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Here is another example of the democratizing effect of the internet, Academic Earth provides streaming online lectures from top U.S. universities such as Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale. All of the content is free, and the goal...
Posted: Friday 3 July 2009
Now that I see it, I wonder why it took so long for someone to make a three-dimensional desktop for your computer. BumpTop is, as far as I know at least, the first 3-D desktop, and it is quite...
Posted: Thursday 30 April 2009
A viable, smart way, to get into the travel business on a very low budget. It was something like 10 years ago that travel websites made their opening on the Net. Dozen of them fought for a long time...
Posted: Friday 2 January 2009
Remember usenet? You posted once and a million eyes saw your prose in one shot. Usenet is still around but it has all but disappeared from mainstream internet cognizance in favor of web based forums and other friendly-face channels....
Posted: Sunday 8 February 2009
OK well not exactly jingles, which are usually just 10-30 seconds long, but rather full-length theme songs. Enthem.com writes catchy songs for corporate clients, to make sure that we consumers can never get their products out of our heads....
Posted: Monday 20 July 2009
An online marketplace to give frequent flyers the chance to help NGOs fly. I fly a lot. Mostly for business reasons. And by flying, I accumulate airline miles. What is the problem with this? Nothing, except for the fact...
Posted: Monday 23 March 2009
The ambitious and creative CityMurmur seeks to understand and visualize how media attention shapes and reshapes urban spaces. It monitors various media - newspapers, blogs, personal websites, etc. - to track and highlight how different parts of a city...
Posted: Monday 12 October 2009
One of the easiest items to lose on your travels are cameras and camcorders. What makes this particularly sad are the lost memories captured on film which can never be replaced through insurance. There are a number of visual...
Posted: Monday 23 March 2009
The Prairie Tumbleweed Farm sells tumbleweed. They will ship it anywhere in the world. The farm is located in Garden City Kansas, the "Tumbleweed Capital of the World". Their motto is "If they don't tumble we don't sell them"....
Posted: Thursday 12 March 2009
How greenly do you drive? These days there are many people curious about more eco-friendly - and economic - methods of transportation. GreenDrive is an application for GPS navigators and GPS enabled cell phones which tells the user the...
Posted: Friday 20 February 2009
The grandiose motto of "images for humanity" greets viewers of the Fotopedia, a website which I advise you not to go to if you want to get any more work done today, you may get lost for hours among...
Posted: Wednesday 16 September 2009
A Japanese company has invented an inflatable bra called "She's Mine," that puts the wonder bra to shame. Each cup of the bra has a contoured pad (aptly named God's Hand) that girl just has to touch to inflate...
Posted: Friday 13 November 2009
Well, once again it looks like I won't be getting any work done today. Some benevolent minds have decided to combine everybody's favorite online application, Google Earth, with everybody's favorite board game, Monopoly, to create the online game Monopoly...
Posted: Friday 18 September 2009
Students around the world have a new escuse for turning in their homework late, one that should prove considerably more effective than blaming the dog. Since many writing assignments are now turned in by e-mail, Corrupted-Files.com is selling corrupted...
Posted: Thursday 18 June 2009
There are all kinds of cool and innovative business card ideas floating about, but this the best I have seen yet. Artist James Alliban has created an augmented reality business card where a 3-D video emerges from the card...
Posted: Thursday 16 July 2009
Receipts just aren't what they used to be. FalseExpense.com prints accurate fake receipts, fully customized with the necessary personal information, for nearly any purchase. Though the site has a "for novelty use only" disclaimer, it is easy to think...
Posted: Thursday 2 July 2009
Green trends are everywhere these days, including the real estate market, where green demand can probably be expected to intensify if and when the market ever recovers from its present crisis. Green Real Estate Education is a company specializing...
Posted: Thursday 28 May 2009
Play now, pay later. This is the motto for the new startup Kwedit, which is offering an innovative payment system: you make a promise that you will pay for digital content, and you get the content immediately. If you...
Posted: Wednesday 3 March 2010
To give condominium residents a smarter, Facebook-style way to interact. Social Networking is no longer just a new internet phenomenon. It is now a productive, new way to interact with other people, no matter if on a globalized world...
Posted: Wednesday 28 January 2009
Launching on Earth Day, luxury handbag maker Passchal has created a new line of handbags made from recycled banners from Whole Foods stores (its partner in the project) in Richmond Virginia. The bags will be sold from 80$ to...
Posted: Tuesday 21 April 2009
Covered in 24-karat gold and over 6,200 pearls and jewels, the Hang Fung Gold Technology Group has a golden bathroom valued at $32 million. This is one of the more amusing blogs I have come across recently, and very...
Posted: Monday 18 May 2009
A couple months ago we profiled CrowdSPRING, a website where you can post a project for which you need a logo or some other creative design type service. After post, freelance designer submit you their designs and you choose...
Posted: Wednesday 11 March 2009
Rfid Tags for dog collars which record the wearer's activity and interaction with other dogs, and transmit the data to a website. To follow up on Paolo's recent idea about Rfid tags to to help the blind use public...
Posted: Wednesday 7 January 2009
A simple and brillant online advertising idea. Last year Jason Sadler started asking for money in exchange for wearing for one day a t-shirt with a company logo. The first day of the year he charged 1 dollar, raising...
Posted: Friday 4 December 2009
This is not a new idea, a restaurant in Montreal has exploited this idea, and MIRA (non-profit organisation to train guide dogs) uses it as a fund-raiser in Moncton, N.B. The basic idea is to eat in the dark...
Posted: Thursday 29 January 2009
To sell a card, rechargable on a monthly basis, which allows cardholders to take as many taxi rides as they want. This new business, recently profiled on Springwise, seems almost too good to be true. A Swiss start-up company...
Posted: Thursday 11 December 2008
Back in March, Tim Watts sent us this idea of his, called "The Lost Box." The idea was to create a place online where people could upload pictures and videos from lost cameras, where people could look to recover...
Posted: Tuesday 10 November 2009
A Marketplace where people can post want ads for creative services. This is a good innovative idea that I heard about from WorkHappy. It is a site called crowdSPRING.com, and it is a place to advertise for logo design...
Posted: Tuesday 27 January 2009
The crowdsourcing model, which Wikipedia defines as "act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing them to a group (crowd) of people or community in the form of an open call", is an increasingly...
Posted: Tuesday 24 November 2009
I remember once as a child visiting Reno, Nevada, and being fascinated by the sad-looking, run-down pawnshops that could be seen on every corner, providing service for those who had lost all their money at the tables, no doubt....
Posted: Tuesday 3 February 2009
The team behind Jingle Punks Desrcibed by Businessweek as music licensing meets Crowdsourcing, Jingle Punks is an innovative way for struggling musicians and composers to sell their music for use on major network and cable TV shows. Musicians register...
