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If your are desperately ill or hopelessly sick and modern medicine including surgery gives you little or ho help, you may think you need a miracle to get back your health. This “miracle” may be provided by a new technology that promises to correct what is wrong with your body.

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A group of engineering graduates from the Mapua Institute of Technology has developed a low-cost aircraft that can be used for search and rescue operations in times of disaster.

[DatePublished] => 2008-12-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 416099 [Title] => Proudly Pinoy: Multipurpose wheelchair, low-cost plane [Summary] =>

A wheelchair with sink and toilet designed for handicapped patients and the elderly and a low-cost aircraft that can be used during search and rescue operations were two of the more than 140 local inventions featured yesterday at the Philippine Trade and Trading Center in Pasay City in line with this year’s celebration of National Inventors’ Week.

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In the near future, as the ozone layer thins due to harmful emissions from motor vehicles and the world’s forests get depleted, tilapia scales may be used to shield people from intensified sun rays.
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Behind "RM-625," as the underwater ROV is called, are Mapua engineering juniors Michael Poblete, Ivan de Vera, Charles Rico, Leonard Canoza, Paul Kevin Diaz, Harry Noel Balanay, Andrew Alcomendraz, and Jaylord Janod.
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A beer fortified with all the B vitamins, an electric meter that uses a prepaid phone card and a cough-easing lollipop made of lagundi leaves dubbed "Lolligundi" were among 99 local inventions showcased yesterday at the Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC) in Pasay City during the celebration of National Inventors Week (NIW).
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This was found in a multi-agency study funded by the United Nations-Fund for Commodities.

The study is a joint undertaking of the Department of Science and Technology-Forest Products and Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI), the Netherlands’ Agro-Technology and Food Innovations Organizations (ATO), Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA), and Fiber Industry Development Authority (FIDA).
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The product has been called "palwood", which means palwa wood. Palwa is the native word for coconut frond or midrib, from which palwood is made.

Credited for the development of this lumber is Noel V. Biera, a civil engineer and currently an instructor at the College of Engineering, Jose Rizal Memorial State College, Dapitan City.
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It is known by various names: virgin coconut oil (VCNO), pure virgin coconut oil (PVCO), or just virgin coconut oil (VCO).

VCNO (let’s just call it thus) is extracted from freshly shredded meat of choice for mature coconuts or what is called "non-copra."
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 231582 [Title] => Iodized mineral water developed [Summary] => There’s a new health product now in the market: iodized mineral water.

Commercially named HI-IQ, it was developed by the Pililla Poultry Processing Plant, Inc. in Pililla, Rizal, through its Iodised Mineral Water, Inc. (IMWI). It was among those exhibited at the Philippine Trade and Training Center along Roxas Boulevard in Pasay City during the recent celebration of this year’s National Inventors’ Week (NIW).

HI-IQ has been certified by the Department of Health (DOH) and Department of Science and Technology (DOST).
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                    [Title] => Inventors’ week features electrotherapy device
                    [Summary] => 

If your are desperately ill or hopelessly sick and modern medicine including surgery gives you little or ho help, you may think you need a miracle to get back your health. This “miracle” may be provided by a new technology that promises to correct what is wrong with your body.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 421888 [Title] => Mapua grads develop low-cost aircraft for search and rescue [Summary] =>

A group of engineering graduates from the Mapua Institute of Technology has developed a low-cost aircraft that can be used for search and rescue operations in times of disaster.

[DatePublished] => 2008-12-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 416099 [Title] => Proudly Pinoy: Multipurpose wheelchair, low-cost plane [Summary] =>

A wheelchair with sink and toilet designed for handicapped patients and the elderly and a low-cost aircraft that can be used during search and rescue operations were two of the more than 140 local inventions featured yesterday at the Philippine Trade and Trading Center in Pasay City in line with this year’s celebration of National Inventors’ Week.

[DatePublished] => 2008-11-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 388537 [Title] => Students discover use for tilapia scales, rambutan vs radiation [Summary] => BUTUAN CITY – The next time you throw away scales from tilapia or peelings from the rambutan fruit, think of the Agusan del Sur high school science students and their science advisers who have found a use for these waste materials to shield people from harmful electromagnetic radiation and gamma rays.

In the near future, as the ozone layer thins due to harmful emissions from motor vehicles and the world’s forests get depleted, tilapia scales may be used to shield people from intensified sun rays.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 369068 [Title] => Mapua students develop low-cost underwater remotely operated vehicle [Summary] => The government could have saved millions of pesos in locating the sunken MT Solar 1 off Guimaras Island last August had it used the underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) invented by a group of students of the Mapua Institute of Technology.

Behind "RM-625," as the underwater ROV is called, are Mapua engineering juniors Michael Poblete, Ivan de Vera, Charles Rico, Leonard Canoza, Paul Kevin Diaz, Harry Noel Balanay, Andrew Alcomendraz, and Jaylord Janod.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 368701 [Title] => Vitamin-fortified beer, lagundi lollipop, anyone? [Summary] => Necessity may be the mother of invention, but Filipino inventors know how to bring fun into the process.

A beer fortified with all the B vitamins, an electric meter that uses a prepaid phone card and a cough-easing lollipop made of lagundi leaves dubbed "Lolligundi" were among 99 local inventions showcased yesterday at the Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC) in Pasay City during the celebration of National Inventors Week (NIW).
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 268529 [Title] => Coco panel board without synthetic binder feasible [Summary] => Panel boards can be produced from coconut coir husk without using ant synthetic binder.

This was found in a multi-agency study funded by the United Nations-Fund for Commodities.

The study is a joint undertaking of the Department of Science and Technology-Forest Products and Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI), the Netherlands’ Agro-Technology and Food Innovations Organizations (ATO), Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA), and Fiber Industry Development Authority (FIDA).
[DatePublished] => 2005-02-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 267776 [Title] => Lumber not from tree developed [Summary] => Now, you can have lumber without cutting a tree.

The product has been called "palwood", which means palwa wood. Palwa is the native word for coconut frond or midrib, from which palwood is made.

Credited for the development of this lumber is Noel V. Biera, a civil engineer and currently an instructor at the College of Engineering, Jose Rizal Memorial State College, Dapitan City.
[DatePublished] => 2005-01-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 233177 [Title] => And now, ‘virgin’ coconut oil [Summary] => By now, not so few must have heard about it – and consumed it.

It is known by various names: virgin coconut oil (VCNO), pure virgin coconut oil (PVCO), or just virgin coconut oil (VCO).

VCNO (let’s just call it thus) is extracted from freshly shredded meat of choice for mature coconuts or what is called "non-copra."
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 231582 [Title] => Iodized mineral water developed [Summary] => There’s a new health product now in the market: iodized mineral water.

Commercially named HI-IQ, it was developed by the Pililla Poultry Processing Plant, Inc. in Pililla, Rizal, through its Iodised Mineral Water, Inc. (IMWI). It was among those exhibited at the Philippine Trade and Training Center along Roxas Boulevard in Pasay City during the recent celebration of this year’s National Inventors’ Week (NIW).

HI-IQ has been certified by the Department of Health (DOH) and Department of Science and Technology (DOST).
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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