What happens when you put baggy jeans, duct tape, and helium together? Coming off the success of their viral video hits (all filmed in the environs of Los Angeles), “Guys backflip into jeans” and “Super chill monkey does Hollywood”, the creative folks at UnbuttonedFilms pull off “Guys fill their jeans with helium”. It’s a good way to drive viral traffic […]
Moonwalker Viral Film
Get Hand-Tailored Suits Online
Indochino.com sells tailor-made men’s suits over the internet. After successfully seeking out financing and tailoring partners, co-founders Kyle Vucko and Heikal Gani set to work on building Indochino: the world’s first online service for hand-tailored men’s suits. Here’s how the process work: once a customer submits the measurements and order with Indochino.com, the order is received and reviewed with the […]
The UnoMoto Electric Commuter Device
An 18 year old prodigy from Guelph, Ontario has built what can only be described as a two-wheeled unicycle. I know it doesn’t make much sense, but when you take a look at this innovative bike you’ll scratch your head too. The bike incorporates a Yamaha R1 frame, side by side wheels and a Segway like gyroscopic technology. In 2006, […]
Write Together on WEbook
What is WEbook.com All About? from WEbook.com on Vimeo. WEbook.com is an online publishing platform that allows writers, editors, reviewers, illustrators and others to work together and create great works of fiction and non-fiction, thrillers and essays, short stories, children’s books and more. The WEbook.com website gives writers a great interactive platform on which to write and through which to […]
Start Where You Are
Times Argus: Barcomb’s eighth-grade classmates at Barre Town Middle and Elementary School have been discussing career ideas, everything from nursing to playing professional basketball to flying a jet. Guidance counselor Ry Hoffman has held class with the eighth-grade students for an hour each week this semester. They talk about the transition to high school, their career interests and courses at […]
The First Radio Controlled “Tyre” In The World
TOSY, a japanese toy company believes it has found a product that has been overlooked by it’s toy-making competitors. Known for various robotic toys such as the R-Ball and their latest invention TOPIO, the ping-pong playing robot, the newest edition to their odd line of robotic toys is the R-Tyre. That’s right! It’s a robotic tire, similar to the R-Ball […]
Recycled Paper Lamps
Inhabitat: Paper is a marvelous material with a complex character – at times a vessel for banal documents and stale legalese, it is also capable of much more expressive forms with a bit of creativity. Case in point: these gorgeous recycled paper lamps recently released by Jordy Fu. Her cloud-sheathed creations break free from the two dimensional realm with dreamlike […]
From Crowd-Sourced Ideas to a Crowd-Owned, Crowd-Managed Business Entity
Ideas are the basis of potential business opportunities. Good ideas do not necessarily represent good opportunity. However, you never really know the true potential of a good idea until you take action and implement it. A good business idea that is not implemented will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupies. If for any reasons, you are […]
Curtains That Do More Than Keep Out Light
Architect Sheila Kennedy of KVA Matx, an innovative architectural firm, specializes in the integration of solar-cell technology in architecture. Her team has recently designed the soft house, “a structure that can create close to 16,000 watt-hours of electricity by transforming household curtains into flexible, semi-transparent, solar collectors.” With recent advances in solar technology and the implementation photovoltaic cells in textiles […]
BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 70
Good News For Germaphobes … Consumers are very conscious of hygiene, and need to feel safe from potential exposure to health risks when outside of their home environments. After washing and drying your hands in a public washroom, how can the washroom door be opened without touching the handle? Sanitgrasp, an small American company based in Atlanta, has a solution […]