Iconoculture: Good health may be its own reward, but a little pampering can’t hurt. The Westin New York at Times Square’s Walk This Way program encourages physical activity and a healthy lifestyle while on the road by offering pedestrian guests a 15% discount at their in-house spa and an upgrade to a WestinWORKOUT room on a future visit. Armed with […]
Healthy Rewards
Mobile Videos On The Cheap
StartupJournal: Alex Gurevich loves to log on to YouTube to watch music videos and comedy sketches on breaks from work. But the 24-year-old entrepreneur from San Francisco fretted that he couldn’t take the fun with him on his cellphone. Mr. Gurevich assumed that signing up for a mobile video service would require a “superexpensive” phone and more than $20 extra […]
Customizable Card Booklets
Shinebox Print: Shinebox Print allows users to create customizable business card booklets so they can carry their cards with convenience and flair. The guiding principle behind Shinebox Print product is that business cards ought to be more than informational. They should be fun, eye-catching, even entertaining. Customers enjoy the convenience of carrying many cards at once in a compact, highly […]
Remote Control for Lazy Viewers
Daily Mail: It sounds like the perfect invention for all those couch potatoes who find even using a remote control just a little too much like hard work. Scientists have come up with a box that lets television viewers change channels, switch on the DVD player or switch off an irritating presenter with the wave of a hand. The controller’s […]
The Bye Bye Buggy
Babygadget: Back in November, I wrote about the Kindervan. The Bye Bye Buggy is another similar product for anyone who finds themselves having to take groups of babies or toddlers out – which means kindergartens, nurseries, and extended families, I guess. This model comes with either four or six seats, but just as with the Kindervan, I wouldn’t like to […]
Toilet Mobile Search
TrendCentral: Created by the location-based service Yojo Mobile, this new web service MizPee sends a list of the closest and cleanest bathrooms straight to users’ mobile phones. Bathroom ratings are user generated and users can also search for amenities such as handicap accessibility and diaper-changing stations (perfect for moms!). The service is free but users have the option to access […]
Gaming Advertising
BizReport: It should, therefore, come as no surprise to learn that Google is expanding into the world of video games. Bernie Stolar, Google’s Dean of Games, is adamant that Google won’t be publishing its own games or building its own console, but that they do have plans for a new system, called “AdSense for Games”. For Google, in-game advertising was […]
Wireless Electricity
FutureWire: The ability to direct and transmit electrical power through the air, without wires, took a further step from the theoretical to the practical in June when a group of MIT researchers demonstrated their “WiTricity” concept. The technology works by transmitting electricity as a magnetic field oscillating at a specific frequency. Through “magnetically coupled resonance,” the “receiver” can capture the […]
BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 48
This Issue’s Top Stories: MARKETING Reaching Her We introduce you to SheSpeaks, a national network of smart and insightful women who have a special opportunity to test products and influence them. SheSpeaks gives you a forum to tell companies what you need, what you want, what you like and what you don’t. And, as the SheSpeaks network grows, so does […]
Cool Cop
KESQ.com: Officer Don Dougherty with the Palm Springs Police Department considers himself a “cool cop” and he says he owes it all to a little device. The officer’s device is called, rightfully so, the Cool Cop. It’s a hose that police officer have connected to an air conditioning vent inside a patrol vehicle. “It basically forces cool air between your […]