If you’re a fisherman on vacation, how are you supposed to know which spots are the best for fishing? Chances are that you may not know this information on your own but with a good guide you could easily find the right place to sit back and drop your hook. Of course, if you want […]
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According to a story at Mental Floss, Aaron Fechter invented the original Whac-A-Mole game in 1971. Well… he took the idea from “some Japanese guys†who had created a creature-whacking game first, but Fechter made the mechanism work reliably by inventing an air cylinder system to power the moles and an audio-tape-driven pattern that governed
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USA Today has a list of seven business trends you cannot afford to ignore. Here are just a few: The cloud. Although social media and mobile get more buzz, the great change-maker for small business comes from the cloud. Mobile. The mobile juggernaut continues in 2012, both for running your business and reaching customers. Analytics.
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nwitimes.com: As a senior clinical occupational therapist, David Blaski works with patients to help them recover skills needed for daily living. So when he came across a young girl who loved the water, but whose legs crisscrossed badly in the pool, making treatment difficult, he knew he had to come up with an original idea.
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A Pennsylvania couple has started a business to supplement company’s safety trainings with rattlesnake specific information: Bob Zumstein has been lecturing on timber rattlesnakes for years and recently had been invited to talk to two Marcellus Shale companies about where workers might encounter these venomous suckers and what they should do if they spot one.
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Popular Science: The future of wallpaper is: glowing? That’s Philips’ vision for the future it seems, as the company is teaming with Kvadrat Soft Cells to create a kind of luminous textile for the consumer market that will essentially embed adjustable LEDs in an acoustic panel that can be hung on the wall to provide
Springwise: FlightCar aims to put vehicles left in airport parking lots to use by offering them up for short-term loans. Where similar car-sharing companies aim to link owners with those requiring one-off loans, FlightCar takes advantage of the fact that most people driving to airports will be leaving the country for a fair amount of
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Richard Shapiro would often see people traveling with their child’s wagon, and having trouble fitting it into their vehicle. That is when a light bulb went off in his head, and he redesigned the wagon for easier transport. How he has licensed his design to Radio Flyer. For the past 10 years, Shapiro, a personal
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Like many inventors, Paul Mockapetris never expected his little creation, the Internet Domain Name System (DNS), to grow the way it has. VentureBeat has recently shared some of his advice for startups. Do you think his tips are on point? Lesson 1: Simplicity is key Lesson 2: Have a plan you can actually explain Lesson
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Petaluma 360: Petaluma resident and game designer Susan McKinley Ross said that one great way to step back from glowing screens and reconnect with others is through activities as simple as a board game. Ross knows a thing or two about board games. She’s the creator of the wildly popular game Qwirkle, which was the
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