According to CNet News, a half decade after YouTube’s birth, the site exceeds 2 billion views a day. It seems that everyone–from music labels to mainstream Hollywood studios to television networks–has joined the movement. Amid this vibrant, fertile, and expanding landscape, a creative class of budding, do-it-yourself media moguls–part distributor, part content creator, part producer, […]
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The Wall Street Journal asks why is it so hard to design an umbrella that won’t collapse or flip inside out? After a rainstorm, the scene in almost any city is the same–dozens of umbrella carcasses lying broken along sidewalks and streets. It seems that most models can barely keep you dry during the sprint
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There are a few essentials that every crafter should have in their supply box. This includes everything from colored card stock to craft scissors and stampers with fun patterns. Each item can be used in a multitude of ways to make any project stand out. Of course, when you want to make money it doesn’t
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Alain Karyo, an architect, is the founder of Catamount Glass. The 31-year-old company first made beakers for schools and laboratories, but switched to designing cookware when Alain saw the need for a sturdy alternative to existing glass cookware, reports The Daily Grommet. Catamount’s popcorn popper is made of borosilicate glass that can withstand high temperatures
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Star Trek is one of the most famous television shows and media franchises in the world today, and while many love the storylines of the original show, along with its spinoffs and movies, Roadtickle says we may not fully realize the impact the show has had on our lives. No, we are not talking about
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Inc.com asks are you ready to try air-filled chocolate? Paul Pruett sure hopes so. He is the co-founder and CEO of Bubble Chocolate, a Salem, Massachusetts—based company that makes aerated chocolate bars. The hundreds of tiny air bubbles in each bar create an unusual texture. Pruett got hooked on aerated chocolate about a decade ago,
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Rube Goldberg was a brilliant cartoonist and inventor. He is best known for a series of popular cartoons he created depicting complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways — now known as Rube Goldberg machines, reports Puggal. Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime including a Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning
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Here is an excerpt from the new book, Rework, by Jason Fried and David Hansson of 37 Signals. Sell Your By-Products When you make something, you always make something else. You can’t make just one thing. Everything has a by-product. Observant and creative business minds spot these by-products and see opportunities. The lumber industry sells
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According to ReadWriteWeb it’s known as the marshmallow challenge. Small teams are given 18 minutes to build a free-standing structure made of dry spaghetti, one yard of string, one yard of tape and a marshmallow, which must be placed on top. The team wins by creating the tallest structure of all the groups participating. What
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VHS tapes and walkmans may have been firmly cast into oblivion but another 1980s invention, the Post-it Note, is marking its 30th anniversary this month as popular as ever, reports AFP. The little yellow square of paper that changed lives was actually the product of an engineering mistake by 3M scientists who accidentally stumbled upon
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