Archive for May 28th, 2010
Swimming Pool in the Middle of the Ocean
If you have a hankering for a swim in the sea, but all of the dangerous creatures in the ocean have you scared, why not just install a swimming pool in the middle of the ocean? “Mesh covered holes allow the Magic Swim to fill with water once it’s deployed, but also keep unwanted visitors [...]
Disability Doesn’t Hold Back Saudi Inventor
Saudi Gazette: Two years ago, Abo Dayah’s car broke down on his way from Jizan, where he was studying, to Riyadh, where his family lives. When he got out to examine the engine, he was hit by a speeding car. Abo Dayah slipped into a coma for 20 days and lost his eyesight. To make [...]
Unique products to inspire and amuse. Lightsaber Chopsticks. Just don’t invite Darth Vader over for Chinese. Creepy Hand Wrench. The perfect gift for your creepy plumber buddy. Daily Affirmation Gum. Because I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me! Sing-A-Long Salad Tongs. Nothing says songfest like tossing some greens. Photos by [...]
A lucrative patent or a popular copyright can provide a creator’s heirs with solid streams of revenue for decades. Some great artists and inventors decided that they’d rather give the rights to their best creations to charity, though. Mental Floss takes a look at a few well-known bits of intellectual property that have found their [...]
It’s Friday before a long holiday weekend, so we thought we’d lighten things up a bit with the movie trailer to the prequel to the Iron Man series. Enjoy. via HolyKaw
Footprint Makes An Imprint On Down Syndrome Awareness
The Chippewa Herald: Katia was looking for a Down syndrome awareness idea — something she could display to show she is the proud and loving mother of a Down syndrome child. All she could find was a blue and yellow ribbon that, frankly, few people know about. “No one ever asked me what my blue [...]
Machinist Turned (Legal) Moonshiner
When Lee Palleschi was a boy, his dad made wine in the basement. He loved to watch the stomping of the grapes and the sweet smell of the fermenting grapes. His father explained the entire winemaking process to him,but being a young boy, he was more interested in other things and didn’t grow up to [...]
Popular Science’s ‘Garage Invention’ Awards 2010: ECO-Auger
‘Garage inventors’ is a term used to describe individuals or groups of inventors that create independently. They are not on a salary or salary/incentive basis, paid by their companies to invent; they work alone, on their own or in small groups, generally in someone’s garage or other part of the home. Popular Science recognizes the [...]
According to story at Entrepreneur, it’s no secret that busy parents are willing to pay for help around the house. In fact, child care, sports coaching and tutoring are expected to be a $47.5 billion industry in 2010, according to the research group IBISWorld. But it doesn’t stop there. Wendy Sweeney has the big job: [...]
The Tofu Steaks That Launched A Business
The Orange County Register: In 2002, Stephen launched Helen’s Foods Inc., to produce vegetarian frozen entrees, named after his mom. The brand became Helen’s Kitchen. “She said, ‘You can use my name for your company if you promise that when the steaks are produced for market, they will still taste as delicious as they do [...]
Denver Startup Takes Pawn Shops Online
Denver, Colorado-based Internet Pawn, which said it is creating the first dedicated online pawn shop nationwide, recently announced it raised $1.5 million in its first round of venture funding from Daylight Partners and Access Ventures, reports Reuters. The company offers pawn loans – cash advances based on the collateral of customers’ assets – at no [...]
Why Lawyers Don’t Start Businesses
To a carpenter, every job looks like it needs a hammer. To a lawyer, everything situation looks like a legal problem and not a strategy question, as Steve Blank describes: The issues our lawyer had raised about the contract, while correct, were strategy questions the founders needed to answer, not legal questions. Negotiating deal points [...]
Stop Being Annoying On Twitter
photo credit: jmilles With the many people that make up the Twitter community, its not hard to find a lot of annoying Twitters on there. It’s bound to happen with such a large community and people having access to not only so many people but so many features and tools as well. Below are some [...]
photo credit: Kelly Sue Today many people are contemplating making a switch from the corporate office to the home office. This can be a great switch but you should know it’s not for everyone. When many of us think about working from home we think it will be easier then working from a corporate office. [...]
Improving Your Presentation Skills
photo credit: Brymo In business we find ourselves having to give presentations from time to time in order to create knowledge and bring in more business for our company. The problem with giving presentations is that not only are many people afraid of public speaking but they also don’t really know how to put together [...]
