BornRich: If the drop in temperature has made the grilled delicacies a thing of the past, then this DeLonghi Healthy Indoor Grill will bring the grilling season again! The all-weather grill cooks with a combination of contact and radiant heat and it’s removable stainless steel drip tray allows excess fat to drip away, providing low-fat food and smoke-free indoor grilling. The indoor grill features double coated non-stick cast iron grill plate which releases foods easily and distributes heat evenly for consistent results. Adjustable thermostat ranges from high (455 degrees) to low (350 degrees) settings and the large cooking surface can cook a meal for your entire family in just a matter of few minutes.

DeLonghi Healthy Indoor Grill [BornRich]

Springwise: Mumtaz Foods Industries offers ten varieties of baby food suitable for infants from 4 to 7+ months old, including Potato, Lamb & Spinach, and Spring Vegetables and Chicken. GEM Food's Petit Gems comes in culture-spanning flavours, from Vegetable & Roast Beef to Middle-Eastern Lamb Tagine.

Aimed at Muslim parents who want the convenience of prepared baby food without compromising their religious beliefs, halal baby foods should do well both in Muslim and non-Muslim countries. Mumtaz Baby Food is currently available in selected supermarkets and drugstores in the United Kingdom and in Carrefour supermarkets in Saudi Arabia, with other Gulf Region countries to follow this year. GEM Food's Petit Gems is sold in the UK and France. Two to partner with or distribute! With an estimated 1.4 billion Muslims world-wide, this is hardly a niche market.

Halal Baby Food [Springwise]

Isportsmarketing: SeatSign is an inflatable beer tray that flips over as a cushion. It is the ultimate companion for any outdoor event. It holds 4 standard drinks and can with stand 150kgs. It can be branded in any colour and is perfect for beverage sponsors or as a team merchandise item. Isports marketing works directly with organisations, sponsors and advertising on developing strategic orders for these many other exclusive products like SunSign, TanSign, SqueezeSign and many more.

SeatSign [Isportsmarketing]

Isoceania: Discover Wizmark, the interactive urinal communicator, its advertising you can't help but look at. An idea so original, it has everyone talking. Wizmark's interactive capabilities will get results, providing the perfect guerrilla marketing medium for men of all ages.

Targeting your audience can be half the battle in marketing. Given the venue of this marketing tool's location, it will undoubtedly be the vastly perfect media format for every male oriented product and promotion.

As a one-of-a-kind, fully functional interactive device, Wizmark can talk, sing, or flash a string of lights around a promotional message when greeting a "visitor". The large anti-glare, waterproof viewing screen is strategically located just above the drain to ensure guaranteed viewing without interruptions. Using the elements of surprise and humour in a truly unique location will allow Wizmark, in combination with your ad, to make a lasting impression on every male that sees it.

The Interactive Urinal Communicator comes in 3 different models.

Wizmark [Isoceania]

IT Sneak: New website TextMeOuttaHere.co.uk will, for a pound, send its users a text message at a prearranged time to help them lie and cheat their way out of an awkward situation. Having seen “over 1000 excuses sent in its first month”, founder Emma Kane was moved to say: “Britain's mobiles phone users are obviously a devious lot.” Sneak, for one, resents this kind of sweeping statement. Given that market penetration of mobiles in the UK is roughly 100 percent, what Kane is actually saying is that everyone in the country is a devious liar - including you, Sneak, your spouse or partner, your best friend and your vicar. That’s slander, surely

Pants on fire [IT Sneak]

BurlingtonFreePress.com: There are fewer and fewer people asking, "Paper or plastic?" at supermarket checkout aisles throughout the Burlington area and across the country.

At Price Chopper's Burlington store, eight of 19 checkout lanes are equipped with automated "Easy Scan Checkout" machines. Each of the two sets, known as "quads," has four automated checkout stations and one employee to verify age for alcohol purchases, witness credit card transactions and assist shoppers.

The rest of the duties are left to customers: punching produce codes, weighing vegetables, scanning for prices and bagging food. To pay, shoppers feed cash into the machine or swipe a credit or debit card.

"They are embracing the opportunity to participate in a process that will help them move faster," Price Chopper spokeswoman Mona Golub said of the shoppers, adding that those who ring-up their own purchases experience "a sense of accomplishment."

Supermarket self-checkouts on the rise [BurlingtonFreePress.com]

Springwise: 3.5 billion wire hangers are tossed into landfills every year, and that's just in the United States. While the hangers are light, inexpensive and sturdy, they're not exactly bio-degradable. Hanger Network has developed an alternative: a dry cleaner's hanger made entirely from recycled paper. EcoHangers are sturdy and cheap. And because they're paper, they can be completely covered in full-colour advertising.

