Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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Smaller Carry-On Luggage

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http://carryonfree.com/

Spirit Airlines made national news last year when it began charging customers for carry-on luggage. Critics saw the move as an attempt to gouge customers, but Brent Hopkins saw it as an opportunity.

Hopkins, who graduated from Western Michigan University last year, is president of CarryOn Free, a Rochester Hills-based online retailer that sells luggage specifically designed to help Spirit customers avoid baggage fees.

"I'm a pretty avid Spirit Airlines flier," Hopkins told MLive.com. "When they introduced the fee there was public outrage. But one day I was flying and I noticed you could still bring a free carry-on, it just had to be a smaller size."

When his flight landed at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Hopkins confirmed that Spirit Airlines does, in fact, still allow passengers to carry on bags for free so long as they fit in a 16" x 14" x 12" under-seat space.

"It's a really odd dimension," Hopkins said. "I realized that nobody was selling bags at that size, so I figured I'd start."

While Spirit is a relatively small company known for it's low-priced fares, it's the second-busiest carrier in Detroit. The airline charges between $30 and $45 dollars for each carry-on, and several competitors have followed suit and charge similar fees for larger bags.

"Delta's dimensions aren't much bigger," Hopkins said. "But since Spirit is the smallest, the bags can be used for every other airline that has a similar policy."

One year after implementing its carry-on policy, Spirit claims the fee has helped decrease boarding and deplaning times by more than 6 minutes per flight, as fewer customers struggle to fit large bags in small spaces.

"The carry-on policy was a bold move to address a real and costly boarding time delay concern and has proven to be a true win for consumers," President and CEO Ben Baldanza said last month.

Hopkins, meanwhile, is hoping his luggage line is a "true win" for the cost-conscious consumers who often fly Spirit.

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101 Businesses You Can Start With Less Than One Thousand Dollars: For Stay-at-Home Moms & Dads

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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Magnetic Pots

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http://www.myurbio.com/

From bottle caps to spiral tubes, regular readers may have noticed the recent wave of innovative ideas for urban dwellers to grow plants and herbs in limited space, and the latest seed of inspiration comes from US company Urbio with their “magically magnetic urban vertical garden”.

Urbio is a collaboration between Beau Oyler and Jared Aller of Enlisted Design and Tim Cui of Volare Studio. They aim to enable those living in apartments and lofts or working in offices to exercise their green fingers by utilizing wall space. Pots made of eco-plastic contain a large neodymium magnet which attach them to each other as well as to the modular magnetic back plates which can be mounted onto walls or ferrous surfaces, creating a vertical garden. The magnets are strong enough to hold the pots to the wall when filled with plants, and pots can be removed with a firm tug to be watered. Designed with affordability in mind, back plates are USD 10 and pots start at USD 20. Urbio are taking pre-orders and expect to start shipping early October.


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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Child Safe Photo Albums

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http://www.boardbookalbums.com/

Money wasn't the motivator for Laura Miranti, who went from being a homemaker with four children to an entrepreneur with an award-winning product.

She simply wanted to use photos to help her developmentally delayed daughter, Lucia, learn vocabulary words.

But Laura couldn't find a photo album suitable for a toddler with small hands and sturdy enough to withstand rough treatment. So she invented one.

"I couldn't believe no one else had thought of this," said Laura, 36, who moved to Edwardsville from Texas in September.

"Kids love photos, but most parents aren't going to hand over their photo albums to their little ones. They don't want them to get messed up."

Laura filed for a patent, found a manufacturer and began selling her Take a Pix photo albums on the Internet in December of 2008.

The kid-friendly albums are made like board books with thick cardboard pages, rounded corners and notches for easing flipping.

"The windows have clear, protective coverings, so little fingers aren't going to touch the photos," Laura said. "Even if kids are chewing on them, the photos don't get wet."

Laura donated two albums to Lucia's early childhood special-education class at Glen Carbon Elementary School last year.

Teacher Jill Schulte filled them with photos of a fire-station field trip and students in Halloween costumes.

"Those books were probably read by 15 children on a daily basis, and nothing ever ripped or tore," she said. "They were used a lot, and they're still in great shape."

The albums are designed for all children, not just those with disabilities. They recently won a Dr. Toy's Best Vacation Children's Products Award and a Kidlutions Preferred Project Award.

Customer Vicki Sorrells, 65, of Glendale, Mo., ordered a pink album as a shower gift for her daughter last fall.

Today, Vicki baby-sits her 7-month-old granddaughter, Abby, on weekdays. They look at photos of Mom, Dad, other relatives and family pets.

"Sometimes she really pays attention, and sometimes not so much," Vicki said. "But it gives her a good feel for books."

Laura and her husband, Chris, live near Sunset Hills Country Club with their four children, Slone, 14, Marren, 11, Lucia, 5, and Loren, 20 months.

Chris is a former U.S. Marine who became branch manager for a tractor-trailer company in Troy last fall.

