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[edit] Space Prizes: 2009 Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards ...

22 November 2008, by Ray Officials with The Conrad Foundation today announced there are only a few weeks left to register for the Pete Conrad “Spirit of Innovation” Awards. ... For this year’s competition, student teams will create an entrepreneurial enterprise ...

[edit] Space Prizes: Evaluating Innovation Prizes

22 November 2008, by Ray But the group has pushed back deadlines as Diamandis' deputies studied "hundreds of ideas," says Jaison Morgan, who heads the prize development office. "There are breakthroughs, but not one bold enough for us now. We want a prize that ...

[edit] Google Lunar X PRIZE Community Forums :: View topic - Team ...

22 November 2008, by unknown Our N-Prize team on Sunday at 7:00 PM CST had our first official test for our solid rocket booster and it was a complete success! We are forming our X-Prize team and will pursue the X-Prize after our attempt in May 2009 for the N-Prize. ...

[edit] Space Prizes: X PRIZE Foundation on Facebook

22 November 2008, by Ray New Facebook Group - neXt PRIZE - The X PRIZE Foundation finally has a group on facebook... Posted by Ray at 9:13 AM. Labels: X PRIZE Foundation · Older Post Home. Just a Reflection. Just a Reflection. Ten Blog-Defining Posts ...

[edit] Green Car Congress: Automotive X PRIZE Announces First Round of ...

22 November 2008, by unknown A project of the X PRIZE Foundation, the independent and technology-neutral competition is open to teams from around the world who can design, build and bring to market 100 MPG or energy equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy vehicles that ...

[edit] neXt PRIZE: Cool Rainwater Harvesting Video

22 November 2008, by Jean Levasseur X PRIZE Online. X PRIZE Foundation · Archon X PRIZE for Genomics · Google Lunar X PRIZE · Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE · Future Prizes · Our Space Initiatives. Twitter. Fellow Bloggers. Celsias · All X PRIZE Blogs ...

[edit] neXt PRIZE: New Facebook Group

22 November 2008, by Jean Levasseur The X PRIZE Foundation finally has a group on facebook, joining all of our active prizes. Not sure why it took so long, but better late than never, right? Here's the link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/X-PRIZE-Foundation/35962698116 ...

[edit] Can X Prizes Spur Innovation? - BusinessWeek

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[edit] LA Auto Show: For 22 Competitors, the Auto X Prize Race Is On - New York Times Blogs

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[edit] Vote for the next green X-Prize — Plenty Magazine

21 November 2008, by unknown That’s where the X-Prize Foundation comes in. It awards $10 million to the first team to produce a substantial technical breakthrough, usually at a sub-stratospheric cost. Tellingly, only one of the four organized prizes has been ...

[edit] Vote for the next green X-Prize - Plenty Magazine

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[edit] Accelerator Startup, GPC-Rx, Uses Computers to Make Drugs Without Side Effects

21 November 2008, by Biotech, Accelerator, Life Sciences Luke Timmerman wrote: Accelerator’s newest startup could, if it wanted to, make a version of marijuana that wouldn’t give people the munchies. Seattle-based GPC-Rx isn’t going to do that, but it is using sophisticated 3-D computer modeling to help researchers design other drugs to specifically do their main job, without the usual side effects. This company has its roots in the lab of William Goddard, the noted Caltech chemist. It’s the second time Accelerat

[edit] X Prize’s Call for Votes in Next Big Crazy Green Idea Challenge [Environment]

20 November 2008, by The X Prize Foundation is looking for a new challenge for their next Energy and Environment prize, and they want Gizmodo readers to vote on it. The X Prize is an educational nonprofit prize institute dedicated to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, like when Burt Rutan built and flew the world’s first [...]Related storiesLive Current Media In Trouble, Raising CashHigh-definition videos sneaking onto YouTube

[edit] 3 Finalists For Crazy Green Idea - EcoGeek

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[edit] Environment: X Prize's Call for Votes in Next Big Crazy Green Idea ...

20 November 2008, by unknown The X Prize Foundation is looking for a new challenge for their next Energy and Environment prize and they want.

