Archive for May 5th, 2010
Students Build Centrifuge For $30
Futurity reports that a group of college students has turned a salad spinner into a rudimentary centrifuge that medical clinics in developing countries could use to manually separate blood without electricity. They built it for about $30—including the spinner—using plastic lids, cut-up combs, yogurt containers, and a hot-glue gun. The centrifuge was designed as a [...]
Rube Goldberg: Inventor and Cartoonist
Rube Goldberg was a brilliant cartoonist and inventor. He is best known for a series of popular cartoons he created depicting complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways – now known as Rube Goldberg machines, reports Puggal. Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime including a Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning [...]
According to The Arizona Republic, it’s difficult to put a dollar value on Cinco de Mayo, but sales of avocados, tequila and Mexican beer often jump during the holiday period, which can last for several days around the actual May 5 date. Cinco de Mayo celebrates the victory of the Mexican militia over the French [...]
The Power Of Wind… For Your Car
A preteen student in Pennsylvania is receiving praise for his innovative idea, an idea that could possibly revolutionize the auto industry reports WIS News 10. “There’s this new idea about solar panels they’re thinking about putting it on a car! And I thought if it doesn’t work at night how would you work it? So [...]
Niche: Survivalism Means Business
PROFIT Magazine: The previous decade saw its share of disasters and near misses: Y2K, 9/11, the South Asian tsunami, the Northeast Blackout of 2003, Hurricane Katrina. And if the forces of terrorists, tectonics and power grids weren’t enough, the global economic meltdown sealed 2000s’ fate as one of the most disaster-prone decades in recent memory. [...]
Pay Attention To What’s Behind The Curtain
Start-up Aardvark had an idea to develop a social search engine, in which people could ask a question via instant messenger and then Aardvark would automatically route the question to the user’s friends, and friends of friends, finally bringing the answer back to the user from the user’s own extended social network. But before Aardvark [...]
WAHMs Add Value By Launching Businesses
More and more moms are turning into work-at-home moms reports The Montreal Gazette. A survey done by Leger Marketing for eBay Canada ahead of Mother’s Day found that 33 per cent of Canadians know a mother who has either started her own business or would like to — though only 14 per cent have done [...]
Awesome Companies Built by Teens: Matt Mullenweg
The entrepreneurial spirit starts early for many teenagers, but for most things like high school, college and social lives overpower the urge to start a business. But not every teenager. Wisebread takes a look at some incredibly successful young entrepreneurs, who all started their empires in their teens. Matt Mullenweg is another software developer who [...]
The Traits Of A Successful Entrepreneur
Ever wonder what it takes to be successful in business? While you could easily say that the true answer to that question will vary from person to person there are a few key traits that really stick out among all entrepreneurs. The Montreal Gazette recently wrote about some of those defining traits. -Courage: Being a [...]
Turn A Product Idea Into A Prototype
Keck-Craig in Pasadena, Calif., is something like touring a strange mechanical museum. Quirky machines—from tennis-ball servers to shrimp deveiners and beer-can chillers—are displayed everywhere, all designed and/or built by Keck-Craig. The $1 million company is one of a handful around the U.S.that helps inventors turn their ideas into reality, Bloomberg BusinessWeek columnist Karen E. Klein [...]
