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A sustainable model for fair-trade goods

When consumers buy fair-trade products, it's typically because they are motivated more by ethical considerations than by price—which tends to be higher for such goods. Fair-trade exporter...

Started in Springwise New business ideas • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: retail
At Inamo in London, fine dining with a touch of tech

The impatient and hungry tech-heads of London have been given a new treat with the launch of Inamo, a pan-Asian restaurant that has canned the traditional printed menu in favour of an interactive...

Started in Springwise New business ideas • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: food & beverage
Miniature tennis for pint-sized players

We've written about workout gyms and even being spaces aimed at kids, but it wasn't until just recently that we heard of a sport being completely resized for child players. Sure enough, though, a new...

Started in Springwise New business ideas • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: lifestyle & leisure
Greener driving with Fiat and Microsoft

Helping drivers think twice before putting the pedal to the metal, Fiat has developed a new system that gives customers the insight they need to drive in more a sustainable way. ecoDrive processes...

Started in Springwise New business ideas • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: automotive
One-stop-shop for used children's goods

As belts tighten ever more in a continuously precarious economy, it's fairly certain more and more parents are turning to second-hand sources for children's clothes and other items. While thrift...

Started in Springwise New business ideas • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: retail
Team meeting space meets product testing ground

When we wrote about Meet a few weeks ago, one of its cofounders noted that the meetings industry has been in desperate need of some innovation. Continuing on that upward trend, office furniture...

Started in Springwise New business ideas • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: marketing & advertising
Tony Player takes online playlists to the dance floor

Twones is a new online music service that automatically tracks every song a user plays while online—whether via iTunes, YouTube, last.fm or services—and then creates a single timeline of the music...

Started in Springwise New business ideas • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: entertainment
Hotel search tool that's all about location

While sites like TripAdvisor offer an extraordinary wealth of information about virtually every aspect of travel, sometimes the one-stop-shopping approach can make it hard to navigate through to the...

Started in Springwise New business ideas • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: tourism & travel
More free photocopying, this time for charity

We at Springwise are always happy to chronicle the spread of a good idea, but never more so than when those doing the spreading are part of the Springwise community themselves. So it's with great...

Started in Springwise New business ideas • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: marketing & advertising
Design your own baby shoes

It's no longer a simple matter to rattle off all the "design-your-own" opportunities we've covered in recent years, so numerous have they become. Making the task even more challenging, one of our...

Started in Springwise New business ideas • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: fashion & beauty