He helped his wife sketch her photo-album idea, but it has primarily been her project.

"I was behind her 100 percent," said Chris, 39. "It made sense. It wasn't some crazy idea for a plastic gadget that people may or may not want or need."

Laura has a bachelor's in finance and international business from Baylor University in Texas and a master's in accounting from University of Houston.

She was working out of her home as a financial analyst when she began noticing problems with Lucia.

"She wasn't meeting her milestones," Laura said. "All she did was roll over at age 1, and not very often."

Doctors diagnosed reduced white matter in the brain, which is key to central-nervous-system messaging.

Lucia learned to crawl, sit, walk and talk with the help of physical, occupational and speech therapy.

"(The disorder) affects development and balance," Laura said. "Lucia wasn't as as coordinated and didn't have the same balance as other kids."

Speech therapists told the Mirantis that some children are better at word association when dealing with photos instead of generic drawings. So it was Lucia who inspired her mother to invent Take a Pix.

Laura has sold about 2,000 albums for $19.95 each at www.boardbookalbums.com in the past 2 1/2 years. She hopes to get them in stores soon.

"Everybody is exited about it," she said. "It's a million-dollar idea, and I think it's just a matter of time (before sales take off). I'm very determined.

"It's a product that's fulfilling a need. It can enhance lives, and it's fun. What little kids don't want to flip through photos of themselves and their toys?"

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Monday, August 08, 2011

Evan Savar - Vegas Inventor

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As a child, Evan Savar took apart his Christmas presents just to see how they worked. Now 21, he has invented a trophy picture stand, a talking gift wrap bow and a silicone flat-screen TV effect.

And he's only a few years out of high school.

"I was a little bit of a troublemaker in school," he said, "... voted 'class clown.' "

When he was in first grade, a substitute teacher had enough of his antics. She refused to let him go get a tissue to blow his nose. It was about that time the class was preparing for a science fair, he said, so he invented the "Evan 2000," a belt that held tissues and sanitizer, "so you'll always have those things handy."

Throughout grade school and middle school, he thought up other ways to make his life more comfortable, though none resulted into a marketable product.

Inventions, he said, just come to him. Take his latest one -- the Digital Photo Trophy. His invention is the box-like base that can be programmed to show a stream of digital photos, as many as 100 in a loop, great for team shots and those special moments on the field or court.

The idea for that one also came from necessity.

As a youngster, Savar enrolled in tennis camp, played basketball and baseball and was on the volleyball and soccer teams at Palo Verde High School, 333 S. Pavilion Center Drive. With each one, he got a trophy. They began filling up his bedroom.

"They all kind of looked the same, and I couldn't remember (which was for which)," he said. "I thought, "There has to be a better way.' "

That better way was to add the digital photo display, an idea already used on keychain fobs. Getting the prototype together took about a year and a half. Enlisting the help of a friend, Augsman Roy, an engineering student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, led to getting a patent for it. He did it all as economically as possible and spent a mere $500.

Prototype in hand, he approached the Awards and Recognition Association in February 2009. A meeting was set up in El Monte, Calif. The trip began badly when his car broke down.

Savar scrambled to get on a bus for a 10-hour ride to the meeting. He made it in time and was well-received, but his idea ... not so much.

"They told me it wasn't feasible, that no one would ever buy it," he said.

But his own research told him it was feasible. Back in Las Vegas, Savar contacted the keychain fob inventor, Lingtao Wang of TAO Electronics, and ended up partnering with him. As a result, the trophy idea got off the ground and sold about 4,000 units.

TAO Electronics had a booth at the annual ARA convention in Las Vegas. There, his trophy base garnered attention and was awarded "Best New Product."

"Here the whole industry was, like, 'It'll never work,' then they give me this award, " he said. "I thought it was hilarious."

Wang said he has been approached by at least 15 inventors in the past five years and seen promise in only two. The other was a keychain with the capacity to hold 100 photos.

He said Savar's idea was a needed commodity with a distinct appeal.

"People are kind of crazy with the iPhone right now ... they love multimedia kind of stuff," he said.

Savar's mother, Cindy Fox, said her son always has had a mind that looks for solutions. When his older brother Hal, a musician, was playing summer gigs on an aluminum stage in 115-degree heat, Evan borrowed an idea from marathon runners. He rigged a backpack with a water reservoir and ran a sipping tube around it.

Her garage, she said, is filled with his "dinosaurs" -- his not-quite-ready-for-prime-time inventions.

"He has one of the three bays," she said. "His car has to be parked outside because of all his stuff."

Since winning the award, his idea has morphed into the World's Greatest Trophy. It can be engraved with any title -- World's Greatest Dad, World's Greatest Golfer, World's Greatest Shopper -- and includes the World's Greatest People website, theworldsgreatest people.com, where family and friends can post comments, making the gift even more endearing.

Since then, he's added a talking gift wrap bow to his list of inventions and a silicone flat-screen TV wrap that complements one's decor when the TV is off. He plans to offer 100 different designs, everything from zebra stripes to polka dots.

