1863 – Henry Ford, American industrialist, was born 1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney’s Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short. 1940 – Sir Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor, was born 2003 – In Mexico, the last ‘old style’ Volkswagen Beetle rolls off […]
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Do your children embarrass you when you take them out to a fancy dinner? The Kensington Hotel in London is now offering etiquette classes for children aged five to 10 “the gamut of table manners – correct posture; how to hold a knife and fork properly; the importance of ‘please’ and ‘thank you’; conversation dos
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Watching fellow college students working for $7.50 an hour after graduation, Tana Walther, a fashion-design major at Kent State University in Ohio, snapped up an alternative offered by her father–to run a Pita Pit restaurant franchise he would buy. “I guess I bought her a job,” says her father, Jan Walther, of North Canton, Ohio.
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Cassandra Daily: Playing make-believe is typically an imagination exercise, but Italian company hi-Fun has created taken it to a highly functional level. The hi-Call is a Bluetooth-enabled glove with a built-in phone that’s activated by users holding their hands to their faces in the universal “call me†gesture. A speaker and microphone are sewn into
Photo by grantlairdjr. WSJ: A growing number of professionals are using social media to build a personal, public identity—a brand of their own—based on their work. Think of an accountant who writes a widely read blog about auditing, or a sales associate who has attracted a big following online by tweeting out his store’s latest
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BBC: At some point in the near future you’ll wear out those running shoes, break that squash racket, drop your smartphone and crack the screen. They will need to be replaced – at a cost. But what if we made things from materials that can heal themselves – like a plant or animal heals a
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I am an owner/operator of a small vending machine business. Been at it about 19 years. If anyone wants to know what it’s like from my side AMA.
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Nature: A food scientist has cracked the secrets of the world’s most expensive coffee, Kopi Luwak, whose beans pass through the intestinal tract of an Indonesian civet before being roasted and savoured. But the elusive blend looks unlikely to be copied any time soon. The beans, which cost over US$1,000 a kilogram, are eaten and
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Ever wonder how even mediocre-tasting pizza can look delectably mouth-watering in commercials? From the perfect cheese pull to tweezing the mozzarella, Domino’s gives us a backstage look at the creation of a pizza commercial. That explains why a large pizza costs $15!
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What other “everyday” packaging could be re-purposed?
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