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Caltech Engineers Use Legos, Google Smartphone For Smart Petri Dish

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In a paper presented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the Caltech grad students said they created a system--assembled out of a commercially available Google smart phone and Lego building blocks--which automatically tracks the growth of cultures in petri dishes. READ MORE>>.

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CFX Battery Becomes Contour Energy, Out Of Stealth

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Azusa-based CFX Battery , the stealthy Caltech battery spinoff, said today that it has renamed itself Contour Energy , and emerged out of stealth mode. Contour Energy said it is developing advancements in fluorine-based battery chemistries, nanomaterials science, and manufacturing processes, and is targeted at portable power products.

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Interview with Kos Galatsis, Carbonics

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In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. During our past two years, we created our first product, which are Carbon on Silicon wafers.

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Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard

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Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps.

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Catch #Mindshare50 Talks Live on TechZulu

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Gianelle Veis , manager of prize development at X PRIZE Foundation. Neuroscientist at Caltech, UCLA’s Department of Neurosurgery, and NYUMoran is interested in attention, emotions regulations, and dreams. Director of Business Development, WellnessFXZak is fascinated by the cross section of technology, experience design and health.

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Angel Funding Advice

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If you can’t get product released and validated then do user studies. Do you work as a civil engineer on water projects and have great access to wealthy project developers? If you’re three s -hot kids from Stanford, Caltech or MIT you might be able to push valuation higher. I just wanted to provide some guidelines.

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