Everybody wins: Hanger Network creates a media network of up to 3.5 billion in-home 'views', and advertisers gain valuable entry into consumers' bedrooms for less than the price of a stamp. Dry cleaners get free hangers (wire hangers are about USD 0.08 each), and consumers no longer have to struggle with awkward tangles of wires. And on top of it all, it's an earth-friendlier solution. What's not to love? ;-)

EcoHangers: in-home advertising [Springwise]

Shiny Shiny: Do you spend hours worrying about the crust round the top of your toothpaste tube? Do you judge people by whether they squeeze the tube from the end or the middle? Do you think perhaps you should readjust your priorities in life? If the answer to the first two is yes, and no to the last, you should look into the X-paste dispenser.

It takes any toothpaste tube, and promises to deposit 'the perfect amount' of toothpaste morning and night. And so ends another of the great engineering conundrums.

X-paste toothpaste dispenser [Shiny Shiny]

BBC News: Japanese firm Fujitsu is pushing a technology that can encode data into a picture that is invisible to the human eye but can be decoded by a mobile phone with a camera. The company believes the technology will have spin off implications for the publishing industry.

"The concept is to be able to link the printed page into the digital domain," said Mike Nelson, general manager for sales operations at Fujitsu Europe.

The technique stems from a 2,500-year-old practice called steganography, which saw the Greeks sending warnings of attacks on wooden tablets and then covering them in wax and tattooing messages on shaved heads that were then covered by the regrowth of hair. Fujitsu's technique works by taking advantage of the sensitivities of the human eye, which struggles to see the colour yellow.

Hiding messages in plain sight [BBC News]

Iconoculture: A Latino brother-sister design team generates nighttime cool with the quirky Havaleena, a sleek, versatile and customizable portable light. Providing illumination via a 1-Watt wide-angle LED, the portable Havaleena can be used indoors or outdoors, singly or as a bouquet of lights on an accompanying stand. Phrases or designs can be printed onto paper and inserted as filters, with users creating their own messages.

Havaleena lights illuminate with portability, customization [Iconoculture]

Adam Khoo is introducing his new program, 'The Secrets Of Self-Made Millionaires' which will teach you the fundamental wealth mindsets and principles that have made countless people financially free. You will learn:

- The greatest money making asset that you will ever possess and how it will make you a fortune.

- The secret why Google, Microsoft, Nike, Berkshire Hathaway, or Ebay are worth billions and how this secret can hold the key to your financial freedom.

- The secret to how I became a millionaire by age 26 without a single dollar in inheritance, no bank loans or any external investments.

- How to automatically possess the hunger for success which will drive you all the way to becoming wealthy.

- Discover how to play the game of money or you will struggle all your life financially.

- Discover the reason why you are not rich yet and what has been preventing you from getting the wealth you deserve.

- How to avoid the single biggest reason why most people go through life without ever improving their financial situation.

- The 7 Steps To Financial Freedom system that will create lifetime financial abundance for you.

- The one thing that has been proven time and time again to attract and create fabulous wealth, even if you start with absolutely nothing.

To learn more about his new program 'The Secrets Of Self-Made Millionaires', visit his website at http://www.secretsofself-mademillionaires.com.

Adam Khoo is also offering his free CD for download, '6 Ways To Achieve Anything You Want', which is available at his personal blog.

Adam Khoo is an entrepreneur, a best-selling author and a peak performance trainer. A self-made millionaire by the age of 26, he owns and runs three businesses with a combined annual sales of $20m. He is the CEO of Adcom Pte Ltd, an advertising agency, the co-founder of Event Gurus Pte Ltd, an event management company and the CEO of Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group Pte Ltd.

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Popgadget: They say that a woman's best friend is her dog, and those dogs deserve a drink every now and again. A nice young lady from Holland brewed up a nonalcoholic beer for her Weimaraners as a treat for a day's hard work, and now she's selling it as "Kwispelbier" after the Dutch word for a wagging tail. Technically, it isn't a beer at all but more of a non-alcoholic malt liquor flavored with beef extracts. Either way, the dogs love it.

Those of us in the states can purchase doggie beer from the original purveyor: Happy Tail Ale from Dog Star Brewing. The two companies have very similar stories: Young women who loved their dogs and started out brewing small batches on their stovetop that are now selling cases. There's actually a very good reason for going to the trouble to make a beer especially for your dog. The general consensus is that alcoholic beverages designed for humans aren't good for a dog's digestive track, and their smaller size makes them highly prone to alcohol poisoning. However, dogs love the grain flavors in beer.

