New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue:
GADGETS
Central Fridge
If cooking is one of your hobbies, but you think it devoid you of all the entertainment at times, then Whirlpool brings you all the entertainment your way, right in your kitchen with the new Whirlpool’s Centralpark Connection. This new interchangeable interface allows you to interact with a wide variety of electronic devices through your refrigerator door.
ENTERTAINMENT
Nerjyzed Entertainment
Nerjyzed Entertainment is developing games for the PC and videogame platforms, featuring the perspective of African American consumers. Nerjyzed is working with the state of Louisiana to help train young game developers in the four-year college system.
ADVERTISING
Charitable Advertising
This time it is all about toasts and raising money for charity. It works the following way: you give YourNameOnToast some money and they write your desired name or web address on toast in order to put it on their website.
V- Lodge
V-Lodge is an online business-to-business marketplace for smarter, more civilized product placement and advertising weaved into video games. In-game advertising is the next frontier in entertainment marketing.
Smelly Ads
The Wall Street Journal is smelling out a new way to advertise. The newspaper, which recently debuted a new design, is gearing up to offer advertisers the ability to run scented ads. These ads would be on the regular newspaper pages and not on inserts, according to details that emerged in yesterday’s earnings conference call.
SERVICES
Nike Trial Vans
Nike Trial Vans are currently touring the UK/Ireland, France, Italy and Spain, stocking 1,000 pairs of shoes. It’s a free trial, no strings attached. Nike Trial Vans are currently touring the UK/Ireland, France, Italy and Spain, stocking 1,000 pairs of shoes. It’s a free trial, no strings attached.
MOBILE
Cellblock
Cellblock is changing camera phones in a big way. When a member starts a cellblock album, the album is assigned its own unique email address. At that point, anyone with the email address can contribute mobile photos and video to the cellblock using their camera phone, instantly, from anywhere.
t+ diabetes Mobile Phone
When you thing of the extra functionality a mobile phone offers, it’s usually in the area of entertainment. But a new diabetes management for mobile phones could change that. The t+ diabetes system gives people instant personal feedback, helping them to spot day-to-day fluctuations that can have a devastating long term impact.
ONLINE & SOCIAL NETWORKS
Spout
Spout, the first online community focused on connecting film lovers with great films and the people who have something to say about them. Likened to a MySpace for film buffs, the site hosts advanced technology to push for a better user experience for discussing, organizing and buying all kinds of films.
HEALTH & BEAUTY
Virtual Makeover
Mitsukoshi, Shiseido, and Fujitsu have teamed up to bring a virtual, real-time makeover machine into Japanese department stores in order to give women a chance to test out a smorgasbord of shades on their virtual face before throwing down their hard earned loot.
AUTOMOBILES
Surfing on the Go
Finally, the rolling office gets WiFi. Autonet Mobile’s Autonet Mobile Unit brings mobile, wireless, high-speed Internet access to vehicles. Multiple wireless devices can tap the secure network simultaneously. Coverage area includes 95% of U.S. roads.
FASHION
IQONS
Currently in the soft launch phase with plans to launch more formally later this month, IQONS serves as a platform not only for indie designers to show off their wares, but also as a style ecosystem where everyone from retailers, makeup artists and photographers to editors, publicists and financiers can display their work and connect.
HOMES & LIVINGS
Pocket Gardens
Plenty of would-be green thumbs could use a little help with their outdoors-in decor. Pocket Gardens come in ready-to-snip, freestanding packets of seeds and soil that send a message of life. And they only need water and light to grow.
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