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:
Hyperlocal newspaper turns blogs into print
Media & publishing
Dire reports from the world of newspapers and magazines may
suggest the printed medium is on its way out, but a new Chicago
start-up doesn't think so.
Borro: an online pawnshop for consumers in a pinch
Financial services
Given the current state of the economy, it's timely to see a makeover
of an age-old form of personal loans. Borro claims to be the world's
first online pawnbroker.
Green home makeovers for $99
Eco & sustainability / Homes & housing
Much like the UK's Green Homes Concierge, which we wrote about
last year, New York-based Green Irene aims to help consumers
reduce their homes' carbon footprint.
Rentobile: a Netflix for cell phones
Telecom & mobile
Letting consumers sample new devices more widely and more often,
Rentobile provides a wide selection of the latest cell phones for rent
on a monthly basis
Computer game meets climbing wall
Gaming / Lifestyle & leisure
Designed for use in public places like museums and shopping malls,
DigiWall is a climbing wall with high-end surround-sound whose grips
include both lights and sensors that react when they are touched.
Golfing site offers free, personalized instruction
Education / Lifestyle & leisure
Myriad sites already exist to help golfers connect, but a new one adds
professional video analysis and online instruction to serve up free,
personalized golfing advice.
Yellow Pages builds a pop-up restaurant, 10m up a tree
Marketing & advertising / Food & beverage
The Yellow Treehouse is a pod-shaped restaurant that was built as part
of a marketing promotion by the New Zealand Yellow Pages to prove
that all the suppliers for any project can be found through its listings.
Vegawatt: powering restaurants with kitchen grease
Eco & sustainability / Food & beverage
After filtering a restaurant's used vegetable oil, Vegawatt combusts
the refined fuel in a diesel engine, feeding electricity and hot water
straight into a restaurant's system.
Staff schedules & notifications made simple
Life hacks
Joining the web app fray and aiming to take the stress out of shift
management, WorkWhen Notifier is an Australian site that
distributes staff schedules to employees via email and SMS.
Interactive, one-on-one theatre
Entertainment
It seems it's time to overhaul the previously passive experience of
theatre. Call Cutta in a Box is a theatre experience for one audience
member at a time.
'Impossible Project' aims to bring back Polaroid film
Style & design
Polaroid may have stopped production of its analogue instant film
last summer, but such is the strength of the product's fan base that
some have decided they won't take "no" for an answer.
Green Grannies serve up recession-busting advice
Eco & sustainability
Oxfam recently recruited a team of what it calls Green Grannies to offer
advice to the UK public about everything from how to darn socks to
how to make delicious food from leftovers.
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