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The Daily Courier charts the growth of entrepreneurial efforts in the central Okanagan with this report about business starts..
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ICI 5-01-07
With their enormous tilted wheels hung on the sides, the shoes with aligned wheels LandRollers offer a better stability on broken surfaces and one slips more fluidly than the conventional shoes with aligned wheels. Perfect to sail without concern enters the many pot-holes of our streets montréalaises! Who knows, that could even become amusing! Invented on the American West coast, LandRollers are available to Canada thanks to a distributor of the Colombia-British and can be ordered on Internet. From $339.00. www.landrollercanada.com (SCL)
See these "hot new wheels" and learn why bigger is better.
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Just how did Tori Spelling get back into such great shape just a few short weeks after Liam's birth? She's been having a blast with her revolutionary LandRoller skates.  And when Dancing With The Stars and Olympian Skater Apolo Anton Ohno creates a limited edition set of his own, you know you've got to roll around in a pair you can call your own!  So what's the buzz? LandRollers are a radical skate design that delivers superior performance while ...
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Hip new music magazine, Seventh Hour Blues sends 2 novice skaters out on a thorough field test of LandRoller's revolutionary Terra 9 skates ...
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If you’re searching for a gift for the person who’s got it all, we guarantee you that they don’t have this—Landroller! The Landroller skate is a revolutionary product that not only looks different, but it works differently, too. As opposed to inline skates where the wheels are actually inline and centered under the skate, the Landroller takes a different slant—literally! The Landroller has proven to be ...
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coolest-gadget.comThe LandRoller motto is “get out of line” which is appropriate because the unique design features two large wheels mounted at an angle on the outside of each shoe. The angle of the wheels allows for a much larger wheel while maintaining a low center of gravity. Because the wheels are larger the LandRollers can traverse terrain beyond paved sidewalks and specially made skate trails without ....
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NY Times 7-26-06
In his journey from illegal immigrant to television star, Cesar Millan, a best-selling author and dog trainer to Hollywood elite better known as television's "Dog Whisperer" has not forgotten...
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view-online magazineSometimes it's hard to tell when the next big innovation is going to strike. When roller skates first came out, the basic design stayed pretty much untouched for decades. Then some guy decided that the four wheels on each corner of the skate should be put in a straight line down the middle, and this inline pattern remained the industry standard for several more decades. So the big question is, what will the next step in skating evolution reveal? Well look no further, for the sultans of spin over at LandRoller may just have hit upon it with the introduction of their Terra 9 skates. The big idea: replace the ....
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seattle timesRadical. Innovative. Revolutionary. An apt description of local Olympian Apolo Ohno, but also of his new favorite mode of transportation off the ice: LandRoller skates. The peculiar design was first seen in the Jackie Chan film "Around the World in 80 Days" — an "antiqued" version was designed by British comedian/actor Steve Coogan's wacky inventor character. When Ohno first saw the skates himself, he says, he decreed, "They're sick!" And he
meant that in the nicest way. Ohno was so smitten with the revolutionary skates that he
signed on to endorse them. "I hooked up with the company so I could take a closer look, because they weren't on the market at that time," Ohno said in an interview. That put Ohno ahead ...

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April 18, 2006 Yet another variation on the skating theme has come to light. With the first production run still warm, LandRollers are one of many new innovations in the field of human-powered urban transport we have seen over recent years. The significant benefit of the design is ....


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truly obscureSkates are nothing new- ice skates date back to 3000 BC, and land skates or “skeelers” were invented by a Dutchman in the 1700’s. In-line skating was invented by Scott Olson in 1979, and he founded Rollerblade in 1983 (according to this article in About.com). Since then, there have been refinements- lighter, stronger plastics, better brakes- but no real improvements ....

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business week articleA New Slant on Inline Skates
LandRoller cofounder Bert Lovitt discusses how he pushed forward with anobsession for seven years to create skates featuring angled wheels
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Brian Conners, CEO of LandRollerHow is LandRoller replacing inline skates and innovating the skating industry as we know it? SportsSPIN asks Brian Conners, CEO and President of LandRoller to shed some light on the highly anticipated release of his company's product.

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