Ever wonder why the World War II British slogan "Keep Calm and Carry On"
has surfaced some 70 years later to become today’s most ubiquitous meme? Not
only has the Internet been cyberventillating variations on the theme online for
over a year now, one can find t-shirts and other memorabilia easily
accessible for purchase in the real world.
Have you come up with a new way to stack your shoes, line up your tools, or bunk your junk? Karl Champley,
the home improvement guru, is looking for new space saving products
that help folks organize their stuff and give them more room in their
own homes. So through Edison Nation, he’s asking you to submit your ideas.
If Borat’s cringe-worthy Man-kini is a perfect example of less being more, than its polar opposite, the “Face-Kini”, must mean more is less. First seen on the beaches of Qingdao in northeastern China, the full-body facehugging suits seem to be catching on among women who seek to preserve their pale skin from the tanning sun.
This colorful, Swiss-made Watermelon Knife from Japan’s YO-KO was designed to cut large watermelons with a single slice. Your watermelon slices will look all the more appetizing thanks to the knife’s clean cutting style.
The “Life Light” is a combination lifesaver ring, marker buoy and emergency light that’s powered with renewable energy and a built-in battery. When the sun – and a swimmer in trouble – goes down, the Life Light’s LED light goes on, alerting rescuers to its presence.
World Humanitarian Day
set annually for August 19th was originally designated to recognize
humanitarian personnel and those who had lost their lives working for
humanitarian causes. It’s origin was a direct result of a massive
bombing attack of Iraq by America and its allies, escalating on March
21, 2003. Known in military parlance as "Shock ‘n Awe," and taken from
Sun Tzu’s "The Art of War"
(544-496 BC), it’s a military doctrine based on the use of overwhelming
power to paralyze an adversary’s perception of the battlefield and
destroy its will to fight back.
BikeCharge Dynamo from Hong Kong-based iBikeConsole has updated the bicycle wheel-mounted DC generator of your childhood. It’ll fully charge most brands of mobile phone over the course of a 2- to 3-hour bike ride.
"Wannabe" is a comedy film starring Craig Robert Young, Octavia Spencer,
Matt Dallas, Tate Taylor, Adam Huss, written by Craig Robert Young and
Richard Keith and directed by Richard Keith. It’s being promoted as one
of the only films to be released on Facebook.
However, while that may be true, if one was to research the movie on the Internet, it is evident this flick was first produced back in 2005?
Yes, tweets are known for their brevity. 140 characters or less is the
constraint Twitter imposes on the Twitterati’s bon mots. However if you
look closely at their terms of service, they’ve never restricted the
actual size of a tweet, nor how far it could be thrust into space. And
this summer, Iberia Airlines has used those loopholes to not only issue
the world’s biggest tweet but also to show to the world, the skies the
limit as to how far a tweet can go.
If I were to tell you that you can get a complete, worldwide
patent search conducted on your invention idea for $9.99, you would
think I just swallowed a whole lot of advertising bull. I thought it
was too good to be true too, so I went to the source, the company that
owns and offers the ideaAPP for Apple and PC products, and asked the
founder an irritating amount of questions. He answered.
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