The ESA – European Space Agency is inviting the industrial, technological and scientific community to create ideas for experiments and useful elements of load for the first moon landing module of the ESA. The objective is developing a spacecraft capable of landing on the moon between 2017 and 2020. This spacecraft would carry food, oxygen,
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Engineers of the MIT find a solution to the Achilles’ heel of lithium batteries
Gerbrand Ceder, an engineer at the MIT, has created a sort of a “bypass road”, allowing fast transition of electrical energy thanks to the material used for manufacturing batteries. The latest rechargeable batteries have very high energetic densities; this means, they are really good storing large quantities of load. In order to obtain this density,
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JEI/SPINOFF09 Awards for young innovative companies, with 6.000 Euro in prizes – Registration ends on April, 20th
Registration term is open now for inscriptions in the Young Innovative Company Award, organized by the foundation Fundación Zaragoza Ciudad del Conocimiento. The objective is giving support and recognition to young innovative companies (in Spanish, JEI) in Spanish universities. More precisely, the Award wants to promote innovative culture and to give recognition to efforts to
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A contest for women with good ideas – Registrations ends on April, 30th, and the prize are 2.500 $
Bed, Bath and Beyond, in cooperation with Edison Nation, is calling for a contest specifically devoted to women as homage to the first patent granted to a woman, whose 200th anniversary we are celebrating now. The objective of American Women of Invention is to motivate innovation in the domestic sphere, via products or solutions to
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Carrefour calls for the II Design Contest for Resuable Bags 2008-2009
The slogan of this contest is “Customers of Carrefour design and vote the reusable bag in 2008-2009”. Any adult registering at the contest’s website and living in Spain may participate. (Employees of Carrefour and their direct relatives are excluded). Ever user may upload on the website his own digitalized design (jpg) of the reusable bag
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Ideas4all is already in Facebook and Twitter!
From a few weeks ago, ideas4all is already on Facebook, the social net with the highest growth rate. We have opened our official Fanpage and are already 64 members. Here we will publish the latest events happening at the web, articles posted on the blog and two daily ideas selected from between all of your
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Diageo will award this year during its young and brilliant economical journalism award 2009 a seconf prize for the best article on corporate social responsability
Diageo is a company based in the U.K., marketing spirit brands (J&B, Smirnoff, Cacique, Johnnie Walker, Baileys…). In Spain, their national company has been organizing now for quite a few years the Diageo Award for Young and Brilliant Economical Journalism. The award was created to award and give recognition to the work of media professionals
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Greener Gadgets Design Competition – winners have been announced
The Greener Gadgets Conference 2009 has announced the winners of the ecological gadget design contest, bearing the same name: The Greener Gadgets Design Competition 2009. The winner of the first prize is the gadget Tweet-a-Watt; it measures the watt one is consuming and publishes the data on Twitter. So, all people following the very famous
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International IPv6 Application Contest 2009 – Registration ends on April, 1010 – Prizes of 10.000 Euro
On the website portalIPv6.lacnic, the call for a contest based on applications on the new version of IPv6 has been started. According to Jordi Palet, “this is the new version of the protocol of data nets on which internet is based. The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) developed its basic specifications during the 90es. The
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The Spark Awards 2009
Before talking about the current edition of the Spark Awards, maybe we can help you to get an exact idea of what these awards are looking for. Let us have a look at the website winners of the 2008 edition. Among them, we may find such different devices or ideas like a kitchen (illustrating this
