FW: Spam: Good news about my start-up and Saul Griffith

Hi, Lesley,

 Here's an email for Jeffrey to read about both Saul and my own entrepreneurial venture. I hope Jeffrey and Saul Griffith have a chance to meet this week.

 Saul, my start-up's key inventor, co-founder and chairman won a MacArthur Fellowship today!

http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2913825/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id={3F4055F9-D3B9-4849-93A6-4729BA0CFE8F}&notoc=1

The citation:

MacArthur Fellows 2007



 

Saul Griffith
Co-founding Partner
Squid Labs
Alameda, California
Born: 1974

Saul Griffith is an inventor whose innovations span industrial design, technology, and science education.  Through a variety of endeavors at MIT and as a principal in Squid Labs, Griffith demonstrates his boundless energy for inventing across diverse disciplines in the global public interest.  While still a graduate student at MIT, he designed a unique membrane-based molding system that can produce a variety of common lenses from a single pair of flexible molding surfaces.  This prototype has the potential to change the economics of corrective lenses in rural and underserved communities around the world and continues to be a major focus of research and development energy at Squid Labs.  At MIT, Griffith co-founded Thinkcycle.org, a web community that has produced socially conscious engineering solutions, such as novel household water-treatment systems. Thinkcycle.org is the forerunner of Instructables.com, a remarkable do-it-yourself website driven by user contributions.  He is also a creative force behind HowToons, an animated educational resource designed to engage children in hands-on science and engineering projects.  Through the spin-off company Potenco, Griffith initiated the project design for a hand-held human-powered generator, which has the potential significantly to improve access to electronic devices such as laptops and water purifiers throughout the world.  Though still quite young, he holds several patents in optics, textiles, and nanotechnology.  In these engineering ventures as well as others yet to be imagined, Griffith is a prodigy of invention in service of the world community.

Saul Griffith received a B.MET.E. (1997) from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, an M.E. (2000) from the University of Sydney, and an M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2004) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He is a co-founding partner of Squid Labs and serves as a technical advisor at Potenco in Alameda, California.

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Here's more info and PR about how this helps our start-up, OptiOpia:

OptiOpias founder and chairman Saul Griffith is named MacArthur Fellow

Genius grant recognizes Griffiths inventions for meeting the need of hundreds of millions for  affordable eyeglasses

A San Francisco Bay Area-based start-up had a good day Tuesday, September 25, 2007: one of its founders won a genius grant and was declared a prodigy of invention in service of the world community. OptiOpia, a company developing technologies for affordable quality eyeglasses and eyecare, proudly congratulated its founder and chairman Saul Griffith, Ph.D., winner of a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship.
 go to www.optiopia.com for the rest of the story....
<Lesley, please print out that webpage for Jeffrey>



Best,
David