Archive for April 12th, 2010
Around The World In A Gyrocopter
At over 3,000 miles so far, Norman Surplus is well on his way to fly around the world. What makes him unique is the gyrocopter he is flying in, says the Belfast Telegraph. The father of two from Larne, Co Antrim, took off from his home town last month and has now navigated Europe and [...]
You would think that Lynn Felter, army wife and a mother of 3, would be the last person you would imagine creating a line of cards that are filled with “sexual innuendo and crass jokes”, notes the San Jose Mercury News. But talk with Felter for a few minutes, and the snarky sense of humor [...]
Inventor Is Spinning His Wheels
Jon Fleck, best known for his Makin Bacon kitchen utensil, is at it again and this time he’s looking at the tires on semis, says JSOnline. Now Fleck, a 47-year-old Minnesotan who specializes in seemingly simple ideas that work, has a new one: a fabric wheel cover that cuts fuel consumption of over-the-road trucks by [...]
Inventors Digest says Alan Beckley is an entrepreneur, inventor, and a consultant to small businesses. In 2002, tired of sitting on bulky wallets stuffed with hard to find cards, he invented the Savvy Caddy, a wallet laid out like a photo album that could hold twice as many cards yet remain half as thick and [...]
Creating A Game That Became A Household Name
Leslie Scott is the inventor of Jenga, the co-founder of Oxford Games Ltd, and the author of ‘About Jenga: The Remarkable Business of Creating a Game that Became a Household Name, according to a story at Inventors Digest. Born and raised in Africa, and educated in Sierra Leone, Kenya and England, Scott worked for Intel [...]
We Have Tools, Just Need Inventors
NY Times: Mark Hatch sees the revolution going something like this: Wealthy, love-handled Americans will turn off their televisions, put down their golf clubs and step away from their Starbucks coffees. Then they will direct their disposable income and free time toward making things — stuff like chairs, toys and, say, synthetic diamonds. They will [...]
The business card creativity stream keeps on flowing…. On the heels of the business card catapult and business card penny cannon — and not to mention the resignation letter cake — there’s now the locally baked business card cookie! The Boston Herald says Danvers pastry chef Kelly Delaney, owner of the Cakes for Occasions bakery, [...]
Coach Fields New Career As Inventor
Jill Cakert says girls softball changed her life. Cakert, 52, is now an assistant coach of the Atlantic City High School varsity girls softball team. One thing Cakert didn’t like about coaching softball was hollering across the field to instruct her players, which caused her to lose her voice when her team participated in multiple-game [...]
Food Blogger Who Can’t Cook Finds Niche
Some food bloggers are known for their restaurant reviews, others for their creative recipes, but Amy Cao of AmyBlogsChow.com is known for her “Stupidly Simple Snacks” videos, says The NY Daily News. I happen to be a food blogger who doesn’t cook, and people get a kick out of that,” says the Brooklynite. While Cao [...]
If you sell or give away PDF ebooks, you’ll want to check out Ross McKillop’s tutorial over at Simple Help. It will guide you through the process of converting PDF files so that they can be read in iBooks, the iPad application. iBooks uses an ebook format called ePub. Using a free converter application (and [...]
