New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue:
FOOD & BEVERAGE
Chilly Billy
Bensons, a small family run business based in the English countryside, has produced an ice-pop that contains nothing but fruit. Chilly Billy consists of no added sugars, waters, preservatives, or artificial colours – just pure English pressed apples and a handful of raspberries.
Food For Health
From digestive health products such as Kashi Vive and Dannon Activia to joint health products such as Minute Maid Active with Glucosamine, we’re beginning to see food and drink emerge as alternatives to taking medicine.
GADGETS
Appetizing USB Ports
The upcoming bread series in Vavolo’s Freshy Baked USB Drive lineup is pretty cute. These cross-platform thumb drives are encased in housings made to look like the following baked goods: hot dog, french bread, hamburger, pizza, sandwich, and the oddly specific raisin challah bread
Gourmet Quick Food
Once banished from the gourmet kitchen, they’ve come back with a Twist of the Wrist in a cookbook by famed chef Nancy Silverton. Quick-and-easy meals that jazz up gateway ingredients like boneless chicken breasts with jarred or canned delicacies like tapenade, capers and white asparagus.
ADVERTISING
Free Letters
Dutch Gratis-Post lets people order envelopes with free postage for mailing within The Netherlands. Ads are printed on the back of the envelope, and in exchange for 5 free ready-to-mail envelopes, users also agree to receive advertising messages by email for a period of four weeks.
HOMES & LIVING
Igglo
Finnish real estate site Igglo lets potential buyers ‘pre-order’ houses that aren’t on the market. Igglo has photographed every building in Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, and combines these photographs with satellite images and maps. Every property is listed, not just those that are currently on the market.
SERVICES
Night Salons
The city that never sleeps has another reason to stay up late: after-hours beauty salons. New Yorkers who want a glass of wine with their color treatment head to meccas like Frédéric Fekkai/Soho and Red Market Salon, which are open for business — and socializing.
ENTERTAINMENT
In The Backseat
In an effort to provide some entertainment for the kids while mom or dad is busy driving, DaimlerChrysler and Sirius teamed up to create TV programming specifically for the backseat.
Barbie Girl Takes Kids Online
On Thursday, Mattel unveiled Barbie Girls, a doll-shaped MP3 player that turns into a live character at BarbieGirls.com, a Web site where girls can interact with each other in a manner reminiscent of Second Life, the virtual world for adults.
FASHION
CoolZips
A quirky gift idea in the form of a wearable zipper pull and charm has just been introduced by CoolZips, a company that has also launched a new fund raising program to benefit non-profits and other charitable organizations.
LIFESTYLE & LUXURY
Lomme Pod Bed
These pod-like luxury beds infuse art and design into an otherwise mundane piece of furniture. Offering the ultimate in relaxed environments, the protective, egg-like design features “state of the art” light and iPod-ready sound therapy system which removes outside noises.
CONSUMER GOODS
Smart Coffee Lid
The multi-award winning color changing coffee lid is set to become a worldwide hit after Australian inventors secured an international license agreement. The innovative lid alerts consumers their coffee/tea may be too hot by changing from a dark coffee bean color to a bright red when the lid is applied.
MOBILE
Cheapest Network
Following on from Orange’s new pre-pay tariff yesterday, 3 has announced a new pricing structure for its Pay As You Go customers, with calls now from 5p per minute – the cheapest any network any time call rate available from any UK mobile network, according to the company.
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