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...separate renovation project within the Science Center, a technology showcase and student repair center in the basement is also nearing completion. The Computer Product and Repair Center will be located in the space formerly used as the coursepack copying and distribution site...
HPPS will work with Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services to provide on-site computer repairs. Currently, students and faculty must travel to the Technology Product Center in Allston for hardware repairs...
...spray on instead of pull on. The Air Stocking, released by Nissin Medico in Japan last year and now available in the U.S., is applied like spray paint and makes legs appear to be covered by hosiery. Company founder Yoshiumi Hamada says he got the idea for the product while speaking to a female co-worker who complained of wearing hosiery in the heat. Air Stocking costs around $28 a can (yielding 20 to 25 applications), comes in three colors and washes off with soap and warm water. --By Tamika Edwards
Indeed, the mostly female entrepreneurs behind these trendy products seem to have discovered the sweet smell of success. Christine Dimmick was only 25 when she started the Good Home Co. in the kitchen of her New York City apartment in 1995. Today the company's 25 products are sold in high-end hardware stores and specialty shops like Restoration Hardware and Gracious Home, and its annual sales exceed $4 million. Dimmick took her cues from the craze for aromatherapy candles and oils and environmental concerns about harsh chemical cleaning products. "I thought, 'Why can't a product work well...
Monica Nassif, 47, was just a nose behind her in creating the Caldrea Co., based in Minneapolis, Minn. For years Nassif had shielded herself from the strong smell of common cleaning products by wrapping them in plastic bags as soon as she bought them and lighting fragrant candles in her home after cleaning. "Then," she says, "it just dawned on me: Why can't you have consistent fragrances running through an entire home-cleaning product line? Why can't a consumer love to buy a cleaning product instead of settling for whatever is on the supermarket shelf...