Kwispelbier for your little drinking buddies [Popgadget]

Gizmodiva.com: In this day and age, smileys and emoticons play a vital part in our messaging or email lingo! I can’t complete a simple message or mail without the use of these shortcuts to exhibit my thoughts. And here comes the Drivemocion, one more mode to illustrate my inner thoughts. I think at some point in life, all of us have been in traffic and had the urge to communicate something good or bad to the people driving behind us. Using a certain finger to indicate feeling is so downgrading where as Drivemocion is a more geeky approach. It is a small electronic display that can be attached to the back window and allows any kind of message (2, 3 or 5 preprogrammed message versions) to be displayed. Its circular rear display can show smiley faces, frown faces, "Thanks," and "Back Off." This battery powered, suction cup mounted rear window display comes with a wireless controller for you to use inside. This illuminating car message sign can be used to communicate both day and night.

Drivemocion - express your emotions while driving! [Gizmodiva.com]

Cool Hunting: You might have heard, but soon there will no longer be a need to risk your laptop in precarious situations in the kitchen. Modeled after a spatula, coo.boo is a digital cookbook that fits into the kitchen environment better than any laptop or printed cookbook. Recipes stored on the user’s computer are automatically synchronized through a wireless docking station and displayed on the face of the device. Digital function allows the cook to choose the degree of support wanted, from simply displaying recipes to full audiovisual cooking lessons. Not fragile like other high-tech digital devices, coo.boo is washable and can be placed on the counter top or hung up next to other kitchen utensils.

coo.boo Digital Cookbook [Cool Hunting]

Trendwatching.com: From 20 November 2006 to 1 January 2007, Procter and Gamble's bathroom tissue brand operated a 20-stall restroom in the heart of Times Square at 1540 Broadway, between 45th and 46th Streets, calling the service 'Charmin's holiday gift to New York'. The facilities offered clean, deluxe bathrooms, baby changing stations, stroller parking, seating areas, and of course lots of luxury toilet paper. Cleanliness was guaranteed by the presence of one bathroom attendant for every two stalls, cleaning after each use. Close to 430,000 people made use of the service.

TRYSUMERS [Trendwatching.com]

New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue:

GADGETS
Central Fridge
If cooking is one of your hobbies, but you think it devoid you of all the entertainment at times, then Whirlpool brings you all the entertainment your way, right in your kitchen with the new Whirlpool’s Centralpark Connection. This new interchangeable interface allows you to interact with a wide variety of electronic devices through your refrigerator door.

ENTERTAINMENT
Nerjyzed Entertainment
Nerjyzed Entertainment is developing games for the PC and videogame platforms, featuring the perspective of African American consumers. Nerjyzed is working with the state of Louisiana to help train young game developers in the four-year college system.

ADVERTISING
Charitable Advertising
This time it is all about toasts and raising money for charity. It works the following way: you give YourNameOnToast some money and they write your desired name or web address on toast in order to put it on their website.

V- Lodge
V-Lodge is an online business-to-business marketplace for smarter, more civilized product placement and advertising weaved into video games. In-game advertising is the next frontier in entertainment marketing.

Smelly Ads
The Wall Street Journal is smelling out a new way to advertise. The newspaper, which recently debuted a new design, is gearing up to offer advertisers the ability to run scented ads. These ads would be on the regular newspaper pages and not on inserts, according to details that emerged in yesterday's earnings conference call.

SERVICES
Nike Trial Vans
Nike Trial Vans are currently touring the UK/Ireland, France, Italy and Spain, stocking 1,000 pairs of shoes. It’s a free trial, no strings attached. Nike Trial Vans are currently touring the UK/Ireland, France, Italy and Spain, stocking 1,000 pairs of shoes. It’s a free trial, no strings attached.

MOBILE
Cellblock
Cellblock is changing camera phones in a big way. When a member starts a cellblock album, the album is assigned its own unique email address. At that point, anyone with the email address can contribute mobile photos and video to the cellblock using their camera phone, instantly, from anywhere.

t+ diabetes Mobile Phone
When you thing of the extra functionality a mobile phone offers, it's usually in the area of entertainment. But a new diabetes management for mobile phones could change that. The t+ diabetes system gives people instant personal feedback, helping them to spot day-to-day fluctuations that can have a devastating long term impact.

