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Lace Is In

Click here: for a journey around NYC streets with NY Times reporter Bill Cunningham and his look @ peekaboo/lace fashions in women’s wear. The lace-leather jackets are really nice. Opens up a whole new world for designers and entrepreneurs.
And for those of you who missed SNL’s Sarah/Joe skit, it’s embedded below for your [...]

Free Networking Event

The Collegiate Entrepreneur Career Connections Event
Meet Indiana entrepreneurs, learn about job opportunities in their companies
Wednesday, October 29, 2008, from 11:30—3:00
Marriott Downtown Indianapolis (bus available from Purdue at 10 am)
Join 30 successful Indiana entrepreneurs to learn about current or future job opportunities
within their companies. Open to all undergraduate and graduate students, the event is sponsored
by [...]

E-Documents

Newspapers in particular are becoming extinct in the digital world. Plastic Logic has a device coming out in Jan 09 that completely blows everything digital away. Rather than blather away about it, watch the 5:55 video below. It will be well worth your time! It is one uber device! Students should love it. Hank

Ever wondered how a woman’s brain works? It’s finally explained here in one, easy-to-understand illustration:
 

Every one of those little blue balls is a thought about something that needs to be done, a decision or a problem that needs to be solved. A man, of course, has only two and they take up all [...]

Next Tuesday and Thursday my ENTR200 classes are going to learn first hand about what it takes to turn a “normal” VW into a electric/battery-powered vehicle. At noon, in MJIS 1001 on Tuesday, we will have a presentation by  Michael D. Kane, Ph.D., Department of Computer and Information Technology, Lead Genomic Scientist, Bindley Bioscience Center, [...]

Ugly Stick

First, make a good product. Fishing rod? Ok. Then, give it a memorable name. Ugly Stik? Oh yes, that will do just fine. Talk about name differentiation. That’s a name with balls.
In 1908 The William Shakespeare, Jr. Company had more than a dozen employees and created high quality products under the slogan “Built Like [...]

"Hello" Is All Apple Needed

Sometimes “just the facts” says it all in an ad. Consider iPhone’s cut below. Like the iPhone, sometimes simple is better. Hank
 

The Mineral Information Institute (MII) is a national 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to educating youth about the science of minerals and other natural resources, and about their importance in our every day lives. The table below provides info on a yearly basis. You decide what this means to you and  your chosen career. [...]

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) - A Berkshire Hathaway Inc. subsidiary agreed to buy 10% of BYD Co., a Chinese producer of rechargeable batteries, electric cars, and car parts, for US$230 million, the companies said late on Friday.

MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. said in a statement that it would buy 225 million shares of Shenzen-based BYD (BYDDF:
BYDDF 1.09, [...]

Electrics by Hybrid Technologies

Hybrid Technologies, Inc., (OTCBB: HYBR) was incorporated in Nevada in 2000 and is a development stage technology company that is focusing its resources and efforts on the development and marketing of lithium-powered vehicles and products, as well as on commercial and residential properties. Everything from scooters, bicycles, mopeds, motorcycles, cars and homes are being [...]