The Innovaton Highway Newsletter - November 2015 | Page 7

Innovation Around the World //// ///// //// Meet the ‘”Finalists in the Cultiva Play & Learn Innovation Challenge. Cardboardia (Latvia) – How to build your ideal world! Cardboardia gives you the tools to build a community or participate in a totally unique creative experiment. Cardboardia builds towns from cardboard together with local communities. Read More //// ///// //// Garden of Ideas (United Kingdom) – a 21st Century interpretation of the historic pleasure gardens of the UK. It will be a new space for the arts, where visitors will be transported through massive immersive art installations created by the world’s best artists, film-makers and theatre companies. Read More MakerClub (United Kingdom) MakerClub make 3D printed robotics projects for kids, teaching coding, electronics and product design. Read More //// ///// //// Permalution – Creators of a standing device that collects data on fog patterns and extracts potable water from fog cover. Ingersoll Rand subsidiary Trane – A leading global provider of commercial and industrial heating and cooling systems. Sanzfield Technologies device recycles residential wastewater. Desolenator – Makes a solarpowered desalination unit. AWE’s wind-powered atmospheric water extractor. Applicants were asked to use exponential technologies to solve California’s drought problems and water shortages. Following a four-month open application period, six Impact Challenge finalists were invited to pitch at Singularity University’s NASA Research Park campus in Silicon Valley. The challenge’s panel of fifteen judges included representatives from Singularity University, Intel, Google X, XPrize, and an assortment of water-based organizations, like the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservations Agency. SunToWater’s solar-powered water extractor, also produces water from the air. Focusing on the use of exponential technologies, technical feasibility, and scalability, judges awarded admission into Singularity University Labs’ Entrepreneurship in Residence program as well as $5,000 in unrestricted grant money to: SunToWater Sanzfield Technologies, and Desolenator.