"Crowdfunding has helped to democratise the toy industry, meaning toy designers can now get their innovations to market despite limited contacts and knowledge." Heather Delaney, one of the world’s most influential crowdfunding PR ...
Tags: toy designers, crowdfunding
Self-powered bicycle lights are nothing new. In fact, the traditional dynamo light has been around for years, and many cyclists still prefer to use dynamo-powered lights on their bikes for several reasons: these lights are always on a bike ...
Tags: Xbat, bicycle lights, LED light
The production and sales of khadi, a handwoven cloth, have grown during the last three years. In 2011-12, 887.32 lakh square metres of khadi cloth was produced, generating sales value of Rs 967.87 crore, with cumulative employment of ...
Tags: handwoven cloth, storage battery, Textile
Crosswater has made the dream come true with Dynamo, an innovative new shower head that incorporates LED lighting to illuminate your shower. The head is a polished 300mm half dome with LED lights around the edge. The LEDs are powered ...
Tags: Crosswater, Led Shower, Furniture
The European Space Agency’s Swarm expedition was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 22 November, on a mission to study how the Earth’s magnetic field and ionosphere vary in time and space. It started sending back data four ...
Source: FlyKly Kickstarter Practically speaking, you probably don’t always consider your old bike as a viable mode of daily transportation. Sometimes the thought of expending that much pedal energy for a simple jaunt to the store or ...
Tags: Flykly Wheel, Lighting
US-based Jackie O's Pub and Brewery is set to introduce four new bottled version beers on 17 August 2013. The new beers include Dynamo Hum, Eveyln, Chunga's Old Bruin and Cabernet Barrel Aged Aberrance. The 2013 vintage Dynamo Hum is ...
Tags: Bottle Version Beers
Each time any one of the billion Facebook users visits the social networking site,the company's servers must assemble data--user posts,likes,shares,images--from hundreds or even thousands of different servers around the globe.The page must ...
Tags: Facebook, social networking, IDG, TAO API
German trade show organizer ISPO has named one overall and seven category winners of its biannual "Bike Industry’s Best Start Ups" awards. The eight winners were selected from 188 entries, with the majority of product submissions ...
Tags: ISPO, Transportation, German
After the recent incident in Connecticut - US, which took away the life of 48 children in the country, there has been an increase in demand for protective or bullet proof clothing line for kids in the US. Speaking to fibre2fashion, ...
Tags: Bulletproof Kidswear, Apparel
Colorado distributor Cantitoe Road is now offering dynamo lights and locks from Trelock, a German aftermarket supplier. “Trelock is product line we’ve been watching for a long time,” said Tom Petrie, owner and president ...
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In daily life Around the turn of the 20th century, bicycles reduced crowding in inner-city tenements by allowing workers to commute from more spacious dwellings in the suburbs. They also reduced dependence on horses. Bicycles allowed ...
Tags: Social Aspects, Historical Aspects, Bicycle
Demonstrating the creative ingenuity behind clever lighting, the recent NVA Speed of Light event in Salford saw hundreds of runners don head-to-toe specialised LED light suits and chase around the docks in a stunning piece of performance ...
Tags: Speed of Light, LEDs, Lights
Cargo bike maker Yuba Bicycles has launched a new website, moved to a larger facility and hired a new director of customer service. The company said it also will launch a new dedicated dealer site later this month. The company moved into ...
Tags: Cargo bike, Yuba Bicycles, customer service
IDG News Service - Adjusting to changes in corporate hardware buying habits, the Apache Software Foundation's Cassandra NoSQL distributed database has been updated to better use larger servers through the introduction of virtual nodes and ...
Tags: fat Servers, hardware, software, Facebook, Cassandra