Ide Bisnis Unik (Unique Business Ideas)

Mr. Spritz Mysterious Shirts, as Drago calls the shirts that reveal images when wet, is one of the 10 finalists in Walmart’s “Get onthe Shelf” contest, a spokeswoman for the company said. An architect and general contractor in Boca Raton since 1983, Drago said he knows how to work with materials and spent the past several years developing his idea. The concept was inspired by The Colbert Report segments that featured images of Godin ordinary objects, he said. Mr. Spritz shirts still exist only as samples. Drago hopes Walmart will connect him with its manufacturers so he can find someone who wants to produce the shirts. “It was difficult coming up with right combination of fabrics,” he said. “The first one worked, but it didn’t workwell.”

Source: Palm Beach Post

Good manners are very important, since manners are a significant part of communication throughout life, and etiquette lessons educate children on how to be respectful and put up with situations that may not be naturally easy to handle without proper etiquette training. Although they may not immediately understand the value and positive outcomes of learning good manners, attending etiquette courses can help to instill many essential qualities in children.

In order to give parents a helping hand, the Kensington Hotel are running a series of classes to help teach dinner etiquette to young ones, called “Petite Etiquette” with some easy-to-learn tips and tricks for one hour complimentary classes tot each children aged between five and ten a few basic table manners. According to a poll of 2,000 parents with children aged five to ten; worrying about how their tots will behave in restaurants is the biggest cause for stress for nearly a third of parents (28%). They are worried about being left red faced by their children’s table manners. Nearly half (48%) of UK mums and dads admit to being embarrassed by their youngsters when dining out. One in five (19%) have left a restaurant mid-way through a meal because of their kids behaving badly. At The Kensington Hotel, they believe dining as a family should be a relaxing experience, and an opportunity for you to enjoy quality time together.

The daughter of fashion billionaire Ralph Lauren, Dylan Lauren runs Dylan's Candy Bar, a chain of upscale candy stores. When Dylan was 16, her famous father asked her if he could use her first name for a new women's perfume he was planning. "I'm saving my name for something I own," she told her dad. Five years after graduating from Duke, she got her chance after she convinced her father to finance a candy store concept she'd come up with, inspired by her favorite film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. In 2001, Lauren's 15,000-square-foot emporium of gummy bears, lollipops, and chocolates opened on Third Avenue and 60th Street, just a block from Bloomingdale's. She's since expanded to five locations across the U.S. Dylan’s Candy Bar offers more than 5,000 varieties of candies from around the world. Dylan’s Candy Bar on Manhattan’s Upper East Sideis the biggest candy store in the world. Her book, Dylan’s Candy Bar: Unwrap Your Sweet Life, reflects the creative influence of dad Ralph and mom Ricky, and contains everything from candy-entertainingand decorating ideas to candy history to cocktail recipes—including her favorite, a Gummi Bear Martini. Now how many great candy store available in your city or maybe country? We will bet, None! Not many countries have big candy stores with lots of varieties of candy, right?

The Swedish company has partnered with an architectural firm to bring customers miniature IKEA wonderlands. Have you ever spent a Saturday afternoon strolling through IKEA, thinking to yourself, “If only I could live at this magical place”? The Swedish company hasn’t begun renting out its showrooms just yet, but it has partnered with Oregon architectural firm Ideabox to launch a line of prefabricated homes. Dubbed “aktiv,” the one-bedroom homes will be decked out entirely in hip IKEA decor. Expected to sell at $86,500, the homes are “Swedish inspired” and “full of personality,” according to the Ideabox website.

Source: Time Newsfeed

Here is a soaring example of small space creativity from Parisian architects Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec. This airy-looking 50 m² dwelling used to be an artist studio with an awkward two-level layout. One of the main challenges in this project was to fit an independent bedroom into a limited space. The task has lead to an ingenioussolution – creating a floating cube in the middle of the room. This floatingsleeping island became a focal point of the interior, dividing the floor plan into functional zones without interfering with the flow. The suspended box is made of a metallic structure covered with wooden panels and painted in white to match the rest of the apartment. I love how it truncates the view to both lower and upper levels and creates privacy while preserving openness of the space.

Source: Shoe Box Dwelling

Architect James Law designed an unbelievable skyscraping residential complex for real estate company Wadhwa Group in Mumbai, India. One of the most outstanding and eye-popping features of the facility includes a series of swimming pools placed within each balcony. These pools appear like floating gelatinous molds extending at the edge of each apartment’s balcony.

