Jeffrey and David Shiffman are consummate entrepreneurs, attempting to make money off of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. They’ve→


The modern American couple starts life with a heavy financial burden: In a big city like Chicago, the average wedding costs between $22,500 and→


No story starts out sounding much stranger than it does for this group. Having connected on Facebook they left all of their friends and→


Someone must’ve really liked Marilyn Monroe – either that or chest X-ray – because they’ve shelled out $45,000 for it, reports Neatorama. A 1954→


The San Jose Mercury News checks in with the creator of Togetherville, a website often called “Facebook with training wheels.” Although he declined to→


Two mom wanted to help the people around them get unstuck so they started up a small side business to help raise money for→


The Terrafugia Transition, a light aircraft that looks like a Volkswagen Beetle and can convert into a road-legal automobile, is to go into production→


Recurve Ideas

Recurve, a six-year-old construction company in the Bay Area, focuses on energy audits and “home performance retrofits”—that is, making houses use less energy, reports→


TechCrunch: The iPhone 4 hasn’t even been out a week and already awrapforthat.com has popped up to make vinyl skins that wrap around the→


Imagine if you could pick up Braille just by playing with a ball. Fast Company reports that a new conceptual toy by recent Pratt→


KansasCity.com: It was December 2008, and Jason Day had something to show his barbecue contest teammate Aaron Chronister. Day, having thrown back some holiday→


The Associated Press reports that federal and state laws require that most food sold to the public be made in licensed facilities open to→


Many of us still don’t want to look the recession directly in the eye. We would rather acknowledge it in a back corner of→


Many business owners often times reach a point in their business career where they realize that their business is in desperate need of enhancement,→


GoErie.com: Mary Feikles is tickled pink by her latest accomplishment: a pink Cadillac, courtesy of Mary Kay Inc. Feikles, 44, of Erie, picked up→


MOO.com, a custom business card printer, is offering free business card redesigns for 500 small businesses. To apply for MOO’s Business Card Project, submit→


The X Prize Foundation, which fueled private space travel with their ten million dollar prize for the first rocket capable of making reliable flights→


Discovery News: Dentists could soon hang up their drills. A new peptide, embedded in a soft gel or a thin, flexible film and placed→


According to The Morning Sentinel, it’s easy to learn, fun, and extremely popular, say those who play pickleball. Say what? Yes, pickleball. You might→


What Could Be… Inventions

Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil sat in his office late last week, confidently spinning scenarios with timelines that stretched to 2020, 2030, and beyond,→