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2009 Winners Zack Andersen [left], Shakeel Avadhany, two members of the GenShock team, handle everything form the company's business plans to electronics. See all of last year's winners here.
John B. Carnett
Do you have an invention you KNOW will someday change the world? Have you been toiling for years in your basement, building prototype after prototype to PROVE that your idea works? If so, tell us about it! Enter the fourth annual PopSci Invention Awards.
We’re looking for game-changing products that come from the passionate drive of independent inventors (rather than those born in the R&D labs of universities and corporations). PopSci editors will pick 10 inventions that best represent the spirit of homegrown ingenuity and solve real-world problems in a practical and innovative way. And we’ll show them to our seven million readers in our June 2010 issue. Click here to check out last year's amazing winners.
Submit details on your invention to inventions@popsci.com. Here are a few guidelines:
- Inventions must be physical objects—no processes or concepts.
- There must be a working prototype or something else that demonstrates that the invention actually works.
- Inventions must be the work of independent inventors or small teams; outside funding is fine, but inventions created wholly out of universities or other R&D labs will not be considered.
- Inventions that are intended to become commercial products in the future are acceptable, but they must not already be available for sale.
- Inventions must be something new, not just an incremental improvement on an existing thing.
- Popular Science will not publish an entry online or in print without notifying the inventor first, but we will seek third-party verification of the technology and significance of the invention. All intellectual-property protection is the responsibility of the entrant.
- All entries must be received by February 19, 2010.
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I would say that your short timeline and intellectual property policies might put a real damper on this.
PopSci should certainly take responsobility for safeguarding all submissions.
You mean somebody has to have an actual physical working idea. Man, you guys are brutal. I was getting so used to tech sites being littered with 'what if' concepts ;)
Nah! I wouldn't submit any of my inventions to you guys just like that! Forget it...
Pop Sci announces this on 2/2/10 and then sets the deadline for 2/19/10. This is not an article to be written overnight. This is a project that changes the world, and they want it before 2/19. - Get to work!
[Pop Sci announces this on 2/2/10 and then sets the deadline for 2/19/10. This is not an article to be written overnight. This is a project that changes the world, and they want it before 2/19. - Get to work!]
They are looking for any last minute deciders....to decide to share something crazy with an even crazier world.
Who knows, maybe they'll get lucky and Whoever's controlling those huge orbs floating around our sun, will make a late entry?
"He who spends his life playing all the 'angles' will earn himself many 'degrees'."
Well, ill just wait to see what crazy inventions the winners wil prepare to us...
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[Pop Sci announces this on 2/2/10 and then sets the deadline for 2/19/10. This is not an article to be written overnight. This is a project that changes the world, and they want it before 2/19. - Get to work!]
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[Pop Sci meddelar detta på 2/2/10 och sedan fastställs att tidsfristen för 2/19/10. Detta är inte en artikel ska skrivas över natten. Detta är ett projekt som förändrar världen, och de vill ha det innan 2 / 19. - Börja arbeta]!
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Direi che la tua linea temporale di breve e di politiche di proprietà intellettuale potrebbe mettere un freno reale su questo.
PopSci dovrebbe sicuramente prendere responsobility per salvaguardare tutte le richieste.
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