Posted on May 6, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Yes, easter is over now, but anyway I want to share with you this beautiful art work from the slovenian artist, Franc Grom.Via : www.notcot.org
Suzanne K. Langer (1895-1985, American Philosopher) :Art is the objectification of feeling
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Posted on May 5, 2008 by successbusinessstory
I had a great surprise when I found the work of Paul Sandip, who made all the products that you can see on these images. He call his self like an “Industrial Sculptor”, but we know the people like him as industrial designers. Does not matter. The medular fact is the good [...]
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Posted on May 5, 2008 by successbusinessstory
By Vern How Chan
Do you realize that there are many more infomercials today as compared to 10 years ago? When you look at the television the commercials are aired in such a way to engage the viewer in their ‘wants’. My goal is to help you get the logical side before investing your hard [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Iconoculture: The deliciously interactive rooms have graced some of England’s most elaborate society parties, but Staite’s Food Is Art catalog also includes one-offs like plates, tea cups, shot glasses and jewelry.
Playful, whimsical and delicious? Art has never been more enticing. Consumers gravitate toward experiences that challenge and stimulate all their senses.
Food Is Art claims to [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2008 by successbusinessstory
How a personal obsession can turn into a popular favorite and maybe even a full-time job
by John Tozzi
Eric Nakagawa, a software developer in Hawaii, posted a single photo of a fat, smiling cat he found on the Internet, with the caption, “I can has cheezburger?” in January, 2007, at a Web site he created. It [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Menus that Talk is a Florida company with an exciting new product that elegantly addresses a host of restaurant ordering issues. Using the cleverly designed device, diners turn a paper menu into an auditory experience including words and music. Buttons are grouped by course and labeled with easy to see identifiers. A boon to the [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Stock photography • Yet another FREE LOVE war in the making: stock images. Incumbent Getty Images is now competing with free sites like Britepic, everystockphoto and stockvault. And it’s just a matter of time before others join in and remake the business forever, most likely dividing the market into free-yet-mass and bespoke-but-paid, with very [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Car rental • Two as-good-as-free automotive examples: LaudaMotion lets Austrian and German customers rent an ad-plastered Smart car for exactly three days at the cost of just one euro per day. Drivers then have to travel at least 30 kilometers (about 20 miles) a day, so the ads get maximum exposure. Cars are only available [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Watch out for massive murals, empowered once again by digital technology that can easily alter form, scale and colour. Leading the field is Digetex (0161 873 8891; www.digetex.com). Digital printing will put patterns onto ceramics, tiles, blinds and other surfaces as clearly as a photograph. See, for example, surreal tiles and papers by Dominic Crinson [...]
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Posted on May 1, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Liberty Drive In France, ‘carvertiser’ Liberty Drive offers a long-term rental service, offering Smart cars for EUR 150 per month. But they also have a program that rewards existing Smart car owners for participating in carvertising campaigns, paying these MINIPRENEURS up to EUR 100 per month if they turn their cars into driving billboards. Easy [...]
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Posted on May 1, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Tiny works of art have proved to be big business for York woman Meagan Gardiner who turned her card-making hobby into a profitable venture.
Meagan was working as a high school teacher when she began making wildflower cards at home in her spare time. It was not long before she established a part-time business, “Cards [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
As the season of gift giving draws ever nearer, so too does the Herculean challenge of penning countless holiday cards, letters and notes to family, friends and colleagues near and far. Pre.vu is offering a digital-age alternative that could make such tasks a little easier by allowing consumers to record a personalised message onto a [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Krista Ruchaber, 35, moved to Hawaii in 2000, in part because of how beautiful it is. She started Styrophobia last year to help keep it that way.”I kept seeing lunch plates and boxes piling up on the beach, and it was ruining the environment,” she says.
Styrophobia sells biodegradable and compostable food containers to replace the [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Create goggles for dogs and sell them online? Boy, this IS the dumbest idea for a business. How in the world did they manage to become millionaires and have shops all over the world with that one? Beyond me.
http://doggles.com/
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Good ideas can come from the smallest things. A stay-at-home mom with a degree in education, Julie Dix noticed that her toddler loved to play with the satiny tags and ribbon borders on his soft toys and blankets.
