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Fortune Small Business:
Building and maintaining fences for cattle is a time-consuming and costly endeavor. That’s why a GPS bovine headset may come in handy.
This past year, Dean Anderson and Daniela Rus have designed and tested Ear-a-Round headsets on the USDA’s 193,000-acre ranch near Las Cruces, N.M. Each Ear-a-Round is equipped with a GPS receiver, an [...]
Montana’s News Station:
A Missoula-based Internet company recently launched “Pet Living Wills” as a way to protect your favorite dog, cat or goldfish when you are not there.
If you could speak on behalf of your pets, what would you say is a question MaryEllen Campbell asked when a horse she was watching for a friend came [...]
The New York Times:
A New York couple is betting on the idea that at least one thing is recession-proof: demand for a convenient and clean public toilet.
SitOrSquat, an ad-supported Web site and mobile application created by Danika Landers and Jonathan Glanz, delivers a handy listing of public bathrooms, from the ones at Starbucks to Saks [...]
Trendhunter:
Christoph Brown is the Etch-A-Sketch Man and he’s amazing! He makes highly detailed drawings using an Etch-A-Sketch.
You remember the Etch-A-Sketch, don’t you? It’s that red box with something inside that lets you make pictures.
If you think this ingenious system is complicated, try drawing with the thing! Few people get past creating the basic crude letter [...]
KVUE.com:
If you’ve ever had a blonde moment, listen to this. One of the hottest Internet gifts this holiday season is poking fun in the spirit of blondes.
Americans have had a decades-long obsession with dumb blonde jokes. Now blondes are getting the last laugh.
Natalia Wolfrom, a Russian immigrant armed with platinum hair and an MBA, is [...]
AnaNova:
A British design company have launched a new product to help children concentrate at school - pre-chewed pencils.
The company, called Concentrate, says the pencils look like they have already been chewed making pupils less likely to put them in their mouths.
And they say this is a cheap but effective way of encouraging youngsters to [...]
Associated Press:
Several men wordlessly carry out furniture, broken computers and boxes of garbage from a large blue house on a quiet upstate street on a brisk autumn morning. Rusting bikes and an old grill lay discarded in the overgrown backyard which is spotted with empty beer cans and crushed milk cartons. The mood is oddly [...]
Springwise:
It’s a well-known fact that dogs can be conversation starters that help break the ice with people their owners meet. Taking the notion a step further, a new collar tag from Boston-based SNIF Labs lets pet owners forge new connections with fellow dog-walkers, both online and off.
Available in a range of colours and patterns, the [...]
Detroit Free Press:
Chris Hart of Eastpointe enjoyed a romantic Sweetest Day dinner with her boyfriend at an Auburn Hills restaurant without worries about driving home after drinking.
When it was time to call it a night, a chauffeur for the Designate, a Birmingham-based designated driver service, safely drove the pair back to Macomb County inside Hart’s [...]
Neighborhood Star:
When Sam Schoeler’s husband died two years ago, her life changed in more ways than she could imagine.
She began planning a new career that reflects her love of fairy tales and folklore, something that has fascinated her from the time she was a small child.
“Planning for this, making prototypes, and writing stories helped me [...]
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