According to a story in The Sydney Morning Herald, a stay-at-home mother of four from south-west Sydney could make a fortune out of a simple Nintendo DS accessory she invented out of frustration. Janene Samuel, 42, invented the Gametag after her young kids kept losing their Nintendo DS games, costing her close to $100 every […]
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Listen to this shocking statistic from The Denver Post. Last year, Americans wasted 2.75 billion hours waiting for their packages to be delivered. That’s the equivalent of 1.3 million people out of work for a year. The problem is those three-hour windows that have become standard. And now some companies are trying to curry favor
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With bed bug fears on the rise in New York City, a cottage industry for “cures” is being fueled reports NBC-TV.` Inventor Jonathan Donchey has been selling his “Seat Defenders,” which are essentially trash bags sized to fit chairs, to moviegoers. Donchey isn’t alone. Allen Lewinter said his company’s spray, “Sleep Tite,” works like a
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Holly Tucker started inventing by accident, reports The Times-News. She lost a shoe in her closet, and while recuperating from energy-draining cancer treatments, the 51-year-old Hendersonville resident couldn’t bring herself to root through her closet to find it. Tucker’s frustration triggered her creative streak. “It was just kind of a little exercise in trying to
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In this episode, Rich Whittle talks with Jim Atkinson about how to save money heating your home with the DryerNet, dryer vent filter.
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Slate: Modern-day squat evangelists make money off the claim that a “more natural” posture wards off all sorts of health problems, from Crohn’s disease to colon cancer. Inventor Jonathan Isbit runs a modest online business selling Nature’s Platform–a homemade, $150 device that fits over toilets to make them more like holes in the ground.* (He
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In this episode, Rich Whittle talks with Gene Luoma, inventor of the Zip-It Clean drain cleaner. Also check out our other video podcast, THAT’S MY BUSINESS! Thursday, when Rich Whittle talks with Jennifer Letscher about her new sport bottle wash, Skweet.
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Here’s another episode of THAT’S MY BUSINESS! This week Rich Whittle talks with Karen Petersen about her business selling the super absorbent Skoy cloth.
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According to The Morning Journal, DesAnn Collins started Design by DesAnn in 2006. The opportunity came after the sale of a family-owned convenience store. Collins is an interior decorator specializing in home staging, making subtle changes inside homes for sale to make them more appealing to buyers. “Most of the time the homes are still
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Chuck Gordon, then an art student at UCLA, balked at the thousands of dollars he would have to pay to store his belongings while spending a semester in Singapore two years ago. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, he ended up stowing his stuff in friends’ homes and garages. Gordon thought plenty of people with extra space
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