CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 12: 07/03/05 – 26/03/05 New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue: ROBOTS Hitachi’s Talking Robot Hitachi has delivered a talkative new robot Emiew, and will be displayed from June 9 at the 2005 World Exposition, Aichi, Japan. TECHNOLOGY Ants Collective Intelligence Inspires Technology Ants can work out the quickest way from A to B more efficiently than […]
CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 12
O2 Plus Kodak
Netimperative: O2 has sealed a deal with Kodak to offer online photo services to the mobile operator’s customers through a jointly branded service. The O2 and Kodak Mobile Service will allow consumers to store, share, print and personalise pictures and videos directly from their mobile phone. The service, which goes live in March, allows consumers with MMS or WAP enabled […]
Voicevertising
PRNewswire: Just when you think you’ve seen it all in the world of marketing, listen up – HALLS Fruit Breezers lets you hear it all too! Tattooing advertisements on body parts is old news, but the newest wave in creative branding is loud and difficult to miss…at least if you live in New York City with Floyd Hayes. HALLS Fruit […]
A House Powered By Spinach
We Make Money Not Art: Seattle architecture/design firm Mithun won first place in the C2C Home Competition with their design for a house powered by spinach. The house will be built this summer in Roanoke, Virginia, along with other contest winners. The competition asked designers to work on work on cradle-to-cradle design principles and create objects and processes that replenish […]
Marketers: Use Blogs!
ECommerce-Guide: By now you’ve heard of blogs, or Web logs, and you think: blah, blah, blah. Digeratti diaries, mommy memoirs and political punditry abound. Who cares? You should, because small business owners can use the same inexpensive, low-maintenance technology to market their e-commerce site — with no HTML coding required. By creating a blog, you can boost buzz for your […]
Mini Me
Springwise: It’s definitely a personalized world out there, so how about a miniature version of… yourself? My Twinn lets consumers personalize a 23″ doll to resemble any child aged 3-12, down to every detail. The site offers a choice of 15 face shapes, 4 skin tones, 8 eye colors, 8 hair colors and 11 hair lengths and textures. Prices start […]
Rex For Patients
Iconoculture: Never fear, Rex the Talking Bottle is here. His mission: Fight prescription dosage mixups by recording and repeating patient instructions. This bit of technical wizardry from MedivoxRx Technologies lets patients, caregivers, or pharmacists record directions into the bottle’s recording / playback device using an accompanying recording station. When it’s time for their meds, patients press a button and get […]
Dating idea: Don’t Speak
PSFK: The online magazine for dating service Match.com reports on a new dating phenom called Quiet Parties, at which singles aren’t allowed to speak to each other, just pass notes. It’s not surprising that the digital communication era is leading to such elaborately constructed excuses for exchanging hand-written notes, which seem in danger of extinction. While I can see how […]
Tasteless Beer Advertising
Businessweek Online: No, this is not about buxom bikini-clad women riding Clydesdales or SpongeBob holding a longneck. It’s about this ad war between Miller and Anheuser-Busch about whether Lite or Bud Light tastes better, or has “more taste.” The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus says it is now referring Anheuser-Busch’s challenge of Miller Brewing’s “More […]
A Firefly Phone For Your Child
Yenra: The Firefly phone is the first and only mobile phone explicitly designed for tweens that satisfies parents’ concerns about unrestricted mobile phone use and monthly costs. The Firefly phone is a pioneering voice-only phone designed for the smaller hands of kids aged eight to twelve years old. With just five keys instead of a regular dial pad, parents use […]