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CardCaddie Vehicle Outdoor Business Card Holders

Have you ever come across a vehicle attractively wrapped in advertising for a service that you wanted to remember, but later forgot their name? Derek Slocum thinks he’s solved the problem with CardCaddie Vechicle Outdoor Business Card Holders. While exploring advertising options for his notary service, he attached a plastic business card holder […]

Service Lets Drivers Lock In Gas Prices

Reuters:
The high price of gasoline has some U.S. drivers looking to the future.
A recently introduced service called MyGallons.com allows drivers to fill up their tanks sometime in the future but at current prices, using a debit-like card which banks gallons rather than dollars.
“The price of gasoline was changing all the time. It seemed unpredictable,” Steven […]

Employers Look At Cutting Down On Commutes

Associated Press:
Brent Cranfield can thank his boss for saving him money at the pump.
With gas prices so high, Georgia House Speaker Glenn Richardson is letting staffers telecommute one day a week this summer. For Cranfield, who works in the communications office, that means one less trip each week in his Ford Explorer from suburban Marietta […]

From Clown To Carpenter To Inventor

Greece Post:
It started out – like all good ideas, some might say – as a dream.
The vision was so clear in George St. George’s mind he couldn’t get back to sleep. He couldn’t even stop when his wife, Peggy, asked what he was doing up in the middle of the night.
“It shot me right out […]

Inventor Takes ‘Hands On’ Approach

Jefferson County Journal:
What started with a pain in his back became a passion for Paul Tyler, 45.
After suffering with the pain, Tyler had difficulty twisting in the driver seat of his vehicle to reach over his shoulder and grab his seat belt. As a truck driver and someone who spends a great deal of time […]

Inventor Creates Blade-Free Windshield

Wired:
An Italian designer has designed a car prototype featuring a windshield that removes water and dirt without the need of a wiper.
Leonardo Fioravanti’s idea is to take the modern windshield’s features (mainly, laminated safety glass made out of two sheets of glass with a plastic layer in between), and add nanotech properties to it and […]