Archive for January 26th, 2012
Walmart’s Get on the Shelf Contestant Update: Lots of Videos!
Walmart’s Get on The Shelf contest is in full swing. The contest, if you don’t remember is a competition that anyone can enter for the chance to get their product sold on Walmart.com and Walmart stores. Any product in any category currently covered by Walmart is eligible ranging from housewares and electronics to toys and [...]
10 Things That Will Be Obsolete by 2020
Wrist Watches Paperbacks Traditional Homework Newspapers Car Keys College Backpacks DVDs Instruction Manuals Corked Wine Offline Voting 38 more can be found on Socialnomics.
Yesterday I mentioned that the Pirate Bay is now offering physical items for download. The digital files can be loaded into 3D printers and fabricated plastic. Now, a professor from the University of Southern California wants to do for houses what the Pirate Bay is doing for smaller physical items. He wants to print houses [...]
Bulk Dishwashing for Restaurants
Channel NewsAsia: Restaurants [in Singapore] may be doing brisk business, but that has created a headache for some bosses. That’s because they are finding it hard to hire people to clean their dishes! Well, one company has turned this into a business opportunity. Synnovate Solutions collects crates of dirty plates from restaurants across Singapore. The [...]
Today in Entrepreneurial History: January 26
On this day in 1905 the world’s largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats, is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa. For those of you, like me, who can’t compare carats to pounds in your head, three thousand carats equals 1.3 lbs!
Professor Quits School, Starts an Education Company
The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Stanford University professor who taught an online artificial-intelligence course to more than 160,000 students has abandoned his teaching position to aim for an even bigger audience. Sebastian Thrun, a research professor of computer science at Stanford, revealed today that he had given up his teaching role at the institution [...]
Veterans Small Biz Conference Visiting Detroit
Detroit Free Press: The National Veterans Small Business Conference and Expo will be held at Cobo Center in June, bringing an estimated 6,000 veterans, small-business owners, federal employees, and advocates to the city, Mayor Dave Bing and U.S. Veterans Administration officials said Wednesday. The conference will be June 25-29 at Cobo. The event is billed [...]
Creating Electricity With Bicycle Power
Bicycles has been used to wash laundry, power the TV, and as an alternative form of transportation. A man in Seoul has now made it his main source of electricity, but creating a bicycle generator for his own home. [Interview : Moon Jang-man, Inventor ] “The generator is attached to the bicycle so that electricity [...]
UK Inventors Need More Support
Trevor Baylis has seen success with his inventions like the wind-up radio, but he cannot help but wonder why the government isn’t doing more to help inventors get going. So, he is doing something about it. He set up Baylis Brands to help inventors to patent their ideas and get them to market, and he [...]
