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I stand by my fierce belief that young entrepreneurs can change the world. We have so much to offer and the world has the resources for our taking. Merging innovation and creativity with the advanced technology of the 21st century can only lead to something amazing. I found this article that I would like to share with you – the ideas are fresh and awe-inspiring, and sometimes, very simple, too, you can’t help but say, “Why didn’t I think of that?” These young entrepreneurs have the tenacity to bring something new to our world, to be observants of everyday life and find something unique in the very common and banal. Read more about their cool inventions and products of imagination:

How would you like to crack open a lobster claw harvested from your own personal trap? With John and Brendan Ready’s Catch a Piece of Maine, customers can order the ingredients of a night’s lobster feast for $250, or rent their own traps for an entire season. A season’s rental includes a private lobsterman who fishes your trap and keeps you updated on its catches. For every lobster caught, customers earn a credit in their online lobster accounts, which are redeemable for the real thing. Included in the nearly $3,000 price tag is the opportunity to come abroad the ship for a day and watch your lobsterman in action.

Behold the fleet at the Gotham Dream Cars garage — including Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Maseratis. Rides like the Mercedes Benz SL65 AMG and the Porsche 911 GT3 can be yours for less than $900 a day, while the Saleen S7, a street-legal race car, will cost about $4,000.

The Hundreds has become one of the most sought-after skateboard and lifestyle brands around — available online, at its Los Angeles and San Francisco storefronts, and in 450 other stores around the world. The company also carries a complete line of denim, sweaters, and caps. But despite the growing popularity, some of the products are highly limited, so once they’re gone, they’re gone for good.

In less than a year, Meraki’s WiFi routers have spread free Internet access from Cambridge, Mass. — where co-founders John Bicket and Sanjit Biswas developed the technology as a graduate project at MIT — to neighborhoods in San Francisco and entire villages in India. In all, the company has helped create networks in more than 100 countries around the world. Bicket and Biswas describe Meraki as a company “whose mission is to bring affordable Internet access to the next billion people worldwide.”

Calling herself a lingerie connoisseur and her inventory a collection, Claire Chambers has “decorated” Journelle with high-end brands by designers from all over the world, featuring simple cottons tops and exquisite lace bottoms from Araks, Elle MacPherson, Huit, Julianne, Simone Perele, and Mimi Holliday.

Whether you need to move a busted refrigerator or empty an entire attic, these guys are up for the job. Just some of the rare finds they’ve come across in four years of cleaning out garages and basements include baseballs autographed by Willie Mays and Hank Aaron, a Civil War-era rifle, and a collection of vintage Playboy magazines.

Not sure if you’ve sobered up enough to get behind the wheel? This breathalyzer manufactured by KHN Solutions and designed to fit into your pocket, will reveal your blood alcohol content instantly without having to blow into a mouthpiece. The product sells to hospitals, businesses, and law enforcement units, but founder and CEO Keith Nothacker says the breathalyzer is most popular with consumers and should be as commonplace as carrying around a cell phone. The units are sold online and have appeared on episodes of CSI: Miami and the Discovery Channel’s MythBusters.

The brainchild of Aaron Patzer, Mint.com is a free, Web-based financial management tool designed to give users a clear analysis of their spending habits without having to waste hours on tedious data entry. Users simply enter any bank, credit card, and investment accounts and Mint.com automatically pulls transactional information from more than 7,000 financial institutions to reveal an individual’s personal financial status. Users can view categorical breakdowns of where their money is spent and set specific budgets. Patzer, who got the idea after many wasted hours using traditional financial management software, wanted the product to be as user-friendly as possible. Thanks to its auto-update function, users never have to re-enter any data.

Phreesia’s wireless touchscreen tablet has taken the place of clipboards in thousands of doctors’ office waiting rooms across the country. The PhreesiaPad allows patients to electronically fill out their information and sign privacy forms, providing staff with fully legible information and saving them the time of manual data entry. Doctors can customize the questions that their patients answer on the PhreesiaPad and choose the kind of targeted health content that is seen. Since the pad helps doctors electronically organize patient files, the information can also be easily accessed from outside the office.

Featuring six bottles of wine — one from each continent — this diverse gift pack is one of Bottlenotes’ most popular. Appropriate for the wine novices and enthusiasts alike, this selection is a perfect way to sample bottles from some of the best wine-producing regions in the world. Billed as the Match.com of the wine industry, Bottlenotes makes specific wine recommendations to members based on preferences submitted in their personal taste profile. Members then have the option to sign up for any of the Bottlenotes’ various wine clubs where shipments are also customized based on personal taste. The site allows members to keep track of wines they’ve tried and exchange reviews with other members of the Bottlenotes wine community.

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I hope this has inspired you to come up with something new yourself, or just go out there and know that you have the power to be just as successful, if you put your mind to it.

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