ESTONIAN INVENTOR

The Virtual Revolution

I happened to watch above named TV program at BBC 2 few days ago where Dr. Aleks Korotoski met some biggest names of internet including the inventor of the web Tim Berners Lee himself.  What really got my attention wasn’t just  the amusing past 20 years, but exciting  and a bit fragile future ahead. Even if  todays internet may retire,  I think there will be a new one instead for sure ! The idea  of  World Wide Web is just so powerful that we can’ t imagine to live without it , not for a long anyway …

 It is well done and amusing programme, which just had its  part one out of 4 series, but you can catch up them all here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/

E-trend on Global markets continues

It is coming to my attention as I hear more and more successful stories based on internet. Both e-gigants Ebay and Amazone have made even bigger profits despite recession. It is probably due to the fact that likely more people are staying indoors and shop online in these days. Surely it is the way to save travel money at least and their energy which requires input in one way or the other ! All that is leading to the increase of e-businesses and domain industry. Also it all requires higher safety regulations for online shoppers. As the result any innovations made in this area are likely to make nice profits.

 Lets just have a look one of  these wonders : www.milliondollarhomepage.com

Kickbike saves the day !

As some of you may know  Winter has surely arrived to Estonia. There is A LOT OF SNOW all over the place and temperatures are between  -7- 15c which is normal. But snowfall has been actually the biggest of last 100 years !! ***  Any ideas how would you get around then ??  If lucky, you can do 5-20 km/h by car or 3-5 km/h by using public transport … But my friend Kaido is doing much faster than that, getting around by his brandnew kickbike !! Well, it seems to be quite healthy and fast way around as he said he can speed up to 40 km/h !! If you really interested how is he doing  go >> www.reisijutud.com  and have a look !  Our nature seems to be a lot like a fairytale now, so why not to go to Estonia and check it out yourself ! You can find this magic finnish made kickbike from here : www.kickbike.ee or www.kickbike.com  &  the latest temperatures and snowfalls can be tracked down at  www.weather.ee  . + If you can, travel to South-Estonia  as there is going to be FIS World Cup in Cross Country Skiing @ Otepää, our winter capital, 16-17th Jan. And if you make it earlier there will be International Snowboard competition ” Otepää Big Air 2010″  on tomorrow 15th Jan. / www.snowboard.ee . So don’t miss it out , coz you may not see this amount of snow and fun for the rest of your life !! * * *

2009 was truly a magic year

The year of  Innovation 2009 has been truely a magic year for our tiny e-nation. It was not just IT sector what was booming, but also chemistry and nanotechnologies what became World class . We got some serious inventions registered by shale industry and very fine nano-size pictures taken by Heiti Paves who also won the 1st prize at Nikon Small World ! The IT industry has been dominant for a  few years now. This year brought us applications such as Fits.me , Primefish & Taxipal and names like Edicy and Clifton. It seems that hi-tec is about to become a part of Estonias image. Surely I will be observing  our progress even more closely next year. It looks like the time has come then people in IT and nano industries could go to Estonia insead of Silicon Valley to be part of the success stories . However there are still some areas like Intellectual Property law and domain industry where we are running a bit behind. Hopefully 2010 will bring positive changes to those areas as well. But now is the time to say: Cheers everyone! We should be pleased and thankful despite the economic turndown that our progress continues …

So, Why smaller is better ?  : www.microscopyu.com

Clifton makes it cooler !

Soon you may be able to talk to your friend over a mobile phone without heating up your ear ! As we all know our mobiles heat up and that is mainly due to the materials used to conduct electricity. But it can change for cooler soon as an Estonian hi-tec company “Clifton” has come up with a new generation of semiconductors or so called GaAs diodes.  Actually our mobiles can do a little damage compared with many household, industrial and military power electronics. Now if we sum up all these bits, it makes an awful lot of heat which is melting down our icecap every day. So, it is not just about ultra-fast recovery of PIN diodes, 85C  higher maximum operating temperature and radiation hardness which these semiconductors can take but also it is about less heat to leak out ! All these qualities make Clifton innovative and green company, which has attracted interest already from power electronics and space industries worldwide. The Clifton is an Estonian startup company and is located at Tartu Science Park.  For more information Go >>  www.clifton.ee

Turn on your pillow mate !

