Wired: A new startup company’s $10 space posters come with a chance to win a ride on a suborbital space vehicle. Called “I Dream of Space,” the company is selling 25,000 posters at $10 apiece, the proceeds of which should cover a $200,000 ride on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo or a $95,000 seat on XCOR Aerospace’s […]
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IBNLive.com: With virtually all modes of transport going the hybrid way, here’s news that could make the rickshaw – which is now restricted to a few Indian cities and pockets of Asia – a possible mode of public transport. Twenty-six-year-old Sivaraj Muthuraman, a Tirupur-based innovator, has built a ‘hybrid’ rickshaw called the Eco Free Cab,
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NY Daily News: UBC-TV, for Urban Broadcasting Co., is guided by CEO and President Peggy Dodson, a former jazz singer who has run a self-empowerment company for more than a decade. Dodson says she has spent the past eight years getting the financing, assembling the support and launching the actual programming that UBC will make
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NY Daily News: These aren’t your typical loos. One uses microwave energy to transform human waste into electricity. Another captures urine and uses it for flushing. And still another turns excrement into charcoal. They are part of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation competition to reinvent the toilet for the 2.5 billion people around the
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ThinkGeek has a long tradition of inventing and manufacturing amazing products across a whole host of categories: the ThinkGeek Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt, the Annoy-a-tron, Bag of Holding, and the iCADE just to name a few. Now, they’re opening up their proven product launching process to inventors just like you with the ThinkGeek IdeaFactory! How
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io9: Italian artist Andrea Petrachi (a.k.a. Himatic) creates mechanical sculptures from things that most people throw away — everyday items like camera lenses, discarded electronics, doll heads, and lamp shades. His work is meant to symbolize our uncontrolled penchant for consumerism. But they’re also spectacularly wonderful — and often disturbing — works of art. Writing
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DailyMail: It is great news for anyone with a sweet tooth – chocolate with fruit juice instead of fat has been developed. The healthy alternative replaces up to 50 per cent of chocolate’s fat content with fruit juice. University of Warwick chemists claim the new bar will still appeal to chocaholics, after spending months perfecting
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1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days. 1910 – Aviator Eugene Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck
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Looking to spread the word about his french fry resturant, French Fry Heaven, Scott Nelowet created a mobile game app to educate the public about the store’s wide variety of french fry flavor toppings. Players match ingredients with characters like Big Tater. If you complete the game, you go on to the next character —
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Traveling around Japan requires money, energy, and days off work. If you can’t afford to spare those things, maybe sending a beloved stuffed bear in your stead is the next best thing? That’s the theory behind Unagi Travel, a tour agency for stuffed animals. For $35 to $55 a pop, your plush toy can visit
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