Boomtown Girls from Lucky Dog Filmworks on Vimeo. Grand Forks Herald: Five sisters from a North Dakota boomtown are looking to make a bang on reality TV. A trailer for “Boomtown Girls,” featuring five Williston sisters who work alongside men in the Oil Patch, recently became an Internet sensation locally. But few details are known […]
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Econsultancy: Yesterday Starbucks launched their new Valentine’s augmented reality (AR) cups. It’s quite a clever way to get customers to not only drink their morning coffee but to buy one for a loved one. All you need to do is download the app from Starbucks and you can “experience your valentine” as the heart on
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ABC News: The never-ending hysteria over a Doomsday cometh has sparked a growing movement of people called “preppers,” who prepare for the end of the world as we know it — and in some cases, make a profit. Tim Ralston, a married father of two from Arizona, is one such “prepper.” “There’s a lot of
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I’ve said before that this rumor from Jason Calacanis seems like the direction retail is heading: The store could just be a showroom with display units of appliances and “geniuses” running around showing you the top 25 vacuums in action. Or the top 10 juicers actually making juice. It could be Consumer Reports meets the
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CNN Money: A small Seattle-based company hit it big after snagging the first-ever license to make Angry Birds baby products. SwaddleDesigns, a company started by husband-and-wife team Jeff and Lynette Damir, sealed the deal with Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment last year. The company will be rolling out a line of baby clothes bearing the
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The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Stanford University professor who taught an online artificial-intelligence course to more than 160,000 students has abandoned his teaching position to aim for an even bigger audience. Sebastian Thrun, a research professor of computer science at Stanford, revealed today that he had given up his teaching role at the institution
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Ars Technica: “Can you pick me up at my place in 15 minutes? Text me when you get here.” No, this isn’t a text message to a friend or a call to a car service—it’s a direct message sent through Twitter to a driver of a Chicago cab. Rashid Temuri, who goes by “Chicago Cabbie”
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Fast Company reports on a new company called uFlavor, that promises to bring custom sodas to the masses — both in the mail and via internet connected vending machines. Picture this: You are sitting in, say, a Bermuda hotel on vacation. Suddenly you are struck by a crazy idea for a new soft drink taste.
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PR writers are funny. I never would have started a press release about cremation by starting with “Just in time for the holidays,” but maybe a pre-need cremation plan is the right present for that hard to buy for relative. You can purchase the cremations here. Just in time for the holidays, Smart Cremation has
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Fifteen years ago, Tickle Me Elmo took over Christmas. TThe hottest toy of the 1996 holiday season caused shoppers to turn vicious, inspired a whole new kind of black market (the $35 dolls sold at a several-thousand-dollar markup) and sparked a salacious scandal. During Tickle Me Elmo’s epic reign, Tyco “the toy company behind the
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