Next Event - June 18, 2009

Time: 5pm - ?
Location: Houligan's - 415 S. Barstow Street, Eau Claire, WI
Cost: Free; cash bar, hors d'oeuvres provided


Innovations Presented:

Equipment for the Production of Gelled Simulated Items made from Fruit, Meat, or Olive Purees and the Products Therein.
Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation (CATI) - Racine, WI

These technologies use alginates to create olive or fruit simulated shapes with a celled texture using fruit, vegetable, or meat puree. Vitamins, minerals, or other substances can be encapsulated in the restructured puree form. Dimples on opposing sides of the shapes make the restructured puree form seem more realistic. The technologies provided include the equipment for producing olive, fruit, and meat pruees, and the patents for the puree idea itself.

CATI is a technology transfer and commercialization center located in Southeast Wisconsin. CATI has acquired the above technology and is making it available for review and licensing. To see this and other technologies, visit the SMARTT Network: http://www.smarttnetwork.com/Smartt/a/technology/archive?tech=8


B Able To
Kathryn Rulien-Bareis, President
www.bableto.com

Kathryn Rulien-Bareis started her first business in 1969, her second in 1980 and in 2004 launched her third, B Able To, to encourage more accessibility to visual art. Kathryn has invented and manufactured her first two tools in a line of Universal Design.

She has taught art for over 24 years and continues to teach at DeLong Middle School in Eau Claire, WI. Kathryn has received the Herb Kohl Fellowship Award (2008); the Rockwell Award for Cooperating Teachers (2008); UCP Business of the Year Award (2005); the Micro Business Award from the Eau Claire Area EDC (2004); and the Wisconsin Art Education Association Middle Level Art Teacher of the Year (2000). She graduated from UWEC in 1982 with a BA in art education and in 1987 with a BS in elementary education.

Kathryn will discuss the development of her tools Adapt-A-Cut and Adapt-A-Hold. She will share the obstacles she is facing with packaging, cost-effectiveness and marketing.

For more information about Off the Shelf visit the Eau Claire Area EDC website: http://www.eauclaire-wi.com/edc_service/index.php#offtheshelfeauclaire