The Wall Street Journal asks why is it so hard to design an umbrella that won’t collapse or flip inside out? After a rainstorm, the scene in almost any city is the same–dozens of umbrella carcasses lying broken along sidewalks and streets. It seems that most models can barely keep you dry during the sprint […]
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The Otago Daily Times is reporting that a Wanaka entrepreneur’s snow-grooming invention will be shaping park features at two of the resort’s skifields this winter, after gaining valuable exposure from the recent Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Development Snowparks director John Melville’s “Global Cutter” invention – a custom-designed and laser-guided halfpipe shaper – was released on
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Just in case you missed it, the Washington, DC area has been hit by numerous snow storms this year. Some smart businesses used e-mail to communicate with customers and prospects, build goodwill and, in some cases, drive sales, reports clickz.com. Did you do anything special for the blizzard of 2010? If not, here’s some food
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Faster computers, broadband connections and free public Wi-Fi are taking the fun out of snow days, reports USA TODAY. The federal government was shut down for the second day in a row and many offices were empty in the nation’s snowbound capital, but work continued – in homes across the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia region. It showed just
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Back-to-back snowstorms on the East Coast have brought a blizzard of sales of shovels, groceries and booze. For airlines and department stores, the region’s wintry weather has resulted in millions of dollars of lost revenue, according to a story in The Associated Press. As businesses tallied up the impact of the second major snowstorm in
According to the official weather service, the United Kingdom has just suffered through its longest spell of freezing conditions since December 1981. The recent winter storms wreaked havoc with public transportation and generally disrupted the lives of millions of UK residents. In calculating which regions were affected and determining where snow was falling or not
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It’s possible to profit from anything. Even freak weather. With the New Orleans area experiencing its lowest temperatures in 14 years, local businesses have benefitted from people’s efforts to stay warm, beat cabin fever or a potentially burdensome heating bill. Because it’s been so long since New Orleans has had a real winter, many people
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Mashable: Sometimes, all it takes is a simple and seemingly stupid idea. Today I was alerted to Web 2.0’s version of the Pet Rock, a site called “Umbrella Today?”. The site takes the simplicity and utility of sites like “Is it down for everyone or just me?” and the question we all really want to
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