The editors of Entrepreneur.com sifted through hundreds of inventions that became available within the past year to compile a diverse list of innovative, practical and fun products.
1. Kindle. What it is: Since it became available in November, Amazon.com has struggled to keep this new electronic reading device in stock. The revolutionary portable reader downloads books, [...]
This is the only remote-controlled robot that removes leaves, small branches, and dirt from gutters, eliminating the need for ineffective and laborious manual methods. Made by iRobot, a company founded by roboticists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and renowned for their tactical robots used in U.S. military reconnaissance missions, the robot is controlled by [...]
Blacksmith Institute has published their list of the most polluted sites in the world compiled by comparing the toxicity of the contamination, the likelihood of it getting into humans and the number of people affected. For example, ninety-nine percent of the children living in and around the poly-metallic smelter at La Oroya in Peru, owned [...]
If cleanliness is next to godliness, Don Aslett’s new museum might be the next best thing to a cathedral.
Aslett, who parlayed his penchant for cleanliness into an international janitorial business, plans to open Don Aslett’s Cleaning Museum in the fall of 2008 in this southeastern Idaho city.
“I’ve sold clean as a culture,” Aslett told the [...]
The total cost of buying and running a Fuji Heavy Industries RFS-1 cleaning robot over its 10-year lifespan will be about the same as the savings compared to janitors doing the same amount of cleaning, according to Bloomberg News.
Sales of the RFS-1, which can catch elevators by itself, doubled after it won Japan’s first Robot [...]
Bluetooth is a way to connect devices wirelessly. This technology has a variety of uses. Python is an easy to learn scripting language that has been growing in popularity. The two can work well together, as will be explained in this article.
In today’s world, ad-hoc networks have become common. The main aspect of an ad-hoc [...]
So you made it through the first tutorial and now you are back for more. Well buckle up for the ride, because this episode teaches you the glories of advanced SQL statements. By the end of this article you’ll be able to sort data, join data, you name it.
That’s right, hordes of rows and columns [...]
In this third part to a four-part series on adding Ajax to your web site, you’ll learn about tooltips and in-page previews. It is excerpted from chapter four of Adding Ajax, written by Shelley Powers (O’Reilly, 2007; ISBN: 0596529368). Copyright ? 2007 O’Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available [...]
On September 15, Sony began a new recycling program for all of their products at any Waste Management Recycle America LLC location. Sony now allows consumers to drop off their broken or unwanted DVD players, stereos, televisions, etc. at any of the 75 Waste Management Recycle centers across the United States for free. This article [...]
Still think robots aren’t useful? Check this one out. It’s called the iRobot Looj, and it cleans your gutter so you don’t have to spend half a day shinning up and down a ladder doing the job yourself.
It stands 2.25-inches high, and sweeps out dirt, leaves and other debris while you settle down for a [...]