Innovation seems to be the way to survive for many businesses today. So it is also for Delux Domotex – the unique pillow company in Viljandi, Estonia. Delux has its headquarters in Finland and was established by Swedish-Finnish businessman Göran Sjöholm in 1990. The company has a great range of bedding products, including the pillow which can even sing lullabies to you ! Göran got the idea visiting his friend in US some years ago , who used to listen calming music before going to sleep … As a good sleep seems to be a luxury for many people in these days, Göran decided to invent the pillow which can actually play some nice sleeping music to you ! As nothing quite like this excisted before he applied for the patent and started the production line. But quick search in Google shows there are similar products on market already. Neverless Göran seems to have his own concept.  The “Singing Pillow” is about to come to the market in January 2010 !! As Göran has made a deal with IKEA, you can hopefully find it soon in your nearest store as well. Sweet dreams !

Turn it on : www.delux.fi  or read more in estonian >> http://hei.eas.ee 

Turkey fats for B100

As we once again approach this magical time of the year we call Christmas, it’s time for me to remind you of one old story.  This is the story of fats that go down the drains all over the world! Surely most of us know what sorts of problems it can cause?  For instance things are so bad in Britain that the BBC had to call up the London sewage people to tell us more about it! So the common alternative over here in the UK seems to be – just bin it !  As I was watching the BBC news this morning I also sent them a text about our story >>> A well known batch-process is in common practise by many European farmers today. Biodiesel can be made from used  plant oils or animal fats and is a much cleaner fuel than petrol or diesel. Estonian-made B100 is a clean & well advanced biodiesel. It’s been made under the high pressure of 300PA and soaring  temperatures around 300 c !  Compared to B20 , which is common biodiesel in Europe and USA  it is actually 2-3 times cleaner ! For instance as  B20 can reduce toxic waste 20-40% compared to diesel,  B100 can cut it down 90 %  !!  Well, it looks like there is future for B100 indeed.  It just takes one Global corporation  to buy the license from Tallinn Technical University and its inventors behind this immaculate chemical process.
For more information go to :  http://biodiisel.favius.com.

* Rudolf Diesel designed the first diesel engine to run on peanut oil in 1892 !!

Edicy can give you a better chance

Web design company “Edicy” has won the gold medal at ” Best Internet” – the first ever Estonian Internet challenge. Edicy gives a good chance for both, beginners and proffessionals to develop their web dreams. Its simple and effective approach can get your homepage online within minutes. No suprise that entrepreneur and ex ‘Skype man’ Toivo Annus has invested 25% into our golden web-design company. Edicy is aiming Global markets and apparently is doing very well.  To read more about Edicy just click to the banner on right column please !  >>>

My apologies !

Unfortunately I couldn’ reach to you last 3 days as my blog was hacked. At least I believe so as I didn’t do anything stupid myself. Therefore no more comments can be sent in due to the fact that around 1%  were genuie only …  If you would like to contact to me you can do so via e-mail or just find me at Facebook.  But the good news is that meanwhile I had time to complete TOP 10 Estonian inventions at “Eesti Leiutaja” .  Thankyou for your patience !

The Brainhunt is over

You may have heard of Latvian rockband “Brainstorm” but unlikely about Estonian TV series called the “Brainhunt” ( Ajujaht ). This is our biggest young entrepreneurs challenge of a year for a grand total of 1M estonian kroons ! The competition is supported by SEB, Skype, Webmedia , Elion, Microlink, EMT , EAF, Tehnopol and some other innovative companies. The challenge has been on every year since 2007. This years winner is “Primefish Solutions” with the top prize of 235 000 eek ! Ones idea is about using IT based automatisation in fish-breeding. It has been proved more efficient , it can notify you about faults and it surely can bring down the cost of the labour as well. Primefish has been founded by Martin Koppel and is located in the Tallinn Technology Park  Tehnopol.

Check it out  http://www.ajujaht.ee  and  www.primefish.ee