ONLINE & SOCIAL NETWORKS
Spout
Spout, the first online community focused on connecting film lovers with great films and the people who have something to say about them. Likened to a MySpace for film buffs, the site hosts advanced technology to push for a better user experience for discussing, organizing and buying all kinds of films.

HEALTH & BEAUTY
Virtual Makeover
Mitsukoshi, Shiseido, and Fujitsu have teamed up to bring a virtual, real-time makeover machine into Japanese department stores in order to give women a chance to test out a smorgasbord of shades on their virtual face before throwing down their hard earned loot.

AUTOMOBILES
Surfing on the Go
Finally, the rolling office gets WiFi. Autonet Mobile's Autonet Mobile Unit brings mobile, wireless, high-speed Internet access to vehicles. Multiple wireless devices can tap the secure network simultaneously. Coverage area includes 95% of U.S. roads.

FASHION
IQONS
Currently in the soft launch phase with plans to launch more formally later this month, IQONS serves as a platform not only for indie designers to show off their wares, but also as a style ecosystem where everyone from retailers, makeup artists and photographers to editors, publicists and financiers can display their work and connect.

HOMES & LIVINGS
Pocket Gardens
Plenty of would-be green thumbs could use a little help with their outdoors-in decor. Pocket Gardens come in ready-to-snip, freestanding packets of seeds and soil that send a message of life. And they only need water and light to grow.

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Iconoculture: Plenty of would-be green thumbs could use a little help with their outdoors-in decor. Pocket Gardens come in ready-to-snip, freestanding packets of seeds and soil that send a message of life. And they only need water and light to grow. They're certainly not lifetime investments (about $5 each), so grieving over plants that have passed their prime can be minimal. From organic herbs for a chef's small-space kitchen to "Get Well" lavender-filled cards, Pocket Gardens take the strain out of getting gardens to grow and answer urbanites' needs for greener, ever-changing homescapes.

Your little patch of heaven: Pocket Gardens for interior homescapes [Iconoculture]

TrendCentral: Using social networks to self-promote has become a well-recognized activity among those pursuing creative endeavors, with MySpace Music leading the way and newer niche networks such as STUART popping up. With the mass popularity of Project Runway, we’re surprised MySpace U.S. still hasn’t created a Fashion category (MySpace France recently launched MySpace Boudoir), but finally there now is a social network, called IQONS, devoted specifically to the fashion industry.

Currently in the soft launch phase with plans to launch more formally later this month, IQONS serves as a platform not only for indie designers to show off their wares, but also as a style ecosystem where everyone from retailers, makeup artists and photographers to editors, publicists and financiers can display their work and connect. In addition to offering professional showcases, IQON profile pages also distinguish themselves by having spaces specifically inviting members to list their favorite designers and brands.

New social network for the fashion industry [TrendCentral]

Trendwatching: Nike Trial Vans are currently touring the UK/Ireland, France, Italy and Spain, stocking 1,000 pairs of shoes. It’s a free trial, no strings attached. To deliver on the crucial element of TRYVERTISING, total relevance of placement, the vans will pop up in places where people actually run. From athletic events to well-known running spots.

TRYVERTISING [Trendwatching]

Iconoculture: Nerjyzed Entertainment is developing games for the PC and videogame platforms, featuring the perspective of African American consumers.
Nerjyzed is working with the state of Louisiana to help train young game developers in the four-year college system.

The gaming market is continuing to morph into sub-niches, and the African American market has been neglected to date. If it creates games that capture the imagination of the black gaming community, Nerjyzed Entertainment could find itself on the cutting edge.
Nerjyzed Entertainment's training program will produce more qualified minority candidates for gaming companies throughout the country.

Black gaming company hopes to strike it big [Iconoculture]

BRAND INFECTION: Over and over again funny amazing what kind of ideas companies have. This time it is all about toasts and raising money for charity organisations like World Vision, Save the Children or others you can help decide on.

It works the following way: you give YourNameOnToast some money and they write your desired name or web address on toast in order to put it on their website. Your toast will act as a link to your website and the more you pay for your toast, the higher it will appear in the listings.

Your Name On A Piece Of Toast [BRAND INFECTION]

V-Lodge is an online business-to-business marketplace for smarter, more civilized product placement and advertising weaved into video games. The new company will facilitate direct contacts between interested parties and contribute to more informed decision makings. In-game advertising is the next frontier in entertainment marketing.

The content section on V-Lodge will feature articles on both the theory and practice of savvy advertising and product placement for video and mobile games, as well as relevant industry stories and interviews. The ultimate goal of V-Lodge is to build a marketplace for in-game ads that is friendly to three groups of stakeholders: game developers and publishers, advertisers, and entertainment consumers.

