1910 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show. 1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky). 1992 – A test engineer for Sema Group uses […]
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A Seattle entreprenuer named Mike Momany, who happens to be homeless, is offering you the chance to be a homeless person just like him. The only catch is that it’ll cost you $2000. Upset by the growing homeless population in Seattle, which has shot up by 15% since 2007, to more than 9,000 people this
Forbes: Only a small percentage of innovators are also inventors. If necessity is the mother of invention, obsession is the father of innovation. Innovators iterate and combine preexisting ideas until they incrementally modify an invention such that it embodies a marketable value proposition upon which a sustainable company can be created. If you are solely
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Cork News: A local amateur inventor with scores of ideas, concepts and inventions is giving them all away in the hope that they might provide viable commercial opportunities for entrepreneurs. Bill’s self-published book, Fly-Flaps & Other Inventions, contains descriptions and explanations for some 200 of his ideas, some of them humorous and tongue-in-cheek, and others
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Reuters: In India’s northern desert states, farmers are scrambling to harvest as much as they can of a bean with the power to lift them out of poverty. In the United States, the multi-billion dollar shale energy industry is banking on their success. U.S. companies drilling for oil and gas in shale formations have developed
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Guardian: A solicitor in Leicester has helped Irish clients escape more than €1bn (£798m) of debt by taking advantage of a booming trade in “bankruptcy tourismâ€. Data seen by the Guardian reveal Steve Thatcher, who runs the new advisory service www.irishbankruptcyuk.com boasts at least 55 clients in the process of clearing some €1.2bn by using
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The Last Mile: Could the next Mark Zuckerberg be sitting in a California prison? The participants of a pioneering initiative at San Quentin correctional facility certainly hope so. The Last Mile program at San Quentin aims to educate inmates about social media, technology and entrepreneurship. Each must develop a business idea that combines technology with
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BBC: If you must make a call to anybody’s mobile phone in Nigeria, you need to be understanding and patient – it can be a very frustrating and annoying experience. In the first place, it takes luck for the call to get through, and when both parties are connected, there is no guarantee that you
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Edmonton Journal: When Shannon Lang had to move an elderly parent, she saw a business opportunity while sorting through 40 years of memorabilia and making tough decisions about what to do with prized possessions. “Seniors often have to move for any numbers of reasons, and some aren’t in great health,” she says. “But in downsizing
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Wired: Usually the Pentagon’s far-out researchers are more concerned with four-legged robots and preventing pandemics than with the contents of a soldier’s closet. But they’ve doled out $1.25 million to fully automate the sewing process. The agency aspires to “complete production facilities that produce garments with zero direct labor.” And those are a lot of
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