Posted: Tuesday 23 June 2009
I was going to mark this as a "funny business", but in the end using the economic recession to your advantage is no laughing matter. Recession Junction sells humorous items making light of the economic downturn. Among the products...
Posted: Tuesday 31 March 2009
Communication has never been simpler. With e-mail, cell phones, social networks and more we have so many ultra- efficent ways (instantaneous and cheap) of sending each other messages that the messages themselves kind of get taken for granted. Though...
Posted: Wednesday 8 April 2009
(Disclaimer: This is an idea that I heard about from an acquaintance, who shall remain anonymous because he was too lazy to submit it to us himself!) The economic crisis is bad news for most business sectors, but perhaps...
Posted: Thursday 25 February 2010
There are a lot of online dictionaries about, and while Wordia may never be the most authoritative, it just may be the most fun. On Wordia, anyone can choose a word and define it in a video, highlighting their...
Posted: Monday 20 July 2009
Unfortunately most of us don't have the space for a bar in our homes, or the money to keep it stocked with all the various spirits needed to make a variety of cocktails, many of which call for particular...
Posted: Wednesday 10 February 2010
Outvesting is an innovative Irish company that aims at helping out startups by raising funds for them by means of a grassroots campaign conducted on Twitter. As Ireland was hit especially hard by the financial crisis, companies trying to...
Posted: Thursday 29 October 2009
Remember those annoying reflections you often see on the car windscreen as you drive? Wouldn't it be great if they could DIRECT instead of DISTRACT you. This is an idea for a new type of satellite navigation where the...
Posted: Wednesday 4 March 2009
Anyone who has worked in a big office probably has had the near universal experience of having food in the office fridge disappear. Labelling your lunch only seems to encourage certain fridge-raiders, but inventor Sherwood Forlee has come up...
Posted: Wednesday 21 October 2009
Want to trim a tree in your backyard but don't have ladder? Borrow one from your neighbor! NeighborGoods is new California-based website that is looking to develop networks of borrowers and lenders within a community (in this case in...
Posted: Monday 9 November 2009
Here's a great new product for parents, useful, cheap and even green as added bonus. The Australian company Belkiz has designed the "feedaway", a high chair made entirely from recyclable cardboard. It folds up flat and is light (weighing...
Posted: Tuesday 2 February 2010
Remember that awesome project that transformed the stairs of a metro exit into a giant piano? It was part of Volkswagon's Fun Theory initiative, which seeks to change people's behavior through fun. Because it's more fun to walk up...
Posted: Wednesday 18 November 2009
This an idea I had some years ago. I was having a dinner with a friend of mine, also a journalist. I arrived first, so I had a few minutes to spend. A waiter came to set the table....
Posted: Monday 12 January 2009
Here is a simple but innovative business idea. GeoEstimator uses satellite images from sources like GoogleEarth to measure the areas and perimeters of roofs. Using software developed specially for service, the company is able to offer a solution that...
Posted: Thursday 3 September 2009
As this Sunday is Valentine's Day and all, I wanted to share with you an appropriately themed business idea. I believe that the Market of Exes that is taking place in Milan today and tomorrow captures just the right...
Posted: Friday 12 February 2010
AnyLuckyDay is an innovative idea for a website. It features more or less everyday a contest with a different product as a prize for winning. In order to win one must simply post a comment on the post announcing...
Posted: Wednesday 25 March 2009
The Sky Factory has carved out a nice little niche business for itself, creating innovative decorations for ceilings. Their SkyCeiling product gives a ceiling the illusion of a being a skylight, using an elaborate lighting system to recreate the...
Posted: Friday 18 December 2009
Sometimes ideas visit me but I'm too lazy to put them in practice, maybe you can help me
Posted: Saturday 3 January 2009
Most of us hate having to wake up early, and every day engage in a losing struggle with the snooze button of our alarm clocks (there are,of course, those who call themselves "morning persons", but personally I have always...
Posted: Friday 4 September 2009
To create a series of blogs where medium-high-income people can join young interior designers hunting for ethnic furniture around the world, and eventually buy online what they find. First presumption New York City, Paris, Milan, Moscow, Dubai, Beijing. How...
Posted: Wednesday 24 February 2010
Doing the laundry can be hard work in many developing countries, where people must cover large distances to reach sources of water, carrying the clothes with them. The "Swirl", developed by the German Designaffairs Studio is designed to help...
Posted: Monday 8 February 2010
It's easy to lose a glove; one is always taking them off and putting them back on, stuffing them into pockets or purses. Losing one glove makes the other useless as well, it usually just lies in the corner...
Posted: Wednesday 30 September 2009
Twitter has quickly become one of the internet's principal social networks, where you can find everyone from hollywood stars to your local barmen sharing their life in 140 characters or less. So why not your dog as well? Toymaker...
Posted: Monday 15 February 2010
I don't know how I missed this one, but last year GreenMap was launched, which provides corwd-sourced maps of all the green stuff in cities all over the world. The idea is that using these green maps you quickly...
Posted: Wednesday 17 February 2010
To create a high-tech videoconferencing system available at airports which businessmen are rewarded with miles for using, as if they were actual flights. But unlike real flights the videoconferences would be green and much cheaper....
Posted: Monday 20 October 2008
The Fun Theory is an initiative by Volkswagen which aims to prove that making something fun is the most effective way to change people's behavior. To make their point, they took on the challenge of getting people to take...
Posted: Friday 9 October 2009
It's Monday, so I'm sure that you can all use a nice distraction. Let them sing it for you is an ingenious little site that sings whatever words you type. It uses snippets from pop songs to sing each...
Posted: Monday 26 October 2009
SeeClickFix.com is place where citizens can make non-urgent complaints about their neighborhoods, such as reporting graffiti and potholes. The site uses Google Maps to create a map showing the areas reported, and sends e-mails alerting city officials whenever a...
Posted: Monday 28 December 2009
Ok well this isn't exactly a business idea per se, but it's a pretty cool idea nonetheless, and deserves to be diffused. Traceability is becoming an increasingly important value for many consumers, and while I have seen it addressed...
Posted: Thursday 11 February 2010
Most people have a few old cell phones at the bottom of some drawer, I personally don't think I have ever thrown one away, I may even have a pager lying around somewhere (remember pagers?). The EcoATM provides a...
Posted: Wednesday 7 October 2009
"People join companies, but they leave bosses" is the guiding principle behind GetAGreatBoss.com, a jobs search site that puts the focus on finding a great boss to work for, since the boss is often the greatest factor in how...
Posted: Friday 11 September 2009
When in need for storage space most people first seeks out a friend's garage, but failing at that they will probably end up renting a storage unit, which as anyone who has done it knows, can be surprisingly expensive....
