Entrepreneur: As an African-American, Dr. Rick Kittles wanted to know who his ancestors were and their countries of origin. So the geneticist decided to create a database of African lineages. After working on this database for several years, Kittles, 38, who holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology, joined forces with businesswoman Gina Paige, 38, to start a company that allows […]
Tracing Your Roots
Modern Kid
Iconoculture: Need another sign of kid-driven design? The Museum of Modern Art – a.k.a. design central – has created an in-house kids’ line of backpacks, lunch totes, and accessories called Modern Kids. The brightly colored goods are constructed of soft, textured materials and come with collectible cards, each profiling one of five “Modern Kids” who has a specific creative interest. […]
Bluetooth Advertising
WSJ.com: assengers waiting to board a Virgin Atlantic Airways flight at London Heathrow airport may get an unexpected invitation on their cellphone these days. Under a new advertising program, transmitters are beaming out text messages to the phones of people walking by to ask them if they would like to watch a video-clip ad on their phone’s screen. The commercial, […]
O2 Detox Foot Spas
PressBox.co.uk: The O2 Detox treatment is a safe, straightforward process. It simply involves immersing one’s feet into a footbowl filled with water. Whilst immersing your feet in the water positive and negative ions are emitted by the machine which re-energise the body. This type of machine is described as a detox machine because the response of a rebalanced body is […]
Cooling
TrendBlog: The heat wave doesn’t seem to be breaking. But help is on the way. There is some really cool stuff out there. Here is our collection of cutting edge cooling devices, much hotter than air conditioner, ceiling fans, etc. The Hyakko Ryou Ryou is a chilled bandana and wraps around your head like an ice bag. You will not […]
Online Job Hunting
BizReport.com: Monster.com may grow up to be a dinosaur. That was my first thought upon seeing a new breed of online job sites shaking up the recruitment industry. Simply Hired and Indeed, upstarts less than a year old, are getting attention for their Google-like approach to helping people find jobs. They do for job listings what Google does for general […]
Easy Pee
DailyCandy.com: Men love to think women are jealous of them. Particularly when it comes to a certain appendage. Yeah. Uh, huh. Whatever you say, boys. In fact, the only occasion on which we experience such envy is when confronted with a nasty public restroom. And My SweetPee, a gizmo that allows you to “go” standing up, eliminates such unsanitary situations. […]
Moving Eulogy
Local6.com: A new company plans to unveil new high-tech tombstones with embedded flat screen monitors that would allow visitors to play memorial videos of the deceased, according to a report. Joe Joachim, who says he wants to be the Walt Disney of the funeral business, plans to unveil the Vidstone this year at the annual funeral directors convention. Joe Joachim, […]
Opportunities for Hip-Hop
The Post Online: One Ohio University senior is making efforts to promote the underground hip-hop community by forming a new company. Titled Element 9, the company strives to perform many functions of a record label without tying its clients to strict contracts. Stu Pflaum, aka DJ Xplosive, officially began the company in mid-June, though it has been in planning stages […]
Organic Products
The Detroit News: Joel Fisher made selling toothpaste, antacids and toilet paper at discount prices popular when he started F&M Distributors with family members in the 1960s. Now he’s tapping into another discount market with organic foods, natural products and alternative treatments. Fisher opened Natural Food Patch, a 5,200-square-foot health food store on West Nine Mile in Ferndale, in 1999. […]