Video: Cupcake ATM
Two weeks ago, we featured a post about a vending machine that dispenses cupcakes like an ATM. I’ve just come across of a video of it in action. Enjoy!
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Hydroponics is a Business Opportunity
Hydroponics is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil. One Florida in entrepreneur has found a business opportunity in it: No matter what the season, Heather Ulrichsen has fresh herbs, lettuce and peppers. What started as a winter hobby turned into a business opportunity. She and her partner, Richard
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Storm Chasing Tourism
I’m from California and we have earthquakes. It’s just part of living here for me, but I’m sure that people in the midwest are frightened by the idea. I know how they feel. Their tornados scare me. But, do tornados excite you? Have you ever wanted to chase a storm? Two of the world’s best
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Niche Mobile: Showers
What happens when the closest shower is 60 miles away? Start a business that would allow you to bring the showers to the people who want them. Reason.com: Evan Jensen, 18, and his brother Justin were looking for work in the oil fields of western North Dakota after high school graduation. The boom of temporary
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Wedding Invitations That Look Like Rock Concert Posters
Seattle Times: Like many brides and bridegrooms, Katie Mercurio and Jeremy Geddis had specific ideas about their wedding. No pink. Lots of lavender. Traditional Seattle food and ingredients. And rock-poster invitations. For that, they turned to Seattle-based designer Matt Terich, who makes wedding-poster invitations, on top of his poster work for bands and his day
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Scientific Cooking Bizops
Daily Freeman: Milk, eggs, cheese, tomatoes, transglutaminase, sodium citrate… It may not sound like the last grocery list you wrote, but the growing appeal of so-called modernist cooking — a science-tastic take on haute cuisine — has more home cooks adding laboratory-worthy ingredients and gizmos to their shopping. And that, of course, has spawned a
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Entrepreneur turns old Sails into Messenger Bags
Macleans: It’s a chilly midwinter day in Lunenburg, N.S., and the furnace at the Windbag Company has stopped working. Bundled in a down jacket, surrounded by piles of crinkled sailcloth, Pauline Dickison is wandering through her store, telling stories. This notebook cover? Made from an old sail retrieved from the tall ship SV Concordia before
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When to Leave: App Combines Maps, Traffic, and Your Calendar
when Forbes: Seattle and Bay Area-based developers and entrepreneurs Justin Wilcox (CTO of Nimbus Health) and Ondrej Hrebicek (CTO of Syncplicity) devoted 24 consecutive hours to building [Bounce][7], a hybrid of your location, upcoming calendar events and real-time traffic data (provided by [Bing’s Routes API][8]) to notify you exactly when it’s time to leave for
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Now You Can Buy Your House At Ikea, Too
Ideabox: Introducing aktiv, the first in a new line of houses designed by ideabox and appointed by IKEA. Swedish inspired, wide open living, functional, no wasted space, and full of personality! It’s a house designed to live in… with all the fun. The 745 square foot homes go for $86.5K. Just hope you don’t have
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Video: The Quest for Free (Groceries)
More here. I know that the stores get reimbursed and all, but is this ethical?
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