Posted: Wednesday 6 January 2010
This is an inspiring example of social entrepreneurship in Ghana. mPedigree, an initiative for safer drugs in developing nations, has developed a technology to create an SMS-based service to ensure the authenticity of drugs in places where dangerous fake...
Posted: Tuesday 17 February 2009
Another cool crowdsourcing idea. The Australian Financial Review chose to crowdsoure its ad copy from readers, since who better to tell of sum up the virtues of the paper than its very readers. Of course the competition in of...
Posted: Wednesday 9 December 2009
For those who are traveling but don't like spending so much time alone at the airport waiting for their flight, now there is a simple way to meet others using Twitter. Boarding.fr provides a Google map of the world,...
Posted: Wednesday 2 December 2009
The iDriver has got to be one of the coolest apps yet developed for the iPhone. It essentially turns the iPhone into a kind video-game controller, except that it controls an actual car. There are buttons for the accelerator...
Posted: Wednesday 28 October 2009
To create an online marketplace for t-shirts where designers can sell their unique creations.Premise Selling t-shirts online is already big business. Which means there is already a substantial market of potential customers but also much competition. My idea is to...
Posted: Tuesday 18 November 2008
Single people have it tough when it comes to coming up with work excuses, at least if you're married you have a spouse to use as an excuse, but everyone knows that the real holy grail of go-home-early excuses...
Posted: Tuesday 15 December 2009
Many women carry their lives around with them in their handbags, so having it stolen would indeed be a catastrophe. A U.K. business, insurance4everyone, is looking to assuage women's fears by offering handbag insurance, which covers both the bag...
Posted: Friday 11 December 2009
"Bellyvision" is the term for the growing trend of people who surf the interent on their laptops while sitting on the couch watching TV. It's easy enought to image that television and the internet will become more and more...
Posted: Thursday 4 February 2010
Created by designer Yuri Suzuki and artist Masa Kimura, this breakfast machine is up and running and recently served breakfasts consisting of an omelette, toast with jam, coffee and juice at Platform21 in Amsterdam. It's pretty complicated, but prepares...
Posted: Thursday 8 October 2009
There are all kinds of health trends about these days, covering most lifestyle aspects. But it seems like the body gets all the attention, and nobody pays enough to the mind. Vibrant Brains is an online "gym" for the...
Posted: Tuesday 5 May 2009
No one likes waiting at a red light, but Serbian industrial designer Damjan Stankovic is looking to make it a little less unpleasant with his Eko Light. The design features a circle of small lights around the traffic signal...
Posted: Tuesday 22 December 2009
The motorized ice cream cone The creative brilliance of others is always good inspiration for one's own creative endeavours, such is the contagiousness of creativity. But it is a melancholy fact that many of our attempts to create something...
Posted: Monday 11 May 2009
While everyone needs to vent from time to time, long angry rants don't tend to help one's social relationships very much. Enter Vent By Phone, which allows people to vent their feelings about any problem they might have, thus...
Posted: Tuesday 13 October 2009
A description hardly seems necessary for this wonderful piece of design, but here goes. The Murakami Concept Rocking Chair features a kinetically powere reading light, powered by the rocking of the person sitting in the chair. If, you're into...
Posted: Thursday 22 October 2009
As a young man who has moved around a lot from apartment to apartment, always trying to avoid buying any furniture and other stuff for each house, I am constantly on the lookout for free stuff. i have even...
Posted: Friday 5 February 2010
Bumper stickers to call people out on their crappy parking. You know the feeling. You've been searching in vain for a parking space for what seems like hours on end and finally catch a glimpse of an free spot,...
Posted: Wednesday 17 December 2008
Back in the Spring Tim Watts sent us an original idea for a website called "The Lost Box" which would be a website where people could upload videos and/or pictures from lost cameras that were found by someone wanting...
Posted: Tuesday 24 November 2009
Nobody thinks a bicycle helmet looks good. In all likelihood it's physically impossible to look cool wearing one. A helmet is of course safety equipment, not a fashion accessory, but there's no reason why it can't be a little...
Posted: Thursday 31 December 2009
At Teddylux, designer Brooke Serson Cernonok turns your old cashmere sweaters into unique, handmade teddy bears. Thanks to the cashmere, the bears (bunnies and elephants are also available) are super soft and luxurious, not to mention eco-friendly. You can...
Posted: Thursday 4 June 2009
Looking for the sex appeal of Marylin or Elvis (the young Elvis I mean, think 50s not 70s)? My DNA Fragrance specializes in creating unique perfumes based on human DNA profiles. So if you send them your DNA they...
Posted: Thursday 19 November 2009
This is one of those great lazy business ideas. It takes as a model The Million Dollar Homepage, which sold 1 pixel of ad space for $1, and successfully sold all 1,000,000 pixels available, making someone a millionaire. MyMillionDollarPictures.com...
Posted: Thursday 26 November 2009
According to statistics, around 30 percent of people who use online dating sites are in reality married or in a relationship, and are looking for a little something outside of the couple. Gleeden figures that it's time to do...
Posted: Thursday 3 December 2009
Boxee's free software combines personal and Internet media with social networking. It allows you to navigate the videos, music and photos you have on your computer as well as streaming online content from websites like MLB, Netflix, Pandora, Last.fm,...
Posted: Wednesday 24 June 2009
Billed as "America's First Medical Marijuana Restaurant Dispensary" the Ganja Gourmet in Denver proposes a menu based on cannabis. There are salads, pizzas, and various pastries all laced with pot of course, including the flagship ganjanade (ganja tapenade) with...
Posted: Monday 14 December 2009
Since they are so expensive, I try to use taxis as little as possible, and am always happy if, when I do have to use one, I have the opportunity to share it. Unfortunately though, most of the time...
Posted: Friday 26 February 2010
For some pet owners, losing a beloved pet is akin to losing a member of one's family, and the wood or ceramic urns that many choose to keep their pet's ashes in only provide a minimum of consolation. The...
Posted: Thursday 7 January 2010
Remember when you see a picture of someone you really don't like online leering back at you from the screen and you move your cursor over their face wishing it was the barrel of a gun? Well this is...
Posted: Saturday 12 September 2009
GoodGuide's new iPhone app is a great tool for those who want to buy more ecologically responsible products, but don't have time to research products before going to a store. With the application you can scan product barcodes, and...
Posted: Friday 27 November 2009
By now the successful Netflix model has been applied to various items, thredUP is probably not the first to try it with clothes, but I don't believe that I have ever heard of another website that works quite like...
Posted: Thursday 1 October 2009
Baby Teresa's products are simple enough: they sell one-piece baby outfits in a variety of "funky" designs. What makes the Australian company interesting is its innovative business model, whenever someone buys one of the outfits, they are actually buying...
Posted: Friday 8 January 2010
A faithful pair of flip-flops are essential, but often surprisingly difficult to come by, given how simple they are. The new site Rivetz lets your customize a pair flip-flops, you get to choose the colors for the straps and...
