Innovation

Looolo Textiles, Sustainable yet Chic

The textile industry is one of the largest known environmental polluters. In an effort to make their contribution and affect global change, all Looolo products are lined with organic cotton and filled with kapok from the rainforest in Malaysia.

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Elounda Beach- A Piece of Paradise

by Alison Storm

In life's most stressful moments, if you've ever tried to close your eyes and imagine a peaceful, luxurious place where the only thing more blue than the sky is the sea, this might help. Elounda Beach is the kind of destination you expect Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes to jet off to. It's on the Greek island of Crete, home to some of the world's leading hotels. And now it can be your home, too.

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Save Money and Make Your Own Mush!

by Tammy

Baby food can be expensive and lack quality nutrition, which is why American parents are catching on to a European trend worth investing in.

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Sheer Bliss for Sore Tired Feet - Get Tipsy Feet

by Aditi Simlai Tiwari

Shoes that fold up into a purse that's small enough to put into your handbag and then unfold to become Tipsy Feet at the end of the night. The purse then transforms into a handy cool bag that's big enough to carry your high heels home. Pretty innovative I think.

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Exhaust Jack Takes the Work Out of Changing a Tire

by George Delozier

Have you even been on the side of the road with a flat tire and had to cringe at the though of pulling out the old scissor jack, crawling on the ground to get it in the right spot and spending the next 10 minutes lifting the car far enough to do the job? Next time this happens, the Exhaust Jack could be your answer.

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New Western Digital Hard Drives Push Speed Limit

by Ben Arnold

With the industry heading towards Solid State Drives as the storage medium of the future, Western Digital announced today a new line of hard drives, called the Velociraptor. A 2.5" drive that runs cool and fast. Could the Velociraptor buck the trend?

Honda Navigation System Warns of High Crime Areas

by George Delozier

Navigation Systems can be a blessing if you are in desperate need of directions or a curse, (In the case of the Nissan GTR.) Either way as more people become dependant on them they will gain more and more capabilities, like Honda's new crime rate detecting navigation system.

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A New Town in the Sky for London

The view of the proposed Super Tower in London

by Alison Storm

London is booming- so much in fact that estimates show the city will need to provide enough housing for almost 100,000 people every year up to 2016. Rather than grow out, architects have come up with a radical idea- grow up.

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Company Offers Voices from Beyond the Grave

by Thomas A. Parmalee

Graveyards are not what they used to be. The Japanese company Ishinokoe, or "voice of stone," recently announced that it would begin offering tombstones that have a Design QR code, which basically looks like a barcode. When a graveside visitor take a photo of the image with their cell phone, he or she is granted access to a mobile site on the Internet that includes photos, a family history and more.

Thai Food Stand Owner Roasts Chicken Using Solar Powered Oven

Solar Powered Roadside Chicken Roaster Saves Energy & Reduces Costs

by Steve Levenstein

A roadside food stand owner from Thailand has come up with a bright idea: roasting chicken using only the free power of natural sunlight. If mass-produced, his invention could save energy and reduce costs for millions of food preparers in the third world.

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Heart Ailment Diagnosis Could Be Just a Spit Away

by Mariella Moon

A new technology could diagnose ailments using one's...saliva?

Resurrecting the Mixtape

by Lily Chaos

Creating a mixtape has never been easier: search for songs, drag and drop your favorites into a playlist, customize your tape, publish and share with your friends. All online, free and environmentally friendly.

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OnStar Adds More Features...Again

by George Delozier

Ever since its introduction, OnStar has been one of the top reasons car buyers opted for General Motors. With so many useful features and day saving abilities, it makes perfect sense. Now, new buyers will be getting even more from OnStar thanks to the addition of 3 new capabilities.

Protect Your Identity with FlatterMe

by Aditi Simlai Tiwari

To lose identification anywhere can cause considerable damage but the repercussions of doing so in a foreign country are inestimable. FlatterMe saves you from such a scenario.

Brilliant Idea! A Cell Phone Defibrillator

by Boomer Babe

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is responsible for more deaths every year than AIDS, breast cancer, lung cancer and stroke combined. If the heart is not defibrillated (therapeutically shocked) within a few minutes, the victim dies. Imagine how difficult it is to reach the victims of SCA in time to save their lives.

But, suppose we each carried our own personal defibrillator, say it was a feature of our cell phones?

Great Invention Idea? A New Twist on Skating

by Elizabeth Valeri

The advancements of the last thirty years have raised the invention stakes for everyone. What's wrong with that, you ask? Nothing, except that this often results in the less creative among us churning out mediocre or bad ideas when they could be doing something much more productive, like removing shopping carts from the parking lot at a local Wal-Mart! In my opinion, the following two patented inventions illustrate this point exactly.

Rocking Out With the Internet

by Lily Chaos

A new online guitar site offers a fun and truly interactive experience in playing the guitar and singing along to some popular songs. Rock out from the comfort of your own bedroom, study, kitchen or closet.

Want Spotless, Lint-Free Glassware? Try Wubeez!

by Toby

If you have taken to serving drinks in dark rooms so your guests might miss the ugly spots and lint on your glassware, there may be a solution to your problem in the form of a product called Wubeez Glass Cleaning Cloths. Wubeez may sound like a name straight out of Bugs Bunny's mouth, but the cloths promise to do an adult job of removing spots, streaks, and lint from glassware!

In-Wheel Navigation?

by George Delozier

So you thought In-Dash Navigation was big, how about In-Steering Wheel Navigation? It's not a whole screen for obvious reasons, but it just might work.

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Solar Powered Jacket Recharges Your Gadgets

by Aditi Simlai Tiwari

9×5.5 cm silicon-based polycrystalline solar modules are integrated into the jacket's collar. These are capable of converting 1 watt of sunlight to energy that can be used to recharge a MP3 player or a mobile.

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