New UT-Arlington Web Site Promotes New Inventions
Kind of like a fantasy etsy.com for tech-y people
AP
This small vehicle, built by West Virginia University students, is fueled by a reaction of baking soda and vinegar.
If your company is looking for a product, but finds it doesn’t exist, they can now put in a request to have it invented.
The Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center at The University of Texas at Arlington has helped to create the Innovation Marketplace, a Web-based service that will become a resource center for companies and inventors to find potential investors, distributors and manufacturers, as well as post ideas in search of partners, buyers and licensees.
It also helps inventors know someone actually wants their product before they spend time and money creating it.
Among the many items up for sale or licensing at the new site are an Edible Ice Cream Stick (finally, right?), Rock Rebar, Santa Seal (Can’t even imagine what that means), and a PVC/Vinyl Fence Lighting System.
The site is supposed to benefit the economy. It will help revitalize supply chains and equip manufacturers to use emerging technology and find new market opportunities, according to an announcement made by Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke.
A free, 60-minute demonstration of how to use the Innovation Marketplace will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009, at UT Arlington's ARRI.
Holly LaFon has written and worked for various local publications including D Magazine and Examiner.