Posted: Friday 23 October 2009
Spot.Us is an innovative - and pretty cool - new approach to reporting. It is a non-profit, open source project where people can commission journalists to investigate and report on stories that they feel to be important but have...
Posted: Monday 19 October 2009
It takes a stern will indeed to resist a warm chocolate-chip cookie, or at least that is what Specialty's Cafe & Bakery is hoping with the launch of their new Warm Cookie Radar. Based in the San Francisco Bay...
Posted: Wednesday 5 August 2009
The World's Smallest Postal Service (WSPS) claims to post the world's smallest mail. You can send in any normal sized letter and the WSPS will transform it into the "world's smallest letter", seal it with a stamp displaying this...
Posted: Monday 20 April 2009
ConnectPoint Resolution Systems connects insurers, adjusters, contractors and homeowners to make resolving insurance claims and home repairs fast and easy. With our powerful new AssureCalc roof survey system, adjusters and contractors can determine the precise dimensions of a home's...
Posted: Sunday 6 December 2009
Remember when we see those demonstrations shown on multi-screens, have you ever wondered how it would look if the TV screens weren't arranged properly? If there were 16 screens or more then arranging them to form the correct picture...
Posted: Sunday 22 November 2009
As part of what seems to me a rather brilliant advertising campaign, Puma, the sportswear company, presents a stock ticker featuring models who are in various states of undress depending on how the markets are going. That is, the...
Posted: Monday 5 October 2009
The Christian Holy Land, located in Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Palestine, is an intimidating place to plan a trip to, though this fact can hardly be expected to deter the thousands of pilgrims who make the trip each year....
Posted: Tuesday 28 April 2009
Talk about combining the functional with the aesthetic, 2LoveMyLips gloss come with a date rape drug testing kit, a pink taper that is able to detect GHB and Ketamine. Girls just have to dip the taper into their drink,...
Posted: Wednesday 14 October 2009
Rather than being at a loose end and seeing whatever's showing at your local cinema, wouldn't it be great to select a particular film and WHEN to see it? This is an idea for a new chain of cinemas...
Posted: Tuesday 22 September 2009
Another green minded business idea, Ecofont is a TrueType font design to save up to 20% of your ink or toner usage. The idea behind it is simple: the creator SPRANQ (a creative communications agency) took the Vera Sans font...
Posted: Wednesday 11 February 2009
The BigBelly is a solar-powered trash can/compacter that holds up to five times the amount of garbage as a regular trash can. The units have steep price tag ($3,100 to $3,900) but are a money-saving investment, as with these...
Posted: Wednesday 13 May 2009
Have you ever wondered what happened to that suitcase which the was lost at the airport, never to be seen again? If you pass by Scottsboro, Alabama, you might find some of the items in at the Unclaimed Baggage...
Posted: Thursday 19 February 2009
Not that you need an excuse to put up pictures of beautiful girls in bikinis, but this car wash event in L.A. last Tuesday was not just your average fundraiser, the free washes were administered only to hybrid cars,...
Posted: Thursday 27 August 2009
Now that Google has emerged as the clear winner the search engine sector it is difficult to imagine any real challengers emerging. This does not mean that there is not more room for innovation though, and Spezify offers a...
Posted: Thursday 2 July 2009
Despair Inc. occupies a rather unconventional market niche, selling "demotivational" products, which, instead of inspiring optimism, are meant to inspire pessimism - and a good laugh. The main line of products consists of demotivational posters like the one above,...
Posted: Wednesday 3 June 2009
If you are at all like me, you hate buying new jeans. You can never find a pair that fits quite is well as your old, well-worn and well-loved pair. One hates to have to retire a pair of...
Posted: Monday 7 September 2009
Ebay's auction-style business model has proven itself one of the web's biggest successes, and countless websites have tried to apply the model to various sectors. One of the more successful such companies is uShip, which I had not heard...
Posted: Monday 11 January 2010
Since advancements made on electric cars get all of the attention, it is nice to see an entrepreneur venturing into a niche electric vehicle market: fishing boats. Frank Jones, owner of Carolina Electric Boats, has launched a line of...
Posted: Friday 21 August 2009
To use Rfid tags on public vehicles, communicating their identification number to the blind in big cities. I recently gave a lesson to a group of students in Lecce (Italy) about the opportunities given to entrepreneurs by new technology....
Posted: Monday 5 January 2009
College students often don't live in their dorms or rooms all year round, they a rent place for the nine months of the school year, then go back home for the summer. This means that they have to take...
Posted: Tuesday 2 March 2010
A new site aiming at helping people network in their local communities, MyCubi presents a new way to advertise one's own services. It let's you create your own mini website, or "Cubi", with a unique web address, where you...
Posted: Wednesday 2 September 2009
This is brilliant. An amateur inventor who wanted his dog to be able to play fetch even when he wasn't home (or perhaps when he is too lazy to do it), created this fantastic contraption that let's little Jerry...
Posted: Tuesday 12 January 2010
Blank Label wants to change the way young, trendy men (as well as, presumably, men who just think themselves young and trendy) buy clothing, beginning with dress shirts. They have created a platform that allows anyone to design and...
Posted: Wednesday 25 November 2009
What I like the most of travelling is having breakfast in my hotel bedroom. You know what I mean? Hot toast, butter, marmalade... Freshly squeezed orange juice, croissants, fruit, yoghurt. And my favorite newspaper, of course. So, with some friends...
Posted: Wednesday 5 November 2008
The worldwide distribution of Tempus Mundi Globetimer, the sole world clock ever to display on the screen the time anywhere one can read at first glance....
Posted: Monday 2 March 2009
A vending machine that actucally prepares a meal, instead of simply reheating frozen food. Don't confuse Let's Pizza with a standard vending machine, which merely heat frozen pizzas. Let's Pizza, on the other hand, mechanically prepares an actual pizza...
Posted: Friday 27 March 2009
The problem: people over 70 have vision problems and some of them cannot read easily even with glasses or cannot wear glasses. Books are being printed in fonts 16 and 18 with success. The solution: Do the same for...
Posted: Tuesday 17 February 2009
MADE-BY is a label for sustainable fashion which features and innovative system called Track&Trace which allow consumers to check the backstory of the clothing. Clothing items from a select group of Dutch fashion companies each contain a code printed...
Posted: Monday 25 May 2009
Samsungs solar-powered Blue Earth Phone Here is a cool new gadget from Samsung, the a solar powered cellular phone, the Samsung Crest E1107, designed for rural areas with elecricity that is not always dependable.The solar panel on the back...
Posted: Tuesday 16 June 2009
To give street performers the opportunity to earn money in a safer place, giving in exchange to the city administration a great opportunity to make their city more enjoyable for inhabitants and tourists. A few months ago I covered...