Who knows what he'll invent next.

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Wednesday, August 03, 2011

10 Wackiest Ideas For Making Money Online

1. Million Dollar Homepage

If I had to pick THE craziest idea for making money online, this would be one. A 21 year old student decided to raise money for college by selling pixels on his website. Alex Tew, that is. And, as they say, the rest is history. Alex got his college money and more – over a million dollars, media attention and countless interviews. Copycat sites immediately popped up and… failed all. Maybe this is the reason why we no longer hear about Alex Tew – all his new projects were variations of MDH. Time for a gradschool?

2. ShitMyDadSays

To some cranky father is a source of irritation. To Justin Halpern it was his ticket to stardom. Justin, a struggling comedy writer himself, had to move in back with his parents. His father just would not stop yapping about anything and everything, so Justin decided to start a Twitter account just for father’s words of wisdom. In just 30 days Justin’s microblog was mentioned on The Daily Show. It didn’t take for sitcom and book deal to materialize soon after that.

3. PickyDomains.com
We are all good at something. Dmitry Davydov was good at naming things. Anything, really. So he decided that he might as well make a career out of it. Dmitry started offering people a deal they could not refuse – I’ll come up with a cool domain, name or slogan for you, and you pay me $50, if you like it. And if you don’t - pay nothing. No risk involved. The San Francisco Chronicle picked up the story and Dmitry was swamped with orders, so he created crowdsourcing naming service called PickyDomains.com that operates via the same risk free principles.

4. BugMeNot.com
Don’t you hate when free sites, like NYTimes.com or YouTube require registration for full access? It bugged the hell out of Guy King. Unlike others, Guy decided to do something about it, so he started BugMeNot.com in 2003, a free web service that instantly provides logins and passwords for free sites to folks who do not want to waste their time on registration. BugMeNot got really popular after 2004, when Wired magazine reported on efforts to get the site shut down by the dark corporate forces that insist on registration, so they can send spam the hell out of it. But the light has won. BugMeNot has since branched out into similar niches, like RetailMeNot.com.

5. Doggles.com
There are some certainties in this life and one of those is “dogs don’t need sunglasses”. Sunglasses for dogs? That’s the stupidest invention ever. It is also the one that generated millions of dollars for Ken and Roni di Lullo. Doggles are now sold in (hold onto something) 4500 different shops in 16 different countris! One thing I do admit though – dogs look cool in doggles.

6. GeesePoliceInc.com
Chasing geese may sound like a metaphor, but it’s not for David Marcks, who makes $2 million dollar a year, well, chasing geese away. What’s his story? Back in the eighties, David worked at a golf course that suffered from “the geese problem” (read too much bird poop on golf balls). He could not kill the birds, but he did take note of the fact that his dog, a border collie, was good at chasing them away. He now owns 27 trucks and 32 dogs that do just that - chase geese away from private and public properties for money.

7. FindAGrave.Com
Have you ever heard of ‘tombstone tourism’, i.e. visiting graves of famous people, because you like visiting graves of dead people? To Jim Tipton it was a weekend well spent. One problem, though – he lived in Utah, a state not known for great population densities (dead or living), so he basically ran out of (dead) celebrities to visit. So he started FindAGrave.Com, a site that helps you locate a grave of any person in US. The hobby soon turned into a big business, providing multiple paid services, like genealogy research. “I see dead people” ©.

8. ShoppingCartAbuse.Com
Plain and simple, this one is impossible to explain, but the site has a cult following and more than likely started as a college prank. For some reason, the owner(s) of this one prefer anonymity. Here is a description the site provides – “The Center for Prevention of Shopping Cart Abuse is an organization dedicated to preventing the pervasiveness of Shopping Cart abuse”. Prank or not, ShoppingCartAbuse.com t-shirt became a must have fashion accessory for 2010 with several Hollywood celebrities spotted in one.

9. WheresGeorge.com
If you know this site, the owner profession should not be a surprise. No, Hank Eskin isn’t an accountant. He is a database consultant. Who else would think that punching serial numbers for dollar bills into a big online database is fun? If you are new to Where’s George, here is how it works. First, you log onto WheresGeorge.com and enter your zip code and bill serial number(s). Then spend your money and hopefully some other person will do the same – enter bill serial number and zip code into the database. As of this month, Where's George is tracking 192,623,138 bills totalingUS$1,040,594,634. This means that millions of people have logged onto Where’s George to find out where their money has been.

10. SantaMail.org
Male lifecycle is defined as “first you believe in Santa Clause, then you don’t, then you are one.” Byron Reese must have taken that literally, because in 2002 he decided to start Santa Mail, a website that that lets kids to send letters to the North Pole. There is a little twist, however, parents pay $9.95 to make sure little Johnny or Jane get a personalized letter back from the "big man" himself. Last year Santa Mail had responded to over 300,000 children. Multiply that by $10 and you get the picture.

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