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"Penis size, for too long (puns are inevitable when discussing the subject), has escaped the rigorous analysis of modern science and has been left prone to self-serving exaggeration. Thankfully, one fearless inventor has arrived to clear the field of biased pseudoscience:
"There is a remarkable lack of convenient and accurate methods for measuring the penis. Most men merely take a ruler and measure the size of their penis in inches. However, to adequately describe the size of a penis the length alone is not enough. Nor is it enough to know the diameter at an arbitrary point. The penis is not shaped like a true cylinder, but rather it has a more complicated shape. Therefore, a method for measuring the size of a penis needs to account for the unusual shape and size of the human penis."
In the short 22 centuries since Archimedes first shouted Eureka from his bathtub, inventor Jason Turner has applied the same techniques of fluid displacement to accurately measure the one-eyed trouser snake.
Of course, scientific breakthroughs can often be met with fierce resistance: Knowledge is power, but the truth, if small enough, can hurt.""Penis size, for too long (puns are inevitable when discussing the subject), has... more
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Did you know Google has a patent search engine? Check it out, along with six other little-known Google search engines, at the link.Did you know Google has a patent search engine? Check it out, along with six other... more
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It has just been revealed that Apple have patented an idea for some 3D desktop designs. The "Multi-Dimensional Desktop" layout sounds like a sort of extended version of the coverflow thing we currently get on iTunes, though potentially a little more confusing.
Of course it's only a patent, which means that it might never see fruition or may even have been already discarded as a desktop design, but still it's interesting to get a glimpse behind the scenes into Apple's designing processes.
3D desktop - what d'you reckon? Pretty cool or over complicated gimmick?It has just been revealed that Apple have patented an idea for some 3D desktop... more
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Apple looks to be pulled into another rather bizarre and frivolous-sounding lawsuit this week, with news that it's being called up for shrinking the size of webpages on its mobile Safari browser used on the iPhone and iPod touch. The complainent is EMG Technology LLC, who incidentally TechDigest adds is a company of one, claiming that they'd already filed a patent on such 'shrinking' technology.
Can scaling things down really be grounds for patent infringement? Isn't this getting a bit ridiculous? I mean, it's not as if Apple's using EMG's browser, Safari being native to Apple for years. Sounds very much like a bid to scrape more gold out of the bottom of the Apple barrel...Apple looks to be pulled into another rather bizarre and frivolous-sounding lawsuit... more
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These patents were developed with tax payer dollars and belong to the people. Where do the profits from these sales go? Who benefits?
"A suite of 25 patents for technology developed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center will be put up for sale at a live intellectual property auction being held in October by Ocean Tomo Auctions LLC in Chicago.
The sale, which will include rights to signal processing, GPS for spacecraft and sensor technologies, is the first auction under a partnership announced earlier this month between Goddard’s Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP) and Ocean Tomo Federal Services LLC. Ocean Tomo provides a marketplace for intellectual property, which NASA wants to leverage in commercializing its technology.
“A major component of NASA Goddard’s Innovative Partnerships Program’s mission is to transfer NASA technology to the commercial marketplace, said IPP program office chief Nona Cheeks.
Creating a market for patented technology funded by NASA benefits both the government and the commercial sector that will take advantage of it.
The auction will be part of a two-day event scheduled for Oct. 29 and 30 at the Trump International Hotel and Chicago Cultural Center.
The Ocean Tomo model creates a market for intellectual property in which a seller can set terms and minimum prices for rights being offered. It is intended not only to create greater exposure for the technologies being offered, but to speed up the protracted process of patent licensing.
“Historically, the intellectual property market has been insulated as transactions have been conducted privately without public discussion as to buyers or price,” the company said. “Ocean Tomo Auctions provide a platform by which a seller may broadly market intellectual property capitalizing upon the press garnered by the auction itself realizing a competitive bidding environment.”
For potential buyers, the auction process provides awareness of available technologies and market transparency.
The auction in October will offer 88 lots of intellectual property assets. "These patents were developed with tax payer dollars and belong to the people. Where do... more
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Thanks to its innovative design and wealth of fantastic games, the Nintendo DS has scrambled to the top of the handheld gaming war, making the hardware wizards at Nintendo the darlings of the games industry.