Posted: Friday 6 February 2009
An SMS-to-text killer-application for the iPhone that I will not be able to do by myself. I read that the Apple's iTunes Store generated a revenue of more than 1,7 B dollars in 2008. That's huge, guys! Apple takes...
Posted: Friday 13 March 2009
Before and after photos of a piece of land cleared by goats Yes you read that correctly. Rent-A-Ruminant is not your typical landscaping company, if you hire them to clear brush on you property, they will arrive not with...
Posted: Tuesday 3 November 2009
Here at Too Lazy To Do It we hear about new products all the time, so it takes rather a lot to get us excited about something. But one glance at IdeaPaint was enough to convince us that we...
Posted: Thursday 20 August 2009
We all know that the best way for someone to learn a language is to be immersed in it, be forced to live it. Why couldn't a language school incorporate that and have students learn languages through ACTIVITIES with...
Posted: Monday 9 March 2009
A social entrepreneurship idea from MIT Students: In the developing world, washing laundry is a difficult, time-consuming task that falls solely on women. Mothers and daughters typically spend 8 hours each week scrubbing each piece of their family's clothing...
Posted: Wednesday 25 February 2009
The concept behind stereomood is simple, it suggests to you music that best suits your current mood or activity. On the site you see can choose from a big group of words describing moods or activities, such as "dreamy"...
Posted: Friday 16 October 2009
Textspeak, the language of text-messenging used primarily by teens, is often undecipherable to anyone under the age of 21. Sure, we all know by now LOL or OMG, but how many of us know WDALYIC? (Answer: Who died and...
Posted: Thursday 2 July 2009
Selling cardboard boxes may not be the most glamourous of businesses, especially selling used cardboard boxes, but, as it turns out, the used cardboard box business is both eco-friendly and profitable. Just ask Marty Metro, the CEO and founder...
Posted: Thursday 21 May 2009
"...and I'm not gonna take it anymore." For many people, the only thing worse than going to work everyday, is going to work everyday. Commuting just might be the most consistently unpleasant part of our daily lives: it is...
Posted: Wednesday 20 May 2009
The difficult economic times have caused businesses to come up with all kinds of unusual and innovative marketing strategies to keep business coming in. BBC reports on one of the more eye-catching: as a fundraiser a zoo in Oregon...
Posted: Wednesday 15 July 2009
According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Peace Prize is to be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and...
Posted: Tuesday 19 May 2009
I remember as a child occasionally seeing skywriting during large outdoor public events, like pro baseball games of town fairs. Somebody would hire a plane to write "I love you" or "Will you marry me?" or publicity for a...
Posted: Friday 17 April 2009
The futuristically innovative Layar is being marketed as the world's first mobile augemented reality browser. What, you will ask, is an augmented reality browser? Basically it works like this: you point your phone at things in the street, say...
Posted: Wednesday 17 June 2009
The latest innovative crowdsourcing idea is called Landshare, which connects people who want to grow gardens with people who have the space to do so. It's all very simple, you just sign up and post and announcement either as...
Posted: Friday 17 July 2009
The quintessential guilty pleasure is about to get a bit less guilty, at least from an environmental point of view, with the creation of a low-carbon ice cream sold at room temperature that consumers then freeze at home. It...
Posted: Monday 24 August 2009
This new startup dubs itself the "voice of the neighborhood," BlockChalk has set out provide communities with a digital bulletin board where people can post messages to the people around them using their mobile phones. A kind of Craigslist...
Posted: Monday 1 March 2010
I Love Ikea is an online marketplace dedicated exclusively to secondhand Ikea furniture. A kind of Craigslist for Ikea products, if you will. It is a testament to the popularity of Ikea's brand that such a site even exists,...
Posted: Friday 22 May 2009
For those of us living in big cities, getting fresh produce delivered from the country has become an attractive and increasingly available option. The Italian website Le verdure del mio orto ("the vegetables from my garden") provides a new...
Posted: Friday 28 August 2009
It has long been a traditional strategy among the more economically minded (and who isn't these days) that when a special event calls for a particularly snazzy dress, that one as a last resort might just but a dress...
Posted: Monday 2 February 2009
The Franchise Finder Team has come with the following idea: Yes there are spas, there are also mobile spas and there a handful of eco spas BUT what about combining all 3 aspects to get a mobile eco spa!...
Posted: Thursday 5 February 2009
Aaron LeMieux with his invention, the nPower Personal Energy Generator The idea came to him while hiking in the mountains, Aaron LeMieux did not want to have to carry extra batteries for his cell phone, iPod, or other electronic...
Posted: Tuesday 4 August 2009
The idea of taking pictures of stuffed animals and toys in front of famous monuments has been around for a while, and was especially popularized by the kidnapped gnome in the film Amélie. But now someone has had the...
Posted: Monday 22 February 2010
Though comparison shopping has been around for a while online for a variety of items, Grocio is the first company I know of that does it for your groceries. It is strange, come to think of it, why someone...
Posted: Friday 10 April 2009
Whenever I speak to someone about Too Lazy To Do It they always have some kind of idea that they want me to post, often something that's either completely unfeasible or something that's already quite old. But people often...
Posted: Tuesday 17 November 2009
Here in Milan, as in many cities, getting around is not always easy. Traffic usually ranges from merely intimidating to downright frightening, and parking is at best an exercise of hope and patience, though more often than not it...
Posted: Thursday 5 March 2009
There are myriads of internet start-ups around these days, ranging from the mediocre to the truly innovative. Groupon.com must rank as one of the latter, a simple and brilliant idea that in the one year since its launch has...
Posted: Tuesday 1 December 2009
Amidst the laments for the supposedly imminent death of newspapers, someone has an innovative idea for the industry. The Printed Blog reprints blog posts on paper, along with ads, and distributes the publication for free in major cities. It...
Posted: Friday 30 January 2009
Frequent-flier miles are not always so easy to use, and many people end up accumulating a lot of them without getting the chance to use them in the way they would like. Unfortunately no one has yet made our...
Posted: Wednesday 23 December 2009
Here is an amusing and edifying blog to share around the office. Photos that Changed the World is precisely that, a collection of photos that have had some lasting relevance or influence. It is very simple, just the photos...
Posted: Tuesday 26 May 2009
According to the University of Bath nearly 20% of Britain's carbon footprint comes from construction and the production of construction related materials. The university is working on a possible solution to this problem by developing sustainable construction materials and...
Posted: Tuesday 14 April 2009
It is common experience when one gets a bit older to wish that one had spent more time listening to one's grandparents tell their stories. The past is never so interesting as when you feel yourself getting older. Memoro...
Posted: Tuesday 19 January 2010
Here is a man who is definitely not too lazy to do it. Wu Zhongyuan, a 20-year old farmer from Luoyang, in central China, has built his own helicopter made of wood, a used motorcycle engine, and steel pipes....