[edit] Sloan students are finalists in X-Prize video contest - MIT News

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[edit] Branding the X PRIZE Foundation

19 November 2008, by It seems that there is some confusion about exactly how to spell/type/syntactify (I made that word up) the various brands surrounding the X PRIZE Foundation, and I thought I'd lay out a little something here so that the media, bloggers, and the general public understand the ways that we brand ourselves. For starters, the official brandmark is: X PRIZE Foundation and our logo is: X PRIZE is always written in all-capital letters, with a space between, and not a hyphen. The following are INC

[edit] Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Announces First Round of ... - MarketWatch

19 November 2008, by

[edit] A Little Update and Some Troubling News

19 November 2008, by We at Team Phoenicia got over our frustration with the manufacturing and funding issues and got back to work. We have more parts coming in. We're changing some of our suppliers and getting the parts from them reordered. We're also engaging some very helpful people for the fund raising. There's never ever enough money unless you're John Carmack. (Oh! Hi John!) We're looking for for October 2009. Except...there may not be an October 2009. We are hearing some disturbing rumors. In all probability

[edit] Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Announces First Round of ...

18 November 2008, by unknown The goal of the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE, a project of the X PRIZE Foundation, is to inspire a new generation of viable, super fuel-efficient vehicles that offer more consumer choices. Ten million dollars in prizes will be awarded ...

[edit] Utah Man In X PRIZE Green Contest Finals - techrockies.com

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[edit] X PRIZE Foundation Looks To Crowdsourced "Green" Ideas - socalTech.com

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[edit] X PRIZE Foundation Announces $25,000 Crazy Green Idea Contest Finalists

17 November 2008, by The public voting phase of the “What’s Your Crazy Green Idea?” Video Contest on YouTube, sponsored by Prize Capital, has begun! Out of 133 video submissions, the X PRIZE Foundation has selected three finalists and is asking the world to choose the idea that should ...

[edit] X PRIZE Foundation Opens Official Voting for the $25000 "What's ... - International Business Times

17 November 2008, by

[edit] X PRIZE Foundation Opens Official Voting for the $25000 "What's ... - MarketWatch

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[edit] X PRIZE Foundation: X PRIZE Foundation Opens Official Voting for the $25,000 "What's Your Crazy Green Idea?" Video Conte...

17 November 2008, by PLAYA VISTA, CA (MARKET WIRE) The public voting phase of the "What's Your Crazy Green Idea?" Video Contest on YouTube, sponsored by Prize Capital, has begun! Out of 133 video submissions, the X PRIZE Foundation has selected three finalists and is asking the world ...

[edit] Some Crazy Green Ideasfrom X PRIZE Contest

14 November 2008, by The X PRIZE Foundation has been seeking green ideas for its "What's Your Crazy Green Idea" Contest. The contest ended on October 31st, and they should be posting the winners' names soon. In the meantime, here are a few of the video entries I thought were interesting (in no particular order). The X PRIZE Foundation states that it would like ideas "to help us change the world." I think their efforts should be lauded :) Peace and God Speed, LA

[edit] Amadillo Aerospace's Highs & Lowsat 2008 Lunar Lander Challenge

14 November 2008, by DAY 1: This video highlights Armadillo Aerospace's victory at Level 1 of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, October 24, 2008, at the Las Cruces International Airport in New Mexico. At stake? $350,000. DAY 2: This video shows the results of Armadillo Aerospace's attempt at Level 2 of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. They were the first team to attempt Level 2 (October 25, 2008). This also took place at Las Cruces International Airport, New Mexico. At stake? $1.5 million!

[edit] SpaceVidcast - Google Lunar X PRIZE team inverview - LunaTrex

12 November 2008, by Interview with the Google Lunar X PRIZE team, LunaTrex at the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. We chat about the issues in going to the moon and what LunaTrex thinks it will take to win the Google Lunar ...

[edit] Next X Prize A 10 Billion Renewable Energy 401k Challenge

12 November 2008, by (Stocks News and Information) The X Prize Foundation creator of the Ansari X Prize for suborbital spaceflight has launched a contest to design a new X Prize that will boost renewable energy production A unique entry format requires contestants ...

