As senior merchandiser for the e-commerce site ThinkGeek.com, Ty Liotta, is responsible for discovering and creating such must-haves for geeks as a T-shirt that sniffs out Wi-Fi hotspots and the Tauntaun sleeping bag, modeled after the animal carcass that saved Luke Skywalker from certain death on the frozen planet of Hoth, reports Bloomberg Businessweek. Against […]
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The Dallas Morning News: For decades, inventor George Carter watched as Americans wobbled down highways on low tires. Carter, who developed the Photon laser-tag game in 1984, says he realized 20 years ago that the problem of underinflated tires would only worsen with the disappearance of full-service gas stations — and he, of course, began
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Does your lazy, overweight house dog dog tire of sleeping at the end of your bed and waiting patiently for you to arrive home each night really yearn to be a sheep dog? Probably. And, since people will pay for almost anything related to their pets, companies have sprung up to let your house dog
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Long-distance relationships are difficult enough to maintain among adults, but when young kids are involved, the chances of achieving a meaningful conversation from afar tend to diminish. That’s where Readeo comes in, with a newly launched platform that lets families share bedtime stories through the web, reports trendspotter Springwise. The Chicago-based company’s patent-pending application integrates
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Could you make an entire business out of tassels? Tassel Depot has. They sell over $50,000 of tassels each month on their website! Chances are the tassel atop the graduation cap or adorning the program or the menu came from Tassel Depot, based in Deerfield Beach. The company, run by Roger Leavy and his wife,
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Businessweek: Religiosity has declined in the U.S. by 13 percent since 2005, according to a new poll (PDF). The Millennial generation, born between 1981 and 2000, is the least religious yet, with one in four identifying themselves as religiously unaffiliated, atheist, or agnostic in a 2010 PewResearchCenter survey. That works out to about 15 million
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Galco’s Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles looks like any other mom-n-pop grocery store when you enter, but a quick look around and you’ll see what makes the shop unique. The store sells nothing but soda, 500 different types of fizzy sweet-tooth-satisfying beverages. CHOW.com profiles Galco’s in a bubbly documentary that will have you wanting
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If you’re Las Vegas, and you have thousands of underused hotel/condo rooms because of the economic downturn, what do you do with them? If you’re Candace Bailey of Luxury Suites International, you profit. Her company serves condo owners looking to save their investments and hotels needing cash flow on empty rooms by providing a hybrid
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On a trip to Las Vegas for his 30th birthday, one of Gavin Cooper’s friends had the hotel deliver a bottle of champagne to his room. With this surprise bottle of bubbly consumed, a business idea popped into his head: What if you could send a bottle of champagne to anyone, anywhere? When he got
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The video below is from Patrick McKenzie’s talk at the Business of Software 2010. The slides from his presentation are available here.
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