Posted: Friday 7 August 2009
It is a well known fact that many women would sooner hold it for hours than conscend to use a portable toilet, which is not entirely unreasonable considering the squalid condition the toilets are often found in. The PortaJane...
Posted: Friday 29 May 2009
There are many companies selling wine over the internet these days, but BLANK Bottle takes a peculiar approach, selling bottles with blank labels, giving no information as to the grape, producer, region or year of the wine. So wine...
Posted: Monday 22 June 2009
Just an Idea to throw out there that I am surprised has not come out already, I'm not gonna patent it, because it SHOULD just be a matter of time before Nintendo starts develping such a thing... why don't...
Posted: Wednesday 11 February 2009
It's bound to happen sometimes. If it is really good idea there is always a reasonably good chance that someone else has already thought of it. This morning I heard (via InventorSpot via Springwise)about Neighbo, a company which operates...
Posted: Monday 16 March 2009
A reality show in which the contestants compete to be elected major of a small town. Last year's elections got me thinking about how melodramatic, petty, and tabloid worthy elections can be. If there were a way to transfer...
Posted: Friday 23 January 2009
A common complaint of those resisting the new e-book and Kindle trends is olfactory. We like the smell of books, they say, that musty smell of an old book, or the fresh smell of a new one. Thus, inevitably,...
Posted: Monday 20 July 2009
The British outfit Curb claims to the world's first natural media company, offering advertising services using only natual earth elements. Recogninzing the growing demand for green services, Curb is looking to be on the cutting edge of the advertising...
Posted: Thursday 9 April 2009
The name of this novel invention, Menus That Talk, pretty much sums it up, a menu that describes out loud the items and prices to you. It is designed to help make ordering at a restaurant easier fo the...
Posted: Monday 27 April 2009
Here's a must for those who love gag gifts, and in time for Christmas too. Prank Pack makes "genuine" fake gift boxes, in which you can put your real gift, but the person receiving it will think that it's...
Posted: Friday 6 November 2009
Everybody knows that green is fast-growing trend among new businesses. When a business is "green", beyond the obvious environmental indications, it also gives the idea more more efficiency and money-saving. Green is hip, start-ups want to be green and...
Posted: Friday 13 March 2009
These days you can often find the latest concert of your favorite band to download online, or to watch on youtube. The quality is generally not too high, but diehard fans probably don't mind, nor do they mind getting...
Posted: Thursday 14 January 2010
Though the title is perhaps an all too melancholic remainder of the times we live in, Foreclosure of the Day is in fact an excellent example of a creative, entrepreneurial response to the crisis. The site features, as advertized,...
Posted: Monday 16 February 2009
The Java Street Cafe in Kettering, Ohio, has found a strategy to combat the crisis. Since eating and drink out is normally one of the first thing that people cut back on when money is tight, the Java Street...
Posted: Wednesday 18 March 2009
I have just seen it in this article from The Guardian, but apparently the news has been circulating for a few days: the inventor of the Rubik's cube has a new puzzle coming out in the next few days,...
Posted: Tuesday 14 July 2009
Wine drinking is becoming a ever more widespread fashion, and since at least a small dose of snobbism is a healthy part of the wine lover's experience, how could the prospect of having one's own private label fail to...
Posted: Wednesday 4 February 2009
Here welcome and hilarious new project. Just because Bernie Madoff, who must be one of the most despised men on the planet, has been sentenced to 150 years in jail doesn't mean you don't still have an opportunity to...
Posted: Thursday 9 July 2009
Since there is no shortage of online dating sites on the web, starting a new one may not seem like such a great business idea. Yet the market for these kind of sites is getting bigger every year, so...
Posted: Monday 25 January 2010
Indian company Ossian Agro Automation has come up with an innovative way for farmers to monitor and control water pumps for irrigation. India's unreliable power supply makes it frequent for farmers to walk for a mile or two to...
Posted: Friday 14 August 2009
About twenty five years ago during the Commonwealth games a diver on entry hit the edge of the diving board and died. Ever since that horrible event my idea is to have either some hydraulic engineers,or technological experts to...
Posted: Wednesday 28 January 2009
Ooh.com is cool new website that serves as a free global notice board for activities of all kinds, such as trips, classes, events and vacations. The site is completely free, and there are no restrictions on who can list...
Posted: Friday 29 January 2010
Called "a kind of Wikipedia for textbooks" by the New York Times, textbook giant Macmillan is launching DynamicBooks, a software that allows university professors to edit and customize digital textbooks for their classes. They will be able to reorganize...
Posted: Thursday 4 March 2010
Since finding a parking spot in big cities is being ever more difficult, entrepreneur Rick Warner has thought of Web-based solution to peoples parking problems. ParkingCarma allows users to get location and rate info from public parking garages, and...
Posted: Wednesday 29 April 2009
This is a project which Professor Giorgio Prosdocimi Gianquinto, from the University of Bologna, Italy, did in Brazil. Today he is promoting his brilliant idea in many other places. Here is the problem: an increasing number of people worldwide...
Posted: Thursday 26 February 2009
This... in a café. DigitalDave elaborates his journalism-business idea: to have a café that is a part of the news building or just outside of it where the public could interact with reporters, or just hang out and have...
Posted: Tuesday 24 February 2009
I know there are a lot of die-hard pet lovers out there, but it is nonetheless surprising to see an airline opening up that provides service exclusively for pets. Can it really stay afloat, especially in these tough times?...
Posted: Wednesday 6 May 2009
A simple and cheap way to give a cafés a boost for fitness lovers. Ok, not all of us are crazy for fitness. But perhaps in a big Western city there is space for a café like this anyway....
Posted: Monday 2 March 2009
CraftNetwork is an innovative social entrepreneurship idea which brings together local artisans from villages in developing countries and retail customers in wealthier nations. The artisans benefit in being part of a unified brand, which brings them more work and...
Posted: Thursday 7 May 2009
This innovative device is still only a prototype, though hopefully this will soon change after it won the 2009 International Design Excellence Awards. The Haptic Reader makes non-Braille books available to the blind by scanning them and converting them...
Posted: Thursday 6 August 2009
This is slightly gross, but the video is just so damn funny that I can't resist sharing it with you. Doc Bottoms Aspray markets itself as the first full body deodorant, i.e. you can spray it anywhere on your...
Posted: Wednesday 26 August 2009
Well, you can't say this idea isn't original. From Brazil, a sex doll for dogs. You know those dogs that seem to hump everything in sight, legs, pillows, etc.? With the Doggie Lover Doll they will be able to...
Posted: Friday 31 July 2009
Inspired by those people whose jeans irresistibly attract the gaze towards their callipygian figures, winkers are jeans that seem to wink when one looks at someone walking in them from behind. They seem to have become quite a sensation...