[edit] Some Nice Results

11 November 2008, by At long last, the world can breathe easy, knowing after heated debate, and after serious discussion and consideration both of services already rendered and of things that may come in the future, the voters have had their say. Regardless of what we were expecting or hoping for, there is some sense of relief for at last knowing the answer. I'm talking, of course, about the selection of the annual recipients of the "Most Important Contributions to Lunar Science & Exploration" awards presented at t

[edit] SpaceVidcast - Steve Landeene, Executive Director of Spaceport America

2 November 2008, by This is an interview with Steve Landeene who is the Executive Director of Spaceport America. Yet another great interview that talks about the United States first purpose built spaceport capable of working with both vertical and horizontal lifting vehicles. Yet another great interview from the X ...

[edit] Operations / admin manager - Non profit / Health care / Prize4life (Cambridge )

1 November 2008, by Industry: Nonprofit/Health Function: Operations, Administration Capacity: Part time, about 20 hours a week Employer: Prize4Life Job Title: Manager of Operations and Administration Job Location: Cambridge, MA Organization Description Prize4Life is a small 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks ...

[edit] Franz Pfeiffer wins national Latsis Foundation Prize

29 October 2008, by The 2008 National Latsis Foundation Prize has been awarded to EPFL assistant professor and PSI researcher Franz Pfeiffer. This young physicist is honored for his work in creating new darkfield x-ray technique that works at wavelengths used in standard medical and industrial ...

[edit] CNET News Daily Podcast: What we’ll see in the next Windows, Office

28 October 2008, by Reporter Ina Fried gives us the skinny on what Microsoft is cooking up for its next version of Windows and tells us how a Web-accessible version of Office will work. Also in this podcast: the man behind the video game Doom wins the first level of the X Prize Foundation’s lunar-lander contest; Google reaches a settlement [...]

[edit] Startup Sets Out to End the Age of Annoying Ringtones

25 October 2008, by San Rafael, California - Aimed at reducing what has become a seemingly ubiquitous proliferation of annoying sounds that blare from virtually every cell phone across the globe, startup company Hladecek, llc today introduced a new ringtone category called “Luxury Ringers” with the unveiling of its new webstore, iRingPro. Company founder, Joel Hladecek, hopes that availability of his unique brand of ringers (he doesn’t like to call them ‘ringtones’) will spark a trend towards more socially consci

[edit] X PRIZE - Gates Foundation providing grant to explore prize for innovative breakthroughs in TB Diagnostics

21 October 2008, by More funds donated to the X-Prize foundation.  The X-Prize in the last week has had quite a bit of activity and this is great to see more funds flowing towards healthcare.  The map below shows the foundation’s work here in the US.  We are becoming a global healthcare community in more ways than one.  BD  October 16, 2008, Playa Vista, Calif. – The X PRIZE Foundation has received a planning grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop an X

[edit] X PRIZE - Gates Foundation providing grant to explore prize for innovative breakthroughs in TB Diagnostics

21 October 2008, by More funds donated to the X-Prize foundation.  The X-Prize in the last week has had quite a bit of activity and this is great to see more funds flowing towards healthcare.  The map below shows the foundation’s work here in the US.  We are becoming a global healthcare community in more ways than one.  BD  October 16, 2008, Playa Vista, Calif. – The X PRIZE Foundation has received a planning grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop an X PRIZE for effective...(read more)

[edit] X PRIZE Foundation Plans Tuberculosis-Diagnostics Prize With Gat...

20 October 2008, by X PRIZE Foundation Plans Tuberculosis-Diagnostics Prize With Gat... PND - Philanthropy News Digest Sun, 10/19/2008 - 23:20 The planning grant will allow the foundation to bring together experts in the TB, public health, economics, and finance communities to develop an X PRIZE for the effective diagnosis of tuberculosis in the developing world....

[edit] Under the Radar

17 October 2008, by The Launch Pad bloggers have been under the radar recently. We've been ramping up for the X PRIZE Foundation Board of Trustees meeting and finishing up on some other major projects that we may or may not be able to tell you about ;) In the interim, here's some cool stuff that we've managed to find or cook up over the last week or so. A tour of TrueZer0's LLC craft, Ignignokt Just a little bit of fun with the US Border Patrol :) And finally, a great picture of Peter Diamandis saying goodbye

[edit] X Prize Foundation Partners With WellPoint, WellPoint Foundation...

