Regular readers may remember the Anti Sleep Pilot app, which aims to help prevent fatigue-related car accidents. Taking the idea further, State Farm's new Driver Feedback app scores the use ...
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Flavored parking tickets for sensory advertising
Posted by Springwise in May 1st 2012
Taste-based advertising is not a new frontier for marketers – in the past we have seen First Flavor’s Peel’n'Taste strips, while Wrigley’s has already used its mint gum ...
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In South Africa, concierge service via mobile phone rental
Posted by Springwise in May 1st 2012
The virtual ink had barely dried on our recent story about AtYourSide in Shanghai when word reached us of another personal guide service, again with an event-driven angle: Africa Talking, ...
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Tags: Africa, South Africa, South African, Telecom & Mobile, Tourism & Travel
Tags: Africa, South Africa, South African, Telecom & Mobile, Tourism & Travel
In Italy, solar-powered phone booth offers wifi and electric-vehicle charging
Posted by Springwise in May 1st 2012
We’ve already seen the humble phone booth repurposed for charging electric vehicles, but a new effort in Italy is taking that concept even further. Specifically, in early April the ci ...
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Wise Words with Chiaki Hayashi
Posted by Springwise in May 1st 2012
Chiaki Hayashi is the founder of FabCafe, a café in Shibuya that offers the use of a laser-cutting machine alongside a range of hot drinks. Having received a BA in Commerce from Waseda Uni ...
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Doughnut shop closes its doors each day as soon as it sells out
Posted by Springwise in May 1st 2012
There’s nothing like a little planned scarcity to increase a product’s appeal, and we’ve seen several strategic uses of it over the years. Now joining that list is The Dou ...
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Transforming Rio’s slums through community-driven art
Posted by Springwise in May 1st 2012
A splash of colour and design can go a long way toward beautifying a grey, ugly space, as Carspaze and Style-your-garage have already shown. Now aiming to do something similar for the slum ...
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In Japan, cardless ATMs will scan users’ palms instead
Posted by Springwise in April 30th 2012
Biometric technologies can help bring banking to illiterate users, as we saw in our story about NCR’s Pillar ATMs last fall, but they can have another benefit as well. Specifically, i ...
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London hotel offers dinner etiquette lessons for children
Posted by Springwise in April 30th 2012
Hotels today are offering unprecedented services to set themselves apart, and just recently we’ve seen examples including a “soap concierge,” an animal psychic, and in-room perfum ...
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From Japan, underwear uses nanotechnology to help combat body odor
Posted by Springwise in April 30th 2012
We’ve already seen fabrics that purify the air and tags that neutralize body odors, so it seems only natural that the next step should be undergarments made from such materials. Sure ...
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Work site divides large jobs into small, concurrent tasks
Posted by Springwise in April 30th 2012
Amazon's Mechanical Turk has been around for a while, and in recent months it's been joined in the crowdsourced labour arena by ShortTask, txteagle, Samasource, CrowdFlower and Fiverr, to ...
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World’s first airport park opens in Amsterdam
Posted by Springwise in April 29th 2012
We’ve recently seen numerous innovations designed to ease the tedium of pre-flight waiting. Take the ebook library at Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport, for example. This morning S ...
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Design-your-own skincare, including ingredients and concentrations
Posted by Springwise in April 29th 2012
With all the many “design your own” efforts we've covered over the years, it's hard to imagine there's a category we haven't yet seen in customizable form. Tackling exactly that, howeve ...
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Application enables users to creatively automate online tasks
Posted by Springwise in April 28th 2012
In today’s time-pressured world, people are constantly looking for ways to speed up their daily tasks. Hoping to help towards that end, we recently came across ifttt — an application th ...
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Leasing agency helps tenants connect, online and off
Posted by Springwise in April 28th 2012
We've seen myriad sites recently that aim to help neighbours connect, whether targeting tenants and landlords, office workers in the same vicinity, or community members with stuff to share ...
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Charging device simultaneously sanitizes phones using UV-C light
Posted by Springwise in April 27th 2012
If UV light can effectively destroy the viruses and bacteria in unsafe drinking water, it stands to reason that it could be applied to other germ-ridden aspects of life as well. Enter Phone ...
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Five businesses that build on the growing popularity of bicycles
Posted by Springwise in April 27th 2012
The attraction of cycling as a green, healthy, and cost-saving form of transport is huge for consumers, especially so at a time when the environment and world financial woes dominate the z ...
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Holiday destination searching based on recent temperature trends
Posted by Springwise in April 27th 2012
It’s always disappointing to head out to warmer climes only to find the weather isn’t quite as expected. Hoping to cater for tourists who aren’t fussy about where they go ...
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Fashion site documents changing color trends on city streets
Posted by Springwise in April 27th 2012
Just as sites such as Brayola have used the crowds to help women find recommendations for bras, now a new site is providing hints at the most popular color choices in three European cities. ...
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French café serves up sewing machines by the hour
Posted by Springwise in April 27th 2012
It's been a few years since we first came across the Linkle sewing café in Berlin, but recently one of our spotters alerted us to a like-minded establishment in France: Sweat Shop, conven ...
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Tags: DIY, Fashion & Beauty, France, knitting, Lifestyle & Leisure, sewing
Tags: DIY, Fashion & Beauty, France, knitting, Lifestyle & Leisure, sewing
Rewards for users recommending apps to friends
Posted by Springwise in April 26th 2012
We’ve already seen marketers rewarding the crowds for spreading the word about their product with California-based fashion brand Volga Verdi, which offers its Twitter-using customers ...
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Site enables locals to request items from tourists and offer goods in return
Posted by Springwise in April 26th 2012
For years now it’s been common for those travelling abroad to ask friends whether they would like anything brought back from their destination. Hoping to open this system of privately ...
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