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Bright Idea: A Better Apple Picker
Owners of fruit orchards have faced the same challenges for hundreds of years: how to pick fruit quickly and safely, protect it from bruising and get it to market expeditiously. Whooshh Innovations of Bellevue has developed a new harvesting and transport system called PickerTech that helps address many of those challenges. The PickerTech mobile harvest…
Bright Idea: Making the Connection
In situations where connecting to the internet can be difficult or costly, it becomes obvious how far our connected world still has to go. About two years ago, researchers at Intellectual Ventures (IV), Nathan Myhrvolds patent-hoarding collective, began looking at ways to enable faster and cheaper broadband internet service for fixed and mobile users. Redmond-based…
Bright Idea: Ruff housing
During a recent vacation, Greg Gottesman, managing director at Madrona Venture Group, left his dog, Ruby Tuesday, with a high-end boarder in Seattle. When Gottesman returned, he discovered that Ruby had been injured while he was gone. That experience inspired Gottesman to pitch the idea for Rover.com, a website connecting dog owners with dog sitters,…
Bright Idea: Point Inside helps you navigate the great indoors
In February 2009, having worked to solve outdoor location problems for mobile phone customers calling 911, Seattleites Josh Marti, Jon Croy and Brian Wilson decided to conquer the unmapped indoors. Their company, Point Inside, provides an indoor geolocation platform that has been applied to shopping malls, big-box stores, airports and even hospitals. Used in a…
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Finding better batteries for electric cars has been the holy grail in the alternative energy industry for a while, yet they remain impractical given their limited range and forbidding price tags. Seattle-based Clarian Labs is going about the quest in a different way: Instead of trying to improve on storage technology, it is making what…
Bright Idea: Seeing the Light
Move over, Edison. Seattle-based Vu1 Corp. has developed a new type of energy-efficient light bulb to replace the 129-year-old incandescent design. And just in time for a planned phase-out of energy-wasting, short-lived incandescent bulbs starting in 2012. When they launch onto the market in mid-2010, Vu1’s electron stimulated luminescence (ESL) bulbs are expected to be…
Bright Idea: Fair Trade at Market Street Cafe
Seattle shop-owners Tammy and Andy James say that a grateful merchant in northern Thailand changed their lives. The merchant could also say the same thing about the Jameses. While vacationing in 2006, the coupleowners of Seattle waterfront icon Ye Olde Curiosity Shopvisited a remote village and purchased $500 worth of eclectic merchandise to re-sell in…
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