SmallBizResource: The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, set to become law Feb. 10, has the right idea at heart: to ensure children’s toys are safe for them to play with. The CPSIA, enacted last year after all of those scary recalls of toys made in China, prohibits kids’ products from being made and sold if […]
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Inc.: The nation is still buzzing about the heroic actions of US Airways pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III, who guided Flight 1549 and its 154 passengers and crew members to a safe landing in New York’s Hudson River. Turns out, on top of being a pilot and a newly-minted hero, Sullenberger is also an entrepreneur.
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SANEPR.com: Whatever the size of the TRAILER COUPLERS or the ball hitches, one of the main problems faced by many drivers is how to do a perfect alignment of the ball hitch of the vehicle to the trailer coupler. Most available products in the market generally are very cheaply made and use magnets that do
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St. Petersburg Times: Zingo has a simple plan: turn a profit by keeping people from getting arrested for drunken driving. So far it’s working, despite the trying economy. The Atlanta company is a designated-driver business chain that gives tipsy customers a drive home in their own cars. It has grown from six franchises a year
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Digital Journal: Kiki Fluhr, who runs the All the Numbers Handmade homecraft business from her Quincy, Massachusetts home, warns that the new Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, which becomes effective from February 10 next year, will turn micro-businesses like hers into illegal manufacturers of “hazardous substances’ overnight. This law includes hand-knitted, quilted and hand-sewn clothes,
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Live Science: Working from home has its advantages. No need to shower, shave or even dress; traffic jams are minimized to dodging laundry in the hallway; and then there’s the Judge Judy break at four. Yet with such fringe benefits come disadvantages and dangers few employers are taking seriously and few employees understand, such as
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WBBM Newsradio 780: A man from the Chicago area who spent much of his life developing new kinds of chewing gum is now using his expertise to help American troops serving in combat. Retired chewing gum inventor Ron Ream is a former Wrigley Company inventor and Aurora native. He began working with scientists at a
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CampaignSeries.co.uk: John Arundel of Quakers Yard grew up in Aberbargoed and has been a lorry driver most of his working life, which equated to 23 years of experience. He came up with an invention to check brake lights without being in the vehicle. At the British Inventors Society Awards, John’s innovation was a winner. John
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Yahoo Tech: Despite the public shame of driving around with a cell phone jammed against your face and the growing number of laws against it, people just can’t stop dialing and driving, it seems. Could the next step be technology that actually disables your cell phone while you’re on the road? A Canadian outfit called
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Sioux Falls Business Journal: Ginger Thomson saw the need for some kind of new door gizmo about 30 years ago. A town house she lived in had sliding patio doors. “I kept thinking there needs to be a way to open the door when your hands are full,” the Brookings bank executive recalls. About 12
