Popgadget: Voltage iGlow is a sulf illuminating hair gel. By mixing fluorophors with an appropriate catalyst a chemical reaction occurs that produces the byproduct of light. No bulbs or batteries are necessary to create the glow, and the illumination shampoos right out. Essentially, wearing Voltage gel is the same as cracking open a raver glow stick and pouring the contents […]
Chemoluminescent Hair Gel
Straight Up Hairstyling Machine
Trendhunter: 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 day out. The saviour of bad hair days has arrived, the Straight Up machine […]
Robomop
Shiny Shiny: Housework: bane of everybody’s lives. Fact. I mean, no one actually enjoys dusting and polishing do they? So this gadget is sure to bring much happiness: RoboMop is a battery powered 8.5 centimetre dusting machine, replete with electro static pad no less. It’s a strange contraption that looks as if the design team were visited by alien spacecraft […]
Green Info
Iconoculture: DailyCandy with content that’s totally green? That would be Ideal Bite, a daily publishing website with an eco-friendly hue that intends to be “a good source of advice for real people leading busy lives.” Like the Lazy Environmentalist radio show and other down-to-earth approaches, Ideal Bite recognizes that people don’t turn green overnight, they do it one shade at […]
Bossaball Phenomenon
Josh Spear: We have to admit that our adolescent desire for the inflatable “Moon Walk” has never really left us. A friend of ours told us about a sport, Bossaball that seems to be embracing this desire for the birthday party apparatus of yesteryear and combining it with sports. Originating somewhere between the rock of Gibraltar and the Port of […]
Temp Social Networks
TrendCentral: From giants MySpace and Facebook to niche sites Sneakerplay and SportsMates, it seems almost every group has a place to connect online. Adding a new twist to the basic social networking platform are the following temporary sites, which utilize user profiles as a basis for stardom and give members the power to decide who they want to see on […]
CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 32
New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue: CONSUMER GOODS Nintendo Nth Degree Toys Japanese collectible toys are generally cool to the Nth degree, especially in the latter category comes a brand new range of build-it-yourself mosaics from TomyTec, all of which depict classic Nintendo characters. Happy Birthday Beans How in the world are you supposed to get your message across? […]
Lost and Found
Caffeine Marketing: A lost wallet is something you almost instantly pick up and examine if encountered on the street. You might pick it up because you’re a good Samaritan or you just want to see if there’s are cash in there for the taking. The latest ad stunt for the movie “Du och Jag (you & I)” involved spreading wallets […]
Drivers’ Romance
Philadelphia Weekly Online: Philips switched from a 9-to-5 job to one as an independent consultant building intranet infrastructure for pharmaceutical companies. And one warm summer day in 2004 he pulled his Mercedes up to a light in the western suburbs and began chatting with a cute girl in a Jaguar next to him. The light turned green. She drove away. […]
Nintendo Nth degree Toys
Gizmodo: Japanese collectible toys are generally cool to the Nth degree, especially when based on either whippy turds or video games. In the latter category comes a brand new range of build-it-yourself mosaics from TomyTec, all of which depict classic Nintendo characters. The ¥483 (US$4) dot-s packages consist of 250 colored pegs, a perforated board to plug them into and […]