Bakersfield.com: Christy Baker, a stay-at-home mom, liked the idea of buying educational games for her children, but found they were expensive and the children lost interest in them after a while. She did some research to see if there was anyone who rented games for systems such as Leapster and Vtech, but found none. She […]
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Firstcoastnews.com: Joshua Duce loves the Florida Gators, Spider-man, and Spongebob Squarepants. Like many 6-year-old boys, he’s a happy kid, playing and laughing with a Wii controller in his hand. Sometimes the active boy just stops cold. He has drop seizures and they happen more than 20 times a day. His brain just shuts down. Joshua’s
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NWsource: While at Green Lake one day waiting to go on a walk with a friend, local designer Wendy Feller stumbled upon an idea. Why not design cute leggings made with strong, durable material and padded knees to allow her then five-year-old daughter, and little girls in general, to play hard without having to worry
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The Business Pundit has put together a list of the unique origins of 25 popular products. In 1928, accountant Walter Diemer worked at Fleer, but experimented with gum recipes on the side. One of his ingredient combinations was less sticky and stretchier than other gums. He discovered that it he could blow bubbles with it.
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Owen Voorhees may seem like an unlikely tech entrepreneur because he’s just 11-years old. But according to an Inc.com story, for the last nine months Voorhees has climbed a mountain of doubt, overcame unfamiliar programming languages and pored over college level computer science textbooks–all to develop his very own iPhone application. His app, MathTime, debuted
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The inventor of the world’s first permanently-tied shoelace has received acclaim from a unique source – the British Cheerleading Asssociation according to a story in The Ealing Gazette. Father-of-three Peter Greedy, who lives in Hanwell, got plaudits from the BCA for inventing the Greeper, the shoelace which never comes undone. Mr Greedy said he had
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OrlandoSentinel.com: David’s lunch – and those of many of his classmates – are no ordinary school lunches. Instead, these lunches are the creations of two Orlando moms who grew tired of the parade of processed foods their kids were eating – and decided to do something about it. The result was a small business with
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news:lite tv is reporting that James Halliburton originally pitched his water-buoy idea – an auto-inflating, strengthened and illuminated balloon that would be attached to items which could be accidentally dropped in water. But he found success after he saw children playing with his invention and adapted the idea into the ‘Illoom balloon’ essentially a ballon
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Shore News Today: In January, with her youngest child approaching a year old, Jennifer Auer figured it was time to get back to work. She found the perfect opportunity through a friend of a friend — a Cape May County woman looking to sell her business, which uses costumed characters to bring alive make believe
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Lesley Mitchell at the One Cheap Chick blog has an interesting story. She reports that if you’re awash in candy after Halloween, you can trade it in for cash at South Mountain Dental. Dentist Christopher Johnson is buying candy from kids of all ages at the rate of $1 per pound on Nov. 2 from
