Naples Web Design talking about SOPA
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012Obviously the law didn’t pass, but it was still scary. My buddy just sent me this video of his company talking about SOPA, check it out.
Archive for the ‘Website Ideas’ Category
Clean BioLite Stoves
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
BioLite stoves make cooking on wood as clean, safe and easy as modern fuels while generating electricity to charge phones, lights and other electronics off-grid. The BioLite CampStove, designed for outdoor adventure and emergency preparedness, makes cooking on wood as clean, safe and easy as petroleum fuels while powering electronics off-grid.
Open wood fires are inefficient, wasting potential energy and creating toxic smoke due to incomplete combustion. Carefully designed stoves that use fans to blow air into the fire can dramatically improve combustion. However, such stoves require small amounts of electricity to power their fans and most people who cook on wood are without grid or battery access. BioLite stoves solve this problem by converting a fraction of the fire’s thermal energy into electricity to power the combustion improvement system. Excess electricity is made available to users for charging small electronic devices such as mobile phones, LED lights, GPS and many others.
Blaster Brush
Monday, February 20th, 2012The Blaster Brush cleaning brush is easiest, fastest car wash device. Attach to a normal garden hose and off you go – a brilliant, complete car wash and rinse, done in 10 minutes, without bending, reaching or getting wet and using up to 75% less water! The Blaster Brush has a patented, non-powered, high-pressure washer attachment built in that allows the water to blast to an incredible power wash of up to 2 storeys high, without a power outlet. Saves time, electricity and water.
Idea contributed by Sarah Pitt. Thanks!
Holosonic Sound Beams For Hire
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Marketing often borders on the inappropriate, hugging the line between what is acceptable and what is not. It’s playing on the edge that gets people’s attention, especially when it comes to the positioning of useful services in unusual contexts. Anywho’s reverse phone number finder, for example, allows you to search for a person or business’s address by entering their phone number. On its face this may seem like a bizarre service, until you realize it also allows you to identify anomalous incoming numbers. What at first seems dubious can quickly turn helpful.
One could say the same thing about the use of audio spotlighting in marketing campaigns, an increasingly frequent practice used by some of the biggest corporations on the planet. Audio spotlighting is the act of projecting a “beam” of sound in a certain direction so that it will only be heard by a person walking in that general space. It has been used in a number of marketing campaigns. Street marketing for A&E’s “Paranormal Activity” involved the use of audio spotlighting that targeted passersby in New York and Los Angeles with reverberating questions, “Who’s there? Who said that?” Last year, Boston’s Pops Holiday concert series used it for promotional purposes. Blue Blast Media used holosonic sound to advertise “NASCAR Summer Series on TNT” in the Charlotte Epicenter. The sounds of revving engines and AC/DC’s “T.N.T” met people who passed within a certain region of the Epicenter’s courtyard, drawing their attention to a larger than life billboard festooned with signage.
One could ask whether this practice borders on unethical, seeing as how it seems on its face to be used to initially disorient a person and make them more susceptible to advertising. But a reality to consider is that many merchants and agencies use holosonic sound in order to reduce the noise of their adverts. This is a convenience that benefits other merchants and local businesses as well as people who desire a less boisterous public sphere.
There’s also the practical uses audio spotlighting can have in educational settings, such as in museums and libraries. Imagine strolling through a museum and being able to glean information about an exhibit without disrupting others. It would allow libraries to impart information to readers without disturbing the peace. Holosonic sound has been used in all kinds of settings, marketing campaigns, trade shows, office reception areas, etc. It’s a technology that demonstrates the ability and desire on the part of marketers to imbue clever new techniques with practical advantages. Time will tell whether consumers view an application like holosonic sound beams as intrusions or novel conveniences.
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Choc Invader
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
We love this cute (but totally geeky) chocolate space invader as a thoughtful, but not too over-the-top Valentine’s Day present! Available from www.chocolateinvader.com for and if you order one now before the 14th, you get an extra one free!
