OstroHoopy

DEKA Research is another innovation-focused organization started by Dean Kamen, the inventor/entrepreneur famous for founding FIRST and creating the Segway. Much of their direction is in the medical field, but the general mission is to develop radical new technologies to improve lives around the world.

Recent projects include:

• Stirling Cycle Engine
• Independent IBOT Mobility System
• Homechoice Dialysis Machine
• Hydroflex Irrigation Pump
• Intravascular Stent
• Therakos

Idealab is dedicated to creating businesses out of really innovative ideas that fill some startingly large gap in technology.
One such company is called X1 which sells a product that lets you find emails and files through keyword searching as fast as you can type them. Brilliant.