Young Entrepreneurs Win Again In Taipei

IT seems like the accolades just can’t stop rolling in for these young, enterprising students from Hwa Chong Institution. After bagging the top prize of $5,000 in the Youth Category of Start-Up@Singapore 2007, Agrotech has gone on to clinch the Best New Markets Award at the Global Talentrepreneur Competition 2007 held in Taipei. Their product, which revolves around plant care […]

Programmable Pet Dish

Coolbuzz: If you own a cute pet and fears about regularity of his routine meals in your absence, then you need something like ‘Intelligent Programmable Pet Dish’ on which you can ensure timely meals by programming up to four time’s meal on a digital programmable timer and self-opening food tray that will automatically serve the pet. On scheduled time it […]

USB-Powered Massage

Engadget: It’s not often that we see a USB-powered gizmo claiming to “relieve tiredness, muscle strain or even pain,” and considering that we can’t leave our posts even for a moment to see an actual doctor (a non-robotic one, at least), we couldn’t be happier about this development. The USB Far Infra-Red Pad gets all the power it needs from […]

GumDrops Boots

The Vancouver Sun: The name may be a beautiful maelstrom of cultures, but the newly opened GumDrops store is all about the Rainy City. For Australian Shanda Jerrett — originally born in Victoria, although her family emigrated Down Under soon afterwards –the name is a combination of gumboots (their word for rubber boots) and rain drops (and you thought it […]

Transportable Hair Salon

Springwise: Hair salons on wheels aren’t particularly novel anymore (to wit: Onsite HairCuts, which we covered last year), and most often they cater to office workers who spend their days in large industrial parks. Now UK-based HairPOD is picking up on that basic idea but bringing it out to the masses—wherever they happen to be—with quick, inexpensive haircuts on the […]

Ultimate Tailgating Trailer

Iconoculture: Tailgaters might tell you that the real main event is out in the parking lot, with Gameday Customs’ Ultimate Tailgate totally tricked-out tailgate trailer. The 5-by-8-ft. trailer holds a 26-in. LCD TV, satellite dish, generator, CD/DVD player, 10-gal. fresh water system, complete draft beer system, electrical outlets, a battery charger, a toilet, a spare tire and even — we’re […]

No More Scratches! d_skin Protective Disc Skins

It’s your pet peeve. You lent your best friend Fred the Halo 3 disc (it’s your favorite game) a week ago and now you’re dying to start shooting some alien enemies. The game disc has returned to you, but with visible scratches and it suddenly does not play on your Xbox 360 anymore, at a time when you most want […]

BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 55

Fighting the Saw-Tooth Effect Months ago you thought you were such a huge success, pulling in a large deal involving huge revenue for your business. How were you to know that at the same time you were destroying the very business you were trying to build? If this, or something less dramatic yet similar, has ever happened to you, then […]

PetSugar.com

EARTHtimes.org: Sugar Inc. announced today the launch of PetSugar.com, a new site geared toward pets and the people who love them. The site is celebrating its debut with a $500 Petco gift certificate giveaway that will be offered at PetSugar.com. With PetSugar’s launch, Sugar Inc. repeats its proven formula of combining incisive lifestyle and entertainment editorial with user-generated content. “The […]

Fragrances for those with Chemical Sensitivity

Realty Times: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) can be devastating for those who suffer from it. Fragrances drive these people crazy — sometimes to the point where they can’t perform normal, everyday functions. Perhaps few people understand this more so than Siri Amrit, the founder of an internet retailer called Tigerflag Natural Perfumery. Tigerflag specializes in fragrances, candles and other products […]