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I loved this story! A program at UNC Greensboro is giving students hands-on and bike-on experience, and seniors too. Twice a week, students in the Health and Human Performance program visit residents at the WhiteStone: A Masonic and Eastern Star Community. They team up with the home’s activity department to implement a Duet biking [...]
The latest product from a Lexington-based industry has company owner Francisco Guerra walking around with his head in the clouds. The product is called Flogos, which combines the words flying and “logos,” and that’s a good description of the product. A combination of a little helium and a lot of air produces a substance [...]
An inventor in northeastern Connecticut is selling an item he claims can help a car get 100 miles per gallon. Michael Dabrowski has an E-Wheel under his car and an electro-converter in the front seat. Dabrowski said that when the wheel turns once, the motor turns four times, giving him 150 miles per gallon [...]
Student-invented contender also in the UK offers two-person festival tents made from recyclable materials. Camping at festivals can be a soggy and uncomfortable affair, and tents often get dumped at the festival’s end, sending them to landfills. myhab, on the other hand, offers waterproof accommodations that can be entirely recycled. Made from ultra-tough recycled plastic [...]
Blyk targets 16- to 24-year-olds with its free mobile phone service, which includes 217 texts and 43 minutes every month. In exchange, of course, they get advertising—up to 6 messages sent to their phones each day. Britain’s youth don’t seem to mind, though—Blyk reached that 100,000-member target six months ahead of schedule. Response rates [...]
People have used dark-lined writing paper since medieval times and over the years, a lot of bleach has been used to provide a contrasting white background. Swedish Whitelines, on the other hand, makes carbon-neutral writing paper that uses white lines against a light grey background. Traditional dark-lined paper not only depends on the use [...]
Duncan Fitzsimons is a tinkerer. When he was 5 he put together Lego spaceships in seconds. When he was 15 he made a wooden rocking chair. At 26 Fitzsimons has decided to reinvent the wheel. Standing in his London workshop, Fitzsimons picks up the bicycle wheel he designed and pushes on the sides. In [...]
A HIGH-TECH voting system has prompted outrage after town hall bosses revealed it was being installed in a bid to speed up long council meetings. Blackburn with Darwen Council is spending £50,000 on the electronic key-pad system, similar to those used on television game shows such as ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’, and [...]
MarketClusters founder and CEO Nick Gregg has got his eye on India as a market to sell into and recruit from. MarketClusters’ flagship product is a digital media intelligence offering called StrategyEye. It provides real-time information on the changes ocurring across the sector. Gregg says: “India is one country we want to go into. [...]
Videoconferencing specialist ICU Global is cashing in on the public’s ever-growing awareness of environmental issues as well as the desire of many business people to spend less time in airports. Founder and CEO Stephen McKenzie says even though videoconferencing has been around for years, there’s huge potential in this business technology area. “You save [...]
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