Farmers use vending machines to sell local produce
Food & beverage / Retail
The result of a collaboration between a farm and a vending machine
manufacturer, Regiomat machines currently sell fresh milk, eggs,
butter, cheese, potatoes and sausage in thirteen German towns.
Public Enemy uses Sellaband to fan-fund new album
Entertainment
Crowdfunding venture Sellaband is expanding its model to include
musicians who have already made a name for themselves. First
up: Public Enemy, planning their thirteenth album.
Cards to inspire random acts of kindness
Non-profit / Social cause
Aiming to make random acts of kindness more frequent, KIND
Snacks has launched an effort that uses 'pay it forward' cards to
remind people to be kind.
Wedding registry for original art
Style & design
Should marriage really be celebrated with pots, pans and food
processors? Aiming to offer a less dreary alternative, a New York
art gallery has launched a registry service.
Operator-assisted web search in India & Uganda
Life hacks / Non-profit / Social cause
Proving that the internet’s information doesn’t always have to
appear on-screen, Question Box brings the web’s intelligence
to offline and low-literacy communities.
Deluxe golf carts as neighbourhood transportation
Automotive / Transportation
Electric cars are far from mainstream, but in several US
neighbourhoods, golf carts and other diminutive electric vehicles
are part of the very fabric of community life.
No-frills gyms, open 24/7
Lifestyle & leisure
Aiming to set itself apart from all of the other gyms and health clubs
in Australia, Jetts Gym offers cheaper memberships by cutting costs
and shirking little-used or unnecessary services.
App recommendations based on your tweets & status
updates
Telecom & mobile
16apps scours users' Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed or LastFM
accounts for information about their hobbies, lifestyle and location.
Adjusting jeans for pregnant waistlines & back again
Fashion & beauty
Pregnant mothers simply send in their favourite jeans, and Denim
Therapy inserts expandable side inseams in the pants that will
move and grow as the woman's belly expands.
Smart use of the Smart brand: car-sharing by Daimler
Automotive / Transportation
Aiming to grab a share of the growing car-sharing market, Daimler
created car2go, which enables customers to order and pick up a
Smart car within minutes.
Logos off the rack, created by the crowds
Marketing & advertising
iStockphoto is already a familiar name for its low-priced stock
photography, illustrations and multimedia files. Next up: a line
of user-generated corporate logos.
Wearable device tracks fitness data 24/7
Lifestyle & leisure
Fitbit is a small device the user can wear around the clock for
continuous, automatic and comprehensive reporting on fitness-
related activities and sleeping habits.
Interactive piggy bank teaches kids about money
Financial services / Education
The Ekomini Treasure Chest features a patented coin-reader
technology and hooks up to a computer via USB, enabling children
to keep track of their savings and learn basic financial skills.
Intention-based shipping brought to UK
Transportation
Shiply is a free online marketplace where transport companies bid
on shipments listed by consumers, helping fill empty trucks and
giving consumers access to cheap shipping.
Online exchange for builders' surplus goods
Eco & sustainability
Hoping to keep waste out of landfills, BuilderScrap is a free site for
the construction trade that aims to connect builders who have extra
materials with those who need them.
Free Ivy League courses for high-schoolers
Education / Media & publishing
The new lecture series is aimed at students taking Advanced
Placement exams, which give them a chance to study college
level material and potentially earn credit towards a future degree.
'Stock market' for art to crowdfund 10 public projects
Style & design
Each project is assigned a certain number of shares -- equal to
twice its funding target -- and half of those shares are automatically
assigned to the participating artist.
Clothes swapping meets Netflix
Fashion & beauty
thredUP looks for good matches in the virtual closets of members to
find items that might be suitable for swap-ready users. It sends them
one such item for each thredUP envelope they've purchased.
Rotating baby stroller with eco-creds
Lifestyle & leisure
The foldable stroller features 360 degree rotation that allows the
child to face forward, back or even sideways, while a twist-and-lift
mechanism permits one-handed folding.
New tool for predicting flight delays
Tourism & travel / Life hacks
Using a patent-pending algorithm, Flightcaster claims that it can
predict more than 95 percent of delays to flight arrivals up to six
hours in advance.
I really liked the last idea (the new tool for predicting flight delays) because it can be really usefull for all travelers. If they have for example a connection, they can know if they are going to get in time and make the arregements necessaries if they don't, or to tell the people who is waiting for them in their destiny the change in the arriving hour so they don't waste time waiting.
ReplyDeleteOther thing I liked, is adjusting jeans for pregnant women, but I think it has a bad aspect as well, because you can't make them normal when you are not pregnant anymore and they won't fit you the same after that.