HumansInvent: In places like Singapore, where fresh water is scarce, one method to obtain drinking water is to filter out the salt from seawater. The usual process for doing this is known as reverse osmosis. Using membrane filtration technology, the salt is filtered out and chucked back into the sea. But this is an expensive, […]
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Forbes: In a scant four years, Hamdi Ulukaya has built something that even Silicon Valley types should covet: a $700 million business that’s profitable, dominant and growing at a furious clip. Even more incredible: Ulukaya makes yogurt. Photo by Timothy Valentine.
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A reader asked: How does a site like T3Leads work, and how can I use it to make money? T3Leads is a six year old lead generation and affiliate marketing company based in Encino, CA. In a nutshell, they pay people to generate leads for a variety of different markets, including payday loans, auto loans
CBS News: The U.S. Open represents a showcase for a tennis invention that measures net cord tension. David Glass, an engineer from Knoxville with product development experience, received a patent for his TNT Gauge system in November 2010. The device, about 7 inches long and 1 ¼ inches wide, goes on the anchor hook on
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Ventures Africa: Every entrepreneur’s biggest headache is seed capital with thousands of businesses in Africa still stuck at the idea stage and for the lucky to take off, hurdles like high cost of doing business and navigating in uncharted waters have turned out to be their Achilles’ heel. Makindu Motors’ story is no different, but
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The Atlantic Cities (blog): Lorenzo Maggiore’s mission was to fund the production of a gun that kills bugs by shooting small amounts of table salt at them. Indiegogo users chose to accept it. With the looks of a nerf gun, the firing style of a shotgun, and the culinary instinct of a potato gun, the
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Inquirer.net: Ingenuity and hard work, coupled with sheer luck, have spelled success for this man who has carved his niche in the electrical industry and helped aspiring entrepreneurs turn their business dreams into reality. As a boy, Bernard H. Morillo sold ice candy in his hometown in Oriental Mindoro. In college, he worked at a
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DigitalJournal.com: A Peruvian scientist invented a system based on a stationary bicycle that can produce enough power to light up a house for nearly a whole day. The invention may have wide application to provide electric power for lighting and heating in remote locations. The invention The device is called “Kallpa Runa”, which in Quechua
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1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine. 1932 – The New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened. The Independent Subway System (IND or ISS), formerly known as the Independent City-Owned Subway System (ICOS) or the Independent City-Owned Rapid Transit Railroad, was a rapid transit
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