iPod Messenger Bag

Carry your tunes into the future with this ultra-modern Messenger Bag by Australian company Smart Fabrics. It combines the ElekTex Smart Fabric control panel to allow you to control your iPod tunes. The ultra thin NXT Speaker is incorporated into the bag, so you can share your music or add that powerful punch to a presentation. The Messenger Bag isn’t […]

Bedside Entertainment for Patients

MEDIVista from Lincor Solutions is an intergrated solution for delivery of digital entertainment and communication services to the patient bedside. MEDIVista has been developed with increasing demand from healthcare providers and hospital admins worldwide for entertainment & communication solutions in enhancing patience experience, rduce staff workload and deliver operational efficiencies. MEDIVista represents a compelling business opportunity and proposition for system […]

Pineapple Paper Furniture

Cool Hunting: Establishment (an interior design outpost in Manhattan) recently tipped us to Pineapple Paper Furniture, a new line of benches and chairs made from compressed pineapple fibers. We like the Doonya Chair (pictured above right, $1,900) as well as the Nut Bench ($2,900). They hadn’t been added to the website last time we checked, but you can email Establishment […]

Turning Wind into Light!

Firewinder® is a British invention, with worldwide patent pending and designs registered. Firewinder® is a sculpturally designed outdoor light, which harnesses the wind no matter from which direction it blows creating a beautiful upward spiralling light – every time the wind blows. The simple transformation of wind into light in your garden is enough to blow away your blues, especially […]

Safe Sippy Cups

Babygadget: Sippy cups seem like products that should be easy to shop for. In my experience however, they tend to be poorly made, break after only a week or two of heavy use, and it seems impossible to keep them clean for any amount of time. That’s why The Safe Sippy caught my eye. These cups are stainless steel and […]

Transmit Data Through Clothing

Earlier we read about Data transfer through handshake. Now, Telecom giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) is planning a commercial launch of a system to enter rooms that frees users from the trouble of rummaging in their pockets or handbags for ID cards or keys. It uses technology to turn the surface of the human body itself into a […]

BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 64

Top 10 Franchise Food Trends for 2008 Although consumers are constantly bombarded with messages about healthy eating, encouraging them to cut down on fats, sugar and salt, obesity levels are still at an all time high. Convenience foods and takeaways are increasing. Nevertheless, there is a still a huge part of the market….. Continued in BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 64 >>> […]

Product Placement Deals in Books

Internation Herald Tribune: Near the end of an early galley of “Cathy’s Book: If Found Call (650) 266-8233,” a young adult novel that will be published in September, the spunky eponymous heroine talks about wearing a “killer coat of Clinique #11 ‘Black Violet’ lipstick.” But in the final edition of the book, that reference has been changed to “a killer […]

Bling Bling Bandage

You’re just about to go down the catwalk at the Paris fashion show, but you’ve cut your cheek on one of the crystal champagne flutes. What to do? Slap on one of these high-fashion bandages over your boo-boo, adjust your outfit (which is the size of a bandage anyway), and off you go! Blinged out bandages with 4 Swarovski crystals […]