Source: Business Opportunities Weblog

Linx were created because I wanted a construction game that was cheap, flexible and light. With LINX you can build everything from ambitious room-sized structures to intricate table-top sculptures, all using LINX connectors and standard drinking straws. LINX are portable, less expensive than anything else around,and ultra light weight, so that even if your mammoth construction falls, no one gets hurt.

Source: Cool Business Ideas

Hidden Water Pools look like traditional pools until the owner presses a button on the attached control panel. Within seconds, hydraulic lifts, powered by the pool’s own water, slowly raise the floor of the pool up. As the pool floor rises, the water flows to the edges where it then drains beneath the pool floor. In a bit more than a minute, the swimming pool is now a decorative patio, just right for entraining, or play. When the party’s over, the patio floor can quickly be lowered back into the pool. The depth of the pool can also be controlled via the control panel. The movable floor allows you to have a swimming pool that is from 1 inch to six feet deep.

Source: Business Opportunities Weblog

Eight-year-old Harli Jordean, who has been obsessed with marbles since he was six, turned his love for the shiny orbs into a bonafied business at 500 bucks a pop. It was Harli’s obsession with marbles that led him to the web, but he was disappointed to find that there was only a limited selection of his beloved toy. That’s when the budding business mogul got the idea to start his own website. Marble King is now bringing in thousands of dollars per year, with orders rolling in from as far as the U. S.

According to IBJ.com, uFlavor has one basic goal: to become the YouTube of the soda industry. Customers will be able to choose the ingredients for custom-made concoctions and design their own labels, then uFlavor will make and sell the drink—to its creators and the general public, who’ll be asked to rate the finished product. Some undoubtedly will fall flat. Others could be the thirst-quenching equivalent of an especially cute cat video. But it only takes one Honey Badger to get the world’s attention. The first batch of beverages will be delivered in late January, when the process of creating the next round of drinks will begin based on customer feedback. By summer, uFlavor hopes to have perfected the equipment that will allow anyone to design a drink from anywhere.

What kind of luggage would you design, if practicality were besides the point? At first glance, British designer Sarah Jane Williams' bespoke suitcases, trunks and satchels suggest they might hold exotic musical instruments, and then you realize she's made these funky shapes simply because she can. "Historically exceptional craftsmanship was the norm, now it is the exception," says her website. “Williams British Handmade is designed to challenge this statement by utilising regional historical craftsmanship and metamorphosising the traditional in order to produce a collection of original fashion artefacts. ”All of the products produced by Williams British Handmade are bespoke or limited edition items made to the highest standards. The leather used is traditional bridle leather of the best quality possible. The brass frames are produced by an accomplished metal craft worker. Every stitch is compelted by hand using the traditional techniques of saddle stitching.

Source: Core 77

Decide is a service dedicated to helping consumers buy electronics with no regrets. The company has raised $8.5M in venture capital from Madrona Venture Group, Maveron, and angel investors. Decide was co-founded by Internet search pioneer Oren Etzioni and has gained support from consumer Internet and ecommerce veterans. Decide predicts if prices will drop or a newer model is coming soon.

World Entomophagy is one of a growing number of insect suppliers that promote bugs as food for humans. Encouraged by media attention, TV shows like Fear Factor, and growing concerns about the threat of over population to the food supply, Americans—at least a few—are warming to the idea. “In the past three years, interest in eating bugs has surged,” says David George Gordon, a chef and author of The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook. The number of U.S. chefs cooking insects has “probably tripled in the past five years,” he says, and new suppliers selling bugs primarily for human consumption, rather than as food for pet fish and reptiles, have popped up in the last two years. “A lot of people … call and ask if they can just buy the bugs in bulk because they want to add them to a stir-fry,” says Kathy Mitchell, marketing manager at Hotlix, a company that has long sold novelty bug products such as scorpion lollipops.

Source: Business Week

School bans on cell phones are dialing dollars for one savvy entrepreneur. Vernon Alcoser has cornered the mobile market at two Bronx schools, where students pay $1 a day to keep their cell phones in the trucks he parks nearby. “It’s better than trying to sneak your phone in,” said Tatyana James, a freshman at Herbert H. Lehman High School who pays Alcoser’s company, Pure Loyalty Electronic Device Storage, to baby-sit her BlackBerry during class. As far as Alcoser knows, his phone storage trucks are the city’s first. Parked across from Lehmanon E. Tremont Ave. and DeWitt Clinton High School on Mosholu Parkway, they serve more than 700 students each day. “It makes the students and parents feel better to know their phones are safe,” said Alcoser, 38, a correction officer who lives on Webb Ave. in the Bronx. The city Department of Education banned electronic devices in 1998, cracking down on cell phones in 2005, said spokeswoman Marge Feinberg. But not all schools enforce the ban the same way. For years, Lehman students brought their phones to school, hiding them during class, said Lehman junior Jenifer Espinal. But this September, the school installed metal detectors.

