Iconoculture: WittFitt wants to harness kids’ propensity for movement and improve their fitness and focus by replacing classroom chairs with bouncy stability balls. The program educates students and teachers on benefits of a healthy spine and core muscles, and how to safely sit on stability balls. Teachers using the WittFitt program report that ball-based students are more attentive than when […]
WittFitt: Bouncy Seats
Restickable Glue
Cool Tools: Whereas most glue sticks are designed to permanently stick paper to paper, this glue stick is designed to create instant, repositionable sticky notes out of just about anything (Scotch specifies fabric or paper). A swipe or two (they recommend at least two) with this stick, and your self-printed content/form/memo will stick temporarily to any flat dry surface without […]
Eyelash Bars
TrendCentral: Eyelash bars first became a beauty trend when Shu Uemura opened one in Tokyo’s hip Omotesando neighborhood two years ago. Once primarily attracting high end beauty shoppers or outrageously dressed clubbers, the Shu Uemura eyelash bar now attracts teens who go for fun designs like the Yellow Flash and Lucent Sun, which, when hit with light, cast colored patterns […]
Invoke Nvohk
Nvohk is a community-managed, eco-friendly, surf-inspired clothing company. Nvohk is now recruiting members via www.projectnvohk.com. Pronounced ‘invoke’, the company combines the best of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding business models to develop and launch a new lifestyle brand that blends social responsibility and financial performance. Nvohk is recruiting 20,000 – 40,000 members to contribute $50 a year to develop and shape the […]
Ingredients Prepared For Busy Urbanites
Springwise: Home cooking is a basic pleasure that gets denied by busy schedules all too often, and at least part of the reason is the time that must go into shopping for and preparing ingredients before the cooking can begin. Customers of the Singapore-based service, which just launched in October, begin by going to ilovemother.net and choosing from a wide […]
Puke Pet
Lazybone: If you’re the type that decides to get dressed for that special occasion before eating and then have to get changed due the food not quite reaching the point of entry and instead creating a nice stain on your best top, then the Puke Pet is your savior. Just apply a Puke Pet next to the ‘spag bol’ stain […]
101 New Business Ideas for Retirees: At The Customer’s Location
Mass produced services are only economical at a fixed location where installed equipment can be used to save time in the service. The other end of the spectrum is customized service at a location where the customer wants it to be performed. Simple services like automotive repairs are almost always done at a garage or repair center since some of […]
BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 58
Services For Seniors You can’t read any magazine without seeing some reference to the effects of the coming retirement of the baby boom generation. That is just the type of opportunity that entrepreneurs are looking for to create a new business around. Think of all of the services these people will need. Some of them will need to have more […]
Face to Face
ooVoo has a free, real-time video technology that lets consumers experience face-to-face conversations over the Internet. ooVoo’s new video communication service features clear, high-quality video and audio in real-time. By sharing a story, a smile and visible emotions with ooVoo, communication becomes more meaningful and fun. With ooVoo up to six people can connect on a call at the same […]
Lung Ashtray
core77: Finding Cheska’s ceramic Lung Ashtray is undoubtedly attractive and elegant… Okay, it’s straight-up too pretty to be defaced with raunchy ashes and ciggie butts. The Taiwanese tabletop design group’s take on the smoke disposal vessel is a clever and direct correlation of what we do to our real lungs when we inhale those nasty cancer sticks. And a clean […]