16 October 2008, by X Prize Foundation Partners With WellPoint, WellPoint Foundation... PND - Philanthropy News Digest Wed, 10/15/2008 - 23:40 The three partners will solicit participation from employers, healthcare providers, consumers, government partners, and any other interested parties to develop guidelines that reflect the healthcare industry's most pressing challenges....

[edit] 10/15: It's The Same Old Song...

15 October 2008, by Liberal bloggers are pushing back fiercely against accusations that ACORN is trying to steal the election for Barack Obama. Lefty bloggers have watched the GOP make a fuss about voter fraud for years, and they're convinced that the conservative campaign against ACORN is just another bad-faith effort ...

[edit] X PRIZE Foundation Teams Up With WellPoint For Health Care Reform Competition

15 October 2008, by X PRIZE Foundation has a long history of successful endeavors. For instance, they backed the development and invention of SpaceShipOne, and helped launch the first private manned space flight in 2004. They are a California-based foundation, dedicated to bringing about “radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity” by offering prizes to those who can solve some of the greatest challenges our world faces. And apparently, one of those challenges is health care. X PRIZE Foundation has just

[edit] High above the Earth...

12 October 2008, by Early this morning, while those of us in the Americas were still asleep, a Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonour space center. In a small capsule atop the rocket sat three fortunate human beings: Michael Fincke, Yuri Lonchakov, and Richard Garriott. All three travelers are headed for the International Space Station, but for slightly different reasons. Fincke and Lonchakov are government astronauts headed to join the crew of Expedition 18. Garriott, on the other hand, is a personal sp

[edit] October 4th

4 October 2008, by I've been silent here on the Launch Pad for far too long--something I hope to change soon--but I did want to chime in quickly to wish all of our readers out there a happy October 4th! In case you aren't familiar with the date, October 4th is an important anniversary for space fans and X PRIZE fans alike. On October 4th, 1957, the space age began as Sputnik, the first ever artificial satellite, rocketed into orbit. On October 4th, 2004, SpaceShipOne completed its final flight and claimed the A

[edit] Friday Funday Early Roundup

4 October 2008, by For today's Friday Funday activity, I asked the Twitter to send me images to decorate my new office at the X PRIZE Foundation's new home. Boy did I open a can of worms. Here's what we received, all posted on my wall: X PRIZEr Michael Timmons managed to find my old yearbook photos from the 70s, as well as that brief Kurt Kobain period I went through.

[edit] the X PRIZE: creating incentives for learning

2 October 2008, by You cannot inspire others unless you yourself are inspired. So here is some inspiration for you. The Long Now Foundation hosts a very interesting podcast called Seminars in Long Term Thinking (SALT). I was listening to their latest one, and the speaker for the show was Peter Diamandis - the founder of the X PRIZE Foundation. Although he was speaking about the advantages of using large prizes to create incentive to tackle problems in radical new ways, listening to this I think there is another

[edit] Weekend Roundup MEGAPOST

30 September 2008, by A LOT of stuff to report today. We had a great Friday Funday. So good, in fact, that we'll be extending it indefinitely until we've got a whole bunch of awesome video of people saying "MOON" in various languages. Can't wait to stitch it all together. It's not too late to submit your own! SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon 1 into orbit! This is fantastic news for private space, and for the Google Lunar X PRIZE. SpaceX has graciously agreed to provide launch capabilities for any Google

[edit] Wow, 10 millions de dollar pour rendre le monde meilleur

25 September 2008, by C’est Noël ? C’est la surenchère ? Nokia promet 150 000 dollars dans un concours d’idées d’applications innovantes et solidaires. Et voilà-t-y pas que Google en promet 10 millions, pour réaliser les cinq de vos projets qui sont les plus susceptibles de rendre le monde meilleur. De quoi être époustouflifié ...

[edit] Astrobotic | X PRIZE Foundation

25 September 2008, by studentofchange