YOUR WEEKLY FIX OF ENTREPRENEURIAL IDEAS We’ve selected 15 new business ideas this week that will provide entrepreneurs with plenty of inspiration. Spotted from countries all around the world, these ideas offer a taste of what’s to come.

2. YOUR WEEKLY FIX OF ENTREPRENEURIAL IDEAS
17-23 April 2014

3. Top 10 business ideas & opportunities for 2014
We’ve selected 15 new business ideas that will provide
entrepreneurs with plenty of inspiration. Spotted from
countries all around the world, these ideas offer a taste of
what’s to come.
YOUR WEEKLY FIX OF ENTREPRENEURIAL IDEAS
17-23 April 2014

4. We’ve seen flying food before in the form
of YO! Sushi’s iTray drone waiter. For
food businesses who can’t afford such
technology however, Jafflechutes is now
delivering its grilled cheese sandwiches to
street level via parachute.
Read more about Jafflechutes »
1. Grilled cheese sandwiches delivered from the sky

5. Smart fitness tracking is one of the
leading lights of the wearable tech
industry, with consumers already buying
products such as Nike+ and FitBit in their
droves. However, the field has plenty of
space to grow, and we’ve seen endeavors
such as Athos gymwear, which has
performance monitoring tech built-in. Now,
LA-based startup Focus has developed
TRAINR — a smartwatch platform that
turns the devices into fitness trackers that
can detect the type of exercise being
performed, as well as offering suggestions
for improvement.
Read more about TRAINR »
2. TRAINR turns smartwatches into a personal fitness trainer

6. Over the past few years, music speakers
have transformed from having one simple
purpose to featuring wifi connectivity and
integrated subscription streaming
services, such as the Sonos. Now taking
these features as granted, the Aether
Cone is a next-generation conical speaker
that instantly offers a different vibe when it
is twisted, and uses algorithms to detect
users’ music taste at particular times and
locations.
Read more about Aether Cone »
3. ‘Thinking’ music speaker changes mood with a twist and learns
users’ tastes

7. For centuries now, those with
neuromuscular disorders have had to rely
on the wheelchair to get around and many
spend their whole lives seated. In the past
we’ve seen AMS Mekatronic’s Tek RMD
wheelchair add-on make strides to help
paraplegic people get up and stand
unassisted. Now opting for a much more
simple solution, Upsee is a harness that
lets parents use their own legs as a
support, in order to give their disabled
children the sensation of walking.
Read more about Upsee »
4. Simple device lets motor impaired kids know what it’s like to
walk

8. Social platforms such as Instagram have
brought out the budding photographer in
amateurs, and we’ve already seen
Australia’s 1888 Hotel offer facilities
dedicated especially for smartphone
snaps. Now South Africa’s El Burro
restaurant has installed a device that
enables customers to take professional-
style Instagrams of their meals.
Read more about El Burro »
5. Restaurant lets diners get the perfect lighting for their
foodstagrams

9. Consumers aren’t good at remembering
to put some money towards a good
cause, whether it’s for themselves or for
charity. While we’ve already seen the
Acorns app automatically put small
change towards an investment portfolio
based on user spending, now Brazil’s
Bradesco bank has introduced a credit
card that donates a percentage of all
payments made to the church.
Read more about Bradesco »
6. Credit card automatically makes donations to the church

10. This is part of a series of articles that looks at
entrepreneurs hoping to get their ideas off the
ground through crowdfunding. At the time of writing,
each of these innovations is currently seeking
funding.
While cyclists are typically free to go
anywhere they please on their two
wheels, one downside is that they’re
limited as to what they can carry with
them. In the past, we’ve seen the
Springtime picnic basket, which triples as
a bike pannier and table and chair set, but
now the Netherlands’ Fietsklik is a
detachable adapter that helps cyclists
securely clip even large crates to their
bike.
Read more about Fietsklik »
7. Crate on wheels can clip and lock seamlessly onto bikes

11. As much as local authorities try to, they
aren’t able to stop every single civic
infraction because they only have a
limited number of eyes on the street.
However, smartphones have already
enabled councils to crowdsource details of
law breaches, through apps such as
Parking Mobility that let users log when
a driver is using a disabled parking bay
without a licence. Now the ikflitsmee
campaign in Belgium has encouraged
citizens to send in locations where they
believe speeding is a problem in order for
the police to invest in safety measures.
Read more about ikflitsmee »
8. In Belgium, speed camera locations are crowdsourced from
citizens

12. Treatments for illnesses such as cancer or
depression are often required to go
through a lengthy process before they’re
approved for use in hospitals, even if they
could potentially benefit patients right now.
While in the past Cinderella
Therapeutics has aimed to revive
promising medicines that failed to make a
profit, a new service from the Netherlands
called myTomorrows is now enabling
patients to fast track the use of drugs that
haven’t yet been fully approved.
Read more about myTomorrows »
9. Service gives the seriously ill access to innovative treatments
still in development

13. Digital media offers a number of
advantages over print and physical
information, from easy copying and
sharing to more complex archiving and
searching capabilities. While we’ve
already seen Outbox enabled consumers
to digitize and organize their physical mail
online, Mod Notebooks now allow writers
to store their handwritten notes and
doodles and access them at any time on
their mobile device.
Read more about Mod Notebooks »
10. This paper notebook syncs to the cloud

14. For consumers, one of the most irritating
parts of ordering clothes online is the
disappointment if they don’t fit, and
processing the subsequent returns also
provides a headache for businesses. In
the past we’ve seen retailers such as
Dicky Ticker offer a unique alternative,
enabling customers to get a refund on its
t-shirts without returning the shirt. Now
Netherlands-based JeansOnline is giving
online consumers 15 minutes to try on the
clothes they order and instantly return any
that don’t fit.
Read more about JeansOnline »
11. Fashion delivery service sees couriers wait to take returns while
consumers try on goods

15. When it come to winter, people feel the
cold in different ways — some can stand
the chill, while others need to have the
heating on full blast. CrowdComfort is a
crowd reporting tool that helps facility
managers discover where they need to
deliver more or less heat to satisfy
occupants.
Read more about CrowdComfort »
12. Smart heating tool crowdsources the perfect temperature

16. Regular readers of Springwise may
remember our recent coverage of
Canada’s World Housing, the company
that donates new housing to locations that
need them every time a customer
purchases a property. Now Naja is aiming
to do the same for underwear, providing
Colombian women with marketable skills
and employs them to help create its luxury
products.
Read more about Naja »
13. Ethical lingerie helps women in South America gain
entrepreneurial skills

17. Platforms such as Kickstarter and Etsy
have enabled a whole generation of
crafters and creatives to market their
unique goods, and we’ve even seen retail
outlets dedicated to only selling work from
independent talents in the form of sites
like TinyLightbulbs. Now Singapore-
based Haystakt is offering a twist on the
crowdfunded model, dropping the price of
artisanal products for every purchase
made after the funding target has been
reached.
Read more about Haystakt »
14. Crowdfunded goods at crowd-determined prices

18. We recently saw how Japan’s smart
NeutralBOX is enabling homeowners to
take advantage of self-storage-style
capabilities in their own home through
smartphone organization. For those who
need to clear a bit of space in their home
for a short space of time however, the
UK’s LOVESPACE will take even just a
small box of items off customers’ hands
for as short as one night.
Read more about LOVESPACE »
15. Micro self-storage will stow single boxes for 24 hours

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