Muscovie’s Molecular Jewelry

Iconoculture: Live for the rush … and proud of it? Muscovie Design jewelry is stylish, even subtle, molecular-based jewelry that lets adrenaline, serotonin, and caffeine junkies wear their passion. The sterling-silver earrings, rings, and necklaces sprout circles embedded with brightly colored acrylic. The arrangements represent the molecular structures of six different “substances that affect mood” – and they’re chemically accurate, […]

Virtual Trading In A Real World

Wired News: Sony Online Entertainment, the developer of massively multiplayer online games like EverQuest and Star Wars Galaxies, is the first major U.S. publisher to facilitate the buying and selling of virtual goods. Late Tuesday, the company unveiled Station Exchange, an auction site that allows players to spend real money on virtual weapons, armor, coins and new, high-level characters. The […]

Best Campus

Yenra: Vista del Campo, a student housing development on the University of California, Irvine campus, was named Best Student Housing Apartment Community by the National Association of Home Builders. The award went to the complex’s architectural firm, KTGY Group, for the 1,488-bed community developed and managed by American Campus Communities. “The University appreciates the spirit of cooperation between the developer, […]

CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 14

CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 14: 10/04/05 – 23/04/05 New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue: CONSUMER GOODS Kleenex Moist Cloth Kleenex Moist Cloths are thick, soft, disposable hand and face cloths created for use around the home. Ha! Ha! Bar & Canteens Oral-B is pushing its new Brush Aways product with a sampling campaign at Ha! Ha! Bar & Canteens. TRENDS […]

RFID Trains

ITWorld: Efforts to introduce electronic-ticketing systems in Germany’s huge mass transit sector have moved forward with the successful testing of a smart card system that combines RFID (radio frequency identification). T-Systems International GmbH, the IT services and infrastructure arm of German telco Deutsche Telekom AG, has developed an e-ticketing system in collaboration with the German Mass Transit Authority (VDV), which […]

mobuzzTV

PicturePhoning.com: MobuzzTV is mobile video entertainment tailor made for cellphones, a channel which broadcasts “daily visual snacks to the content curious generation”. Its available through (European) operators or by downloading online. See how to page. It’s fast, it’s fun, it’s cheeky, it’s irreverant. It’s fabulous. It’s exactly what mobile entertainment should be. It’s about art, it’s about tech, it’s about […]

Star Wars In Action

USATODAY: The force is already out in force as the May 19 debut of Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith nears. Consumers are being flooded with Star Wars-themed TV commercials, print ads, soft-drink promotions, video games and “collectible” action figures and toys. But “buyer beware,” warns Jeremy Beckett, author of The Official Price Guide to Star Wars […]

This Phone Recognises My Speech

BusinessWeek: A wireless phone’s main function is converting human speech into digital signals and back again. So why not harness handsets’ speech-processing ability to solve a problem nearly everyone encounters when using cell phones for e-mail or other data applications? I’m referring to the difficulty of entering text on a dial pad, which speech recognition can remedy. Manufacturers are finally […]

Space Tourism Franchise

New Scientist: Space pioneer Burt Rutan foresees space tourism companies running like a fast-food franchises, with his company licensing spacecraft to tour operators. But he says he may have trouble cutting through federal regulations to get there. His company, Scaled Composites, built SpaceShipOne, the rocket plane that won the Ansari X Prize for private space flight in 2004. Scaled Composites […]

Learning Ecosystem Through Tech

We Make Money Not Art: Erez Kikin-Gil ‘s Eco Pod is a TUI-controlled system that mimics the growth of a plant and allows children to keep track of their class garden and learn how the different natural elements influence it, and each other, over time. One pod represents the wind, another the sun’s heat, a third one the light and […]