Archive for July 30th, 2009
Inventor Seeks Market For Jackets
Times Daily: The technology has been tested and proved sound. John Locker says all he needs to make his cooling garment successful is for someone such as Oprah Winfrey to wear it around for a few days. Locker has experimented with the cooling technology for more than six years. He has made vests, jackets and [...]
Quirky – The Product Development Community With Smarts
Red Ferret: Quirky is a clever new community portal based around the idea of product development. Submit an idea, other members of the community vote on it and the winner product gets made in a factory and everything. The site promises to deliver a new product every few days, which is a pretty ambitious goal. [...]
Young Inventor Casting About For Ideas
The Miami Herald: Patrick Brown’s fledgling, home-based company Finovation Inc. makes a handful of simple, useful products for the niche market of offshore fishermen. His three innovations — the kite thong, the bait bridle and the “gimbalok” — are in about a dozen tackle shops between Melbourne and the Keys, with their popularity quickly growing [...]
Finding Grants to Make Your Biz Greener
Kiplinger: Wading through the morass of information on green business grant programs can be challenging, particularly for small businesses that don’t have the expertise or staff to manage grant writing. 1. Call your utility company and ask about the grants and rebates they offer. 2. Scour the web for grants, rebates and other incentive programs [...]
The Bar Code Is Taking a Leap Forward
The New York Times: Look closely at recent supermarket coupons, and you may see some new markings on them near the traditional bar code: sets of neat black bars stacked in two rows. The new symbols, called GS1 DataBars, can store more data than traditional bar codes, promising new ways for stores to monitor inventory [...]
