The hair coloring industry is in need of a makeover. Beauty salons are fragmented, capital constrained and resistant to embracing technology. Stylists tend to store client records on index cards. As a result, clients’ hair coloring treatments are not always … Continue reading
Author Archives: David Wanetick
Revolutionary Engine: Lean, Mean and Green
Engineers at Wichita, Kansas-based Astron Aerospace are hard at work developing a more powerful platform engine for aircraft, automobiles, boats and drones. Astron’s Omega 1 engines are designed to run more fuel efficiently and to generate cleaner emissions than engines … Continue reading
Life Without Lacing: A Paradigm Shift
Imagine. One lace for the life of a shoe. Further imagine a shoe lace that only needs to be fastened once and never needs to be replaced. That is Para-Tek’s mission. Working solo in her New York City home Anna … Continue reading
A Customer Engagement Platform Innovator
Imagine you are the marketing director for Taco Bell. You want to steer your customers to your stores in real-time. The problem is that at any given lunch-time, thousands of your best customers approach Chipotle stores. Atlanta, Georgia-based BoardActive can … Continue reading
An Innovative Breath Collection Device
Demand for testing individuals for substance abuse and viruses such as COVID-19 will continue to soar, presenting enormous opportunities for businesses involved in sample collection and screening. The problem is that no collection method is perfect. Blood collection is feared … Continue reading
Three-Wheeled Motorcycle Taking the World by Storm
Snohomish, Washington-based Tilting Motor Works has invented TRiO, an accessory that turns two-wheeled motorcycles into three-wheeled motorcycles. Through its dealer network, owners of stock motorcycles can have their front fork and front wheel replaced with TRiO, a two-wheeled tilting front … Continue reading
Wireless Charging Technology
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President Obama plans to have one million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. These electric vehicles will need to be recharged frequently. Momentum Dynamics has developed an easy-to-use method for wirelessly recharging electric vehicles. Instead of having to recharge … Continue reading
Dry Powder Inhalers
Many of the 300 million people worldwide that suffer from asthma and many of the 210 million people worldwide that are affected by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), do not have the strength to inhale medicines from traditional dry powder … Continue reading
Innovative Clothing Hangers
Innovation can be found even in businesses as staid as clothing hangers. The Entire-Outfit Garment Hanger organizes and holds an entire change of clothes on a single hanger. The hanger accommodates a complete three-piece suit, a cocktail dress, or the … Continue reading
Advanced Mobile Applications for Simple Phones
VascoDe has the technology to turn simple phones into smart phones. Hundreds of millions of people in the developing world will continue using simple phones for the foreseeable future. Even in the United States, optimistic forecasts project that only 50% … Continue reading