Long-distance Prayers

What to do if you can’t make it to France for Pope John Paul’s pilgrimage to Lourdes this weekend? Thanks to a new French website, Croire.com, you can now say a prayer and light candles there — without ever stepping out of your house! The Croire website is offering to add prayers it receives by e-mail to the intentions to […]

After Games, Movies, and Music Come Novels On Mobiles

First it was games making an appearance on your mobiles. Then it was movies, followed by magazines, news and digital music. Now, novels are set to arrive on your mobile phones in the near future. The copyright for China’s first novel to be delivered by mobile phone text messaging, has been sold by a Beijing-based wireless business operator for 180,000 […]

easyMobile is Coming!

Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of discount European airline easyJet, is ready to unveil a cut-rate mobile telephone service in Britain as soon as next week. The low-cost wireless voice and text-messaging service will be named easyMobile and it will be supported with the expertise of Danish operator TDC A/S, which will handle customer billing and network operations for easyMobile. Mr […]

Train with the MP3RUN

Sometimes, it’s a smart move to incorporate new features into existing consumer gadgets to suit consumers with special needs, like athletes. Philips and Nike have introduced the MP3RUN, a digital audio player with the innovative speed & distance monitoring. This unique combination provides runners with music playback as well as on-demand audible feedback on their sport performance such as distance […]

Ear Phones: The Mobile World’s iPod

Apple’s iPod has taken over the world and inspired many look-alike digital music players. Now, iPod’s success looks set to be replicated in the mobile world, with T-Mobile’s launch of Ear Phones. The 3G mobile phones enable T-Mobile’s customers to store and play CD-quality digital music. Just like Apple’s digital music store iTunes, Mobile Jukebox (lauched together with the Ear […]

Help Break The Curse!

There is a creative new way to help your favourite sports team when it hasn’t won a major championship title for ages. For fans of the Red Sox baseball team in USA, it’s to perform a ritual. ‘Eat a dream, share a cookie, believe in Boston, and break the curse!’ Red Sox hasn’t won the World Series since 1920. Luckily […]

Who Lives Near You?

If you love Friendster for bringing you new friends, you would love WhoLivesNearYou as well. WhoLivesNearYou is a Singapore website which is based closely on the concept of Friendster-style online social networking, except that instead of getting to know new friends or find new dates, you can get to know your neighbours better through this hot new service. In the […]

The All-in-one Classic Arcade Machine

If you missed playing the amazing classic arcade games in your youth, you could enjoy those countless hours of sheer fun and joy again with The Classic Arcade Machine from BoysStuff. Enjoy an amazing 118 arcade classics at home ? with just one full-size arcade machine! The Classic Arcade Machine features timeless favourites such as Space Invaders, Pacman, Defender and […]

CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 5

CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 5 – August 1, 2004 New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue: ? Mixing Coffee With Music On the new Starbucks menu: cappuccino, muffin, and jazz music! Starbucks has teamed up with their Hear Music brand to open a new innovative coffeehouse cum music listening bar. ? Convert Your Spare Cash into Starbucks Coffee Are you wondering […]

Keeping Fit While Flying

If you often use your road warrior lifestyle as an excuse to avoid working out, a couple of airlines may have a solution for you. Starting this month, Song, the new low-cost flyer from Delta (USA), will rollout its new in-flight workout program. For US$8 passengers will get an elastic band, a squeezable ball and a how-to manual with a […]