Word: schulthess
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...Start-up of the Week Make Time for Yourself Ever wanted to design your own watch? Log on to the Domino Watch website (www.domino-watch.ch) and you can. Eric von Schulthess, ceo of ITS Inter-Time Services in Grenchen, Switzerland, came up with the idea as a way to keep his corporate and promotional watch business afloat in face of fierce Asian competition. "We had to offer something new, different and attractive," he says. "So we put the components on the Internet and let the customers design their own watches." To make your own watch, choose from among 15 basic models...
...company called CargoLifter launched a high-profile public stock offering on May 30 to fund the building of an 853-ft. colossus--49 ft. longer than the ill-fated Hindenburg. "I've been watching the airship industry for 15 years, and now it's getting very exciting," says Christian Schulthess, who for 20 years was a pilot with Balair-CTA, the charter subsidiary of Swissair. He is now president of Skyship Cruises in Switzerland, which ordered the first Zeppelin. "CargoLifter and Rigid Airship Design get your imagination going," he says, "and here the Zeppelins are really flying...
...more maneuverable than a blimp, and it doesn't vibrate as much as a helicopter--making it ideal for scientific and business projects such as monitoring pipelines and detecting mines. "This ship has the kind of precision and maneuverability that you'll never find in a blimp," says Schulthess. "We can land the Zeppelin with a ground crew of just two people, while the best blimps need 17 or 18 people...