CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 16

CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 16: 07/05/05 – 22/05/05
New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue:
WIRELESS
Bookmarking Retailers
A Tokyo-based company TechFirm is launching a service that connects consumers and small retailers using RFID.
GAMES
Playing Pacman On The Streets
The classic arcade game PacMan has resurfaced on the streets of Singapore using “augmented reality” technology developed by military-backed scientists at the National University of Singapore.
E-COMMERCE
Online T-Shirts Seller
All over the Web, people are unexpectedly finding that T-shirts are more reliable moneymakers than the original ideas that brought them to the Internet!
TECHNOLOGY
SpotScents
SpotScents uses scent projectors to deliver localized odors to a human’s nose through the air without requiring users to wear devices.
Skin Networking
This month, NTT Labs plans to start conducting field trials for a radical new “human area networking” technology called RedTactont that uses the naturally-occurring electrical fields of human skin to transmit data.
TV From The Internet
We’ll be seeing much more of “narrowcasting”, now that broadband Internet has finally become a more reliable conduit for the delivery of broadcast-quality video.
ENTERTAINMENT
Relax To Play
“Relax to win” is based on the idea that the more you are able to relax, the more points you will score.
MOBILE
1TouchConnect
An innovative cell phone service offers live interpretation, concierge assistance, and help services with one touch of a keypad!
Phoneworld
Cell phone companies need new services to keep growth going. So now they’re blanketing offers for entertainment oriented add-ons that would have been unfathomable just a year or two ago.
SERVICES
Marriage Business
When Dane and Nancy Bryant were married two years ago, the guests gave them silverware, wine glasses, a picnic set and a business idea that dramatically changed their lives. The net-matched couple creates a business selling wedding invitations on CD.
Fun With Service
Metropolitan Moms organizes classes for moms who wanted to explore local New York City culture while taking their children along for the ride!
ONLINE
Home Searching
HousingMaps is just one of several innovative hacks giving users new ways to use information since Google launched its maps service!
GADGETS
Connect For Music
The Haptic Gloves allow their wearers to create musical compositions by linking hands together.
CONSUMER GOODS
Daddy’s Shorts
Hook and Tackle has figured out a manly way for dad to stash the immediate gotta-haves, like bottle, binkie, and wipes!
MARKETING
Expert Marketing
Check out the following initiatives aimed at tapping expert outsiders (often designers and artists) for potentially lucrative new ideas.
RSS Marketing
MSN is using MessageCast technology to let Fox Sports fans sign up online to receive scores and news from their favorite teams via alerts and RSS feeds. Allowing marketers who cater to a sporting audience to tap into that is incredibly potent
AGRICULTURE
‘Hanging’ Strawberry Plant
Tutlui, a strawberry that grows on a bed suspended in midair, is one of the most successful agricultural inventions of the past two years.
HEALTH
No More Botox
Bye-bye, Botox? Probably not, but acupuncture facials do offer a drug-free (albeit pricier) alternative!
RETAIL
C28 Evangelists
At C28—short for Colossians 2:8—an overtly evangelical mall-based retail chain, one will find people like store manager Robert Villegas, 27, an Oceanside, Calif., youth pastor who may be the Energizer Bunny of a new kind of retail evangelism.
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