New Ideas

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 Springwise featured this week:

Pop-up learning tool teaches in tiny bites
Education / Life hack

"Divide and conquer" is a strategy that can be just as successful for
tackling a task as it is for gaining power. Popling is applying this to
learning, with pop-ups that work like flashcards.

Job contest spotlights Great Barrier Reef Islands
Marketing & advertising / Tourism & travel

Tourist destinations are no strangers to marketing, but many could
take a lesson from Australia's Tourism Queensland, which launched a
clever viral promotion seeking applicants for the best job in the world.

Meal-planning site helps friends care for friends
Life hacks / Food & beverage

Anyone who's ever had a baby or undergone surgery knows all too well
how challenging it can be in the days following simply to prepare a meal.
MealBaby helps friends coordinate food runs.

Kits help patients fight off hospital germs
Life hacks

Although hospital superbugs may be infamous, we hadn’t yet seen a
branded, integral B2C approach to their prevention. PatientPak is a kit
containing hygiene items for those planning a hospital visit.

A community-written screenplay
Entertainment

The crowds are writing the scenes for a screenplay about "an awkward
teenager caught up in a dangerous conspiracy." Anyone is open to
submit a 10-page portion of the script.

Subway launches food ordering via SMS
Food & beverage / Telecom & mobile

We've written about GoMobo and its service enabling food ordering via
text message. Always happy to see a good idea spread, we were
pleased to note that GoMobo signed on sandwich chain Subway.

Newspaper jacket keeps homeless people warm
Non-profit / Social cause / Marketing & advertising

Aiming to make things a fraction easier for homeless people,
Canadian ad agency TAXI developed the 15 Below Jacket, a garment
that owes its insulating properties to old newspapers.

Entertainment mapping tool uses compass and GPS
Telecom & mobile / Lifestyle & leisure

Lastminute.com's nru phone application is designed to give users of
the Android-powered T-Mobile G1 a narrowly focused and compass-
aided view of things to do around them.

Recreating the club experience online
Entertainment / Media & publishig

Offering an experience that's as close as possible to the real thing,
Be At TV features full-on video coverage of some of the world's hottest
clubbing events.

An online music store of one's own
Entertainment / Retail

At People's Music Store, music fans can set up their own online store-
fronts for recommending and selling their favourite music. Labels
include Warp Records, Ninja Tune and Domino Records.

Parking operator launches car-sharing service
Automotive / Transportation

We've featured car-sharing venture ZipCar on several occasions. One
of the leading parking operators in New York City has launched its own,
competing car-sharing service for residents of the Big Apple.

Inflatable movie screens for remote areas of Africa
Non-profit / Social cause

Pop-up cinema is something we've been seeing for a few years, but
typically only in areas with the infrastructure to support large screens.
A new effort uses inflatable screens to bring film to remote areas in Africa.

Caffeine test strips reveal the truth about that cup of joe
Food & beverage / Life hacks

Thanks to a new innovation much like a home pregnancy test, decaf
drinkers can now test for themselves whether they're getting more than
they ordered.

Narrate-your-own storybook videos
Media & publishing

Kids can already publish their own stories in book form, and soon they'll be
able to record their own voices narrating classic stories, fairy tales, nursery
rhymes and lullabies with accompanying video and music.

Online gallery sells exclusivity & limited editions
Style & design / Retail

It's not unusual for an art gallery to sell rare or limited edition pieces,
but a new, online gallery is banking on exclusivity to set it apart by
offering a single, limited-edition creation from each of a handful of artists.

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