Iconoculture: Sometimes, more is more. We want our indulgences, but we want to look and feel better, too. Delivering it all in one tasty package makes consumers smile – and keep on chomping. Sweet news for the sweet tooth. From tooth-whitening chewing gum to skin-enhancing chocolate to vitamin-packed fruit chews, “functional confectionery” is taking some of the guilt out of […]
Functional Sweets
CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 19
CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 19: 20/06/05 – 03/07/05 New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue: MOBILE Simple Phones Vodafone is getting back to basics – big screens and large buttons. O-Synchronized O-Sync interplays between the Web and your phone wirelessly, enabling you to backup and perform synchronization of your phone’s mobile contact database, anytime anywhere, without cables. MARKETING iPods + Sushi […]
Half The Price
Entrepreneur.com: Gift certificates have always been ideal for gift giving, but now they’re becoming even better for self-indulgence–at half the price. Eric Diamond, 33, spent a decade working tech-related jobs before figuring out a way to combine his tech skills with his family connections in the fashion industry. His brainstorm was SalesOffline.com, a website he originally built to advertise local […]
eMall Commerce
NYTimes.com: A new shopping complex in Ohio will try to combine the convenience of online stores with the hands-on experience of browsing at a mall. Sometime near the end of 2006, the complex, called Epicenter, is scheduled to open in Columbus at the Polaris Fashion Place. The nucleus of Epicenter will consist of two parts – the Buypod, a hand-held […]
Pizza, Anyone?
Springwise: Invented in Italy (where else), cone shaped pizzas — think pizza slice meets ice cream cone — are the latest fast food craze. Kono Pizza offers the convenience of eating on the move without making a mess. The EUR 1.50 cones are filled with the desired toppings, then cooked in a special oven in only three minutes. Kono currently […]
Social Searching
TechnologyReview.com: Google’s personalized search uses an individual’s search history to help tweak search results. For instance, if a person has looked for cars extensively in the past, a search for “Jaguar” will return car sites rather than ones featuring large wild cats. While Google’s new tack is admirable, Yahoo’s soft-launch is more startling, since it moves away from the company’s […]
Personalization Business
TrendBlog: It probably started in high school. You did not want to look like everybody else anymore. You colored your hair and decorated your jeans jacket. And now you can even customize your own sneakers on certain websites or at the NikeID-store (slogan: perfection is personal). We call this Personalization, a trend which, by now, is very grown up. It […]
More Than Plain Gray
TheDailyTimes.com: Homeowners who want something other than plain gray curbing in their landscape now have a myriad of options thanks to a new Blount County business. Johnny Bishop, owner of Curb Appeal, said, “We mainly do decorative landscape curbing. It’s like concrete curb but we put colors and designs in it. It looks really good bordering flower beds and driveways […]