Category: Business
7:11.
Seven-Eleven convenience store chain has purchased the rights to the starting time of Chicago White Sox baseball games.
Post date: Friday, October 20th, 2006.
SpotScout.
Mobile service that helps you locate available city parking spaces which you can sell to others when you’re done. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, July 11th, 2006.
Road energy system.
Company is paving roads with technology that absorbs heat and converts it into usable energy. (via)
Post date: Friday, June 23rd, 2006.
SUFTLA.
Manufacturing process that has allowed Epson to create a high-resolution, flexible electronic paper. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, June 13th, 2006.
Size matters.
Wendy’s to remove the word ‘Biggie‘ from its menu. (via)
Post date: Sunday, June 11th, 2006.
Northern Lights.
Virgin Galactic plans to operate tourists flights into the Aurora Borealis.
Post date: Friday, June 9th, 2006.
Geophysical surveying.
Zeppelin airship is hovering over a desert in Africa searching for diamonds buried in the sand. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, June 6th, 2006.
Global Gaming League.
Media company that is in talks with Chinese government about getting video games into the 2008 Olympics as a demo sport. (via)
Post date: Thursday, June 1st, 2006.
Ventria Bioscience.
Company has developed a drug to combat diarrhea by growing rice engineered with human protein.
Post date: Tuesday, May 16th, 2006.
CanSats To Space.
Program that lets you send “soda can†sized payloads into space and back for $99. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, April 18th, 2006.
Pulse electrothermal de-icing.
Technology that uses bursts of electricity to melt ice. (via)
Post date: Monday, April 17th, 2006.
Genesis.
Inflatable hotel to be launched into space this year.
Post date: Thursday, April 13th, 2006.
Kaori Tsushin.
Scent transmission to be added to the movie theatre experience.
Post date: Wednesday, April 12th, 2006.
LimoJet.
Business that will chauffeur you around in a jet converted into a limosine.
Post date: Wednesday, April 12th, 2006.
Organic biopesticides.
Pest control using selectively bred microorganisms instead of chemicals to kill bugs.
Post date: Tuesday, April 11th, 2006.
Webaroo.
Company offering ‘web on a hard drive‘ where users can search the internet without actually being connected. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, April 11th, 2006.
MovieBeam.
Company offering subscribers on-demand home viewing of movies the day they are released on DVD.
Post date: Tuesday, April 11th, 2006.
ZERO-G.
Company that operates weightless flights to begin offering them to the general public.
Post date: Tuesday, April 4th, 2006.
LFG.
General Motors uses the gas produced from rotting garbage in landfills to power seven of its plants. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, April 4th, 2006.
Apology Act.
British Columbia is passing a law making it legal for people and companies to apologize. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, March 29th, 2006.
Low intensity laser beams.
Hong Kong company offers tatoos for pet fish. (via)
Post date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2006.
Corporate branding.
Video surveillance company is requiring RFID chips to be implanted into its employees. (via)
Post date: Sunday, February 12th, 2006.
Inventor’s market.
Patent auctioning may create a new market for ideas as investment class assets.
Post date: Friday, February 3rd, 2006.
Moonrakers.
Russia is planning to build a mine on the moon to harvest helium-3.
Post date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006.
Cryonics movement.
Rich people, dubbed cryonauts, are creating trust funds that they can reclaim when their bodies are unfrozen and reanimated in the future. (via)
Post date: Monday, January 23rd, 2006.
We are go, Las Cruces.
Rocket Racing League to make world headquarters in New Mexico.
Post date: Thursday, January 19th, 2006.
Algae-to-oil race.
Algae used to reduce smokestack emissions has a byproduct of 15,000 gallons of biodiesel per acre. (via)
Post date: Thursday, January 12th, 2006.
Winds of change.
Texas grocery chain to use wind energy to power all of its electrical needs.
Post date: Wednesday, January 11th, 2006.
Dans Le Noir.
London restaurant where blind waiters serve guests who eat in complete darkness.
Post date: Monday, January 9th, 2006.
Airport Pizza.
Alaskan pizza shop delivers orders to remote regions by plane. (via)
Post date: Saturday, January 7th, 2006.
Kryoryctes cadburyi.
Newly discovered dinosaur-era mammal named after chocolate maker. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006.
Dude-fil-A.
Virginia protester has legally changed his name to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com. (via)
Post date: Friday, December 30th, 2005.
The environment as a battery.
‘Free’ unlimited energy source developed that draws power from the environment. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, December 21st, 2005.
Coca Sek.
Colombian soft drink competing with Coca-Cola will include a cocaine ingredient.
Post date: Tuesday, December 13th, 2005.
GWIE.
Swiss group believes that they can make Google eat itself. (via)
Post date: Thursday, December 8th, 2005.
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