Business Idea of the Day

Inhabitat: The latest lighting design from LZF Lamps puts paper swans to shame. The Spanish design firm used origami figures to inspire its giant, geometric pendant lamps, which debuted at this week’s Milan Furniture Fair. Not only are the lights arrestingly beautiful, they’re crafted from eco-friendly materials

We Are Handsome’s swimwear is not just your run-of-the-mill swimwear. Each piece is made by hand, with the highest quality polyester lycra, printed with high density inks using a placement sublimation process which is tedious to say the least. Each of the designs is limited edition. Some are sourced from 000’s of retro images and some designed by WAH’s in-house artist often using dozens of images to get the unique look and feel.

Cool Tools: Perplexus is a cool 3-dimensional maze that is easy to get started and hard to finish. You need to steer a small metal ball along an ingenious obstacle course by rotating the clear plastic globe. There are 100 stations along the way, including some difficult topsy-turvy turns. All ages can get into it.

Ekomini is the world’s first and only interactive, web-enabled, financial education game that helps children learn what they should know about money. The game features an electronic moneybox and a web-based savings platform called EkominiVille, where children see how much money they save and learn how to earn, set goals, spend, share and invest.

FaceChipz.com has all the features of a real social network – but with one big difference: kids can only communicate with others they’ve physically exchanged FaceChipz tokens with – no strangers allowed! No one can arbitrarily contact them. No one can search for them. It’s the social network they collect, but doesn’t collect them. The Chips have the weight, look and feel of a high-end casino chips — on the head-side is …a face — an emoticon

The Walkstation is the fully integrated combination of an electric height-adjustable worksurface with an exclusively engineered, low speed commercial grade treadmill. And it’s the first product in the entirely new FitWork category of products from Details designed to bring healthy habits to sedentary workers while they are actually working. The fully-functional treadmill display console shows speed, calories burned, time and distance.

The Cool Hunter: Learning to ride a bike is one of the most valuable skills a child can learn, helping them master the art of balance, a skill crucial to so many other physical activities and sports. UK based Kiddimoto has created a range of cute-looking wooden bikes which are designed to teach young children precisely that - balance. The slimline, lightweight birch plywood bikes are easy steer and manoeuvre and feature proper rubber tyres, providing a smooth ride for little bottoms by gliding across outdoor surfaces.

Cool Tools: Green Toys’ Indoor Gardening Kit all made their way into our home as gifts and then won us over across generational lines. They’re constructed of recycled milk cartons (high-density polyethylene), have a clean, attractive, colorful-but-not-garish aesthetic and are just shy of bulletproof. The gardening kit’s a pleasure because it requires parental involvement (for the recently post-toddler set, at least), and patience from grownups and kids, alike: Plant a seed and watch it grow is a long-term activity, after all

At The Game Crafter , you can start selling your game with only the push of a button. There are no up-front fees, no contractural obligations, no distributors, and you don’t need a big publisher to decide your game will sell 10,000 units in the first year. Just design your game idea and components, upload the decks and boards, and also add the dice, tokens, and pawns. You set the price of your game and sell on The Game Crafter, and collect the royalties whenever gamers purchase your game.

TrendCentral: Families looking for shared Indiana Jones-style adventure can get a taste of what it feels like to be on an excavation expedition at the Crow Canyon Colorado archaeology center . Program participants are taught the history and culture of the Pueblo Indians while also learning how to identify ancient artifacts and uncover telling clues of their existence. We expect to see similar edutaining travel options gain popularity, as those previously interested only in international travel reset their sights on exploring their own backyards. Additionally, the educational component provides added value for families looking to justify spending on a summer vacation