The history of mobile applications is confusing – nobody can pin down the origin of the first app. Some argue that Steve Jobs was the first to speak about apps – he did so in 1983 in Aspen, Colorado.…
Like most good adventure stories – it always seems to start with a backpack. Backpacks are the ever sturdy and reliable friend, filled to the brim with everything needed for exploration. They have se…
There's some good and bad news. We'll start with the bad. Back in July, we covered the US port delays and what that meant for the upcoming holiday season. At the time that article was writte…
Halloween night didn’t always have kids running from door-to-door with a glow stick necklace. Fourth of July celebrations didn’t always have the excitement of wearing your very own glow stick bracele…
Consumers are a pretty powerful force. While marketing can influence a purchasing decision, manufacturers ultimately cater to their own product decisions based on consumer trends. Consumers historica…
Estes Park is about an hour and a half into the mountains from Denver. It's a quaint little town with an elevation of 7,522 feet. It's nestled right between the Rocky Mountain National Park and the R…
When I was little, I remember going to antique stores with my grandma. She lived out of state from us, and whenever she would visit, or we would visit her, we would always find some sort of small dow…
I collect meteorites. I can tell you where each of my meteorites was found, the composition, where they probably came from, and maybe how they formed in the solar system. There's something pretty coo…
Say you were going to come up to me on the street today and ask me my biggest takeaway of the last six months I’ve spent in the promotional products industry; first, I would ask, “why are you followi…
Cotton is a staple in so many people's lives. It's in almost any textile – clothes, towels, bed linens, stuffed animals, and even American money is made with a cotton blend. It's been such a staple f…