Sick of messy yogurt containers in her lunchbox, Madison Alexander decided it was time for a new option. Her idea is to make yogurt containers edible, and it has grabbed the attention of a kids TV show. With her parents’ full support, Madison registered her idea on the Let’s Get Inventin’ website in March last […]
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1885 – In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway extending across Canada. 1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse. 1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at
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A 7-year-old entrepreneur named Julie Murphy set up her lemonade stand at the monthly art fair in Northeast Portland. Julie had become enamored with the idea of having a stand after watching an episode of cartoon pig Olivia running one, said her mother, Maria Fife. The two live in Oregon City, but Fife knew her
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On this day in 1895 George B. Selden was granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. And in fiction, but also having to do with automobiles, on this day in 1955, Doctor Emmett Brown discovered time travel in the movie Back to the Future. First, you turn the time circuits on. This one tells
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But what on earth is it??? It’s glow in the dark jellyfish ice cream using calcium activated proteins that react when they are agitated, or to put it a non sciencey way, it glows when you lick it. It’s also pretty insanely expensive stuff, we worked out each scoop is coming out at around £140,
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In 2012 I bought an apartment specifically to rent out on airbnb. I’ve been managing it remotely for the past year. This post includes everything I learned as well as some revenue numbers. Source: http://needwant.com/p/buying-apartment-airbnb/.
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“There are two markets for comic books,†Salkowitz says. “There’s the market for gold-plated issues with megawatt cultural significance, which sell for hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of dollars. But that’s a very, very, very limited market. If a Saudi sheik decides he needs Action Comics No. 1, there are only a few people
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Springwise: Brazilian company GrupoFourMidia is now including a variety of tastes and smells on parking tickets across the country. Having already experimented with unusual mediums for advertising – take its pizza boxes with sound for example – GrupoFourMidio observed that once drivers buy a parking ticket they often place it in their mouths while looking
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Wicked Local: The most telling part of Juliette Bench’s office is a series of pictures, sketches and notes mounted above a fireplace across from her desk. These are not family images, to-do lists, or shots of a vacation in a distant country, but instead the culmination of two years of hard work designing a staple
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DailyMail.co.uk: From fad diets to savvy gadgets, there are hundred of products claiming to aid the all-important weight loss. And now, the latest slimming aid comes in the form of a perfume bottle. Prends–moi is the world’s first slimming fragrance from Velds that has been developed at the French perfume house Robertet. Makers claim the
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