New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue:
TRENDS & INSIGHTS
Smoothies War
The new fast food fight is on a rather healthier battlefield. Warnings about obesity and increased awareness of the importance of eating five fruit a day have fuelled a surge in healthy eating. The UK smoothie market is worth £100m and doubling yearly.
ONLINE & SOCIAL NETWORKS
Veeker Video Peeks
You may soon hear people saying “VM me” rather than “IM me”. Veeker is a free video messaging service that enables a camera phone owner to shoot video and instantly share it with friends.
Google Patents
Forever the word magnet, Google is hoping to piggyback off creative minds with its latest offering, Google Patent Search. One can kill some serious time at www.Google.com/patents. Entering “The Motley Fool” spits back 19 entries.
FASHION
Happy Warholiday
LVMH, the luxury conglomerate with Vuitton and Dior in its stable, will build a contemporary art museum in Paris. MAC cosmetics serves up burlesque glamour girl Dita von Teese at a swank dinner at Art Basel Miami. The mutual admiration between art and fashion is turning into a full-on love fest.
Fashionable Message
COTAM (Clothing of the American Mind) was one of the first labels to jump on this trend, by using quirky graphics and text to convey strong political and social beliefs. Now we’re seeing even more brands use text and images to lend deeper meaning to their threads.
CONSUMER GOODS
VO Gloves
Vaughn Outdoor (VO), makers of the CZiP design that frees winter athletes from the inconvenience of taking gloves off at inopportune times, announces the launch of 15 new VO glove and mitten designs with the hands-free access.
Inverted Christmas Trees
Hang a shining star upon the lowest bough — the world of Christmas trees is being flipped upside-down. The latest trend in artificial Christmas trees seems to be the “inverted” style.
GADGETS
Nicostopper
The Nicostopper is an electronic cigarette dispenser in which you can fit a maximum of 10 cigarettes at a time. Once the ciggies are in, you program the intervals at which you would like to take a smoke.
SPORTS & GAMES
Ridewire Thrill
The Ridewire system is an innovative new ride and training system that is capable of performing the manuevers and thrills found in surfing, snowboarding, wakeboarding, and other action sports. It is a standalone unit that can be ridden anytime.
PUMGO
The PUMGO, one of the hottest toys, is all about the core. “Just balancing alone on the PUMGO works your core strength, in addition to the pumping back and forth, because you have to distribute weight from one foot to the other while staying centered with your upper body which means your abs have to fire every time to stabilize your torso.”
MEDIA & PUBLISHING
Eupinion
The Eupinion (EUrope oPINION) is the innovated and unique newspaper (digital media concept software), based on real citizen journalism concept. The main goal is to build a community of top columnists, writing on any global issue.
HEALTH & BEAUTY
Facials Good Enough To Eat
It’s the newest trend among Scottsdale spas – pureed perishables used to attract upscale clientele. Spa owners say newly discovered healing benefits in foods like caviar, coffee and chocolate are helping spagoers stay young and beautiful.
FOOD & BEVERAGE
Frozen Organic Baby Food
Metro-area parents have a fresh new – and local – choice when feeding those important first morsels to their wee ones. Nice Cubes, maker of frozen organic baby food, is now available in all area New Seasons and Whole Foods locations as well as Food Front market co-op.
TECHNOLOGY
Hug Shirt
The Hug Shirt is perfect for people in love that are distant from each other, it basically offers the possibility to recreate a hug feeling and not on a virtual kind of way. The shirt works with Bluetooth + a Hug Me java software + a cellphone and in order for the other person to receive the hug, he/she must be wearing a shirt as well.
Eraserable Paper
Erasable paper works when combined with a special printer. A certain wavelength of light reacts with the coating on the paper to create the image. Xerox researchers say erasable paper is best used for pages you don’t need to keep around like emails, daily calendars, and fax cover pages.
AGRICULTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL
Useful Garbage
“Recycle your unwanted clutter or anything you deem as being useless- excluding your Partner! Visitors can ‘Dump’ anything they want to get rid of – for someone else to ‘find’ and take off their hands. From antiques and art to cars, TV’s and furniture – anything goes for free!
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The Google Patents Search Site http://www.Google.com/patents is a cut above the government site http://patft.uspto.gov. Type in any company’s name, or even the specific technology, and you will be able to retrieve almost all the related patents – something which was excruciatingly difficult with the USPTO site. (Not blaming the USPTO, they have at least provided something to the public for free)
From: http://www.intellectualvillage.com