| Feb 8 | Games developer launches themed restaurant Regular Springwise readers may remember our article from 2010 about Snakes and Lattes , a themed café in Canada stocked with 1,500 board games. Taking the idea of a game themed eatery to the next level, Capcom, the Japanese video games developer, re.. |
| Feb 8 | Suburban Camping We first wrote about Suburban Camping in March last year, at which point the company, started by husband and wife duo Chris and Kella MacPhee in New Jersey, was preparing to launch its first backyard camping experiences. Nearly a year on, we’re taki.. |
| Feb 7 | RFID tags enable grave tacking for eco-burials Relatives wanting to pay respects to loved ones in natural buried grounds are usually given coordinates to locate the deceased. Now in the US, the Hippensteel Funeral Service and Crematory have launched the first RFID tracking system designed to pin.. |
| Feb 7 | In San Francisco, the world’s first airport yoga room There seems to be no limit to airports\' creativity in their quest to be more than just a point of departure or landing in travelers\' lives, and we\'ve already seen novel approaches including on-site dance classes and live-in storytellers , to name ju.. |
| Feb 7 | Hybrid German snowshoe can glide downhill Snowshoeing may not enjoy nearly the level of popularity that snow sports such as skiing do, but recently it\'s begun to see an upturn in the United States, according to datafrom SnowSports Industries America. Aiming to give the activity an extra boo.. |
| Feb 6 | In Australia, QR payment system delivers food direct to moviegoers’ se.. The list of uses for QR codes appears to be endless. We\'ve seen them used to teach vocabulary and track employee hours , and now we\'ve discovered QkR — a mobile app and QR code system that enables cinemagoers to order and pay for food and drink from.. |
| Feb 6 | New record label offers free downloads for life While free downloads are seen by many in the music industry as a problem to be fought against, we recently spotted a label that\'s embracing them with open arms. Specifically, DigSin is a record label that enables subscribers to download singles for .. |
| Feb 6 | Adapter connects smartphones to microscopes for scientific photography It wasn\'t long ago that we covered MobiUS\'s use of smartphone technology to provide portable ultrasound imaging, and recently we came across a related innovation. Aiming to expand smartphone photography even further into the scientific realm, the Sk.. |
| Feb 3 | Single-estate coffees curated and delivered monthly to the door The march of the subscription services continues! The virtual ink had barely dried on our story about UK-based Trinkets when we came across Kopi , a like-minded company whose focus is single-estate coffees from around the world. Also based in the UK.. |
| Feb 3 | Offline to online platform rewards diners with Facebook credits Facebook credits are a virtual currency that can be purchased with a credit or debit card to buy virtual goods in games and apps on the Facebook platform. However, never before have they been earned through purchasing goods offline. That is until Pl.. |
| Jan 15 | Futuristic Prada Heels TrendHunter: If Jane and Judy Jetson were to get glammed-up for a space-age style night on the town, they’d no doubt be donning a pair of peep-toes from the Prada Spring 2012 footwear collection. The shoes that make up the turn-of-the-season assembl.. |
| Jan 14 | Car Site for Women LA Times: For some reason, gear ratios don\'t interest most women. But as women continue to reshape the male-dominated auto industry, they do want to know about the space in a car\'s interior, its exterior styling and its fuel economy and safety ratin.. |
| Jan 13 | Biz Trends You Cannot Ignore USA Today has a list of seven business trends you cannot afford to ignore. Here are just a few: The cloud. Although social media and mobile get more buzz, the great change-maker for small business comes from the cloud. Mobile. The mobile juggernaut .. |
| Jan 13 | $10 Mil Offered To Inventor Of Star Trek Technology The Week : THE X PRIZE foundation, a non-profit foundation promoting technology, has offered a $10m prize to anyone who can make Star Trek\'s medical “tricorder” diagnostic machine a reality. The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize was announced i.. |
| Jan 13 | Inventor’s Greatest Creation: The Flak Jacket Byron Donzis recently passed away at the age of 79 , but he will always be remembered for that important piece of equipment that all football players wear: the flak jacket. In 1978, Byron Donzis walked into a Houston hospital looking for Dan Pastori.. |
| Jan 13 | Google Creates Style Guide For Android Developers Google wants developers to make the best apps possible for their android system, so they launched a website to help developers do exactly that. On Thursday, Google launched Android Design , a web site created specifically to help aid developers in t.. |
| Jan 13 | Diamond App Popgadget: First, everyone had a web site. Now, everyone has an app. Even your diamond has an app, that is, if it\'s the Forevermark, the diamond brand from the De Beers Group of Companies.( “Forevermark: the Promise” is available for dow.. |
| Jan 12 | Where to Find a Business Partner You have a great idea for a business. You\'ve tested it, sold a couple and now want to move onto the next level. Maybe you need some funding for manufacturing or marketing. Perhaps, a technical expert to help you cut costs, or maybe you\'re even fathe.. |
| Jan 12 | Today in Entrepreneurial History: January 12 1908 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time. 1926 – Original Sam ‘n\' Henry aired on Chicago radio later renamed Amos ‘n\' Andy in 1928 . 1967 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cry.. |
| Jan 12 | Four Attitudes Women In Business Need To Change Women are starting businesses at a greater rate than ever before. Unfortunately, they often encounter a variety of problems that keep them from growing as far as they could. Forbes has a list of four barriers they may eventually encounter. Women sel.. |