CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 23: 05/12/05 - 18/12/05

New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue:

MARKETING
Closer to the Consumer
Reality marketing - observe eating habits, jotting down notes, compiling video clips and examining neurolinguistic word maps.

FASHION
Smart Ass Underwear
Smart Ass underwear flashes a saying at its back T-bar every time she bends over in her low-cut jeans.

Yoga, Inside Outside
Yogurt Activeculture – a clothing and accessories line designed not only for function and style, but for a higher purpose.

TRANSPORT
Social Networking in the Sky
AirTroductions.com, aims to match like-minded fliers for business networking, book discussions, romance.

CONSUMER GOODS
Personalized Cookies
Personalized cookies are the hottest new product in the highly competitive wedding, party favor, and personalized gift market.

360 with the Rampboard
The Rampboard is a technological reconstruction of the skateboard that introduces bindings, a suspension, a space-age frame, bi-directional capabilities, and a longer wheelbase.

Soft Plush Toy Radios
King Tai Holdings Ltd has released novelty FM radios in soft plush toy designs.

ADVERTISING
Million Dollar Home Page
One college student in England is changing the world of real estate (and online advertising) one pixel at a time.

Page-turn Ads
CNET has recently launched page-turn ad units. Here's a sample, the Circuit City ad.

Word Of Consumers
Take a cue from Vichy Korea (skin care): since end of last year, they've been inviting customers to blog about their experience with the Myokine anti-wrinkle product line.

DESIGN
Lego Disks
Young French designer, Ora-Ito has just designed a playful new stackable hard drive for Lacie.

Immortalized Leaves
Leaves get immortalized on a pillow, tablecloth, or stationery by Inleaf Designs.

Stylish Vacuum
Sit and … suck? Shaped like a high-design beanbag chair, the Airpouf vacuum cleaner doubles as a spot to sit or a room decoration.

MUSIC
Loading Service
HungryPod helps you load your music collection onto your iPod.

FOOD & BEVERAGE
Moist Granola
Justin Avery Anderson, 18, came up with the idea for his product, Anderson Trail’s Original Premium Moist Granola, on a trip in the mountains of New Mexico when he was 16 years old.

Unique Flavours
Pearl Persephone super-premium pomegranate-flavored vodka combines the balance and smoothness of Pearl Vodka with the flavor of the pomegranate.

LIFESTYLE
Condo Hotels
The latest trend to hit the hospitality industry: the condo hotel. It unites the public's desire to invest in real estate with the travel industry's quest for new properties.

TECHNOLOGY
Seeing Possibilities
NEC has developed a 0.3-millimeter (0.012-inch) thick, foldable battery to be used in cards or clothes.

Shop with Phone
Barcode scanning technology exists. Shopping 2.0: Shop until your camera phone drops!

SERVICES
Seasonal Outdoor Lighting
Most people dread the yearly task of hanging holiday lights. Confident that people would pay for putting up festive displays, Bob Martin and Larry Jones launched BrightIdeas Inc.com.

Within Home
The Welcome Home program trains bilingual veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces to become mortgage brokers so they can help Latinos buy homes.

GADGETS
Kitty Sing
Here's some Hello Kitty irony for you: she has no mouth - but two of the newest additions to her ever-growing gadget kingdom have features for those of us doomed to open ours from time to time. The MP3 player and a breath-tester.

Heart Sensor
Textronics NuMetrex sports bra has a built-in heart rate monitoring system for keen running types.

GAMES
Farming For Gold
Online gamers who lack the time and patience to work their way up to the higher levels of gamedom are willing to pay the young Chinese to play the early rounds for them.

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