Thanks to his brainstorm, patients are now sleeping and recovering a lot easier. After 30 years in the business of paper manufacturing, John B. Matthew had learned all about the pulp industry. In a mill, porridgelike pulp is hydraulically pumped between a series of metal refiner plates that pulverize it so it can be made into paper. At long last, money does grow on trees. Don't look now, but that messy job of coloring your hair is about to become easier.
Plans are to target other makers of high-performance silicon semiconductors.
The streets of Manhattan and Los Angeles may be paved with ethnic restaurants, but all those smaller cities in between aren't so lucky. Sethna, now CEO of Sen, opened the 60-seat restaurant in March. We hadn't heard of it either until we met Tony Van Zeeland, who figured out how to upgrade a standard membrane button so it would click when it was activated, thus telling the user it was on. The DuraSwitch uses a magnet and a metal armature to activate the machine. The magnetic assembly also makes it 200 times more durable than any other button of its kind.