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| Aug. 8, 1876: Edison Patents Mimeograph 1876: Thomas Edison receives a patent for the mimeograph. It will dominate the world of small-press-run publication for a century.
Before the inkjet printer, before the laser printer, before the dot-matrix printer, before the photocopier, there came the mimeograph machine. They were everywhere — in schools, offices and the military. If you needed just a few [...] [..] |
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What Thomas Edison Can Teach You about Blogging  Thomas Edison was one of the most prolific and influential inventors that the world has seen. Inventing world changing technologies such as the light bulb, phonograph and the motion picture camera - Edison is someone whose views on emerging technologies can inform what we do in blogging today.
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| July 18, 1876: Royal Commissioners Wrinkle Their Noses 1876: The British government appoints a Royal Commission on Noxious Vapours to look into the growing problem of industrial air pollution. Its report two years later would bring better regulation but warn of impeding economic growth.
England had been trying to do something about air quality for centuries. King Edward I in 1306 prohibited burning [...] [..] |
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Explore the wonderful world of old game patents  Filed under: Retro
Technologizer has put together a really beautiful gallery of old electronic gaming patents, the oldest example of which you can see just above. You won't want to miss the early designs of R.O.B., wireless Atari controllers [..] |
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| Crazy Old-Timey Game Patents [Patents] Insert Credit has unearthed some patents from the early days of videogaming that are.. special. There are some great little nuggets here, from an early design for the Nintendo Powerglove — sorry, "Forearm mounted multi [..] |
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| Join LiMo, avoid a patent pantsing from the big lads Membership has its privileges
LinuxWorld For all its talk of openness, just a quarter of the code in the LiMo Foundation’s mobile platform is open source, making it a minefield to navigate in terms of protected patents - 300,000 patents to be precise.
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| Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent $512M for patents
(AP) AP - A U.S. District Court judge in San Diego ruled that Microsoft Corp. must pay Alcatel-Lucent $511.6 million for infringing on two patents, marking the latest move in a 5-year-old patent scuffle between the two companies. YahooTechNews [..] |
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Kodak sues LG and Samsung over camera phone patents  Eastman Kodak announced on Tuesday that it has filed complaints alleging patent infringement against LG and Samsung in both the United States District Court for the Western District of New York and the US International Trade Commission. The disputed patents involve technology related to image capture, compression and data storage and a method for previewing [...] [..] |
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Edison's beatbox  I found this really interesting hacked synth made by “sonofcastille” on YouTube. Unfortunately I don’t know much more about it, or the maker. If anyone has more information, post it in the comments and I will update the entry.
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| Aug. 15, 1877: ‘Hello. Can You Hear Me Now?’ 1877: Thomas Edison suggests using the word hello as a telephone greeting. The idea catches on.
Edison invented a lot of things, for sure, but one thing he didn’t invent was the telephone. The brass ring for that one goes to Alexander Graham Bell, although Elisha Gray filed his patent for a similar device the same [...] [..] |
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| This Portable NES Is Legit, Works [Fc Mobile] It's not "legit" in that its licensed by Nintendo or anything, but since most of Nintendo's patents relating to the NES lapsed between 2003-2005, it is guaranteed to be lawsuit-free. This is the FC Mobile, a hand [..] |
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| Clock from bike parts Guy Vardi writes in:
The clock is build out of bicycle parts. One of the design principles was to use only used elements. Edison once said that to invent you need good imagination and a pile of junk. The designers took his advice seriously.
The Bike clock was build by Yedidya Vardi and Vladimir Zviagintsev [...] [..] |
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Nintendo sued over DS touchscreen patent  Filed under: Nintendo DS, Business
When it comes to controller design, there truly is nothing new under the sun. You don't have to tell that to Nintendo -- the company has been sued (with varying success) over existing patents allegedly r [..] |
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