When Charlie and Chocolate Factory premiered in theaters, Warner Bros. executives wanted to infuse the air outside the theater and inside the lobby with the rich fragrance of Wonka bars. They turned to a company called ScentEvents to do it. According to the company, they can scent any sized event, either inside or out. Two […]
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GB Tribune: Their Qube Shaker, an innovative percussion shaker, has been marketed successfully by Latin Percussion, the world leader in production and marketing of percussion instruments. LP has taken the technology used in its wildly successful and award-winning Qube Shaker and created a jingle version that sounds like nothing else you’ve ever played. Inside the
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In China, in the heart of panda country, a resourceful business has created “panda poo tea”. There’s no actual excrement in the tea, instead, the green tea is grown on a farm fertilized exclusively with panda manure. The Telegraph has more: “I have started growing the tea on around three acres of land,” said Mr
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Fast Company: As Memorial Day, the unofficial beginning of the summer grill season, looms, the industry remains red hot. Here’s a tasting platter of stats. More than 74 million American barbecued in 2007. Last year Americans bought roughly 900,000 tons of charcoal briquettes. Kingsford, a unit of Clorox, has about 80% market share. According to
Will we one day be living in houses made of mushrooms? Techcrunch profiled a company that thinks we might: Construction material manufacturing often produces hazardous byproducts that are either toxic or difficult to recycle, as are many of the materials themselves. Brooklyn based Planetary ONE is experimenting with the idea of grow-your-own construction materials by
Whether it is to safe money on gas or a need for exercise, cyclists are popping up everywhere. It was when Jack O’Neal was stuck behind a cyclist signaling with his left hand that he was struck with inspiration. That inspiration became YouTurn. He has created unique gloves cyclists wear that help signal their intent
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Business owners often learn from their mistakes, but it doesn’t hurt to learn from the failures of others, too. Forbes has pulled together a list of expensive mistakes you should avoid. Don’t make wildly optimistic sales forecasts. Test and adjust your projections, based on experienced advisor input and industry norms, rather than the Google high
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1885 – Japan’s first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint. 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord”, one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison’s phonograph in London, England. 1893 – France becomes the first
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I recently had the opportunity to speak with Larry “Lo-Lo” White, the founder and namesake of Lo-Lo’s Chicken & Waffles, a soul-food casual dining restaurant that is now offering a franchise. My questions are below in bold. Enjoy. Where did the idea for Lo-Lo’s Chicken & Waffles come from? Lo-Lo: The Lo-Lo’s Chicken & Waffles
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