TerraPass: Chocolate bars. They’re supposed to taste good, but can they also be good? We think so! Climate Change Chocolate bar is meant to educate while tasting great. It comes in a wrapper with 15 tips for lightening your environmental impact. These helpful hints teach you how to save energy by making small changes to your daily habits. And of […]
Climate Change Chocolate
Go Dutch Easy
Crave: For consistent 15 percent tipsters living in municipalities with a 7.5 percent dining tax, generating the perfect 15 percent tip is as simple as doubling the tax. If that’s not you, Oh Arithmetic-Challenged One, you’ve got a bum deal. (See below for a quick computational technique.) It’s for this set, and for diners who frequently split a bill, that […]
Greensulate
Pennlive.com: Insulation is key to keeping your house warm in the winter and cool in the summer. It’s important to insulate well in order to reduce the amount of energy you use. The fiberglass traditionally used in insulation batting can irritate your skin, eyes and airways. Traditional insulation uses formaldehyde as a binder ingredient in the manufacturing process. Foam plastic […]
Treadmill for Swimmers
Born Rich: Enjoy the benefits of a large swimming pool within a small space with the Endless Pool. The pool is designed to generate a counter-current that enables you to adjust your swimming speed from beginner to racer levels. Perfect for relaxation and aquatic-therapies, the Endless Pool kit is small enough to fit inside your home and patio. The pool’s […]
Beijing from a foreigner’s eyes
China View: Printing an old two yuan metro ticket, as well as ancient items such as an iconic iron vacuum flask or a taxi receipt, on T-shirts may seem strange to local people, but for a young Englishman living in Beijing, he has become fairly popular doing just that. At his store selling original T-shirts called Plastered Eight among some […]
Ref for the Deaf
dallas news.com: Celia Beron, 13, invented Ref for the Deaf, a special bracelet that vibrates for deaf players who can’t hear the sound of a referee’s whistle or starter gun. With some help from Celia’s father and two graduate students from the University of Texas at Dallas, a good idea from a skinny girl with braces has the makings of […]
Text For Food
USAToday: Big restaurant chains are rushing into what could be the future of takeout and delivery food: text ordering. Leading the way are the pizza giants. Papa John’s is airing national TV spots to promote the text ordering that it launched in November. Domino’s has offered mobile ordering — which requires cellphone Web access — since July. Pizza Hut is […]
Looking For Idea Hunters!
What We are Looking for New business ideas excite you. You’re constantly on the hunt for brilliant, smart business initiatives the world has never seen before. The pursuit of “Cool” in every part of the world is your cup of tea. You have the biggest current consumer and business trends inside your head everywhere you go. If the above describes […]
Glittering Seahorses
TrendHunter: It wasn’t enough to have luxurious objects, diamond-encrusted and golden everything. For those who could afford it, the mainstream luxury trend got old, very fast. The Vietnamese market found a way to bring it back to life, however, and I mean that very literally. Vietnam’s first genetically engineered animals are 108 living seahorses made of gold. At their current […]
Images To PDF
The Mobile Technology Weblog: If you are having a hard time copying notes on a whiteboard during a business meeting or handwritten notes of your classmates, it’s about time you consider using Qipit. It is a free mobile online copy service which empowers you to copy any documents using your camera phone and convert it to PDF. You can also […]