish Time, in order to carry out servers maintenance, to achieve a better service level.

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This week, we reached a total of 182 ideas taking part in the Challenge: Ideas to improve Museums. You too can participate with your ideas.

We were part of the jury at the Innovation in Health Awards, organized by Fundación FDB

The Sponsored Problem, How to make FacturaGEM “viral”? has come to an end, and it is now it is up to the people at ASPGEMS to decide who is the winner.

Competitions of the Platform Ideas for Guadalajara have also come to an end, after giving away one-month Spotify Premium Passes and collections of 71 e-books of the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library. The last winners will be announced this coming Monday.

This week, as we have already announced in the Blog, we have suspended our partnership with BeRuby, which means payments will no longer be made for visits or publication of ideas.

This week, we launched the Ideas Challenge, the challenge that Valencia’s autonomous region has set entrepreneurs through ideas4all. If you have an idea, you too can take part. What are you waiting for!

On Wednesday, we attended the Iniciador event in Cordoba with the participation of  Ana María Llopis.

Today, to celebrate Book Day, don’t forget to read our 10 recommended books for entrepreneurs in this article. We’re sure you’ll find them useful.

This afternoon will see a new edition of Business Encounters in the Business Circle of Leon, at 8:30 pm, where Ana María Llopis will speak of ideas4all.

And we remind you that you can still help solve the sponsored problem: How to make FacturaGEM ‘viral’? 57 solutions have already been suggested. Submit yours, you can win 300€ .

The University of Alcalá  in Madrid and Uned have renewed, for a second year, their agreement with leading multi-national software creators Electronic Arts (EA), thus continuing with their initiative, “Video-games in classroom”.

Uned certainly has much to say with regards to e-learning; as all the initiatives they are promoting lately go to show.

The idea is to use video-games in order to explain certain subjects to students in high school.
Trivial Pursuit is being used to teach languages and History, Sims3 in Philosophy and Spanish classes, among others.

This laudable task has counted with the help of a group of professionals in Education, Psychology, Sociology and Communication Sciences from the University of Alcalá and UNED, who have joined forces to promote the use of video-games in classrooms as an inherent part of children’s learning process.

Actualidad Económica has dedicated a space in the magazine’s special, Examining Innovation, to highlight this project, included in “The 100 best ideas”, going  to show how much interest the initiative has attracted.

Because, as @dreig states in her excellent post on the future of digital books “What changes is the way to tell a story, the narrative, which is necessarily closer to what has been created and consumed by a youth with a COGNITIVE DIET we know is different: augmented reality, interactivity, hypertext, multi-window…. Unlimited multimedia possibilities, it could be said that technology truly becomes invisible, to highlight the irreplaceable importance of a creative inspiration that has never been able to fly this freely.”

I invite you to take a look at the video @dreig mentions in her post, so that we may experience a glimpse of what is to come, or is rather already here.

Rocío Bravo of Ideas4all

We wanted to let you know that tomorrow Friday February the 19th the service will be interrupted for 2-3 hours, during which the access to the ideas4all webpage will not be possible.

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Last February, social media blogger karmen reed made a very complete revision list of twitter applications. Since we found it very interesting, we have decided to transcribe it here, hoping it will be useful to you.

Data/ Search

ReTweetist – Tracks the most popular retweets.
TweetBeep – TweetBeep is a “Google Alerts” for Twitter.
Twitbuzz – Tracks the latest conversations as well as most popular Twitter links.
Twitscoop – Twitscoop shares what’s hot on Twitter at any given moment.
Twitter Search - Twitter’s search function. You can subscribe to a search via RSS.
Tinker – Aggregates Twitter conversations around topics.

Monitoring:

Tweetmeme – Tweetmeme tracks the most popular links on Twitter every 5 minutes, categorized by types of content: images, video, audio, blogs.
Twemes – Tracks Twitter memes.
Monitter – Monitter is a real-time keyword-based monitoring service that lets you watch three columns of keyword streams side-by-side.
TwitClicks – Shortens URLs and tracks clicks.
Bit.ly – Shortens URLs, counts clicks, shows who else shortened a URL and provides metadata about that URL from across the Web.
Twitlinks – Tracks most popular tech links from most popular tech Twitter users.

Network Building:

LocalTweeps – Find Twitter users near you.
Mr. Tweet – A recommendation engine that also provides statistics on your Twitter usage.
Twellow – Twitter directory similar to Yellow Pages.
TwitDir – With this Twitter directory you’ll be able to search for people and categories including top followers and updaters.
TwitterLocal – Twitter Local is a desktop app that finds Twitter users within a fixed radius of a city or zip code.
WeFollow – User powered Twitter directory.

Twitter Management and Organization:

TweetDeck – An Adobe AIR desktop application for Twitter that organizes followers, lists and social networks. Available as iPhone app.
Hootsuite – Organize your followers, feeds and tweets, connect with other social networks and assign admins. Available as iPhone app.
CoTweet – Enables multiple people to collaborate and manage one (same) Twitter account.
SocialOopmh - Let’s you schedule Tweets and analyze followers.
Seesmic Desktop – Available as web and desktop app, as well as iPhone app. Organize followers, lists, searches, connect with other social networks.
PeopleBrowser – For extreme power users or for those who love challenge and learning. This is an amazing full featured and complicated tool. Available both as desktop and web app, full and light versions.

Promotion and Sharing:

Twitpic – Upload your pictures and share them on Twitter.
Twitvid – Upload your videos and share them on Twitter.
Twit(url)y – Tracks popular links and displays them in Digg-like fashion.
Hashtags.org – Hashtags are designed to track the most popular Twitter posts that include a #hashtag.
TwitterFeed – Feeds your blog to Twitter, Facebook and more.
TweetBurner – Share links, and track their usage.

Rocío Bravo from Ideas4all

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It’s so straightforward, simple and useful, we should all have a “wineglass hanger” at home for our dinners and parties. That’s the name of this clever invention by Japanese company Furnish.

It is made out of polyester, and by placing it on the neck of our wine bottle, we can carry the bottle and glasses, all in one hand. You can purchase them through Frunish’s website.

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