The day is soon coming when you’ll click “buy it now” on a website and the product will be delivered to you the same→


Westworld: When adults think about starting a business, they worry about loans and other terrifying prospects that often stop them from following their dreams.→


Rather than thinking of themselves as builders or architects of a business, entrepreneurs should think of themselves as prospectors. Prospectors have one fundamental goal→


There’s always a better way to do something, even if that something is steeped in tradition and lore. Yesterday, winemakers stomped on grapes in→


Central Valley Business Times: Here’s a chance for your own really cool business: installing tire chains on frozen mountain roads this winter in California!→


Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 horror musical comedy film directed by Tim Burton. It is an adaptation a→


At companies like Valve and Github, gone are the managers who boss people around and expect servile compliance. In their place is a flat→


Happy Halloween. Happy Reformation Day! 1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.→


The Economist: Overhauling an industry of which you know little is not easy, but neither is it impossible. In 1956 Malcolm McLean, a trucker→


Remember peak oil? Someone forgot to tell North Dakota and Texas. After producing a relatively inconsequential share of the nation’s crude oil for many→


Fast Company: Decano Industries’ smart speed bump is so intuitive, it’s difficult to figure out why no one invented it before. The bump, which→


The Wall Street Journal: When a man in a Cartier watch stepped into the IWC Schaffhausen boutique in Beverly Hills recently, salesman Hua Huynh→


Fast Company: The James Dyson Awards, a sprawling event that garners thousands of entries from design students the world over, is a pretty phenomenal→


Products to amuse and inspire. Dress For Dinner Napkin. Dressing for dinner has never been so easy! Disposable Lighter Camcorder. Perfect for spying on→


Sacha Greif: $0: Use a free framework and UI freebies $0-$100: Get a pre-made theme and nice typeface $100-$500: Consider crowdsourcing $500-$1000: Crowdsourcing or→


When I was a kid, teachers would confiscate all kinds of stuff from unruly students. Knives, radios, yo-yos, you name it. If a kid→


Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, by WIRED magazine editor Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s→


Watching fellow college students working for $7.50 an hour after graduation, Tana Walther, a fashion-design major at Kent State University in Ohio, snapped up→


There are a dozen homes in Detroit, Michigan that you can get for less than $100. Most have a listing price of only $1.→


Talk to the Hand Inventions

Cassandra Daily: Playing make-believe is typically an imagination exercise, but Italian company hi-Fun has created taken it to a highly functional level. The hi-Call→