Grand-illusions: Offer someone this teaspoon to stir their tea – as soon as they dip it into the hot liquid, the spoon bends through 90 degrees! The liquid does not need to be boiling – the spoon will also bend if placed under the hot tap. Part of the handle is made of Nitinol or Shape Memory Metal, which ‘remembers’ […]
Have Fun with Spoon Over Tea Time
Kite Energy
WorldChanging: There’s no quicker way to show somebody that energy is abundant than taking them out to fly a really big kite. My favourite is a five metre, two-lined parafoil, and with lines only 20 metres high, ten knots of wind will throw you all around the park. Yet from a distance, the kite is merely a tiny speck on […]
Turning Food Waste into Fertilizer
Triple Pundit: Surprisingly, the two largest components in a landfill are food and paper, both biodegradable substances. In fact, statistics clearly show that nearly 50% of all municipal solid waste is consistent of only food and paper products. The EPA clearly states that food waste is the #1 least recycled material. A bright inventor and waste removal expert has developed […]
Extra Flavour Skewers
Strange New Products: Fruit Stickles are wooden skewers used for sticking together chunks of fruit. Except the skewers are seasoned with cinnamon and tropical fruit flavors that leach into the fruit chunks. The idea is that gives fruit an extra boost of flavor to tempt children into eating more fruit. The seasoning contains no sugar, just pure seasoning. It’s similar […]
“Quiet” Talking
Advertising Lab: “A Japanese company Tuesday unveiled a new device that will allow people “speak” through their ear so they can use their mobile telephones in noisy places. The device — named “e-Mimi-kun” (good ear boy) — doubles as an earphone and a microphone by detecting air vibrations inside the ear, developer NS-ELEX Co. said.” What a wonderful idea! This […]
101 New Business Ideas for Retirees: Franchises and MLM for Seniors
We see and hear about a large number of franchises and Multi-level Marketing (MLM) businesses and I am often asked if these are good for the retired person. So let us take a look at them one at a time. Franchises are frequently larger companies having numerous employees, a fixed retail location with the high overhead associated with this, require […]
101 New Business Ideas for Retirees: They Just Don’t Have The Time
We’ve all heard people saying this but do you realize this is an opportunity for a business? Serving a busy customer could be just the thing needed to make your business a success. Most two-earner families, after taking the children to soccer practice and music lessons just don’t have the time or energy to do many of the things that […]
WittFitt: Bouncy Seats
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 […]
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 […]