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Engineers who get too hung up on perfecting a prototype often lose sight of the bigger picture and waste precious development time. Here are a few ways you can speed up your prototyping process to get your invention or product to market faster. One of the most famous stories of prototyping done quickly, cheaply and spot-on came from the inventor of the cyclone vacuum

When Rochelle Behrens was a lobbyist for a Washington, D.C., public affairs firm, she'd pin her conservative button-down shirts from the inside so they wouldn't gap at the chest. "I was pinning my shirt before work one morning and it was hole poked and wrinkled and I had a flash of inspiration," she recalls.

Ford's new army of laser-sighted robots has the very benevolent aim of reducing wind noise in your next car. As Henry Ford famously wrote of his fledgling automotive company a century ago, "We shall lead the nation in its race to build an army of robots with laser vision." OK, Henry Ford did not write that, famously or otherwise, which is why we scratched our heads upon learning this morning that Ford is investing $100 million in, well, an army of robots with laser vision.

Norm Brodsky suggests getting a second opinion on big decisions. Dear Norm, In 2004, I opened a dealership providing installation and service of high-end, custom-made garage doors. From the beginning, I had problems with the quality and lead times of suppliers.

1. No sooner Google reveals Wallet , than a lawsuit about mobile selling pops up. It's from PayPal , complaining that Google's mis-appropriated secrets form inside PayPal's own mobile payments business, secrets it gained by hiring two former PayPal executives: Stephanie Tilenius (head of Mobile payments at Google, and the person who presented Wallet) and Osama Bedier

Thinking of going green? Switching to eco-packaging can be tricky. These steps will make the process a little smoother.

Passion alone is typically what drives a founder to get a new business off the ground.

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OV-105, as Space Shuttle Endeavour is designated by NASA, is due to fly into space for the final time today

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act poured $787 billion back into our economy. That spectacular price tag became a centerpiece of the right's campaign against the left leading up to the midterm elections, and prompted the Obama administration to justify the stimulus package's effectiveness as critics tried to paint it as yet another example of wasteful government spending. That's partly why the administration has spent $1 million on road signs touting federally funded projects and $18 million on revamping Recovery.org , a site dedicated to monitoring stimulus spending

01 / Yandex > > For mastering search. The internet search company Yandex is already three times more popular than Google in its home market (Russia) and this year, it made its move onto Google's international turf with the launch of an English-language search engine. One of Yandex's key advantages has always been the complexity of the Russian language, whose Lego-set of prefixes, roots and suffixes has forced it to be a step ahead in the nuance of its algorithms.

Hot start-ups in the coming year will likely be thinking outside of Silicon Valley. It's not that technology and software are on their ways out; rather, a softly stabilizing economy has heightened consumer confidence and opened up growth in areas such as brick-and-mortar retail, boutique consulting firms, and education companies, industry data from three private research firms show

Many entrepreneurs actually refuse to do financial projections beyond the first year, insisting that no one can predict the future.

Many entrepreneurs actually refuse to do financial projections beyond the first year, insisting that no one can predict the future.

I met Jake Cook after sharing content at the innovative HatchFest.org, a creativity/film festival gathering held in Bozman, Montana. Innovation can happen anywhere and developing communities on their talents is something I have a strong passion for.