Unique products to amuse and inspire. Cardboard Box Beer. First wine, now beer. Say it ain’t so! Post Pillow. So you can wake up in the morning with ‘Loooooooser’ written on your forehead. Measuring Tape Toilet Paper. What are you’re gonna measure in there? Uh-oh. Backtacular Gluteal Cleft Shield aka Plumber’s Crack Covers. Ya sees […]
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On this day in 1956, the SS Ideal X, the world’s first successful container ship, left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas. Even if this kind of thing doesn’t fascinate you, be sure to checkout the book The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. The shipping container
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Thinking about getting a tattoo but have no idea what to get? Instattoo is the world’s first tattoo generator. It automatically generates and presents a new unique tattoo with just a single tap! Released yesterday for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, it lets you automatically generate a unique tattoo with just a few taps
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Via Tech-FAQ, here are a selection of companies and projects in various fields that will likely have a radical influence on our future: Bitcoin (and Other Cryptocurrencies) Defense Distributed Anonymous Silent Circle DARPA SpaceX SolarCity Kiva Adapteva’s Parallella Google Glass Aereo 2045 Initiative
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If you run a store that caters to Legos, like Bricks & Minifigs we profiled earlier, you should really be selling these candies.
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The average value of a Facebook fan: $174.17. According to new Syncapse empirical research, the average value of brand Fans in key consumer categories has increased 28% to $174.17. This effect is amplified considering the number of Fan memberships for most brands in our study has doubled, tripled or more. Top brands in the 2013
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Jon Flint, a former lawyer-turn venture capitalist has his sights on a new industry: hair care. His company, Living Proof, tackles the frizz with science. His Boston-based venture-capital firm, Polaris Partners, typically invested in biotech and Internet companies. So Mr. Flint bought dozens of skin- and hair-care products to learn more about them. He and
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The following is a guest post by Dan Simons. As the New Year begins, so does the business of planning for the upcoming year for most restaurants in the nation. According to the National Restaurant Association, 2012 saw a slow but steady growth for the reportedly fourth consecutive year in industry sales for the roughly
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Crain’s New York Business: Montieth Illingworth has advised clients caught up in news scandals including the Bernie Madoff affair, the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case and the suit filed against photographer Annie Leibovitz when she defaulted on a restructuring loan. Acting as a combination of spin doctor, psychologist, management consultant and litigation adviser, Mr. Illingworth and his
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