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In case style and craftmanship weren't enough to lure in suitcase shoppers, customers who purchase luggage from Carpisa stores in Italy during a special year-long promotion get an unusual perk-...
Financial Services
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Female fever may be catching, but that doesn't mean men can't have some marketing attention too, at least once in a while. Case in point: Poggenpohl's Porsche Design kitchen. Jointly designed by...
Style & Design
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For a while now, web developers have been mixing and matching web services such as Google Earth and Yahoo Weather to create mash-ups that perform useful new functions. Likewise, programmers have...
Telecom Mobile
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In this perpetually time-crunched era, it's no secret that finding time for personal grooming services like haircuts and manicures can be a challenge. We've already covered a few examples of the...
Fashion & Beauty
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Aspiring musicians and filmmakers now have yet another new venue to vie for their big breaks. Part YouTube, part American Idol, OurStage provides a forum for artists to audition their talent directly...
Entertainment
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Quick mobile spotting from the Philippines: Palengkenito (no website), which translates to 'mini-market' in English, is a well-designed mobile grocery store, developed to bring convenience to less-...
Retail
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Reducing energy consumption is clearly a global imperative, but before one can reduce it helps to know how much one is already consuming. Targeting the 40 million "smart meters" now in use worldwide-...
Eco & Sustainability
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University students in the UK rack up an average of more than GBP 12,000 in student debt by the time they graduate, leaving them with a significant financial burden to cope with as they begin their...
Education
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Keeping track of little ones at home or school is hard enough, but a child wandering off at a crowded event or unfamiliar place can be a parent's worst nightmare-especially for kids who are too young...
Lifestyle and leisure
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Cash-strapped consumers are increasingly looking to their spare rooms, their backyards and even their furniture for ways to earn some extra money. Now they can offer up their photos for sale as well...
Media & Publishing
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We've covered taxis for women in the past, and have noticed that the concept is spreading. The latest incarnation we spotted is Turkey's Pudracar. Instead of offering women lower rental rates, which...
Transportation
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One of the problems with traditional carpool matching sites has been the anxiety most people feel when faced with the prospect of sharing a car with someone they don't know. By tapping into the power...
Automotive
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Megaphone has devised a novel way to make mega-screen advertisements draw crowds. Anyone within view of a large video display managed by Megaphone can join in a simple video game by calling in with...
Gaming
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Last year, we wrote about luxury loos on location-portable toilets with a glamorous touch, which were a fun example of how everything can be upgraded. We just came across a similar venture, also from...
Lifestyle and leisure
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Crowdsourced creations already form the foundation of sneaker brand Ryz, which sells high-tops featuring graphic designs created and voted into production by consumers. Now, a similar concept is...
Fashion & Beauty
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There's nothing like an old Volkswagen camper van to evoke images of footloose and fancy-free holidays during the Summer of Love. Now, modern-day flower children can relive the experience...
Automotive
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Going green has gotten a lot more enticing to consumers in communities served by Philadelphia-based RecycleBank. Households can earn RecycleBank Dollars, redeemable for discount coupons at select...
Government
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TerraCycle and its ever-expanding list of eco-innovations have once again caught our eye. Not satisfied with simply making eco-fertilizer from organic waste and worm poop or turning old wrappers into...
Eco & Sustainability
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Urban bike-sharing is coming to North America in the form of Bixi, the new high-tech public bike system developed for the city of Montreal. Bixi follows the standard bike sharing principles: users...
Transportation
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In the past, we've covered concepts created by Dutch Postbank that focused on helping children find their inner entrepreneur. A new initiative, Speel Goed met Geld (roughly: Play well with money),...
Non-profit, social cause
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