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• X PRIZE Benefit Celebrates Innovation in Oil Cleanup, Sets Sights on Breakthroughs in Life Sciences, Education & Global Development

  10/26/2011 from The Launch Pad

  San Francisco, CA (October 25, 2011) — The X PRIZE Foundation honored the benefactor and winners of the $1.4 million Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE, during its 2011 Radical Benefit for Humanity at the Regency Center in San Francisco on October 20. More than 400 “who’s who” from San Francisco, the Silicon Valley and Read More

• Edison2, X Prize Winner, Claims 350 M.P.G. Equivalent for Prototype

  10/12/2011 from The Launch Pad

  Edison2, the tiny, Virginia-based engineering company that won the $5 million mainstream class in the Automotive X Prize last year, recently tested the performance of its all-electric, four-passenger Very Light Car design — a rounded pod with outboard-mounted wheels — at Roush Laboratories in Livonia, Mich. The design slips through the air with very little Read More

• Illinois Team Wins Oil Spill Cleanup X CHALLENGE

  10/12/2011 from The Launch Pad

  Team Elastec, an Illinois-based veteran company in the oil spill cleanup business, developed giant grooved discs that skimmed oil more than three times better than the industry standard to capture the $1 million top prize in the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE, the X PRIZE Foundation announced today. In a competition born out of Read More

• Forbes – Wendy Schmidt’s X Prize Oil Cleanup Challenge Names Winners

  10/12/2011 from The Launch Pad

  Think the X Prize and lunar landings, robotic cars and other futuristic endeavors pursued by tech geeks in garages come to mind. But on Tuesday, the X Prize Foundation awarded more a million dollars for a more down-to-earth innovation: technology to clean up oil spills. The Wendy Schmidt (yes, that Schmidt) Oil Cleanup Challenge named Read More