NEVADA INVENTORS ASSOCIATION

"Education, Assistance, and

Networking for the Inventor"

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Special Help Provided for Inventors

From Income Builders International

Join us for a special presentation with inventor and IBI Regional Director, Maria Simone. She will show you how to take an idea, invention or business concept out to the marketplace. Learn the basics of planning, finding, marketing and distribution. Simone will discuss how to create a business around your invention. For the past ten years, IBI, a non profit organization, has helped thousands of entrepreneurs, inventors and those with artist careers with the skills, contacts, resources, legal protection, and mentoring necessary to develop a successful invention and to prosper from it. IBI also shows individuals how to protect their ideas and license them Out to companies that will develop and market the ideas while paying royalty fees to the creator. Hear how this is all done and receive a FREE individualized business coaching session on your particular idea or invention. There will be time set aside at the meeting for your questions. After the meeting Simone will be available for a luncheon and she also will be able to meet with inventors later in the afternoon for some individualized counseling.

2001 Officers and Directors

President: Randy Sloan, 747-3711
Vice President: William Torch, 329-4060
Program Director: Carol Foldvary-Anderson
Program Director: John Martinson, 747-1650
NIA Founder: Don Costar, 322-9636
Secretary and Treasurer: Vince Chemist, 677-0123
Sergeant at Arms: Floyd Krebs
Web Master: Vince Chemist, 677-0123
Newsletter Editor: Margaret Stewart, 787-0314

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Meeting Schedule

The Regular meeting schedule (dates and room) has been changed slightly to accommodate expected larger attendance for upcoming meeting and room availability's.

New members and students are encouraged. Bring a friend! Anyone interested in inventing or who has a service that might benefit inventors is welcome. Our meeting is a Protected place and everybody is expected to sign the confidentiality agreement at the meeting entrance.

NOVEMBER MEETING
Saturday, 11/17
WMC room 102
9am- noon

DECEMBER MEETING
Saturday, 12/22
WMC Room 101
9am- noon

"adversity is the first path to truth" Lord Byron

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UIA Bulletin Board

An open letter from Joanne Hayes-Rhynes, publisher of Inventors Digest Dear Friend, This past weekend I attended the Yankee Invention Expo (YIE) in Waterbury, Conn. This year's Expo was held at the local high school after the event's organizers were told that they couldn't use the Armory as planned because of the war against the terrorists. The change in venue and the threats of terrorism didn't deter the spirit or determination of those who had planned to exhibit. Only 4 exhibitors canceled. The remaining 98 traveled from near and from as far away as Australia, Norway, Puerto Rico, Mexico, California, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin! They boarded planes with a general feeling that "they're not going to stop us!" That "can do" spirit spread throughout the high school gymnasium and infected all who visited the intrepid inventors' booths. The visitors included product scouts (including a marketing director of a major toy company), manufacturers and distributors. One exhibitor who had been told his idea couldn't be produced on a large scale was thrilled by making contact with two different manufacturers who said they could and would.

I'm proud to be associated with inventors and the folks I met this weekend exemplified the determined, positive thinking that leads all inventors to success. If you missed this year's expo, go to and send them an e-mail tciling them you want to sign up for October 2002!

1. I'm starting an ASK THE EDITOR column in Inventors' Digest. Is there something you always wanted to know about inventions but didn't know who to ask? Send me your questions... see if I can find the answers!

2. We're still looking for folks who have developed a product with a family member blood relative. If that's you and you want some some publicity in Inventors' Digest, send us your information!

3. UIA announces that its fourth book is ready for publication. "Starting a Group for Inventors" should be available by November 23, 2001. 1 his is another UIA aggressive effort to educate and improve the field of invention. Watch for updates on this and other new programs.

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TUCSON AZ: Invention University Strives to Make Invention Information Available To Its Visitors At Little or No Cost

Their most recent addition to work-shops are TeleClasses. This is an opportunity for you to call in and participate in a conference call setting while learning from the "Pros." You'll hear real tips and tricks chat you can immediately put into practice with your invention. These classes will range from FREE to just $39 plus a long distance call.

if this sounds like something you would like more information about. please visit www.inventionuniversity. com/Classes/teleclass and let them know which classes interest you most!

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Winner of 2001 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize For Inventiveness Works With the Minutia of Life

Briar Hubert is An Inspiring Example of Imagination and creative Genius

Brian Hubert says he never goes to sleep without a pen and notebook by his night stand so he can record ideas for new inventions. The doctoral candidate in MlT's mechanical engineering department is obviously doing Something right: as of March 2001, he already has two patents with three pending and was chosen as the 2001 recipient of the $30,00 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for invention and innovation.

When he was just eight years old, Hubert developed an energy conversion machine that would convert the weight of water into electrical energy while it sat upon the ocean floor. As a child, he also invented the "Cheater Meter" Da pocket-sized device that would alert customers if they were being cheated when pumping gasoline at the filling station. He created trash bags that would remain upright in a trash can and cups that allowed one to drink beverages while upside-down as well.

Hubert's early interest in creating innovative solutions for everyday problems carried into his adult life. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT and was a superconductor materials scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory 1993 to 1995. today, Hubert, who is working toward his Ph.D. at MIT, has a patent on an all printed plastic memory chip that can be easily and cheaply produced, is mechanically flexible, and stores data when the power is shut off. This technology would be useful for smart cards, digital cameras and portable computational devices requiring cheap, highcapacity memory chips.

Hubert also holds a patent on a design for a novel superconductor fabrication system. The ultra-expensive design contains only two moving parts and can run unattended for hundreds of hours. Competing superconductor technologies often require million dollar lasers and complicated vacuum systems to run efficiently.

Much of Hubert's recent work is in the area of nanotechnology, which focuses on building things at the minute scale of nanometers (a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter). While working on his doctoral thesis, Hubert developed the world's first universal "pick-and-place" nano-assembly machine. The machine is capable of picking up and assembling virtually any type of material, several thousand atoms at a rime. It's quite possible that in the future, Hubert's nano-assembly process could profoundly impact the field of genetically-based medicine. The process could be used, for example, for moving, positioning and patterning segments of DNA strands for the fabrication of ultra-dense gene chips. Such devices could help doctors discover genetic-related diseases in an individual in minutes, and long before the patient showed any symptoms.

Hubert lists details of his numerous inventions 0n his personal Website, www.media.mit.edu@bnhubert. In the future, he hopes to start his own company for developing new fabrication methods for electronic devices. His ideal goal, he has said, is "to make intelligent products so rapidly and cheaply that we could incorporate them into almost everything."

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