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US start-up launches sustainable swimwear seen only on instagram celebrities

by Jo Luijten - February 20, 2018February 20, 2018 0

ChicCartel is launching a new swimwear line via crowd-funding site Kickstarter. Priced starting at $99 for the early bird special, this unique swim line offers glamorous velvet bikinis designed by a working supermodel Olesya and shapely one-pieces created by a New York fashion stylist Lilya. The crowdfunding campaign is set

Have patience, Silent Partner investors!

by Jo Luijten - December 18, 2017December 18, 2017 0

Good news for worried Silent Partner investors. The product is still under development. The inventors of QuietLife Technologies didn't make the deadline, but the reason for the delay is a good one: perfectionism. In 2015 the Israelian company QuietLife Technologies presented a very interesting invention: a snoring sound cancelling device called

Undiscovered Diaries of the Holocaust

by Jo Luijten - June 14, 2017June 14, 2017 0

The diary of Anne Frank is not the only diary of its kind. Many war victims wrote about their daily experiences during the Second World War. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum started a Kickstarter project to make undiscovered diaries of Holocaust victims and survivors available to everyone. They want to catalog,

The Essential Book for Makers

by Jo Luijten - May 16, 2017 0

Last year I made a robot using a single-board microcontroller and some connected circuit boards. I don't have an educational background that has anything to do with electronics and programming, but I love to make stuff. In my first attempts to solder a circuit board with LEDs, I blew up capacitors,

Evelyn & Bobbie reinvented the bra

by Jo Luijten - May 16, 2017May 16, 2017 0

The modern bra was invented 84 years ago and has seen zero innovation since. Although the bra sizing system exists for a long time, the women-led startup Evelyn and Bobbie believes that bodies cannot be reduced down to just inches and cups. They developed a revolutionary bra that doesn't need

Night Run, an ’80s film from 2017

by Jo Luijten - May 3, 2017May 3, 2017 0

People love videos from the 1980s so much that it is becoming a new genre. The most famous example of this is the movie Kung Fury. Another example is my own Youtube channel Squirrel Monkey. Film producer Erick Solis recently started a Kickstarter project to fund his action film Night