Won 3rd place Dare-to-Dream Medtech Design Challenge

I won third place in Medical Device + Diagnostic Industry magazine's Dare-to-Dream Medtech Design Challenge.

MD+DI is a magazine written exclusively for original equipment manufacturers of medical devices and in vitro diagnostic products.

A month ago, the editors of MD+DI created a medtech design contest, where we challenged you to design your dream device under the assumption that real-world challenges were non-existent.

3 Dream Devices Take Top Honors in Medtech Design Contest
In August, the editors of MD+DI asked you, the medtech community, to put on your creative hats and dream up a device that would tackle health-care problems both big and small.

You responded, submitting an array of innovative medical device concepts that addressed a broad spectrum of issues. The editors of MD+DI reviewed and debated the merits of each submission, and narrowed the field to 10 finalists. ...

Rounding out the winners' circle in third place is the Intracranial Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure Regulator. The entry, submitted by Bob Paddock, was inspired by a personal experience; his wife committed suicide after an excruciating headache that resulted from cerebrospinal fluid leakage.

"The inspiration for this dream device obviously came from a very personal place," said Jamie Hartford, managing editor of MD+DI. "The Intracranial Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure Regulator is a novel improvement over the standard of care for intracranial hypotension caused by cerebrospinal fluid leaks, a condition that can cause devastating headaches. I like that it uses wireless power transfer, which is really the next step for implantable devices."

Thank you for voting on my design. Hopefully it will get the attention of some medical manufacture...

See 1st and 2nd place winners here: http://www.mddionline.com/article/3-winners-announced-dare-dream-medtech-design-challenge

October 17th Debt Ceiling: Are you ready for the Greater Depression?

Unless you never read a newspaper, watch TV or turn on the radio, you know that the politicians in Washington DC are screwing up the world economy and don't even know it.

The only solution is to get rid of parties.

Remember the Wigs and Hat parties from your Civics Class in school? The Founding Fathers saw, in their own day, the dangers of parties over Statesmen.

When was the last time you were invited to one of their parties?

I don't vote based on parties. I vote on if I think the person will represent my interests. None of them do anymore.

None of them understand how the monetary system works.

That you think a green piece of paper has value is only a mater of belief that it has value, a mater of perception.

The perception that the Dollar is worthy of being the worlds reserve currency is also a mater of perception. The damage has already been done to the perception of the Dollar being worthy of holding.

Oct/17/2013 is when the US run out of the ability to borrow 'Money'.

The conspiratorially minded will think that is what 'They' want to happen so they can put 'Their' new system into place...

For the last few years I've detailed how the system works here in my blog:

• Government raises your taxes with new CPI calculations.
• Is the Dollar Dead? Bank of England says so.
• "We can always print money" - Alan Greenspan on Meet The Press Aug/07/2011.
• Why is the cost of my Bill of Material (BOM) so much higher than last week? The Orwellian doublespeak answer: Quantitative Easing.

Are you ready for the Greater Depression?