From Springwise.com:
It's time for your weekly fix of entrepreneurial ideas! Our latest issue is now online. Here's
a quick run-down of the promising new businesses featured on Springwise this week:
Hotel helps guests fight jet lag
Tourism & travel
Among the amenities in Westin's Concept Room are Philips’ new
blue-light ActiViva lamps, which provide phototherapy and help guests
feel more alert, awake and energized.
Pop-up nightclubs launch in Singapore
Lifestyle & leisure
Aqua's two-storey-high mobile party platform is modelled out of
shipping containers using a transforming mechanism that allows a
single container to open up to three times its original size.
Yotel opens its first airside hotel
Tourism & travel
At Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, Yotel is based airside, offering
travellers a private sanctuary where they can have a shower, take a
nap and get some work done without leaving the terminal.
Eco maps go mobile and open source
Eco & sustainability
Combining the expansion of the mobile internet and the desire to live
green, Open Green Maps uses technology to connect communities
in the real world.
Magazine publishing for everyone & every niche
Media & publishing
MagCloud, a new self-publishing magazine service from HP Labs,
enables anyone who can create a PDF to publish and sell a magazine
promoting their own talents or their favourite (niche) topic.
Auctioning the rights to popular songs
Entertainment
Aiming to connect songwriters and fans in a new way, SongVest has
developed a platform for live and online auctions of songwriters' rights
that lets consumers buy as much as 100% of the rights to a song.
Camera-bikes broadcast offline life to Flickr
Marketing & advertising
Each "yBike" is given its own, dedicated Flickr account. The
cameras are rigged to take photos every 60 seconds while the bike is
moving and the photos are immediately uploaded and geotagged.
Ecovative wins PICNIC Green Challenge 2008
Eco & sustainability / Homes & housing
Ecovative Design, maker of Greensulate, just won the PICNIC Green
Challenge award for 2008 -- a EUR 500,00 prize awarded by the
Dutch Postcode Lottery.
Swim caps with a splash of customization
Style & design
For those who worried that there were limits on the products to which
the customizing concept could still be freshly applied, a new site out
of Canada now lets consumers design their own swim caps.
$100 device is just for email
Telecom & mobile
In a world populated by gadgets with increasingly varied and complex
capabilities, there stand out a lone few that do just one thing really
well. Peek aims to be that gadget for email.
More style advice, courtesy of the crowds
Fashion & beauty / Media & publishing
Reflecting the notion of the self as a product in need of marketing and
refinement, we have RestyleMe, a site that generates crowdsourced
advice on personal style.
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