Art Bell's beloved wife, Ramona Bell, passed away on Thursday, January 5 due to circulatory failure resulting from an asthma attack, at the age of 47. They were never apart a day, or night during the 15 years they were married. We offer our deepest heartfelt condolences to Art, and the Bell family, she will be missed.

Death is the easiest part of life for those who leave, and the hardest part for those they leave behind.

First Asia-Pacific Conference on Innovation Management supported by UNESCO. InnovAsia 2005

I was contacted by the "Head of promoting Innovation Culture" from the National Innovation Agency in Bangkok about this event some time ago. This information included 2 PDFs with the pertinent information about the event, price of attendance and booths, seminar information and so forth.

The InnovAsia Conference Poster can be seen below.

Yes, your hybrid is the cause of all things bad in the world including, yep you guessed it, the bad roads. Are you kidding me? To what kind of a low will the American media stoop to frighten the populous of non-existent boogie men? Obviously this. Incase you missed the story a couple of days ago, let me tell you about it.

The news story starts by informing people about a young man who has a sales job, and drives a lot of miles per month. The story states that the young man was spending as much as $500 per month on gasoline, but that by switching his vehicle to a more efficient vehicle, in his case a Toyota Prius, he was able to save over half of his monthly fuel bill. The story stated that the young man was saving an average of $300 per month on gasoline, which actually allowed him to pay his car payment out of what used to be his gasoline budget. Great right? Wrong!

So you have a great invention, and you want to license it to prospective clients, or even start a business around it and the innovation that created it. The only thing standing in your way is a small matter of finances. Many great inventions are never capitalized upon because of a funding crisis of one sort or another. There are some ways to get that funding you need, and make sure that you use it wisely.

There are many avenues available to the inventor to get outside funding for their invention, however many of these funding opportunities are not for everyone. Searching around on the net will tell you that there are a variety of programs specifically designed to finance innovation, but which funding method is best for you? There are SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) type programs, funding for small business through the SBA (Small Business Administration), and venture capitalists, just to name a few. These are the most common avenues an inventor spends time pursuing, so let's narrow that down a little bit. The independent inventor is rarely eligible for, or otherwise able to obtain funding from any of these programs or funding opportunities, plain and simple. How's that for narrow?

This year promises terrific breakthroughs for inventors. For many decades, inventors counted on the resources that are already in place to help them move their inventions to the marketplace. The more these resources are used, the more inventors find them lacking.

For the benefit of the non-inventing reader let us ask the question, "Where would you take an invention if you had one, who would help you develop it?" What's your answer? Most inventors will tell you that there are a thousand avenues available to you and your new product, however they are all dead ends. Most inventors find that coming up with the invention, prototyping, and finally patenting is the easy part. It's getting that product to market that makes all the difference anyway, so it's no surprise that it's a lot of dedicated hard work.

WASHINGTON (AP) The story of the pilot who reported eye injury due to a laser last September may have seemed somewhat strange and anomalous at the time. However, recent events give cause to examine this more seriously. It seems that more strange reports have been made regarding the use of lasers in Cleveland and in Colorado Springs.

Brighton, CO (PR Web Direct) December 8, 2004 – Marvin Neer, creator, inventor and illumination expert, is the first and only in the world to unlock the secrets of granite illumination. With just a flip of a switch, he can turn granite into the most spectacular, iridescent display ever seen.

“It was not that kind of accident; no one got hurt,” explains Mr. Neer. “Nature has a way of creating the most vibrant colors ever seen, many of which cannot be reproduced by man. I’m just giving the stone a chance to show off the beauty it’s had the whole time.”

Mr. Neer’s new discovery enables granite to be illuminated from the inside out, outside in or both ways at once. This technique can make granite glow a brilliant, hot orange color, resembling hot molten lava running through the granite. In addition, he has created a number of other astounding looks, including illuminating large surface areas of granite to look like the most expensive opals in the world.

Entrepreneurial Event Offers Information and Opportunities For Inventors Nationwide. NPIC's New Invention Contest To Award $5,000 In Prize Money. www.ndinventors.com

(Bismarck, North Dakota) - It's an event that brings together creative, entrepreneurial minds and ideas with top invention industry service providers and advisors. The goal: to help get more and more new inventions from mind to market. The 2005 Northern Plains Inventors Congress (NPIC) will be held at the Bismarck Civic Center in the Linden/Spruce Complex (Bismarck, North Dakota) on January 12, 2005, from 1:00 p.m. to 7 p.m.. As in years past, the NPIC is followed by the popular Marketplace for Entrepreneurs on January 13th - www.marketplaceofideas.com - a business alliance-building convention organized by U.S. Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota. Inventors, entrepreneurs, businesses and service providers from all over North America attend this annual event, and this year's NPIC is open to Canadian inventors as well. Last year's two-day event was attended by more than 7,000 inventors, business executives and interested consumers.

The Khaos Super Turbo Charger now scheduled for release in six countries, including Spain, Saudi Arabia, India, Australia, Marianas Islands and Indonesia.

In case you are wondering what the Khaos device is, read the Original Khaos Article

Discuss this device on our Khaos Turbo Charger Forum

INVENTOR SAYS GREENHOUSE GASES THAT WILL LEAD TO EXTINCTION OF POLAR BEARS AND OTHER ARCTIC WILDLIFE CAN BE SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED

St. Petersburg, Florida, December 14, 2004 - Global warming from greenhouse gases is melting the arctic ice cap according to the recently released Arctic Climate Impact Assessment ACIA). Inventor Dean F. Johnson says he has a way to halt that trend.

"Even the most ardent opponents of global warming must admit that we face the most catastrophic environmental tragedy in the history of modern man basically due to our reliance on burning fossil fuels," says Johnson.

According to Johnson, his technology can be applied to all fuels in months at a cost of less than one cent per gallon in liquid fuels and eight cents per million BTUs of gases and solid fuels. This technology requires no change in the present supply system.

Johnson, an 83-year-old veteran, has spent over 30 years developing and proving the technology at considerable personal financial risk. There are two commercially available products that utilize the technology.