But what if they don't hold the patent on the touchy tech?
As reported by video game blog Gamepolitics, John R. Martin has filed a complaint alleging that he owns the patent on the system's lauded touch screen. While the patent was updated in August of 2005 -- a full six months after Nintendo launched the DS -- it was originally filed a decade earlier in 1995.
The patent seems to cover the key input ingredient of Nintendo's popular handheld, citing "an improved method of operating a touch screen on a CRT or ICD computer screen [that] uses finger release as input registering" in "an electronic game device system [which] is switchable between an amusement mode and a gaming or gambling mode and is useful for vehicles such as airplanes or boats..."Sounds a little like the DS to us, minus the gambling bit.
Nintendo, however, doesn't see the connection -- the company has responded by requesting that the entire suit be summarily dismissed.
This isn't Nintendo's first scrape with patent infringement. Earlier this year the company coughed up $21 million to tech company Anascape over several Nintendo game controllers, including their famous Wavebird, widely considered the first legitimate wireless game controller. Thanks to its innovative design and wealth of fantastic games, the Nintendo DS has... more
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I saw a report a few years ago on my local TV news about John Kanzius, a former radio executive, who had discovered that radio frequency will make salt water burn.
I was so fascinated by this idea. I wished I had a few billion dollars to buy his patent and turn his discovery into planet saving technology.
Now, on Sunday, I saw 60 Minutes did a story on John Kanzius and his breakthroughs on cancer research. 60 Minutes did not mention the salt water power solution Kanzius discovered. I wonder why.
Does anyone know if someone bought the technology from Kanzius?I saw a report a few years ago on my local TV news about John Kanzius, a former radio... more
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Kill Your T.V. - WalKnDude - www.planetnetopia.com
TURN IT OFF!
NOW!
(lies, all lies, your lieing, your still lieing, STOP the lieing, STOP THE WAR!)
WalKnDude
*nofear*Kill Your T.V. - WalKnDude - www.planetnetopia.com
TURN IT OFF!
NOW!
(lies, all... more
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ok - this is a little self aggrandizing but i was just awarded a patent for "Out-of-band tokens for rights access". Yeah for me - I am now the proud inventor of another DRM patent - a very crowded field but this patent and about 5 others i have pending should lead to a nice little portfolio........
I am really writing this because this is a RANT.....
This patent was submitted in 2003.... it has taken 5 years to get this awarded. Technolgy changed in 5 years - if it takes this long to know whether you have something unique enough to bet a company on it you are sunk........
so what do you do - you start building a product or technology with a huge risk... the risk that you will be sued or the risk of other copying your good idea.
this huge delay in granting patents has caused many technologies to not see light of day
Is there a way to change this? Are the politicians even concerned? Are patents still a valuable protection?
i would love to hear your ideas.....ok - this is a little self aggrandizing but i was just awarded a patent for... more
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Earlier this week, EFF filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Quanta v. LG Electronics, a case that asks whether patent owners can impose restrictions on what you can do with a product after you buy it. The brief, filed on behalf of EFF, Consumers Union, and Public Knowledge, makes a simple point: when a consumer buys a patented product from an authorized seller, the patent owner is not entitled to use patent law to restrict the purchaser's subsequent ability to use, repair, or resell the product.
In other words, you bought it, you own it. Earlier this week, EFF filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Quanta v.... more
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The picture above is a diagram from an Arizona man's US Patent application showing his taser-proof clothing. Or if you want to get technical it's the patent for an "energy weapon protection device". It's basically conductive and non-conductive material in layers that prevent an electric charge from ever reaching the body -- because yelling "Don't tase me, bro!" just doesn't work. This stuff wouldn't be such a bad idea if you get tased on a regular basis, and if you had pants and a mask made out of the same material. While a jacket is a good start, you don't want to be zapped in the face and/or testicles because the coppers find out you're wearing a tase-proof jacket.The picture above is a diagram from an Arizona man's US Patent application... more
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