Dix found that this activity not only soothed the child but also helped develop his fine motor skills. [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Employee Agency
Karin Markley set her online business right out of home. Having 15 years of experience working in a civilian employment agency and knowing that companies value employees with military backgrounds, and she wanted to provide a one-stop link between the two. Karen contacted the Department of Defense for permission to use its seal on [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Jose Muñiz’s career began when a friend bet him $100 that he could not sell butterflies for a living. Now, seven years later, the former business consultant and his wife, Karen, own Amazing Butterflies, a live-butterfly distributor with offices in Tamarac, Fla., and San Jose, and a projected $1 million in revenues in 2006.
The dramatic [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
The Firewinder, also known as the Original Windlight, is a decorative and completely wind-powered outdoor light from the UK-based Firewinder Company that transforms the ebb and flow of the wind into an upwardly spiralling glowing light. Wind from any direction spins a small turbine on the helix-shaped device, thereby lighting up [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Cleaners are slowly taking off, and robot lawn mowers have been around for over a decade. What’s new this month, however, is a mower that not only trims the lawn all by itself, but does so using solar power.
Sweden’s Husqvarna just introduced the world’s first solar/electric hybrid robot lawnmower, which has no [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
A diamond may be forever, but love and marriage sure isn’t.
With an estimated 50 percent of all marriages ending in divorce, a new Web site, “I Do, Now I Don’t” is looking to capitalize on this more cynical side of diamonds.
Founder and CEO Joshua Opperman came up with the idea after his fiancée abruptly called [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
The signature white earbuds of the iPod seem to be sprouting everywhere. So inevitably, perhaps, a service industry is close behind.
For those who lack the time or the know-how to transfer their record collections to their iPods, an entrepreneur has created a service that will do the trick. The service, HungryPod (hungrypod.com), converts CD’s to [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
I first learned about Jay Abraham from a video by Tony Robbins. Jay was speaking at one of Tony’s expensive Life Mastery seminars. I was totally blown away by Jay’s ideas. Immediately, I started looking for his seminar products.
The first item I was looking for was a set of tapes of the famous Jay Abraham [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
See Saw Power
www.coventry.ac.uk/cu/d/199/a/6110
We’ve already writen about the use of playground equipment as a means of pumping fresh water for African villages, and now a British student at Coventry University has come up with a way to use see-saws to generate power.
Daniel Sheridan a student in consumer product design, won three separate awards [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
PrimeTime Tables
New York restaurant booking service PrimeTime Tables - “specializing in impossible reservations” - has created a bit of a storm in the NYC/food blogging teacup. The service, touted as a very exclusive dining club, can procure members short-notice reservations at the hottest restaurants in New York, Miami, Colorado and The Hamptons, many [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
OK, this is technically an offline business with online presence, but hear me out. Jay Villemarette cleans skeletons–mostly animal and human skulls–for a living. He owns Skulls Unlimited International and insists there’s never a dull moment at the office. We’ll take his word for it. After all, his company might be cleaning a gorilla skull [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Books Lambert, who runs TheBeerbelly.com as president of Under Development Inc., is also someone who might have been viewed by some as having a less-than-perfect business model for his venture. But — after the press picked up on his contraption and he got 1 million hits to his fledgling site, as well as about 80 [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Maki Kaji makes 4 million dollars a year … creating sudoku and kakuru puzzles. His private company, with just 20 employees, had annual sales of about $4 million in 2006. The core of his business is 50000 website members who test different versions of sudoku puzzles before the hit the market to determine winners. How [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Company: Eco-friendly, organic pizza company
Projected 2008 sales: Approximately $15 million
When Vaughan Lazar and Michael Gordon opened their organic pizza joint in 2006, it seemed like a gutsy attempt to snatch a piece of the pie from the top dogs. But the fraternity buddies were just catering to a different set of taste buds. Says Lazar, [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
LED Bathtub
www.firebox.com
The Underwater Disco Light Show offers a psychedelic bath without LSD or even psychotropic prescription drugs.
The disco light effect is produced by LED lighting in four colors moving around to create a disco-like atmosphere and there is a button that changes the pattern.
Wouldn’t these lights be kind [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by successbusinessstory
Oxygen Water
www.ogolife.com
We have seen flavored water, colored water, vitamin water and here comes Oxygen Water by OGO. OGO’s bottled water is infused with 200 mg of 02 per liter. OGO is presented in beautiful round bottles with very cool logos and graphics. You can find OGO at some of the world’s most upscale places like [...]
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