Springwise: New at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol: weddings to go. Whether a couple met on a flight to Bangkok or just wants to be able to go straight from ceremony to runway for their honeymoon, Schiphol offers travellers the opportunity to get married at the airport. Brides and grooms to be can pick from several packages, from the all-out ‘Ticket to […]
Airport Weddings
Motorola Vending Machine
Iconoculture: Forget pushy sales clerks or waiting for online orders. Instead, opt for robotic arms. Motorola is rolling out Instantmoto vending machines that will sell cellphones and other celly stuff at malls and airports across the country. Like Staples’ vending machine effort, Motorola’s robot retail stores are to be placed in high-traffic areas. Motorola’s hoping their anytime convenience will draw […]
Pinkberry
Cool Hunting: If you haven’t heard about the wonders of Pinkberry, it’s neither a new fragrance nor a nasty skin condition but rather a frozen yogurt phenomena that’s already taken over LA and recently opened their first NYC location in Koreatown. Available in only two flavors, plain and green tea (although I’ve heard no one ever gets the green tea), […]
Coloured Hair Down There
Strange New Products: Betty Beauty is the name of a hair coloring made especially for pubic hair. Apparently many hair salons have made the practice of providing women with a brown bag of hair coloring to match the coloring they just got put on their heads. A woman named Nancy Jarecki decided why not sell a product like this over-the-counter. […]
Electric Cars
TrendCentral: While they might resemble luxe golf carts, this dealership’s LSVs (low speed vehicles) offer Austin area residents a new alternative to gas-fueled travel. At 50 cents per charge (power for approximately 40 miles), with a one charge per day frequency, owners spend around $180 dollars/year to run their cars with a clean, renewable energy source. While this is clearly […]
ATMs for Church
LATimes.com: Baker came up with the kiosk idea a couple of years ago. He had just kicked off a $3-million building drive, but noticed that few people seemed to keep cash in their wallet anymore for the collection bag. So he began studying the electronic payment business. He designed his machine with the help of a computer programmer who attends […]
CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 33
New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue: HEALTH & BEAUTY Straight Up Hair Styling Machine Beautiful Vending, a UK company, has released a hair straightener vending machine. Their site describes, “We all know how frustrating the British weather can be, the rain, wind and even the heat can cause perfectly styled hair to ‘frizz’ and ruin the best night or […]
Organic Levi’s
Daily Mail: For the first time since it started making trousers for cowboys more than 100 years ago, the famous clothing company is bringing out a pair of “sustainable” jeans to satisfy environmentalists. The cotton is organic, the button on the waistband is made of coconut shell, there are no metal rivets, the dye is from natural compounds include indigo […]
Laundry Packs
Brand Noise: Cotton Buds Inc. has been granted an exclusive license from P&G to produce, market and distribute Tide Liquid Detergent Travel Sink Packets. The new product offers consumers their favorite laundry detergent in single-use “sink” packets, making laundering a few items by hand simple and convenient when traveling. This is the latest in a growing number of external business […]
Scent Branding
Times Online: The nostrils of consumers are to be assailed with a wave of artificial odours designed to lull them into parting with their money. The smells, pumped into shops and the foyers of hotels, range from melon, which psychologists have found induces feelings of friendliness, to figs, said to be welcoming, and the invigorating whiff of lemons. “Scent branding” […]