Technology by the name of Gadget Universe has come up with the device that is rumored to be a hot thing in Japan.
Everyone wants a killer midsection, right? Now it can be as simple as sitting on the Hula Chair. Simply plant your feet on the ground, sit up straight, pull in your abs [...]

Japanese Schoolgirls Go for Over-Engineered Lashes

Standard schoolgirl uniform it’s not. Hip teens are hitting the Tokyo Lash Bar in the city’s Omotesando district for eye-popping over-engineered fake lashes. Using a unique applicator and a special latex adhesive, makeup pros install a set of these architectonic master pieces, like the high-end Velvet Feather for about $43 [...]

Check this out! There is a new web site in town, that is worthy of readers of this blog checking out. FIQL supports compiling of playlists, permits sharing of same, and embedding of the player to play audio and/or, if available, videos of music in your playlist. You can also use playlists compiled by others. [...]

Thwock, Gulp,Kaching! Beer Pong Inspires Inventors
Justin Jenkins and thefc.com don’t have a monopoly on beer pong by any means! Did he forget about Industry & Competitive Analysis-101? 
Sick of cleaning sticky floors after bouts of beer pong, a popular campus drinking game, recent Northwestern University graduates Andy Wright and Mike Johnson put their engineering degrees to use. They [...]

No rich relatives? No professional mentors? No problem. Ashley Qualls, 17, has built a million-dollar web site. She’s LOL all the way to the bank.  Read all about her at the following link:

Jake video here: Bert Jacobs, with his brother John, began the wildly successful Life is Good brand 10 years ago in Cambridge.  The Jacobs brothers started small, selling t-shirts printed with a stick-figure named Jake — first on street corners and then in local retail stores before going national. Jake’s image and optimistic message [...]

From flooring to furnishings to T-shirts, bamboo products are catching on.
When most people think about bamboo, and I’m certain that is rarely if at all, they don’t think of it as the basis  for entrepreneurial startups. They are overlooking one of the potential high growth markets in the world. The previous link on bamboo [...]

YouTube Course
This month, Pitzer College started offering a course about YouTube. Students watch YouTube videos and post comments. Alexandra  Juhasz, media studies professor is teaching the class ”Learning from YouTube.”[1] You can link to her YouTube group site here: and view input to her class group on YouTube here:
I find this to be very interesting. What [...]

From: Inside Silicon Valley.
A handheld cube that lets you browse your Flickr photos. A headset that uses brainwaves to control how fast a bicyclist pedals. And Megaphone, a game that lets users play against each in public spaces with their mobile phones. Those were some of the concepts on display at the recent Yahoo [...]

 
Awhile back, we had a post of a slide show depicting Paul’s toy, the Octopus. I don’t want you leaving Purdue thinking  the Octopus is what Paul Allen is all about. He is a very complex individual who has his own band. He idolizes Jimi Hendrix who also was born in Seattle and has built [...]