Chocolate space invader for your valentine [Popgadget]
Store Pics on Everpix Cloud
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
Photo organization service Everpix just launched its first iPhone application. The app does two key things: it offers you a way to access your entire photo collection from your phone, plus it automatically uploads all your iPhone photos to the Everpix cloud.
The app is a crucial part of the overall Everpix experience, which, for those of you unfamiliar, works primarily as a Mac application at present (Windows coming) to automatically organize and combine all your photos, whether they�re stored on your computer or in the cloud. The service supports photo uploads from iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom, plus photos from your online collections on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr and Picasa.
New Everpix iPhone App Automatically Uploads Your Photos To The Cloud [TechCrunch]
X Men Hangers
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
This ingenious X hanger was created by Israeli designer Kfir Schwalb. Thanks to its cross-shaped design, the piece can accomodate two hanging options in one - a hook rack option and a clothes hanger option. The fusion of these two functions is what informed the idea of the piece. The X hanger is made from powder-coated, bent steel and comes in a variety of colors.
Dance Heads – High Demand Ahead!
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
The business idea that we would like to introduce you to is associated with a largely unsatisfied demand. You certainly noticed how much people strive to be the center of attention and to be admired by others. The same desire applies to business owners. They too want their companies and products to be noticed and appreciated. The lack of attention and admiration is equal to failure. This deficit creates unhappiness in people and makes companies go bankrupt.
There is a whole line of businesses that are highly successful just because they help to implement these strong aspirations of people. Such businesses include manufacturers of fashion apparel, accessories, and even popular social networks. But the demand in those industries is huge! The product we want to tell you about attracts a lot of attention. That product is the Dance Heads studios, where anyone can record their own funny video in 5 minutes, while completely changing their usual image. This incredible transformation, like magic, evokes a storm of positive emotions and admiration from the audience. You can watch an example of a video here: http://dh-business.com/hit-parade/2/4/t
Guests of our booths later show their Dance Heads videos to their friends and upload them on Facebook and YouTube, which multiplies the attention to them tenfold. The Dance Heads studio can be used by individual guests or a company, since we can create customized corporate videos. “For an hour, the booth was surrounded by a crowd of people and everyone wanted to record their video,” said John LeGuen, the owner of four Dance Heads studios.
Dance Heads is essentially a fully operating business that does not have analogues. It is a large, world-famous booth chain, whose product is successfully used for guests at holiday events, corporate parties, weddings, birthdays, festivals, as well as theme parks and entertainment centers.
Every Dance Heads partner receives:
- Training and training manuals for the booth
- Software updates
- New videos and songs
- Promotion materials for the business
- Technical and administrative support from the professionals of the Central Dance Heads office
Our company takes good care of its partners, which is why along with technical support and educational programs you will receive information based on successful business experience, which will help you to maximize your profits. How to do business correctly? Where to use your studios? How to find loyal customers? How to choose a good location for your studios? How to make more money? All of this information and more will help you to thrive in this unique business. Want to learn more? Go to http://www.dh-business.com
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Wallee Headrest
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
SwissMiss: Wallee Headrest Mount for the car made me look. Our iPad usually saves long car rides but I oftentimes end up holding it awkwardly between me and my husband on the armrest. Well, Wallee might save the day. Has anyone of you tried it? Kiddo approved?
The Wallee Car Headrest [SwissMiss]
The Bike Valet
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012Shoebox Dwelling: This exciting bike storage idea belongs to Sacramento based design duo Steven Tiller and Stephanie Birch of Reclamation Art + Furniture studio. The project was born out of necessity - the couple lives in a small downtown apartment. ‘We bring our bikes inside, – says Steven. – Given our storage issues, this makes navigating the entry hall difficult. I personally have tripped over or snagged a pair of dress pants on an awkwardly placed bicycle more than once. The solution? The Bike Valet.’ The product is made from 1/8? cold steel, its elegant shape is cut using a laser cutter. You have your choice of either a leather or neoprene pad to rest your bike on. And with six colors available – you can think up many beautiful color/pad combinations.