Posted: Wednesday 9 September 2009
Everybody has those moments at the cinema where you really gotta go but are afraid of missing something good in the film. In end, you either have got to hold it or risk missing a key scene. Of the...
Posted: Monday 1 June 2009
Morbid as it may be , most everyone has some idea about what they would like to happen to their body after their death, at least pertaining to the most basic question of cremation or burial. This is of...
Posted: Tuesday 7 July 2009
Yet another cool new use for the iPhone: depositing checks. Clients of United Services Automobile Association now have option of using their iPhone to deposit checks. They must simply take a picture of both sides of the check and...
Posted: Wednesday 12 August 2009
"My good friend Roosevelt" - a rather extraordinary letter written by a 14 year old Fidel Castro to President Franklin D. Roosevelt Well, this isn't exactly a business, but it's such lovely idea that I'm sharing it with you...
Posted: Monday 28 September 2009
Urban Interns is a site which aims to give small businesses a convenient place to find suitable part-time workers. It matches up students and graduates with small businesses in their fields, based on hours, the work invoolved and the...
Posted: Thursday 23 April 2009
"It is now possible to enjoy your sin filled life and buy your way into Heaven, but how?" ReserveASpotInHeaven.com offers to reserve you a spot in heaven for a mere 12.79$, not a bad deal for an eternity of...
Posted: Friday 12 June 2009
We all have great ideas occasionally for a new feature film that might break box office records but sadly they remain as just ideas. A screenwriter has two options: 1) Produce a 120 page film script with complete dialogue,...
Posted: Monday 25 January 2010
Lacking the motivation required to maintain your promise or resolution? Pledge Hammer offers a possible solution. The site works like this: you make a pledge, say, to quit smoking, and set a deadline. Then you pledge an amount of...
Posted: Thursday 19 March 2009
A kind of pocket sized digital business card that lets you exchange contact info (address, hone number, e-mail, social networks etc.) with other users. The Poken is small device that is designed to replace business cards as way of...
Posted: Tuesday 17 March 2009
Bad weather can be bad for business. Unseasonal rain can harm the profits of a bike rental company, or the procucts of a farmer, or the experience of a cruise. WeatherBill provides coverage against bad weather to businesses whose...
Posted: Friday 5 June 2009
Mirror-TVs are video screens which are embedded in mirrors and only reveal themselves to be TVs from up close. So for example, a bathroom mirror might look just like a normal mirror until you approach it, when a video...
Posted: Friday 20 March 2009
Green Depot, a supplier of eco-friendly construction materials, has opened its first retail store in New York. The store offers a wide variety of items like paint, energy monitors, light bulbs, lamps, cleaning supplies and kitchenware. And judging from...
Posted: Friday 6 March 2009
We have seen a growing trend of cafés and restaurants which do not post prices, but instead allow customers to decide for themselves the fair price to pay. Dawn Koplin, owner of the Marksman Pub in London, has come...
Posted: Wednesday 15 April 2009
Yes this is exactly what you think it is. As if it were not already bad enough that your 5 year old needed an MP3 player. The B(l)aby device is a belt that goes around a mother-to-be's waist and...
Posted: Thursday 16 April 2009
Everyone at one point or another has been in one of those situations where you want to give someone some helpful advice or suggestion, but refrain out of fear of awarkdness. NiceCritic is website designed to give an anonymous...
Posted: Wednesday 27 May 2009
The Auteurs is a website for cinemaphiles, a place to watch, learn about and discuss films by the great directors of the past and present. Films are available in high definition streaming, at usually just 5$ each, though many...
Posted: Friday 19 June 2009
There are such a vast number of worthy causes to give to, what's a good Samaritan to do? For those who are interested in giving to multiple charities, but have difficulty finding the time to manage all their donations...
Posted: Tuesday 16 February 2010
Inhabitat, the excellent source for the latest green design, has just launched a brand new website, Ecouterre, exclusively dedicated to eco-friendly fashion. Environmental awareness is a phenomenon that is affecting just about every sector these days, and the clothing...
Posted: Thursday 24 September 2009
Scientists to say that smell has a lot to do with whether or not we find a person attractive. You know, it's one of those primitive biological instinct things. The problem is that today many people no longer have...
Posted: Thursday 14 May 2009
There are all kinds of innovative t-shirts floating about online, but this must be one of the coolest. The Chalkboard Tee is a t-shirt that features an actual chalkboard on which you can write or draw whatever you want,...
Posted: Monday 31 August 2009
If you have wished to take notes or sketches you have made by hand and transfer them onto your computer, there is now an innovative way to do it without having to resort to scanning. The Pulse Smartpen, from...
Posted: Monday 6 July 2009
My invention is relative to a componibile modular bookcase that you can build manually without the aid of lives and screwdrivers. With this product it is possible to compose a bookcase of the intentional form. Therefore, not more having...
Posted: Tuesday 10 March 2009
Männerspielplatz, or Men's Playground, is a German amusement park located outside of Kassel marketed towards men. Instead of roller coasters it features bulldozers, Caterpillars, various off-road vehicles, archery and other traditionally masculine activities. The idea is that today most...
Posted: Monday 30 March 2009
Colis-Voiturage is a French website which links people with packages to send with people who are already traveling in the same direction as the destination of the package. In this way people get an alternative to send a package...
Posted: Tuesday 7 April 2009
One of the lesser known but irresistibly fascinating trends that has arisen in the wake of the economic crisis is the growing number of superheroes. Not superheroes in a metaphorical sense, but actual, real-life superheroes, who hide their identities...
Posted: Wednesday 8 July 2009
...To grow tropical seafood in the cold Europe, making money and helping the planet at the same time. Gilbert Curtessi is a Dutch biologist who worked for years on sustainability issues in The Netherlands. But now he has switched...
Posted: Tuesday 10 February 2009
These pins are designed as fun little gifts for the those who have lost their jobs due to the recession, but have managed to maintain a sense of humor about it. They were created by designer Irina Blok as...
Posted: Thursday 25 June 2009
Pictures are of course a fundamental part of most weddings, and while there is usually a professional photographer present, a lot of friends and family will probably taking pictures as well. There are now many options available for sharing...
Posted: Friday 22 January 2010
A website without updates appears dead on the web! Likewise, a blog without updates will appear as an empty frame. There must be thousands of inactive blogs online due to uncertainty about follow-ups and worse still, time lapses between...
Posted: Thursday 2 April 2009
The Other Britain is a guide to the Britain not always represented by traditional guides. You won't find here much about Buckingham Palace or Big Ben, instead The Other Britain gives a humorous, modern guide to British culture and...
Posted: Thursday 11 June 2009
Green Snapshot is an interesting new product from Intuit, a company best known its financial management programs. The goal of Green Snapshot is to provide small and medium businesses with a simple way to calculate their carbon footprint. It...