CellBlock: Every minute of the day, countless millions of people walk around with camera phones in their pockets. The photo quality and phone networks improve daily. Yet relatively few people use their cell phone camera feature because, until now, there hasn't been much reason to.

Cellblock is changing all that, in a big way. When a member starts a cellblock album, the album is assigned its own unique email address. At that point, anyone with the email address can contribute mobile photos and video to the cellblock using their camera phone, instantly, from anywhere. They don’t even have to be registered. The cellblock player can be embedded in any website, so the world can watch in real time as photos and video arrive.

Worried about inappropriate material getting onscreen? Cellblock lets you easily control and monitor what gets into your shows. Only want to let select people see it? Cellblock provides password protection.

With Cellblock, everyone with a cell phone camera or computer is a potential contributor, no special software required! It's a simple but powerful idea, and it's free. Just imagine the possibilities!

Iconoculture: Finally, the rolling office gets WiFi. Autonet Mobile's Autonet Mobile Unit brings mobile, wireless, high-speed Internet access to vehicles. The $400 unit (plus $50 monthly service charge) plugs into a cigarette lighter. Pretty much turn it on and that's it for operation. Multiple wireless devices can tap the secure network simultaneously. Coverage area includes 95% of U.S. roads. Autonet is partnering with Avis Rent A Car to offer the service to Avis customers by March 2007. And all for the low, low price of $10.95 per day.

Road warriors — really, business travelers of all stripes — are hungry for seamless access to their digital lives. WiFi wherever keeps them connected.

At last — we can surf and drive! [Iconoculture]

Janice alerted us to a new online film community Spout.com:

The DVD market is, and has been, in constant flux since the talk of video streaming, Netflix and others. In tandem, community sites like MySpace and Friendster are changing the way we interact with the Internet, particularly among teens who are avid users of these sites. At the crossroads of this is Spout (www.spout.com), the first online community focused on connecting film lovers with great films and the people who have something to say about them. Likened to a MySpace for film buffs, the site hosts advanced technology to push community servers to new limits – providing a better user experience for discussing, organizing and buying all kinds of films.

Spout members search for, organize, recommend and buy their favorite films, as well as interact with each other via an agile and easy-to-use online interface. Personalized film tags like “profound,” “guilty-pleasure” or “cops” replace typical genre labels like “romance” or “adventure,” further personalizing the search for films, while extensive integration of the tools connects films and people in all kinds of relevant ways. People are connected not just based on movie purchases or searches, but by their personal profile, which grows and changes each time they visit the site.

Spout was founded by CEO Rick DeVos and three other passionate Web innovators and filmmakers who had an idea to create a human Web experience that was a trusted place between the multiplex and the film festival where fans can gather to find, enjoy and discuss films. While current competitors offer computer-generated recommendations, spout.com uses real people—experts or mavens—to help consumers sort through the thousands of films they could choose. Ultimately Spout will serve as a distribution network for filmmakers looking fro a way to be heard.

Spout.com

Mobile Digest: When you thing of the extra functionality a mobile phone offers, it's usually in the area of entertainment. But a new diabetes management for mobile phones could change that.

Around three million people in the UK suffer with diabetes and need to maintain healthy blood glucose levels, limiting the onset of long-term, debilitating complications, including heart disease, kidney failure, coma, amputations, blindness and impotence. t+ medical has pioneered a way to help people take control of long term conditions by turning a mobile phone into a personal healthcare management system.

The t+ diabetes system gives people instant personal feedback, helping them to spot day-to-day fluctuations that can have a devastating long term impact. The data is also transmitted to a website for detailed analysis and remote monitoring by a nominated healthcare professional and the t+ Specialist Nurse.

t+ diabetes system - control diabetes with your mobile phone [Mobile Digest]

BornRich: If cooking is one of your hobbies, but you think it devoid you of all the entertainment at times, then Whirlpool brings you all the entertainment your way, right in your kitchen with the new Whirlpool’s Centralpark Connection. This new interchangeable interface allows you to interact with a wide variety of electronic devices through your refrigerator door. So, you can charge and play a wide variety of electronic devices, including an MP3 player, cell phone, satellite radio and DVD player to keep you and your kitchen guests entertained. This interactive interface will make the kitchen the central hub of the home again. The new centralpark connection from Whirlpool is expected in the spring of 2007.

Turn Your Refrigerator Into an Entertainment Center With Whirlpool’s New Centralpark Connection [BornRich]