Archive for August 30th, 2010
Car Lashes Make Your Car Female
Many people anthropomorphize their cars. If your car is “female,” how do you make it obvious to everyone on the street? Car Lashes, of course! Video after the jump.
Shark Tank Season 2 Casting Call
The following is by Brenden Sherratt of In The Shark Tank. Shark Tank has begun casting for its second season. If you have a business, which needs funding by the sharks, please e-mail SharkTankCasting@yahoo.com. You’ll need to include your name, address, contact information, a recent photo, and a brief non-confidential description of your business. There [...]
Inventor Legends: Bette Nesmith Graham
Typists prone to making mistakes when using old-fashioned typewriters or word processors have Bette Nesmith Graham to thank for creating one of the most simple, yet lifesaving inventions in all of office-supply history. Born in 1924, Nesmith worked as a secretary while earning her GED in night school. While her husband was away in service [...]
Young Entrepreneur Gets Recognition And Help For College
Next month Zachary Gosling will be majoring in business at Drexel University but right now he is already a blooming businessman reports The Philadelphia Enquirer. In first grade, he sold rocks from his driveway to unwitting classmates, claiming that he had spiffed them up in a “rock cleaner.” At age 8, he opened his first [...]
According to a story in The Friday Flyer, like many inventors, Brian Belden saw a need and created a solution to improve the lives of others. While floating in Canyon Lake on a foam noodle last year on Memorial Day, Brian observed his friends shifting their beverages from hand to hand while trying to keep [...]
With their children strapped to their backs, Angie Freeman Shephard and Theresa Perez get to work with their diaper delivery business, Happy Bottoms Diaper Service, reports Anchorage Daily News. When Angie Freeman Shephard and Theresa Perez were pregnant last year, they tried to find a cloth diaper pickup and delivery service in Anchorage, but they [...]
The Louisville Courier-Journal is reporting that Elvis is back in the building — and economists suggest it may be a sign of better economic times ahead. Elvis is a dipstick, of sorts, for our economy,” Doo Wop Shop manager Rob Baker said. “The party business is coming back. People are not thinking twice about having [...]
Nike Patents Auto-Lacing Sneakers
Who doesn’t remember Marty McFly’s power lace-up Nike kicks from the fictional year 2015? Well, the scene must’ve had a lasting effect on Nike, because as the real year 2015 approaches, the company has filed a patent for an automatic shoe-lacing system that eerily resembles the one scene here: Editor’s Note: Shouldn’t the movie clip [...]
Post-Katrina Business Boom: Naked Pizza
President Obama recently marked the anniversary of Katrina with a visit to New Orleans. His goal was to remind everyone that they are not forgotten but with an uptick in entrepreneurs that focus might change reports NPR. Not long after the storm, New Orleans native Robbie Vitrano started a pizza place in the recovering neighborhood [...]
Microsoft Co-Founder Becomes Super Patent Litigator
TechEye.net is reporting that Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, has sued Apple, Ebay, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Youtube, Netflix, Office Depot and Staples – as well as the company formerly known as AOL – for allegedly infringing a number of patents he owns. Allen has not sued Microsoft. Technology which Allen says he owns was [...]
How much does it cost Netflix to stream a movie in HD? 5 cents 12.5 cents 23 cents 49 cents 99 cents View Results The answer tomorrow. Photo by Lightstorm Entertainment.