Alcoserhit on the idea of a mobile phone-mobile two months ago, after hearing Lehman parent Jeanette Millan complain about the ban. Her son calls to check in after football practice. “I need to know where my child is at all times,” she said. “He takes two trains and a bus to get home. It’s dangerous out there.” Cellphones disrupt learning, said Feinberg. But students use their phones to stay safe and have fun after school, Alcoser said. “I need my phone in case someone tries to hold me up or stab me,” said Lehman sophomore Justin Ginorio. “I can call for help.” Tatyana, 14, is hung up on her smart phone. On her long bus ride home from school, she uses the phone to text message friends and post Twitter updates and says it “gives me something to do.” Local bodegas have provided cell phone baby-sitting for a fee since the ban went into effect. But Espinal called Pure Loyalty a safer and “more convenient” option. To prevent theft, students are photographed with their phones every morning and use ticket stubs to retrieve them after school. Tatyana said some students sneak their phones past Lehman’s metal detectors. But only parents are allowed to retrieve confiscated phones. “I’d rather pay a dollar than take that risk,” she said. Pure Loyalty’s success has surprised Alcoser, but not employee Jonathan Ortiz, who graduated from Lehman last spring. “These kids can’t live without their phones.”

Source: Niche Geek

Let’s face it, school portraits are boring. Flat and dull. The WSJ has taken a look at the industry and discovered some new companies trying to revitalize it. Kelsey and Dennis Kleiman of Brooklyn, N.Y., were underwhelmed by their daughter’s school pictures. So Mr. Kleiman, a professional photographer, volunteered to take less-stilted portraits of their daughter’s classmates. It was such a hit with the parents that in 2009 Mr. and Ms.Kleiman, whose children are 3 and 6 years old, founded a school portrait company, Stomping Ground Photo. It is among a handful of companies trying to recast school pictures. Stomping Ground photographs are taken against a plain background and capture kids doing kid stuff: jumping, laughing, pouting. It is now photographing about 20 schools in New York and Los Angeles. Parents can view proofs online and decide which photos to purchase.

Source: Business Opportunities Weblog

Too cute for school? Not in Japan, where settling at mere cuteness means you're not trying hard enough. That high-pitched sound you're hearing isn't a school bus in need of a brake job, just its pint-sized passengers squealing "KAWAII!" in unison. Now these are the school bus of school buses... they are so cool!

Source: Inventor Spot

The “Pizza-Size Burger,” a new hamburger available at Burger King Japan take is almost 9 inches in diameter. It’s topped with four overlapping Whopper patties. According to Inventor Spot you can “order the Pizza-Size Burger in two different styles, though both styles are served in an odd “half & half” format with one half featuring the everyday Whopper’s toppings: tomato, onion, pickles, ketchup and so on.Slices of fresh avocado are added to the, er, “Fresh Avocado” version and tortilla chips, cheese sauce and jalapeño peppers occupy half of the ‘Cheese Nacho’ version. Cut it up as you would a pie (or a pizza, duh) and dig in!”

Source: Business Opportunities Weblog

According to Sun-Sentinel.com, giving new meaning to the phrase recycle, repurpose, reuse, a Seminole County plastic surgeon is opening a fat bank Friday so patients who have fat removed during liposuction can store it for future use. Cosmetic surgeons who perform fat-transfer procedures typically transfer the patient’s fat immediately after removing it through liposuction, often within the hour. Common sites for the transferred fat are the face and breasts. Having their fat in the bank would allow patients to draw on it later, when they want to plump up body parts that have succumbed to age, said Dr. Jeffrey Hartog, whose new LiquidGold center is next to his cosmetic-surgery clinic. “I will present it as an option to any patient having liposuction,” he said.

Source: Business Opportunities Weblog

If you’ve ever dreamed of getting a super-realistic replica of your face for whatever reason, here’s your chance: a Japanese company called REAL-f [JP] is creating so-called 3DPFs (“3 Dimension Photo Forms”), copies of human faces “in 3D”. The startup offers two versions, a mask type replica and the so-called mannequin type, a replica of the head. 3D face masks are $3,920.

Source: Business Opportunities Weblog

Eneplug USB-to-AC wall outlet adapters from Green House of Japan let any plug provide power to your electronic lifestyle devices. Anything from iPhones and iPods to MP3 players and even your USB Eyelash Curler can get hooked to the grid, so forget about flipping your laptop's lid!

Source: Inventor Spot