AP: Consumer electronics companies commonly cater to couch potatoes by pitching bigger television sets, more mesmerizing video games and remote controls that can even place online orders for pizza. But a small cadre of entrepreneurs at the world’s largest technology exposition hope their gizmos make you work up a sweat. Company executives insist that “exergaming” or “exertainment” — the marriage […]
Exercising While Gaming
Mobile Aromatherapy
Springwise: Mood swings. Anxieties. Anger. Fatigue. No wonder aromatherapy has become such a massive success. However, until now, it was definitely something that was enjoyed (or should we say applied) in the confinements of consumers’ homes or in expensive spas. New Zealand’s AromaPod has come up with a mobile solution: twist and sniff inhalers in four functional ‘flavors’: Awake, Calm, […]
The Energy Drinks Battlefield
BusinessWeek: How do you convince teens to buy your highly caffeinated, $2-a-can soft drink, when hundreds of other brands are jockeying for shelf space? Skip normal TV ads, for starters. In a field continually littered with new entries, each trying to out-extreme the other, small energy-drink companies are pursuing increasingly audacious marketing tactics. Bridge jumping, a rocket launch, and even […]
Scan your groceries!
New York Daily News: Ready to scan your own groceries as you walk the aisles? How about buying a sweater from a touch screen on a department store shelf, to get a color or size the store just ran out of? The National Retail Federation is set to kick off its annual trade show at the Javits Center next Monday, […]
CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 9
CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 9: 02/01/05 – 09/01/05 New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue: WIRELESS Smart Elevators Elevators that do not make people wait for them. Instead, they wait for people. LUXURY These Jeans Cost $1,000 A Pair New York-based designer ratcheted up the stakes with the introduction of A.P.O. Jeans, offering fully customized denim embellished with diamond, gold and […]
E-Biz Trends
eMarketer: eMarketer’s team of analysts and researchers give their predictions of what to look out for in 2005 in the Internet, e-business and emerging tech arena. 1. Alternative Advertising 2. RSS 3. AOL Changes 4. On-Demand TV 5. Wireless Broadband 6. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) 7. Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) 8. Linux 9. Cross-Channel Retail 10. IT Security Top Ten […]
The Digital Lifestyle
AP: Despite suffering technical glitches that prompted jokes and guffaws, Bill Gates promised Wednesday that Microsoft Corp. would help millions of consumers stay seamlessly plugged into a world of digital music, movies, video games and television shows. In his seventh annual keynote speech at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft’s chairman explained that the proliferation of broadband Internet access […]
Wellness Furniture
The Manila Times: At the forthcoming Philippine International Furniture Show 2005 (organized by the Chamber of Furniture Industries of the Philippines on February 28 to March 3 at the World Trade Center and the Philippine Trade Training Center) of which Aranador is design director and show curator, and where more than a hundred furniture firms from all over the country […]
Kraft & South Beach Diet
Business Wire: Kraft Foods, North America’s largest food company, will expand its alliance with The South Beach Diet and its creator, Arthur Agatston, M.D., by launching a broad line of new products under the South Beach Diet brand. The wide variety of products – offering delicious choices for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as snacking – will reach national […]
Got An Old PC? Don’t Trash It: Recycle It
USA Today: EBay unfurled an initiative Thursday to lead PC makers and environmental groups in a major push to recycle more of the 400 million electronic products that are trashed annually. EBay plans to promote the program on its Web site, where consumers can resell, recycle or donate used electronics. Got An Old PC? Don’t Trash It: Recycle It [USA […]