Creative Product - Rainvisor

Dun you just hate rainy days, especially when you opened your car door and the rain just mercilessly poured inside your precious car and caused the seat to be wet. Well some students from Korea has came up with a creative solution - the Rainvisor, cleverly resolve this problem.

This rainvisor is being set up like a extendable canopy between the car door and the car door frame. So as you opened the door, this canopy will be expand out and block the rain from pouring into the car and onto the seat.

Wonder how soon this product will be out in the market... do watch out for it.

Business Ideas (Gadgets) Inside Out Umbrellas

Are you one of those who hates to bring umbrellas, finding it cumbersome with water still clings to the surface after use. Or finding it troublesome to carry around. Well now this foldable umbrella might be your solution. With a small bag attached, it can be use to contain the water and let you carry around like a handbag, instead of hooking to your arms.

What do you think?



Image Source: Yanko Design

Business Ideas (Gadgets) Soap Bank

Ever wonder what to do with your favorite soap that has become too small to use easily? Well we have the "SOAP BANK" to help you resolve the problem.

Business Ideas (F&B) Multi Use Instant Coffee

The usual instant coffee are just small satchet containing sugar, coffee and cream powder. It's easy - just pour into cup with hot water. And the convenience just stop there, because you need to find a stirer to mix. But this design by Hye-Yeon Choi instant coffee satchet is really straw containing the instant coffee powder. After pouring the content into the cup, you can use the straw to stir.

Image Source: Yanko Design

Pop-up nightclubs launch in Singapore

Interesting to find traces of Singapore over the internet.

I guess pop-up is the next thing.

Business Ideas (Entertainment) - Weeknight Clubbing for 9-5 crowd

Did I hear any horrays out that? I guess clubbers will be thrilled with this. No cheers from me, cos i dun club but this may be a good business idea though.
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Nightclubs may operate seven days a week in many cities, but working professionals who partake in their late-night offerings outside of the weekend tend to regret it the next day. With such schedule-bound partiers in mind, Toronto's Gladstone Hotel recently launched an earlier alternative that still lets revellers get to bed on time.

The Gladstone's Granny Boots series of dance parties take place each Wednesday night beginning at 7:30 and ending promptly at 10—"so you can go home, watch 'Law and Order' until 11 pm and go to BED," as the hotel puts it. The events are held in the Gladstone's Melody Bar, which is already famous for weekend karaoke nights, and feature different performances and
livingroom DJs each week. Admission is free.

We also spotted something similar in Belgium, where Bart Van Orshoven's After Work Parties draw large crowds—and corporate sponsors—in various venues in Antwerp, Gent, Leuven and Brussels. The parties start at 7 pm and doors close at 9 pm to ensure a decent-sized crowd from the start. At 1 am, everyone is sent packing.

Of course, in addition to the legions of business people and other working stiffs out there who can't afford to stay up late, there's also the substantial crowd of older people who still like to party but simply don't want to be up during the wee hours. Catering to such consumers could be the key to attracting a whole new segment. As the saying goes, the early bird gets the worm—or, in this case, the entertainment dollars! ;-)

Website: www.gladstonehotel.com/events/show.cfm?id=791 — www.afterworkparty.be
Contact: dance.granny.boots@gmail.com — bart@afterworkparty.be

Crowdsourcing a Make-It-Yourself Restaurant

Lately crowdsourcing seem to be the 'in' thing to talk about when coming to setting up business. I guess this makes the consumer more involved in the formulation of the business and hence spending more.

Singapore luxury hotel dedicates floor to the ladies

I really like the idea. Just a small change, can create hype for the publicity for the hotel and create better revenue. Very clever!

I bet ladies would love to have such attention.

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SINGAPORE, Sept 9 - A luxury boutique hotel in Singapore has set aside a whole floor for women, decking it out with designer amenities and female-only staff.

The Naumi hotel, which opened this year in Singapore's central business district, said the concept was intended to give women travellers a sense of security and privacy in luxurious surroundings.

"There weren't any hotels we knew that had a dedicated floor for ladies," marketing manager Adeline Quek told Reuters.

"More women are travelling around the Asia Pacific, whether it is for work, business or leisure and we wanted to provide them with a sense of peace and a feeling of being at home.

The 40-suite hotel has five ladies-only suites, hidden behind a glass panel on one floor which is accessed by a key card system. A sign on the panel reads "Naumi says... for ladies only" and men are strictly forbidden.

Special female touches on the floor include in-room cosmetics such as make-up remover, toner and aromatherapy products from all-natural Australian brand Aesop and pink and grey flowery wallpaper.

Quek said guests were mainly business executives and well-heeled women on shopping trips or holiday from Europe, Australia, Indonesia and Hong Kong. Occupancy of the floor has been 80 percent since the hotel opened, she added.

And if female guests want to entertain men in their room, Quek said the hotel recommends they stay in their regular suites.

Rooms at the Naumi are priced at between $420 and $600.

Want to BBQ Fish anytime anywhere??

Do you ever have crave for food, especially BBQ fish in the middle of the day and not knowing how to have them, see the below. You can have your bbq fish anytime and anywhere.

Wonder when they will add the prawns or crabs, as they are my favourite.

Bedroom Furniture in a box???

Does moving new house and getting new furnitures worries you and create much anxiety? But with the following furnitures, moving house can be easy, as you can pack all furnitures for a bedroom into a box.

Any takers???

Business Ideas (Financial Services)

Private Banking by Shoebox
Website: www.insinger.com/shoebox

Saw this on a weekly free newsletter online publication and find this a very innovative ideas. You can check out http://www.springwise.com/ for more.

Realizing that many of its wealthy clients lack the time or patience to deal with their personal finances, Amsterdam-based private bank Insinger de Beaufort launched a new service that takes finances back to the basics: a shoebox.

After sitting down with their private banker to discuss financial planning, Insinger's clients are sent a big shoebox by courier every month. They drop anything admin-related into the box: bills to be paid, bank statements, receipts, tax returns, speeding tickets, insurance documents, etc. At the end of the month, Insinger sends a courier to pick up the box, and then processes its contents.

Clients are sent a complete overview of actions and transactions within three business days, after which the bank takes care of the entire follow-up process, including paying bills, filing tax returns and processing business expenses.

Every quarter, clients are sent a financial report, detailing spending categories, asset growth, etc, and once a year, they meet with their private banker to evaluate new developments and adjust their financial planning as needed. Sensing a gap in the market, Insinger de Beaufort offers its shoebox service to clients at other banks, too. The concept is of course entirely focused on convenience, saving (valuable) clients the time and hassle of dealing with the minutiae of their personal finances. While other banks provide their high-end clients with similar add-on services, the shoebox approach is undeniably elegant in its no-tech simplicity.

Business Ideas (Merchandise)

I have seen it on on-flight magazine about 4 years ago and till now I have not seen anything similar items being sold in Singapore.

Wonder if any kind soul would like to take this up and bring the products to Singapore.

Business Ideas (FnB)

Saw this on Taiwan variety show before and find that this is a very innovative ideas. It is interesting how great imagination can transform something which is so common to something interestingly new and attractive.

Hope that this can come to Singapore someday.