The Innovaton Highway Newsletter - November 2015 | Page 7

Innovation Around the World

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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

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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

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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.