CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 26

CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 26: 02/04/06 – 30/04/06
New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue:
CONSUMER GOODS
Gifts of Experiences
Xperience Days lets customers give an opportunity of a lifetime as a gift.
Give Ordinary Products a New Life
The company – which sells primarily through its website – relies heavily on product design to attract and reel in customers.
Stylish Laptop Bags
UpTown Bella solves the travel problem of juggling your laptop, boarding pass, cell phone, and ID when going through airport check-in.
PetPocket
The PetPocket straps to a pet owner’s shoulders just like a baby pack, to tote Mr. or Ms. Fluffball wherever their adventures take them.
New Cigar Flavours
Dutch cigar producer, Royal Agio Cigars is adding two of their new products, Panter Coffee and Panter Coffee Wooden Tip to their royal range of cigars.
LIFESTYLE & LUXURY
Art Hotels
The clever concept sees different artists and designers commissioned to fit out each room, or in the case of the Madrid hotel, entire floor.
Drinks For Dogs
Vitamin fortified, flavored bottled water specifically formulated for dogs has been introduced under the titles of Puddle Water, Hose Water, Gutter Water and Toilet Water.
Silent Squeaks
The Soniks have arrived to revolutionize the squeaky dog toy forever with their exclusive “Silent Squeak” technology only dogs can hear.
MEDIA & PUBLISHING
Foreign Tunes
Earworms Musical Brain Trainers layer basic foreign words and phrases over pleasant instrumental tracks. After listening to the songs a few times, you’ll find that you’ve picked up some useful lingo.
FASHION
Pewter Works
Featuring beautiful pewter works, this new collection is suitable not only as wonderfully functional pieces for home use, but also as gifts, fashion accessories and delightful keepsakes.
iJeans
Levi Strauss is to introduce a new range of ‘iPod jeans’ featuring built-in headphones, joystick and docking cradle.

Flower Rings
Designed with the fun, colour and passion that life offers in mind, omondieu!’s saucy line of floral jewelry has been making waves with the style set since its inception in 2004.
DESIGN
Tasty Room
A room made of chocolate may sounds like a crazy, wonderful, tasty fantasy – but for £2500+, Food Is Art will turn it into a crazy, wonderful, tasty reality.
Self Made Tents
Just throw 2Seconds into the air and it will open up on its own before even reaching the ground.
High Above
Like a growing number of homeowners paying extra attention to the space over their heads, Cronin likes to incorporate the ceilings into his room design.
ENTERTAINMENT
Movie Smells
Movies will now be a treat for the eyes, ears… and nose.
Mobile Music Studio
If music truly is the universal language, then millions of music hopefuls are sure to be talking about the new Cingular Mobile Music Studio available exclusively on MySpace.
Viral Videos
You may have heard about YouTube and the viral video craze that’s become one of the hottest Internet trends since the birth of social networking sites.
Safe TV
TiVo is going even more consumer-happy by offering TiVo KidZone, a “safe” place where kiddies can connect only with programming that meets parental approval.
Flaunt It Kit
With a Peekaboo Dance Pole, you can keep it up for as long as you want.
TECHNOLOGY
USB Bra
USB connectors have been turning up everywhere these past few months – on beverage chillers, plastic frogs, and other unusual places.
Read without Flipping
If you drop by a show house for an apartment in Korea, you will see that you can read a book without turning pages using RFID technology.
ONLINE & SOCIAL NETWORKS
Winning Together
A new Internet site, MutualWin, www.mutualwin.net, connects consumers so that they can take advantage of a wide range of referral offers, fulfilling the site’s slogan, “It’s a Mutual Win!”
MARKETING
Funeral Marketing
Mount Royal Commemorative Services, on Montreal’s Mount Royal, it’s all part of bringing life to an industry long known for its deadly dull marketing.
HEALTH & BEAUTY
New Medical Trend In China
Chinese biomedical scientists are now developing a new approach to medicine by combining traditional Chinese medicine and Western biomedical science.
Ethical Beauty
For those dismayed by Anita Roddick’s “sell-out” to L’Oreal and who have sworn never to darken the Body Shop’s doorstep again, the hunt is on for alternatives.
FOOD AND BEAVERAGES
7UP Curvy
Clear lime brand of PepsiCo India, 7UP, has unveiled its curvaceous new packaging Curvy.
SERVICES
Golf Glamour
Eye Candy Caddies’ mission is to make golf sexy.
Cold-Calling Training Services
People were more interested in hearing how La Vine managed to get clients on the line than hearing about what he had to sell, so he began offering tutorials on how to make cold calls.
GADGETS
Caffeine Innovation
“Nespresso Card” that is a personal chipcard, which holds coffee preferences for registered individuals. The card enables you to access your favorite coffee anytime, anywhere.
SPORTS AND GAMES
The Assasin
The idea is to squirt your assigned victim before you get squirted by the player who has been assigned to squirt you.
Self Steady Bike
Gyrobike helps a bike steady itself whenever the rider loses his/her balance by using natural physical properties to turn the handlebars towards the direction of an impending fall.
Table Flip
Beasley is the creator of table golf, a new game that combines golf and billiards into one.
MOBLIE
Tag It and Share
You can create a KoolTag for any message you want to communicate to your friends.
Mobile Commerce From PayPal
The move by PayPal, a unit of online auctioneer eBay Inc., gives consumers a pay option via telephone.
SERVICES
Dream Homes
Zillow, which provides free, anonymous home value estimates, has struck a deal with Microsoft Corp. to offer detailed pictures of homes using the software company’s “bird’s-eye” mapping technology.
Shower Curtains
Inspired by a passion for photography and art, the vinyl curtains were created to bring a little something extra to your time in la toilette.
Maxi Mambo
Maxi seat pleasure, maxi design fun: The Maxi Mambo gives your reception area, your lounge or your trade-fair booth the finishing touch.
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