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March 11, 2007
Mental Break: Innovation Thoughts (Good and Bad!)
Innovation is the word of the day for businesses large and small these days. From small local dealers to multinational conglomerates, innovation is the fuel that drives business growth. So, in service to our readers, here are some fast thoughts on innovation:
- According to the Franklin Institute's Braindrops Website (cool place to bookmark) it takes about 90% less energy to recycle aluminum cans than it takes to make new ones. (3/11/2007)
- Some of the patents issues in 2006 (Ref. New York TImes Sunday Magazine 12/10/2006) included:
- a head-nodding alarm to avert sleep while driving (No. 7,126,485)
- an apparatus for injecting an edible filling to a bagel (No. 7,107,900)
- a device for dispensing animal-scent attractant for behind ankle of user (No. 7,093,770)
- a ball with gripping handles (No. 7,044,820)
- a ropeless jumprope (No. 7,037,243)
- a urinating animated toy (No. 7,115,014)
- the reissue of a lap-dance liner (No. RE39,371)
- The Sony Playstation 3 processor runs at 1.8 teraflops (with a theoretical limit of over 2 teraflops). Teraflops is floating point operations per second...a measure of a computer's processing ability. To put this in context, 1.8 teraflops is roughly equivalent to the processing power of 287 Pentium 4 PCs, or 10,000 Cray-1 supercomputers (...at least, "supercomputers" when they were introduced in 1976.) (Facts courtesy of Wired Magazine.)
It's all enough to make you stay up late and try to invent something....
Posted by jcioban at March 11, 2007 1:24 PM
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