I quickly put together this short animoto-video showing the beta Google Patents, US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and new Xyggy patent search engines, entry page followed by advanced search page. How do they compare in your view, focusing on US granted patents from 1976 onwards?
You should notice a difference with the Xyggy engine. Why? [...]
Ask yourself where does innovation come from?
Is the answer:
A. The likes of Microsoft at the CES in Las Vegas?
B. The likes of Apple who didn’t bother with Las Vegas?
C. Companies developing products for the developing world first?
D. The likes of OLPC’s Version 3?
E. All of the above?
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News from Xyggy – their patent search service is now live. Forget keywords, this is about item searches.
Strikes me this would be of interest in the medical imaging world. So I tried ‘MRI’ as the item search. Then selected the top of the list return. Usefully the search engine then delivers a list of similar [...]
I don’t know what Sir Tim Berners-Lee said to everyone else but what he said to me at a talk at the IEE last night was..
If you have an invention/innovation which could benefit the NHS there’s a good website where you can submit your ideas to the NHS National Innovation Centre: “The NIC helps speed up healthcare technological innovations that give patients the greatest benefit. If you have an innovation you would like to develop, please tell us about it.” [...]
I have a nice idea for a site which plugs into the cheeky, user-centric, ‘jackass’, travel-orientated culture. With a cool strong ethical side to it, and seriously sponsoring fun globally, with web 2.0 features such as ‘degrees of separation’ and rating individuals’ activity..
Well just as I’m busy working on a brief for my cousin James on the shift handover idea I see at the other end of the innovation specturm Microsoft has recently acquired Azyxxi. And as Bill Crounse, Healthcare Industry Director at MS posts in his ’Health blog on 10′ on 26 July: “The Azyxxi solution came about, as most good [...]
Read through the City University literature on shift handover applications, and then by luck came across a social software company which already produces blog software for shift handover! Nice coincidence. I know this is an unusual way to investigate product viability but I’ll just follow it a little further I guess:
“OPERATIONS LOG Operations [...]
