Category Archives: Entrepreneurial
Traveller T-Shirt With 40 Icons
I wish I had this shirt when I was in Afghanistan. In 2009, we were situated in a little Observation Post somewhere in Kandahar for a week or two at a time, with nothing but rations to fill our bellies. After many days and much elaborate drawing, I finally managed to communicate to a local…
A plane faster than Concorde
(CNN)A Colorado startup wants to build supersonic passenger planes faster than Concorde but with fares a quarter of the price — and Virgin Galactic has just got on board. The Boom airplane would travel at Mach 2.2 — more than twice the speed of sound and 2.6 times faster than any other airliner —…
This Algae-Based Water Bottle Biodegrades
Plastic bottles can lay around in landfill sites or the ocean for centuries. While our planet struggles to cope with our ever-increasing appetite for plastic, an Icelandic product design student was inspired to create a little something to address the issue. Ari Jnsson, from the Iceland Academy of the Arts, has harnessed the properties of…
Supersonic Travel Has Arrived
Boom chief executive says company will build and test prototype plane by end of 2017 to succeed where Concorde failed this lets you commute across oceans Thirteen years after Concordes last flight, supersonic passenger travel is coming back and this time it will be affordable, according to the millionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur behind a new…
Millionaire Talks About Inequality
Inequality has gotten worse than you think. An investigation by Hasan Minhaj of “The Daily Show” shows that the problem isn’t just your classic case of “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” As much as we hear about wealth inequality these days, one disparity remains mostly ignored: the gap between the…
