TrendCentral: Harnessing the energy from your left-right-left, UK company Pavegen Systems plans to power the path you walk on. The rubber sidewalk tiles, made from 100% recycled tires, depress each time they’re stepped on. The kinetic energy generated is then converted into electricity and stored inside the tile. A very small percentage (about 5%) of that energy makes the tiles […]
Paving Power
Ooh Local Activities
If you can find and do great, local stuff at home, why not do great local stuff that’s run by local people when you’re away too? Ooh.com is an online notice board and listings site where anyone in the world who offers trips, courses, classes and events can list their activities for free, and take direct bookings and payments through […]
Necktie Reuse
New Startups: Narwhal Company is the inspirational idea of an everyday person that was looking to move away from the 9-5 lifestyle and thrive in their entrepreneurial spirit. Thus, the idea to provide fashionable accessories from the re-use of neckties was born. Narwhal Co. is a unique and green product that hopes to be a catalyst for the funding of […]
Friend of Trends
Trend Friend is an online (and smartphone accessible) gift idea database that allows users to quickly find the trendiest gifts based on their search criteria. The site then lists which physical retailer carries the item allowing buyers to walk into a nearby store and walk out with their gift. The website is the first of its kind to offer consumers […]
Reknit Your Old Sweater
Springwise: Each month, Reknit will unravel old sweaters and re-knit them into a different item; this January, it’s scarves. Consumers begin by choosing from two different scarf styles—each priced at USD 30—and sending their old sweaters to Boston-based Reknit. Then, “my mom will turn your old sweater into a new scarf,” as the site’s creator explains it. Visitors to the […]
BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 97
Square Payment Square is a mobile app that lets you start accepting payment cards immediately with no contracts, monthly fees, or hidden costs. With Square, you can read payment cards from any device with an audio input jack…. Continued in BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 97 >>> – Self Cleaning Coffee Table – ‘You and Me’ Clock – Ritmo: iPod for Babies […]
Smartclean Detergent from Method
CoolHunting: Eliminating waste in more ways than one, Method’s powerful new laundry detergent makes washing “smarter, easier and greener” with its “smartclean” technology and precise pump. With its extremely concentrated patent-pending formula, Method packs enough suds into one small package to clean 50 loads of laundry. Requiring just four squirts, the ingenious pump delivers an easy way to always add […]
Get a To-Do Tattoo
Short term memory? Trying getting this temp tattoo. The To-Do Tattoo kit includes 12 graphic “To Do” forms that you can apply to your body wherever it’s most convenient (or creative) and a skin-safe, washable-ink gel pen. You’ll never again have to make lame excuses for missing bowling night or your mom’s birthday.
SmartyRents Straight to Your Door
SmartyRents offer a variety of educational video games for children from the ages of 9 months to 10 years. The “Netflix” of educational games has several rental packages available to allow you to find the best package to fit the needs of your family. Maybe you have several children at different age levels or with different game systems and need […]
Tank Fantasy
TrendCentral: You don’t have to join the armed forces to test out these monster machines. In the UK’s Northamptonshire lies a farm where no flesh and blood animal roams. Instead, for a fee, you can drive one of over 90 massive, 50+ ton beasts of steel. You can also crush cars, fire 18th century muskets, and “offroad” through various courses. […]