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Turn off that light! Energy usage in real dollars
With help from a curious cat, Blue Line Innovations found a way to make people more aware of how much electricity they use. When Danny Tuff was growing up in Newfoundland, his father often prodded him and his siblings to switch off the lights and turn down the heat. If only there were a way [...]
Start Your Own Radio Talk Show
BlogTalkRadio is a podcasting service, like PodoMatic and GCast, but with a difference: it lets you stream your podcast in real time and lets you take telephone callers to your show and put them on the air with you. It’s a just the thing for podcasters who want to add interactivity to their work. And [...]
Digital Cookbook
You might have heard, but soon there will no longer be a need to risk your laptop in precarious situations in the kitchen. Modeled after a spatula, coo.boo is a digital cookbook that fits into the kitchen environment better than any laptop or printed cookbook. Recipes stored on the user’s computer are automatically synchronized through [...]
Laser etching of laptops, iPods, phones, cameras
For consumers who want gadget personalization that’s more permanent than vinyl decals, Adafruit offers custom laser etching of laptops, iPods, phones, cameras and more. It isn’t the first company to offer laser etching (see Etchamac, Powerbook Laser Engraving and others), but it is the first to freely share its business model with other entrepreneurs interested [...]
A $50,000 ice fishing house
An engineer and fishing enthusiast develops a mobile fish house for ice fishing, complete with high-end accoutrements. n past years ice fishing meant pitching a small “fish house” onto the ice, chiseling a hole, and hoping you’d chosen a spot with hungry fish. That was until Tom Lykken, engineer, avid fisherman and co-owner of SnoBear [...]
Inventor’s creation shuts door on mice
“It’s CSI for field mice,†David Curtis said recently of his new mouse tracking system, RodoTrak. It offers what he calls a baited box with a car-wash effect dousing mice with florescent powder. He and a neighbor, Henry Emanuel of Lonetown Road, have a new company to market and make the device.Mr. Curtis is a [...]
Your Own Photostamps
The PhotoStamps service is a new service that allows customers to include their favorite digital photographs, designs, or images on valid US Postal Service postage. Customers design state-of-the-art, professional-looking postage by simply uploading pictures from existing image files, digital photographs, and original graphics. An intuitive interface allows users to rotate and zoom in and out [...]
