PersonalWineBottles.com is a company that creates hand-painted and, hand-etched wine bottles. Customers can select everything from the design of the bottle to the type of wine allowing for a truly unique personalized wine bottle entirely over the web.
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NY Times: It’s really not surprising that some businesses are getting a technology assist from, well, children. They are way ahead of the rest of us on much of this stuff, having cut their teeth on it at home and at school. And they’re thrilled to work for wages that a pro would sneer at
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Autopia: A recent design school grad has come up with a machine that can pave roads without shutting down lanes or stopping traffic. Too good to be true? Yes. It’s pure, unadulterated vaporware, but the concept is sound even if the chances of production are nil. Gosha Galitsky, a graduate of the Umeâ Institute of
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Mirror.co.uk: As the weather becomes balmier, hot dogs will be able to cool down with their very own ice cream-style treat for mutts. Garden centre chain Dobbies has launched Billy & Margot’s range of frozen goodies. Created by animal nutritionist Marie Sawle, the doggie version of Ben and Jerry’s comes in strawberry and apple and
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In Brooklyn, NY, there’s a store that only sells artisanal flavored mayonnaise. No, it’s not a joke. Founded in 2011 by chef Sam Mason and designer Elizabeth Valleau, Empire Mayonnaise creates mayonnaise with exotic flavors and formulations. We use natural and organic local eggs and flavors whenever possible, but our primary goal is to make
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Earlier this month, Scott McMurry, a Vienna, Virginia man finally received a postcard from his mother. It took a little longer than normal for the letter to be delivered; she sent it in 1957 and somehow it got lost in the postal system for 55 years. Now, instead of taking this opportunity to complain about
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The Huffington Post: Rather than let your Facebook and Twitter profiles sit unused forever, DeadSocial, a U.K. startup that launched in beta on April 27 at The Next Web Conference 2012, will put your social networking accounts to good use even after you’re six feet under. You can link your DeadSocial account to to your
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The Times of Northwest Indiana: Lake now uses only organic products in Artiste Organic Salon and Spa, her new salon on Main Street in Hobart. Organic hair care products are those made solely with natural plant ingredients. “I became allergic to everything I had been using,” Lake said. “I had bumps on my head, swollen
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In the late 90s it was companies like Shutterfly that ruled the Internet photo industry. Today it is services like Photobucket, Flicr, or Picasa that seem to be taking up the biggest chunk. According to Bloomburg Businessweek, a new company, Instagram, is beginning to get the attention of the people now. With their iPhone app,
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1843 – The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London. 1847 – German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske. 1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American
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