According to Dynamic Business, the corner video store isn’t dead in Australia: Not even close, says the The Network Group Managing Director Keran Wicks, who reports the company’s balance sheet remains strong as do its 300 Network Video store members around the country. Wicks said The Network Group, Australia’s second largest DVD rental group, remains […]
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While your kids are making popsicle art, these kids made viable inventions, reports US News. Many of them aren’t even teenagers yet, but their inventions could cause big changes—the Connecticut team designed a “Smart Sticker” that turns from green to red if a food container isn’t properly refrigerated, while the Ohio team created an erasable
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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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Once compared to contemporaries Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and George Westinghouse, Frank Sprague, for better or worse, could be called the “father of the modern city,” according to a story in the Connecticut Post. Two of his key inventions — the first electric motor that ran at a constant speed under various loads and
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If you are trying to run a small business, there is no way to avoid the Internet. No matter what kind of business you operate, you will need to have an online presence. Having an online presence does not include just having a website and posting your most recent innovations to Twitter and Facebook. Consumers
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There’s a fashionable mantra being preached by ecommerce gurus that one can live and operate an online store from anywhere and that the online store can operate in any country, especially if you employ the drop ship model. This is a falsehood that needs to be challenged, at least according to Robert Mangan, who owns
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WSJ: Long a cultural icon, the vending machine is fading from the American landscape. The numbers are bleak: Traditional vending machines disappeared from 134,000 locations between 2007 and 2010, according to the latest available data from Vending Times, an industry publication. Sales from vending machines sank more than 11%, to $42.2 billion in the same
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It works for instant mixes, so why not for pet waste removal? Steve Rhodes has created a device that mades pet waste removal easy and fast reports The Oregonian. [It is called] the SaniPet. It’s a bottomless plastic container the pet owner buries in the ground. Much like in an existing product, the Doggie Dooley,
Fresh Green Ads: “Fresh Green Ads has developed a Raincampaign for Sea Life Scheveningen. Every time it rains the octopus of Sea Life Scheveningen appears on the streets and out of public drains and man-hole covers with its tentacles holding the text: ‘Sea Life laat je niet meer los’ (Sea Life never lets you go).
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Dog owners that are sick of losing their pets no longer need to worry. Thanks to one inventor, this is one problem solved says Bucks Free Press. The ‘Retrieva’ tracking system was invented by Jon Bryan after this two spaniels Abbey and Oscar did their “usual trick of disappearing” once too often. Realising technology in
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