According to Inc.com, Paul Engle and Barbara Ciric have run WPSJ, their low-power television station near Philadelphia, since 1986. Low-power television, or LPTV, stations tend not to be carried on cable or satellite networks but are available to viewers who choose to hook their TVs up to antennas or rabbit ears. These stations’ livelihood is […]
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TechBeat reports that consumers in North America pay more by far for mobile applications than people in all other regions of the world, according to a new study by wireless consultant Chetan Sharma. The study was commissioned by Getjar, a company that sells downloadable software for mobile phones. Last year, North American consumers paid an
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Fast Company takes a look at four App developers with major ideas. All age 16 or younger, they’re part of a generation raised with multi-touch and social media, and they’re cranking out profitable ideas for new devices and platforms as fast as manufacturers let them. Andrew Rauh, 16, Dearborn, Michigan When did you get started?
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Readers Digest reports that blasting through a decaying tooth to reach a cavity can involve “drilling out healthy parts of a tooth to get to a small area of infection,” says Wayne Flavin, director of scientific affairs for DMG America, a dental-materials company. Enter Icon, the company’s new treatment for early cavities, which works by
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Fast Company takes a look at four App developers with major ideas. All age 16 or younger, they’re part of a generation raised with multi-touch and social media, and they’re cranking out profitable ideas for new devices and platforms as fast as manufacturers let them. Stephen Huber, 14, Chicago, IL When did you get started?
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It’s soccer’s newest utility player: A ball called the sOccket generates and stores energy as players kick it, then provides energy at home. reports Readers Digest. Fifteen minutes on the field captures enough energy to power a small light for three hours and may help people in developing nations replace kerosene, a leading cause of
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A 26-year-old Australian designer has invented a brand-new way to be a rock star, reports Readers Digest. The Misa Digital Guitar’s fret board looks like a traditional six-string’s-but with no strings attached. There’s a touch pad where the sound hole normally is, and instead of plucking or strumming strings, you tap, drag, or brush the
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Say it ain’t so. Drivers in the United Kingdom had better stay under the speed limit, because the traffic authorities are watching… from outer spaaaaaace. According to The Telegraph, an American company called PIPS Technology has developed a system that uses two cameras on the ground and one satellite in orbit to catch speeders. The
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Here’s our iPad story for the day. Paul Stamatiou caught this photo in Atlanta. Could this be the start of an iPad line of fashion wear? Somebody call Flavor Flav! Photo by Paul Stamatiou.
26 year-old Michael Aiello has just won “the people’s vote” at the annual Oxford Entrepreneurs Idea Idol competition at Saïd Business School for his clever range of wallets and passport cases that protect their contents from remote skimming attacks, reports The Telegraph. Aiello came up with the idea while studying radio emission security at New
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