Tiny airport sleeping rooms – similar to the cubicles that Asian travelers use to catch a snooze in between flights – have arrived in America, reports USA Today. Atlanta, the world’s largest airport, opened five Minute Suites this month where tired passengers can doze for $30 an hour. The rooms – 7 feet by 8 […]
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As nice as it would be to visit the gym daily, that is one routine that doesn’t always fit into the average day. For some it is simply a lack of time, for others it is a lack of money. Either way, it is still important to make time for some exercise. Ari Zandman-Zeman had
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The current panic over the H1N1 flu pandemic couldn’t have happened at a better time for one local inventor, reports The New Richmond News. Doug Henricksen of rural New Richmond is close to ramping up production on his newest invention — a germ-free dispenser for communion wafers. Henricksen has begun marketing the Communalabra Germ-Free Communion
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According to a story in Entrepreneur, Damian Cox spent most of his adult life working in hospitality and in his financial planning practice. It wasn’t until a local distributor showed him an innovative new product that he started thinking about switching gears. The product, a small cube that helps conserve water in public restrooms, was
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In 2006, the US counted 37.3 million aged 65 or older. By 2030, the US Administration on Aging expects the number will have increased to 71.5 million. With this burgeoning market clearly in mind, Marbles: The Brain Store is urging the residents of Chicago to “outsmart their age” with a range of products to help
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Kate Evans, 25, said the device she created to help her battle insomnia as a student is now available online. She designed the Light Sleeper while suffering from insomnia during her time as a product design student at the University of Central Lancashire and involves a blue light that moves across the bedroom ceiling, UPI.com
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TIME’s picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year, we’ll feature some of the ones we find interesting. It’s odd to think of putting sticks of wood inside people as a revolutionary medical procedure, but that’s exactly what a group of Italian scientists is working on. They’re using wood – red
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photo credit: lepiaf.geo An article was recently posted on Open Forum regarding how to boost your productivity in the work place by slowing down and taking more time for things that you have cut out of your day on purpose. It is stated that being busy is not always the best thing for your work
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PR.com is reporting that Atek, Inc. is making a timely flu season introduction of the Touch-Stick, a key-size implement used for hygienically pushing, tapping, and signing store keypads, ATM machines, elevator buttons, gas pump buttons, and other publicly touched electronic devices. The patent-pending Touch-Stick features a flat round tip for pushing mechanical buttons, a cleverly
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Although technology and the Internet have taken a beating in the past for potentially limiting people’s social interaction, a new study from the Pew Research Center has found that the opposite might be true, reports CNet News. According to a Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey, which polled 2,512 adults, the dawn of new
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