Business Idea of the Day

Luxist: It may not be the most glamorous briefcase I’ve ever seen but the new Checkpoint Flyer Briefcase by Tom Bihn has one very important feature, it can slide through airport checkpoints with your Mac safely inside a sleeve, saving you the awkward fumble of taking out your computer, putting it into a bin and sending it through the chute unprotected along with umpteen other Apple computers. The durable bag is made of ballistic nylon with YKK Uretek zippers, Duraflex Stealth buckles, and Poron foam-padded handles in Tom Bihn’s Seattle factory. It’s pretty travel friendly with 11 organizational pockets, a back pocket that zips open to accommodate the handle of a roll-aboard, a quick-access boarding pass/map pocket and a folded foam laptop compartment that completely encases the laptop in 8mm-thick closed cell foam, available in three sizes designed specifically to fit Apple laptops (yes, it fits PCs too). They say it requires less than 3 seconds to be prepared in order to send the briefcase through the x-ray machine.

ProductDose: This can be filed under “simple thing that stuns me with its brilliance.” I don’t use ice so it never occurred to me that someone could innovate an ice tray. It’s a single mold where you pour in water, insert the inner cup, and freeze. You now have 21 oddly shaped ice cubes, or leave the inner cup and use it as an ice-cold holder for dips, sauces, beverage, etc. IceOrb [ProductDose]

The Mobile Technology Weblog: PhoneTag’s concept is simple: Those of us who would rather skip long, drawn-out voice messages by reading them instead of listening to them can have PhoneTag automatically transcribe voicemail to text and best of all this one works with all major U.S. carriers (including Verizon) and offers up unlimited voicemail storage. PhoneTag’s platform automatically converts voice messages to text and delivers them to customers via email and/or SMS text.

Silicon Alley Insider: Yes, newspapers are screwed. But that isn’t stopping some of them from coming up with some really interesting digital projects. So far we’ve seen the New York Times release a slew of cool gizmos and gadgets. But the Wall Street Journal’s Mobile Reader is easily our favorite to date.

PRWeb Release: Imagine a package as red as an apple and just as biodegradable. PWP Industries has recently launched a colorful new series of biodegradable packaging, AgroResin® Rainbow, expanding its AgroResin® fiber composite packaging portfolio. “The variety of vibrant colors opens up exciting new possibilities for the use of the already popular packaging,” says Scott Sanders, Director of New Business Development, PWP Industries. “The intense and undeniably attractive colors of the AgroResin® Rainbow series have been specially formulated to accentuate the packaging of food and produce to enhance their marketing appeal.” The Rainbow series, available in many shapes, sizes and colors, is permeable to air, water and grease resistant, and microwaveable. “The development of the Rainbow series makes AgroResin® a great sustainable - yet cool - choice of packaging for perishable produce, quick-service, frozen, and deli food applications,” explains Dr.

What do sex, drugs and software have in common? They are the top three things purchased off spam email. Often these goods are pirated, counterfeit, or cheap knock-offs that would be difficult to come by through the legitimate market. More than 150 billion spam messages circulate daily, accounting for more than 85 percent of the total number of emails sent throughout the world. The sheer volume of spam consumes an enormous amount of bandwidth and remains one of the Internet’s biggest security problems

First there is good food. Then there is good food and great entertainment. Genghis Grill has a stir fry for everyone Whether you’re into beef or chicken, no matter what veggies you want, they can put together the perfect stir fry for you and cook it right in front of you.

If you’re a mom who has dreamed of owning your own successful business, then you might find the right opportunity within More Organized Mom . Of course drive alone won’t get you through it. Someone with the right knowledge and the will to grow MOM into what it has the potential to become is exactly what this business needs. The real question would be, is that you? I got an opportunity to talk with Angie Morris, the mom behind MOM, to find out what it is that she’s looking for

Epidemix: If not for the musical group, the Beatles, we wouldn’t have CT scans, aka CAT scans, the advanced medical scanning technology that lets your doctor see how badly your bones are broken. Here’s the backstory: in the 1960s, a middle-aged engineer named Godfrey Hounsfield was working at Electrical & Musical Instrument Ltd., where he began as a radar researcher in 1951. The company, known as EMI for short, was a typical industrial scientific company at the time, working on military technology and the burgeoning field of electronics. Hounsfield was a skilled but unexceptional scientist, leading a team that built the first all-transistor computer in 1958. Through its work in radar, the company began working in broadcasting equipment, which complimented its ownership of several recording studios in London

BusinessWeek: It was on the course in April, 2004, that Jennifer Glaspie realized she just hated her golf shorts. “They were heinous,” she says. When a friend suggested she start her own line, she responded, “You know, that’s not crazy.” She quit her consulting job, hired a designer from Chicago’s International Academy of Design & Technology, pulled $50,000 from personal savings, whipped up some samples, and several months later took her Aphira line to high-end pro shops