CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 24

CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 24: 17/12/05 – 31/12/05
New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue:
DESIGN
Walking Music
The Digital Sound Bag lets you slip your personal music player into a clear acetate pocket and plug it into built in speakers.
Custom Walls
Single Tapete (‘singles wallpaper’) sells photographic wallpaper, featuring photos of whoever/whatever.
FASHION
Custom-ers Made
Consumers spend hundreds of dollars for custom jeans that shape the body to show off their best features.
GADGETS
Kid Tracking
The mTrack’s i-Kids phone can pinpoint a child’s location to within 20 metres via phone or net.
Classic Taste
Gizmo accessories are the in thing right now and it’s a race to see who can provide the market with a luxury end version of these products.
ROBOTS
Labour Free
iRobot have developed the perfectly named Scooba – Floor Washing Robot: a revolutionary new hard floor cleaning system.
MOBILE
Scented Phones
Japan’s Keitai KunKun smelltones release subtle (yet unmistakable) aromas like Berry and Wild Nature fro your phone!
RETAIL
Selling the Retailing Experience
Consumers have many more [retail channel] choices today. You have to give people an added reason to come into your store, something that makes the act of visiting a shop as rewarding as acquiring the good itself.
ADVERTISING
For the Rest of Us
In-vouge advertising: frill-free commercials!
The Displax Interactive Window
Displax® Interactive is the solution that allows people to interact with a projected multimedia application, just by pressing the display with a finger.
Amateur is Fine
Brown-Forman and Richard Branson launched Virgin Vines. Starting with a Chardonnay and Shiraz, the partnership seeks to promote wine consumption by dissing those who take wine too seriously.
FOOD & BEVERAGE
Pure, Sweet HINT
Think ice cold water with a slice of fresh fruit – water that quenches your deepest thirst while adding just a bit more flavor.
Starbucks Drivethrus
It got hard to ignore coffee lovers’ demand for a quick java fix without leaving the warmth of their driver’s seats!
CONSUMER GOODS
Greeting Umbrella
The Polite Umbrella, by Joo Paek, respects people’s personal space in a public area, is shrinkable.
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Beating Arachnophobia
The Spider Catcher is an innovative new product which uses two sets of bristles to gently catch the spider or bug, carefully trapping it until you decide when and where to let it go.
Caffeine Shock
Introducing Shower Shock, the original and world’s first caffeinated soap from ThinkGeek!
SERVICES
Fun Training
Companies are starting to look for new ways to playfully train and educate their employees and even customers.
LIFESTYLE
iTrain: Your Personal MP3 Trainer
Designed by yoga/pilates guru Grace Lazenby along with a team of Hollywood personal trainers, there are 11 different workouts ranging from iStretch to iSculpt Ballet. Each one is a personal training session/soundtrack.
Hip Dads and Mums
With an increasing demand for nontraditional baby accessories, Über Baby is a hotspot for parents as young as 20 and grandparents as old as 80.
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