http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2013/02/10/ambler_gazette/news/doc51088d2e92133704120510.txt?viewmode=fullstory
This local article highlights a Blue Bell inventor named Steve Bailey. Based on Bailey's "stand-up" habits, he developed a new approach to the classic game of chess. Instead of using a board that sits horizontally on a table, he made a prototype that is built into the wall, stood up vertically, and magnetically attracted to the pieces. Bailey describes how it could be used in bars, possibly used similarly to a dartboard. He is currently using websites such as kickstarter.com and quirky.com to get his idea out to the public, finance his manufacturing endeavors, and further improve his idea. The invention is currently patent pending.
The source of this article was Montgomerynews.com, which is a local website dedicated to news in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. This particular article was published on this website from the Ambler Gazette. Gary Puleo, the author of the article, has written for the Times Herald and the Ambler Gazette for over 20 years. The audience of this article includes the regular Ambler Gazette readers, more specifically those who like to read pieces about unique ideas. The context is the emerging ways to start a business and get your ideas out to the public, and the purpose is to highlight and inform the readers about this phenomenon. A prominent stylistic trait in this article is the language the author uses to keep the article interesting. For example, if the reader was not very interested in chess to begin with, the author incorporated business, financial, military aspects to the story to keep it appealing to a widespread audience. It is hard to say without bias whether the author accomplished this, since I was hooked with the mention of chess in the first place. However, I believe the author did accomplish his main purpose by describing the up-and-coming new ways to conduct business through the Internet.
This local article highlights a Blue Bell inventor named Steve Bailey. Based on Bailey's "stand-up" habits, he developed a new approach to the classic game of chess. Instead of using a board that sits horizontally on a table, he made a prototype that is built into the wall, stood up vertically, and magnetically attracted to the pieces. Bailey describes how it could be used in bars, possibly used similarly to a dartboard. He is currently using websites such as kickstarter.com and quirky.com to get his idea out to the public, finance his manufacturing endeavors, and further improve his idea. The invention is currently patent pending.
The source of this article was Montgomerynews.com, which is a local website dedicated to news in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. This particular article was published on this website from the Ambler Gazette. Gary Puleo, the author of the article, has written for the Times Herald and the Ambler Gazette for over 20 years. The audience of this article includes the regular Ambler Gazette readers, more specifically those who like to read pieces about unique ideas. The context is the emerging ways to start a business and get your ideas out to the public, and the purpose is to highlight and inform the readers about this phenomenon. A prominent stylistic trait in this article is the language the author uses to keep the article interesting. For example, if the reader was not very interested in chess to begin with, the author incorporated business, financial, military aspects to the story to keep it appealing to a widespread audience. It is hard to say without bias whether the author accomplished this, since I was hooked with the mention of chess in the first place. However, I believe the author did accomplish his main purpose by describing the up-and-coming new ways to conduct business through the Internet.
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