TrendCentral: Created by the location-based service Yojo Mobile, this new web service MizPee sends a list of the closest and cleanest bathrooms straight to users’ mobile phones. Bathroom ratings are user generated and users can also search for amenities such as handicap accessibility and diaper-changing stations (perfect for moms!). The service is free but users have the option to access […]
Toilet Mobile Search
Gaming Advertising
BizReport: It should, therefore, come as no surprise to learn that Google is expanding into the world of video games. Bernie Stolar, Google’s Dean of Games, is adamant that Google won’t be publishing its own games or building its own console, but that they do have plans for a new system, called “AdSense for Games”. For Google, in-game advertising was […]
Wireless Electricity
FutureWire: The ability to direct and transmit electrical power through the air, without wires, took a further step from the theoretical to the practical in June when a group of MIT researchers demonstrated their “WiTricity” concept. The technology works by transmitting electricity as a magnetic field oscillating at a specific frequency. Through “magnetically coupled resonance,” the “receiver” can capture the […]
BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 48
This Issue’s Top Stories: MARKETING Reaching Her We introduce you to SheSpeaks, a national network of smart and insightful women who have a special opportunity to test products and influence them. SheSpeaks gives you a forum to tell companies what you need, what you want, what you like and what you don’t. And, as the SheSpeaks network grows, so does […]
Cool Cop
KESQ.com: Officer Don Dougherty with the Palm Springs Police Department considers himself a “cool cop” and he says he owes it all to a little device. The officer’s device is called, rightfully so, the Cool Cop. It’s a hose that police officer have connected to an air conditioning vent inside a patrol vehicle. “It basically forces cool air between your […]
Free Phone Shopping
Iconoculture: Tired of sifting through the bargain bins for a great deal? Try Slifting instead. Slifter is a free mobile phone application that enables users to search for products at both online and brick-and-mortar retailers. Simply key in your zip code and Slifter does the searching part of shopping for you. The program has a database of more than 85 […]
Bring Some Over
Springwise: Created by a Dutch IT specialist based in the Czech Republic, bringsome.com hopes to create a loose-knit social network of people who are willing to ‘bring some’ over for others. Some in this case means anything consumers want from another country that they can’t get in their current place of residence. Whether it’s canned coffee from Tokyo, a local […]
Credit Card Wallet
CNBC: Anthony & James Tiscione are the father/son inventors behind the ACM Wallet – a specially designed wallet that allows you to protect & select up to 12 of your favorite credit, ID and membership cards at the push of a button. The idea for the ACM Wallet came to James while he was returning home from the supermarket. Up […]
White Cane Label
TechCrunch: Two Rochester Institute of Technology students, Jaimen Brill and Asmah Abushagur, are launching an online clothing site for the blind and visually impaired. The site, White Cane Label, is a non-profit effort to help blind people shop online and easily keep track of their wardrobe without the help of a sighted friend. The site’s interface will be driven by […]
New MP3 Concept
Crave: Why is it that the best designs almost always seem to be just concepts? Oh right, they don’t have to work. Still, that won’t stop us from admiring this lighted, cylindrical MP3 player, which looks more like a Lightsaber than a music gadget. (There’s no reason, of course, it can’t be both.) Yoda references notwithstanding, the “Musipen” envisions other […]