During the summer months, every large city in America is filled with hundreds of festivals. If you are an entrepreneur looking to get into a retail business, these festivals can be an inexpensive way to test out your products to see if it will really attract a large enough customer base to warrant a year around business. But remember when […]
101 New Business Ideas for Retirees: Festival Businesses
Garden Water
Springwise: Garden watering bans are a fact of life these days, and not just in dry climes like much of Australia and the Western US. But a new Australian invention can keep lawns and gardens green without using any extra household water. The Water-Leech, which retails for AUD 200 and up is a breadbox-sized device with a universal hose attachment […]
Metal Refreshing Lollipop
Strange New Products: The Zilopop is marketed as a breath freshener, in the form of a stainless steel lollipop. It’s made in Germany and marketed in the USA by Charlotte, NC-based Frieling USA, where it’s dubbed, “SmellKiller”. When your saliva touches Zilopop’s stainles steel lolly, it activates its “weird science” to neutralize the foul-smelling molecules in your mouth. After one […]
Handvertising
So you have seen advertisements from commercials to billboards. Now advertisers are looking at your skin to place their ads! Look at how this Orange County based company is getting venues to let advertisers on their customer’s hands. This is a new form of advertising and is completely different from the television commercials and magazine ads people are used to. […]
Stylish Laptop Bag
Gearlog: In the past couple years, plenty of laptop-bag makers have ventured beyond the ubiquitous black-nylon clones; but I rarely see a bag I’d use even if I didn’t have a laptop to put in it. But the Vintage Laptop Satchel, from Solo, has such great, simple styling and uses such beautiful materials–espresso-colored buttery leather on the outside, a gorgeous […]
New Life for Old Photos
Cool Tool: This service will digitize your old slides, negatives and photographic prints at high quality and at a very cheap price. I’ve been using them to scan my 30-year backlog of photographs and I have been delighted with the results. I’ve used other services to scan my old photos; ScanCafe is by far the best deal. Their prices are […]
Never Scratch A Disc Again
Protect your discs the easy way with Protective Disc Skins from d_skin. They protect your DVD, data, video game and music discs from scratches even while they play. Just snap a d_skin onto your favorite discs and consider them protected. The beauty is, d_skin stays on your discs even while they play. That’s right – your discs are totally readable […]
Caller Tune Advertisement
“Caller tune Advertisement” is all about publishing advertisements as caller tunes on user’s mobile phones, so that the callers will listen to the advertisement until the user picks up the phone. In a nutshell, this idea is all about the mobile users trading their ringtone airtime for monetary benefits, which can be used to publish advertisement. This concept is all […]
Frisper Freshkeeper
Cool Hunting: Bulky design, fussy mechanisms and the trickiness involved in resealing the bags offsets the glory of vacuum sealers’ ability to keep our precious Roquefort, pineapples, mushrooms and the like at their freshest. In steps Oliso’s Frisper Freshkeeper to the rescue. With its compact egg-shaped design, stupid simple operation and bags that open and reseal almost effortlessly, the Frisper […]
Sharkah’s Organic Jeans
The Cool Hunter: The newest front in the ecological war on waste appears to be denim. Hailing from the unlikely origins of India, Sharkah Chakra has appeared on the market as the answer to the organically-leaning, ecologically-savvy consumer’s denim conundrum. The company’s philosophy is, “to make the world’s best and only hand made denim using a simple age old concept […]