On November 30, Memoto closed a month-long Kickstarter campaign that raised $550,000 to manufacture a lifelogging wearable camera. Co-founder, Oskar Kalmaru, has written an insightful look at the wildly successful Kickstarter campaign.
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Tennessee Today: Christian Parigger, associate professor of physics at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma, wants to advance the fight against cancer. His big idea: develop a technology that goes on a “seek and destroy” mission for cancerous tumors. His invention uses a femtosecond laser, which means it pulses at speeds of one-quadrillionth
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? STLtoday.com: Suppose you can’t pay your mortgage, and you can’t sell your house because you owe more than it’s worth. You’re in quite a pickle. You can stay until the sheriff shows up with the move-out order. Or, as more people are doing these days, you can try to escape your debt with a
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Examiner: With many soldiers leaving service with technical and computer skills, New York-based Incline is offering training in order to help them adapt that talent to the workplace. Today, at 27 years-old, Brittany Laughlin acts as CEO for Incline, saying she saw a business need and wanted to make a difference. “(The) idea for ‘free
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Agri-View: After the county fair, many 4-Her’s part ways with their project pigs until the following spring. But for 9-year-old Blake Vandehei, raising pigs is a year-round business and a real-life lesson in animal care and economics. Blake, son of Pat and Jennifer Vandehei of De Pere, made his official 4-H debut showing pigs at
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Thecheeky.com: With Arnold, Tiger and two timing IMF guy in mind, we have created this platinum wedding ring for people intent on cheating. The negative engraving on the inside means that when you are in the ‘Club’ and an attractive woman… or man comes along to chat, slipping your wedding ring off is not an
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Irish Times: An invention by a Limerick student which seeks to minimise the spread infections in hospitals has won the Irish leg of the 2012 James Dyson award. Paddy Mulcahy, a 21-year-old UL student, designed U-neat, a hospital bed table and locker, which is easily sanitised because of its seam-free, filleted surfaces, which eliminate corners
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Austin American-Statesman: Two Austin dog lovers with entrepreneurial skills have put businesses on wheels this year to get closer to pets and the people who love them. They’ve hit a lucrative and growing market. According to the American Pet Products Association, U.S. pet spending this year should reach about $52 billion. The Great OutDogs Matt
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Premiumbeautynews.com: The men’s cosmetics market continues to grow at rapid pace but a brand’s success depends on its ability to adapt to this new customers, which are still reluctant to enter in outlets perceived as a women’s only zone and whose practices are evolving rapidly, as evidenced by the success of electrical appliances. All surveys
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I never realized how much food Americans waste until I worked in a restaurant. And my mom worried about me eating the last 3 green beans on my plate. According to California Watch, millions of produce in the U.S. rot or are plowed over, restaurants dump tens of thousands of tons of edible food every
