Daron Nunn is the founder of Zipway USA, a break-away clothing line for people in the fields of athletics and medicine. Nunn talks about how he came up with the idea for his invention and the ultimate goals of his company.
Innovation is critical for companies that want to remain competitive in the long term. It’s a key discipline within product development and it underpins quality customer service. Although many companies recognize its importance, it can be difficult to identify the sources of innovation and create an innovative culture. A good...
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Widely known as the FN FAL, SLR, LIA1 and other descriptive acronyms, Fabrique Natioinale's "Fusil Automatique Leger" has been the world's single most successful 7.62 NATO rifle platform. Given the official US Ordnance test designation of "T48," the FAL might have been adopted as the United...
The Wackness (15, JONATHAN LEVINE, 98MINS) Ben Kingsley excels as a messed-up, sex-obsessed shrink in this pitch-perfect rites-of-passage film, set in New York in 1994. Josh Peck co-stars. Nationwide Badlands (15, TERRENCE MALICK, 93MINS) ...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Let's get this out of the way immediately. HBO's new vampire series "True Blood" is not a show for the entire family. If it were a movie, it would be R-rated. It's loaded with violence, buckets of blood, strong language, nudity and sex....
EDUCATION QUANDARY Hilary's advice What indeed? Although as you, dear cynical primary school teacher, point out, being affiliated to an academy is bound to improve intakes at the chosen primary schools, so standards will rise at a stroke. What happens to all the...
INSPIRATION AND SUPPORT What makes an entrepreneurial university? Rosalind Ryan finds out how to help get graduate ideas off the ground "I have always been quite an inventive person, but many universities are like an academic conveyor belt and I wanted my ideas to be worth...
Party-popper chandeliers and hand-grenade lamps are lighting the way for a new trend - designer objects made of rubbish. By Sophie Morris The phrase "green is the new black" is thrown around with great enthusiasm but, like any trend, will this 21st-century impulse towards green living...
FatPipe Networks TM, the inventorand multiple patents holder of WANoptimization , redundancy and security products, announced today that ithas successfully secured its sixth patent. The U.S. Patent No. 7,406,048protects the "tools and techniques for directing packets over multipleparallel disparate networks, based on address and other criteria." The invention...
Engineering Matters, Inc. today announced thatits groundbreaking invention to optimize fuel economy, cut gasolineemissions and improve automotive performance, the Fully FlexibleElectromagnetic Valve Actuator, was selected by R&D Magazine to receive oneof the 2008 R&D 100 Awards. Branded "The Oscars of Invention" by TheChicago Tribune, the R&D Awards are granted...
Pfizer Inc. resumed television ads today for the cholesterol pill Lipitor, the world's top-selling drug, six months after stopping commercials with artificial-heart inventor Robert Jarvik that led to a congressional investigation. The new ads use a California talent agent named John Erlendson, who had a heart attack...
Altadyn, the developer of 3DXplorer,the first "plug-in-less," browser-based web3D platform, today announced theinvention of "Meet in 3D," a new concept to standardize immersive andinteractive 3D spaces and virtual worlds on corporate web sites. "Meet in3D" is intended to establish a new standard navigation component, on parwith the commonly-used links on...
GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman -- O2Micro([R]) International Limited (NASDAQ:OIIM) (SEHK:0457), a leading supplier of innovative power management, and security components and systems, was issued 27 claims under United States patent number 7,411,374 for its Charging Circuitry Architecture and Power Control Method. O2Micro's patented charging circuitry controls switching and...
Angel (15, FRANCOIS OZON, 119MINS) Romola Garai is spirited in a melodrama tracing the fortunes of a young woman from humble origins in Edwardian England who dreams of being a novelist. Limited release Badlands (15,...
Unique Compositions of Matter to Treat Gastrointestinal Disorders CARY, N.C. -- Alte Bioscience, Inc., a development stage pharmaceutical company, is pleased to announce the filing of a provisional patent for a new class of drugs that may benefit patients with inflammatory bowel disease. This is the latest in...
New Security Technology Exploits Uniqueness of Individual Silicon Chips for Authentication and Secret Key Generation PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Verayo, a security and authentication technology provider, today introduced security solutions based on "unclonable" silicon chips. The core technology that makes these silicon chips unclonable is called Physical Unclonable...
Young, smart, but not fully prepared for the glare of life in L.A. Shannen Doherty is talking about actress Shenae Grimes and her 90210 character, Kansas-bred Annie Wilson, but she could be talking about herself and Brenda Walsh, the Minnesota teen she played on the original Beverly Hills,...
"WHAT IS it, exactly, that the Vice President does every day? I'm used to working real hard." With these words, uttered with an upwards inflexion of disbelief, Sarah Palin responded to CNBC's political interviewer a few weeks back, when he asked her if she would like to be John McCain's...
Badlands (15, Terrence Malick, 93mins) Rerelease of the director's sumptuous debut. Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek star as the young lovers embarking on a murderous spree across South Dakota. Limited release The Wackness (15, Jonathan...
GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman -- O2Micro([R]) International Limited (NASDAQ:OIIM) (SEHK:0457), a leading supplier of innovative power management, and security components and systems, was issued 21 claims under United States patent number 7,375,472 for its Photoflash Diode driver invention. This invention provides a circuit and control method to drive...
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