CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 26: 02/04/06 – 30/04/06 New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue: CONSUMER GOODS Gifts of Experiences Xperience Days lets customers give an opportunity of a lifetime as a gift. Give Ordinary Products a New Life The company – which sells primarily through its website – relies heavily on product design to attract and reel in customers. Stylish […]
CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 26
Self Steady Bike
Engadet: Besides learning to use the toilet properly, the ability to ride a bicycle is one of the most important early-childhood accomplishments, but unfortunately, the current use of training wheels for practice does little to prepare kids for life on two wheels. Well a start-up using technology developed at Dartmouth College is aiming to eliminate the rolling crutches that are […]
Gifts of Experiences
Entrepreneur: In recent years, research shows consumers are looking for gifts that are unique–not your run-of-the-mill department-store gift cards. As one of the first companies to catch on to this trend, Xperience Days lets customers give an opportunity of a lifetime as a gift.The average cost of the gift certificates is $275 to $300–prices range from $65 for a trapeze […]
Art Hotels
The Cool Hunter: The trend in hotels with themed rooms seems to be spreading like a rash, with hotels in Denmark, UK, Berlin, Paris & Madrid. The clever concept sees different artists and designers commissioned to fit out each room, or in the case of the Madrid hotel, entire floors. The idea is to give guests a completely different experience […]
Foreign Tunes
DailyCandy: Q. What do the following lyrics have in common? a) I would walk 500 miles. b) Who let the dogs out? c) You oughtta know. A. There’s a really good chance they are now going to be stuck in your head all day. (Sorry.) But you can use Earworms to get them out — and learn quelque chose while […]
Pewter Works
thestar: Featuring beautiful pewter works, modern and clean designs that fit seamlessly into contemporary lifestyle, this new collection is suitable not only as wonderfully functional pieces for home use, but also as gifts, fashion accessories and delightful keepsakes. Among the highlights of the collection are the Pallasio and Plasma ranges of photo frames, a new children’s gift range called The […]
Give Ordinary Products a New Life
Entrepreneur.com: A stapler that staples up to 60 pages with even the lightest touch of a pinkie finger, a transparent tea tin lid that keeps out damaging UV light, a diaper bag that’s runway-ready–they all point to one trend: In even the most seemingly ordinary product categories, there’s room for extraordinary design innovation. “I looked at the stapler market and […]
Tasty Room
Shiny Shiny: A room made of chocolate may sounds like a crazy, wonderful, tasty fantasy – but for £2500+, Food Is Art will turn it into a crazy, wonderful, tasty reality. Their life-sized chocolate rooms – inspired by the tale of Hansel and Gretel – can be transported to your venues, and are said to feed up to 500 people. […]
Movie Smells
TrendHunter: Movies will now be a treat for the eyes, ears… and nose. A Japanese cinema screening Colin Farrell’s latest film, The New World, will enhance the film by filling the theatre with a variety of fragrances. The smells will waft from machines located at the back of the theatre. For example, floral smells will accompany love scenes. (Woo-hoo! What […]
iJeans
vnunet.com: Levi Strauss is to introduce a new range of ‘iPod jeans’ featuring built-in headphones, joystick and docking cradle. The RedWire DLX range is designed for men and women, and has a special side pocket with a white leather patch to store an iPod. A four-way joystick on the watch pocket allows the user to play/pause, track forward/back and adjust […]