Alpaca wool is a true luxury fiber, and it’s popularity is growing for very good reason. It is warmer, lighter and stronger than wool, plus its fibers are semi-hollow, which makes it breathable, so you never get hot or sweaty wearing it.
Alpaca wool is not itchy to most people because strands of alpaca fiber [...]

American Power Conversion was founded by three electronic power engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who were originally working on solar power. There wasn’t enough money to make a viable solar concern, but there was in power protection. They produced their first UPS in 1984 (the 750). Rodger Dowdell, Jr. joined APC [...]

In the early years of the 1960s Celestron (originally Valor Electronics) was created when Tom Johnson, who couldn’t find a decent telescope for his sons, built one from scratch. What was labor of love for his children became his business. The company developed an inexpensive way to produce Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes, and in [...]

I’m sure you’ve heard the expression “Live like a king”. For most of us the life the aristocracy is beyond our means, but there are small ways you can do that very thing. A Royal Warrant is issued to prove that a particular supplier provides goods or services to the royal family in [...]

Tivo, (originally named Teleworld) was founded in 1997, by Jim Barton and Mike Ramsay. They extended the idea of a VCR to recording on a hard disk, and the new feature set revolutionized watching TV. Started in the San Francisco bay area, testing began in 1998, and they had their IPO in 1999. [...]