August 6, 2013

3D Aerial Panoramas

AirPano is a noncommercial project focused on high resolution 3D aerial panoramas. The AirPano team is made up of Russian photographers who shoot aerial panoramas from helicopters, light jets, air balloons and radio-controlled helicopter models. This is an amazing idea, and someone needs to do it for profit!

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How to Really Go Paperless

The following post is made possible by support from UPS. Back in 1975, Business Week ran an incredibly cognizant article about the office of the future. Will the office change all that much? Listen to George E. Pake, who heads Xerox Corp.’s Palo Alto (Calif.) Research Center, a new think tank already having a significant

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Phone Booth Aquarium

Cassandra Daily: In Japan, goldfish have long been viewed as symbols of happiness, prosperity, and good luck. Kansai-based art collective Kingyobu – which roughly translates to ‘goldfish club’ in English – spread good fortune across Osaka by converting old phone booths into aquariums filled with water, bubblers and hundreds of living goldfish. The group, five

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Urine Powered Generator

MakerFairAfrica: 1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity. The system works like this: Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen. The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder. The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid

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Silent Barmen Biz Idea

Business 2 Community: The idea for silent barmen came to me while sitting with some friends at a popular, but crowded, bar in Cape Town. My idea was to “get served” instantly without having to wait in a queue. Queues are inefficient for the establishment because patrons are being kept waiting to spend their money

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Niche Biz: Hand-Painted Jeans

Casually dressed in a summer yellow T-shirt and a pair of khaki shorts, a blue pair of sunglasses on his head, Matt Limpede fit right into the student crowd at UTD’s Comet Lounge. There was nothing at all that give him away as the entrepreneur behind two successful businesses. “I got lost there for a

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All In Only One Piece Of Cutlery

AriegePyreneesTourism.co.uk: Jean Louis Orengo invented this strange object; his Ariègeois thought up the idea of Georgette on one of his nature expeditions. Originally Georgette had been adopted by Paul Fontvielle the creative head chef of Couserans and founder of the Beauregard estate. Making a first appearance chez colette, a trendy shop in the capital, it

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