An 18 year old prodigy from Guelph, Ontario has built what can only be described as a two-wheeled unicycle. I know it doesn’t make much sense, but when you take a look at this innovative bike you’ll scratch your head too. The bike incorporates a Yamaha R1 frame, side by side wheels and a Segway like gyroscopic technology. In 2006, […]
The UnoMoto Electric Commuter Device
Write Together on WEbook
What is WEbook.com All About? from WEbook.com on Vimeo. WEbook.com is an online publishing platform that allows writers, editors, reviewers, illustrators and others to work together and create great works of fiction and non-fiction, thrillers and essays, short stories, children’s books and more. The WEbook.com website gives writers a great interactive platform on which to write and through which to […]
Start Where You Are
Times Argus: Barcomb’s eighth-grade classmates at Barre Town Middle and Elementary School have been discussing career ideas, everything from nursing to playing professional basketball to flying a jet. Guidance counselor Ry Hoffman has held class with the eighth-grade students for an hour each week this semester. They talk about the transition to high school, their career interests and courses at […]
The First Radio Controlled “Tyre” In The World
TOSY, a japanese toy company believes it has found a product that has been overlooked by it’s toy-making competitors. Known for various robotic toys such as the R-Ball and their latest invention TOPIO, the ping-pong playing robot, the newest edition to their odd line of robotic toys is the R-Tyre. That’s right! It’s a robotic tire, similar to the R-Ball […]
Recycled Paper Lamps
Inhabitat: Paper is a marvelous material with a complex character – at times a vessel for banal documents and stale legalese, it is also capable of much more expressive forms with a bit of creativity. Case in point: these gorgeous recycled paper lamps recently released by Jordy Fu. Her cloud-sheathed creations break free from the two dimensional realm with dreamlike […]
From Crowd-Sourced Ideas to a Crowd-Owned, Crowd-Managed Business Entity
Ideas are the basis of potential business opportunities. Good ideas do not necessarily represent good opportunity. However, you never really know the true potential of a good idea until you take action and implement it. A good business idea that is not implemented will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupies. If for any reasons, you are […]
Curtains That Do More Than Keep Out Light
Architect Sheila Kennedy of KVA Matx, an innovative architectural firm, specializes in the integration of solar-cell technology in architecture. Her team has recently designed the soft house, “a structure that can create close to 16,000 watt-hours of electricity by transforming household curtains into flexible, semi-transparent, solar collectors.” With recent advances in solar technology and the implementation photovoltaic cells in textiles […]
BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 70
Good News For Germaphobes … Consumers are very conscious of hygiene, and need to feel safe from potential exposure to health risks when outside of their home environments. After washing and drying your hands in a public washroom, how can the washroom door be opened without touching the handle? Sanitgrasp, an small American company based in Atlanta, has a solution […]
New Ideas Hunter – Christopher Aceto
Please welcome our latest contributor to the CoolBusinessIdeas.com Ideas Hunter Network – Christopher Aceto from Canada! Chris currently heads Thottfield Inc., a small multimedia and communications consultancy based in Toronto, Canada. Always on the hunt for innovative and exciting ideas, his passion for the creation and production of ground-breaking technologies and services has granted him the opportunity to act as […]
Coffee Carrier Bag
If you’re stepping out to grab a coffee, decency requires you ask your co-workers if anyone else wants one. But on the way back to the office, you curse your own decency as you juggle multiple hot cups and the phone rings or you need to pull out your keys. Here’s a smart solution: A nifty solution is this carry-bag […]