Posted: Monday 8 June 2009
For most of us our coffe comes from a machine or local café, we don't stop to wonder beyond the county it has come from, at most. Crop to Cup is a website that allows the more curious the...
Posted: Wednesday 22 April 2009
Journalists and reporters often need experts on all manner of topics to comment on their stories; while traditionally they have found these experts with the help of public relations firms and networks of contacts, with the continual downsizing of...
Posted: Wednesday 27 January 2010
New green business ideas abound these days, but I have yet to come across many as simple and effective as Any Green Site. The site allows you to "green" your online shopping, on any site, just by the click...
Posted: Tuesday 12 May 2009
Digital DNA is a product from the Milan-based company Certilogo which certifies the authenticty of a product. It consists of a code composed of letters and numbers which is put on a RFID tag or barcode of the product....
Posted: Friday 3 April 2009
Great art for 20 dollars, is what 20x200 promises, an online project run by gallerist Jan Bekman. 20x200 offers two new pieces a week, limited edition prints and photography, that typical have a print edition of 200 copies and...
Posted: Tuesday 9 June 2009
Several months ago we published an original idea of Paolo's about an voice-to-text-message iPhone application, today I've seen that in fact someone has already created something similar, though not for the iPhone (so don't worry Paolo, you've still got...
Posted: Thursday 2 July 2009
This seems almost to incredible to be true, but apparently there is currently a Russian cruise line offering a cruise through the pirate infested waters off Somalia to wealth Russian thrillseekers. Passengers are fully armed (aboard the ship you...
Posted: Thursday 2 July 2009
FreedomSpeaks.com is a start-up with the aim of facilitating civic participation and activism. The site is politically neutral, and has the primary goal of letting its users communicate with government representatives. Registered users can write government officials, and FreedomSpeaks...
Posted: Friday 15 May 2009
A café where customers can mingle with cats as they relax a cup of coffee or tea. I have heard of some strange ideas for cafés, but this is one of the most particular I've come across. At the...
Posted: Thursday 26 March 2009
Ruby Slippers is a U.K. home renovation company that caters to seniors, with the goal of "helping people enjoy their own home for as long as possible." The company has developed the concept of "ageless design", renovating a house...
Posted: Monday 18 January 2010
Mr. Whippy is a dispenser of frozen custard with a twist. Before getting your frozen custard, you do a voice-stress test and based on the results the machine decides your portion, the bigger for the more stressed or miserable...
Posted: Tuesday 18 August 2009
There have been a seemingly endless number of ingenious iPhone applications so far, but this one may very well be the coolest of all. The Ocarina app turns the iPhone into a virtual ocarina, and boasts of being the...
Posted: Friday 24 April 2009
On CNNMoney Matt Kolb tells the success story of his innovative business idea. Matt is a real estate agent in Boulder, Colorado, who started a real estate agency called Pedal To Properties, where home buyers can visit the properties...
Posted: Monday 19 January 2009
Here is an innovative idea that is both sustainable and practical. Sky Vegetables is an urban agriculture company that builds commercial-scale farms on city rooftops. As the connection between farms and cities is growing more and more distant, meaning...
Posted: Thursday 5 November 2009
The brainchild of young French Entrepreneur Romain Jerry, the Dog'O'Matic is an automated dog-washing machine. A wash takes a total of about 30 minutes with the Dog'O'Matic, 5 minutes for the actual washing with jets of water and an...
Posted: Friday 8 May 2009
Hospitalis is an innovative restaurant disguised as a hospital This must surely be one of the more unique dining experiences around. Located in Riga, Latvia, Hospitals projects an elaborate pseudo-hospital atmosphere though it in fact an upper scale restaurant....
Posted: Monday 13 July 2009
Tip: Iddictive Ever wanted to go on a cattle drive? Attend a film premiere? Sweemo (short for "sweet memories") aims to be a kind of ebay for experiences, a marketplace where you can bid on, trade, and request the...
Posted: Monday 6 April 2009
This cool little gadget is called the Mandometer was invented to help treat eating disorders such as anorexia, and clinics use it to aid patients in eating properly. A team at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children decided to...
Posted: Wednesday 20 January 2010
A trend which has been around a while (in California at least), is the restaurant which allows customers to bring their own bottle of wine, known as "BYO". Such an option is becoming ever more popular in these tough...
Posted: Monday 10 August 2009
Smart phones keep getting more and more features, but the new Pomegranate Phone has them all topped. In addition to more or less standard features such as e-mail, surfing the web, camera, mp3, video and GPS, the pomegranate also...
Posted: Thursday 12 November 2009
Revenge-for-hire businesses have been around for a while in books and movies, but I don't think I've ever heard of a real life company specializing in doing your dirty work for you. I always figured that it would be...
Posted: Monday 16 November 2009
Using recycled cell phones to sent up a communication network in a health clinic in rural Africa.A wonderful union of business sense, technoogical application, and social work, Josh Nesbit's "Mobiles in Malawi" project is profiled on Social Entrepreneurship: One of...
Posted: Friday 16 January 2009
Ebay has long been the reigning king of online auction sites, but as people are buying and selling more and more things over the internet, who's to say there isn't room for other sites that provide some innovative alternatives...
Posted: Thursday 28 January 2010
To let teens meet new people in crowded places by a tag in their cell phones....
Posted: Tuesday 20 January 2009
Financing a movie by selling individual frames. Iddictive.com tips us off to this brilliant idea to finance a film: Every now and then we see an idea that ticks all the boxes - it's new, it's innovative and it's...
Posted: Thursday 22 January 2009
A innovative way to overcome the obstacles of the diffusion of biodiesel among car-owners. There are many people (as well as cities interested in reducing their carbon footprint) who would be interested in converting their cars and trucks to...
Posted: Saturday 24 January 2009
A service which maintains a vegetable garden for you in your backyard. When I was I child my we had a garden in our backyard, where my folks grew various fruits, vegetables, and herbs that we would eat in...
Posted: Friday 23 January 2009
In the growing concerns over future food crises, seafood is often considered the most threatened. CleanFish aims to build up a sustainable seafood market by connecting small-scale fish suppliers with distributors. They raise awareness and educate restaurant chefs and...
Posted: Friday 10 July 2009
Consultancy service to small and medium businesses For those who have good interview and selection skills, but are looking to do their own thing-- why not offer screening and qualification services to small companies who are actively building up...
Posted: Monday 26 January 2009
This innovative idea for a night school comes from OurGoods, a peer-to-peer network where artists can barter of goods and services. This is already a cool idea, and now they have extended it to education. Trade School offers continuing...
Posted: Tuesday 23 February 2010
There are few items as symbolically important as a wedding ring, a symbol of fidelity and love. So it stands to reason that the eco-minded will hardly want to overlook the evironmental impact of an object of such importance....
Posted: Monday 15 June 2009
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