Category Archives: Inventions

Tokyo Architecture – How to Protect View of Mt. Fuji

By Ari Salomon | Published: October 12, 2009

An interesting article about a group that is trying to protect their neighborhood view of Mt. Fuji. New buildings keep being built taller and taller. The solution I propose? Just build a public park on top of each of those new buildings. Kind of like the public plaza or “sky lobby” in the new San [...]

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Nanosolar: innovation from california

By Ari Salomon | Published: September 21, 2009

Thomas L. Friedman would be proud of this solar power innovator based in San Jose. Their new panel factory in germany is automated to sustain a production rate of one panel every ten seconds, or an annual capacity of 640MW when operated 24×7. Nanosolar also today announced that serial production in its San Jose, California, cell [...]

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Community-based invention website: Quirky.com

By Ari Salomon | Published: September 9, 2009

interesting new site that invites anyone to submit and idea or contribute to an existing invention idea. profit sharing model (“influencers”) included. the idea is to bring “community developed” products to the marketplace. Example: Marc Zech had an idea for a double-sided mini hard drive (one USB plug might hold personal data, the other work data). He [...]