Textually: A new service launching this week lets people’s mobile phone rule their life. Subscribers to “This Mobile Will Change Your Life” receive SMS text message orders which they must carry out immediately, in Mission Impossible-style. Orders vary from the straightforward (“kiss the nearest tall stranger”) to the hazardous (“Walk into a police station, tell them you’re finally giving yourself […]
This Mobile Will Change Your Life
Starbucks Rolls Out ‘Chantico’
Metro News: ‘Chantico’, a new gourmet drinking chocolate beverage, will be offered at Starbucks shops in the United States and Canada beginning January 8, 2005. Described as ‘drinking a melted truffle’, the chocolate has an intense, full-bodied flavor and a rich, silky texture that builds on the tradition of European drinking chocolate. Unlike other Starbucks drinks, Chantico is only available […]
Life Can Be Easier!
Vital Concierge Services: Westside area residents and businesses now have the opportunity to free themselves of time consuming tasks. Vital Concierge Services is available to assist them in almost every manner possible. Today people are working longer hours, spending more time commuting and taking on additional workplace responsibilities, leaving considerably less time for their equally important personal lives. Vital Concierge […]
The Sales Comic Book
Anyone who sells for living can read true, often tragic, often side-splitting tales of sales-pitches-gone-bad in a new comic book that shows anyone who sells for a living what behaviors to adopt and what to avoid – in order to further their success in selling. Published by Sales Autopsy Press, this colorful 24-page volume, The Sales Comic Book, contains the […]
CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 8
CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 8: 23/12/04 – 02/01/05 New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue: HEALTH The Thinhaler The Thinhaler is a new invention that could make asthmatics’ lives a lot easier. Easy Climb Easy Climb is an incline anti-rollback system for wheelchairs, developed to fill a need for manually-operated wheelchairs to negotiate inclines without roll-back. Multisensory Relief With Snoezelen From […]
Coca Cola’s New Clothes
PSFK: We love watching Coca-Cola grapple with what it considers a ‘health’ trend, one they reckon they missed the first time around. After we found out that C2 was dropped from launch in the UK we were surprised to find out about “Wellness from Coca-Cola” – a new line of “healthy drinks” popular in Japan. They’re stylish and feature exotic […]
These Jeans Cost $1,000 A Pair
The Seattle Times: Designer jeans costing $150 can hardly be called expensive now that Calvin Stewart has entered the fray. The New York-based designer ratcheted up the stakes with the introduction of A.P.O. Jeans, offering fully customized denim embellished with diamond, gold and platinum details — starting at $1,000 a pair. “We wanted to be the Mercedes-Benz, the Maybach of […]
Smart Elevators
RFID in Japan: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation developed a technology that combines RFID tags and cameras for controlling elevators. With their technology, elevators don’t make people wait for them. Instead, they wait for people. By combining RFID and image processing, they claim that their system could tell if a person wanted to use an elevator or was just waking near an […]
The Thinhaler
CNN.com: A 22-year-old design graduate has invented a gadget that could make asthmatics’ lives a lot easier. Frustrated after seeing his asthmatic friend struggle to breathe in smoky bars, Adam Bates decided to design a wallet-sized salbutamol easi breathe inhaler. Bates, who suffers from mild asthma himself, said inspiration for the 6mm-thick Thinhaler came from an asthmatic friend, who would […]
Roadside Message Board
Market Launcher: The Roadside Message Board is the latest in road safety and protection. Although it was invented to aid motorists when a vehicle needs to be left unattended, it has a thousand other uses. One of the reasons that people need the Roadside Message Board is that many cell phones don’t work in remote or rural areas because of […]