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A Start-up Plans to Make Mines Safer

Can this workplace-safety company raise $1 million in seed capital?  Read story

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Hoyle Schweitzer's Decade Of Discontent

When Windsurfing's president discovered that his product had already been invented, he applied for a new patent. But 20 competitors are betting it can't be e...  Read story

Captain Kirk And His Spatial Light Modulator

Ron Kirk came back to Findlay, Ohio, with a fireman's commission and a deep curiosity about holography. Today his small company, Holotronics, holds the brigh...  Read story

Death to Cool

For years, iRobot designed stuff cool enough for the Sci-Fi Channel, but its new product sells on the Home Shopping Network. Here's how a boutique high-tech ...  Read story

Blue is the New Green

Forget for a moment about carbon emissions. The world is facing a more immediate crisis -- it is running out of clean water. The prospect of widespread short...  Read story

He Took On the Whole Power-Tool Industry

Why wasn't anyone else interested in building a safer saw?  Read story

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