By Ezriel Gelbfish – Algemeiner.com: Israeli entrepreneur Izhar Gafni has created a bike prototype manufactured from recycled cardboard, making inroads in green technology with a vehicle that is lightweight and low-cost. The bike sports a simple aesthetic, an outer coating that protects it from water, and a groundbreaking cost of 9-12 dollars for raw materials, […]
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Fast Company: Taiga Biotechnologies may wipe out blood banks as we know them. The Aurora, Colorado-based startup has developed and licensed stem-cell technologies that can grow an almost limitless supply of red blood cells. If they work (and it’s looking likely) the technologies could be used to provide blood where it’s needed the most—ambulances and
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First it was drive thru funeral homes, and now there’s a drive thru churches: They run a drive-thru service, but they don’t want your prescription or your dry cleaning. They won’t ask if you want fries with that. And they won’t charge a cent. At the Christian Life Center, all they want to do is
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In Japan, in addition to your coffee, at some cafes you can play with a cat. There are around 100 cat cafés in Japan many of which have particular type of cats, such as black cats, fat cats or rare breed cats. These special cafés with furry patrons are especially popular as dating spots but
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1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal. 1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates. 1938 – U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law. 1939 – DC Comics publishes its second
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Food trucks are hitting the streets from Miami to Maui but greasy reheated tacos and soggy burgers are a thing of the past. Today’s mobile eateries have foodies flocking for gourmet bacon jam burgers, delicious Parisian-style crepes, and decadent handcrafted organic ice cream cones just to name a few. A less expensive alternative to opening
The Vancouver Sun: Billed as the world’s first polycarbonate saxophone, the Vibrato A1 E-flat alto was developed in Thailand in 2008 by inventor Piyapat Thanyakij. According to its U.S. patent application, the instrument is composed of an injectionmoulded body, bell, bow and keys, silicon valve pads, and aluminum rods on which the keys are mounted.
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Fresh Green Ads: “Fresh Green Ads has developed a Raincampaign for Sea Life Scheveningen. Every time it rains the octopus of Sea Life Scheveningen appears on the streets and out of public drains and man-hole covers with its tentacles holding the text: ‘Sea Life laat je niet meer los’ (Sea Life never lets you go).
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Financial Padding consists of crumpled paper $100 dollar bill look-alikes that are a fun replacement for standard packing peanuts. Your recipient will be surprised, excited, disappointed and amazed, all in the same moment upon opening their package. Their dejection upon realizing that you didn’t real pad their $19.99 item with hundreds of $100 bills will
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