This sounds like a great idea to try with your kids: After a brief, failed experiment paying me to do chores, my dad tried→


Open Source Soda Inventions

OpenCola is a brand of open source cola, where the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable. Anybody can make the drink,→


The Press NZ: Run your eyes over this lot: elderflowers, rhubarb, gooseberries, rosehips. Get the picture? If “old-fashioned” popped up, you’d be right –→


1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam’s role in US railroading. 1898 –→


DesignTAXI.com: Called the ‘A011 Peak Shift’, the vending machine cools products only during the night instead of the daytime—to take advantage of the surplus→


Fast Company reports on a new company called uFlavor, that promises to bring custom sodas to the masses — both in the mail and→


InventorSpot: Just in time for Japan’s “winter party season” comes Pepsi Pink, a blush-tinted cola which should sell well in the homeland of Hello→


The Galcos Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles only sells sodas. They have over 500 different sodas in glass bottles, and not a single→