SGGP: The machine can pick up 120 tons of unhusked rice in eight hours, consuming only four liters of petrol. Nguyen Van Hong has so far manufactured four such machines and sold three of them for VND25 million (US$1,202) each, to other farmers in the area. He has kept one machine for his own personal […]
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Coolmaterial.com: Guitars are inherently cool. You can take the cool up a notch or two by getting a limited or special edition from one of the big manufacturers, or even by having your existing one customized. But you’ll be hard-pressed to find one as cool looking as one of Olaf Diegel’s 3D-Printed Guitars. We can’t
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Ever need to guess someone’s email address so that you pitch them a sale or contact them about an idea? This new tool from Linksy.me called Email Guesser will do just that. It generates possible email addresses and then checks them against Gravatar to see if there is a photo to match. It found my
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Is your niche biz ugly Christmas sweaters? It must be that time of the year again, because Collectors Weekly has a whole load of them to feast (or scar) your eyes on!
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1674 – Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois). 1791 – The first edition of The Observer, the world’s first Sunday newspaper, is published. 1881 – The first edition of the Los Angeles Times
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The Toepener is a simple device that attaches to doors, enabling users to open the door with their feet. It is the ideal solution for exiting a public restroom. It provides a sanitary, hands-free alternative for users to open the door and avoid touching the handle. The Toepener is a great way to help reduce
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Stephen Key lives the life that many of my readers dream of: he develops ideas for new products, licenses them out, collects royalty checks, and doesn’t look back. In his new book One Simple Idea, he explains how you can do it too. In this book, Key reveals the secrets that helped him and thousands
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World Property Channel: Leave it to the Chinese to constantly find new revenue avenues. The latest is in Saudi Arabia where the kingdom plans to begin an estimated $100 billion worth of infrastructure projects by 2016, according to various media sources in China. The China Daily reports China will be the likely source for much
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Iraqi’s culinary tastes have changed since US tanks rolled into Baghdad in 2003, and one restaurant there is leading the charge: Diners sitting at outdoor tables among the date palms would occasionally hear the sounds of rockets flying overhead, often aimed at the Green Zone on the other side of the Tigris River. The rockets,
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NY Times: Meet Brian Schechter and Aaron Schildkrout, creators of the online dating site HowAboutWe, which until lately targeted an obvious demographic: singles. … The site has been a success, attracting more than 700,000 date ideas. But its founders quickly discovered the commercial paradox of the dating site: The better you are at finding love
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