Business Idea of the Day

Iconoculture: Consumers will soon be seeing some new names in the butcher case. The beef industry spent five years and $1.5 million studying the chuck roll, the area under the shoulder blade that’s normally turned into moderately priced steaks and chuck roast — and came up with five new products. Country-style Chuck Ribs are boneless and best braised, like a short rib

Trendwatching.com: Enabling customers of participating retailers to receive their packages wherever it’s convenient, PickupZone is a network of neighborhood pickup points, from convenience stores to dry cleaners. The company is currently active throughout the Boston area, but aims to expand farther afield in the near future.

Inhabitat: Via Lattea is a striking change from traditional padded furniture and also a significant upgrade from your college room blow-up chair. Low wattage lights are placed inside the pieces to emit a glowing light. While they may look like they belong in a nightclub instead of a living room, these pieces of recycled furniture require considerably less materials and resources to produce than your typical chair or couch

Just like any parent, when you get pet parents together they are going to chat about what they love most, their pets! The topic might be the best shampoo or the best place to shop for their products, but if you get together a few Shure Pets consultants, the topic is likely to be about business. Shure Pets gives pet lovers the opportunity to use a quality product and make a profit from it at the same time. Through their direct sales opportunity many individuals, like Sonya Lovine, have been able to work the hours that are most convenient for them and give their pets a party only they could enjoy. Tell us a little about Shure Pets. Shure Pets is the proud category innovator and nation’s leader in the distribution of pet products through independent sales representatives, known as Pet Consultants, and the hosting of at-home Pet Parties.

We’ve all seen the iPhone App Store TV commercials that basically proclaim there’s an app for everything you could ever possibly want to do. App For That , is a website that gives you a series of user submitted “App For That” jokes, which you can vote on, tweet out, email, or even submit your own. Photo by App For That . From Business Opportunities Weblog .

Philadelphia e-Commerce Examiner: In eBay’s early days, it was a place where buyers and sellers of collectible items congregated to conduct business. Eventually it grew into the “Sell Everything” site that we see today. The changes that eBay has made over the last couple of years in addition with future changes might very well send collectors to “niche” or “specialty” auction sites to buy and sell items with others who have a common interest. Niche sites can bring collectors of a similar interest together and these collectors can form the basis for a strong community. There are many different niche sites out there: • Mommy Auctions

Popular Science: When Michael Callahan was 17, he lost his short-term memory when he hit his head in a skateboarding accident. “The neural pathways were all wrong,” he recalls. Within weeks, he was back to normal, but the incident left him thinking, how could he help people who had permanently lost abilities that most of us take for granted? Five years later, he came up with the Audeo , a tiny device that detects electrical activity between the brain and vocal cords and turns it into audible speech. When we speak, three basic things happen: the lungs deliver air, the vocal cords vibrate to create sound, and the mouth moves.

Download Squad: You’re sitting comfortably in your plush chair at the multiplex, when suddenly you feel that twinge. A quick glance down at your 136-ounce cola and you instantly realize that nature is calling, and it’s urgent. You don’t have time to wait this time, but next time you can plan ahead for your restroom breaks with RunPee.com

Marcel Proust was a French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of ‘Remembrance of Things Past’. He spent most of his time in bed writing, in a room lined with cork to exclude noise. Apparently 71 percent of those responding to our poll agreed with Proust. 36 percent said YES , they have worked in bed

photo by Angie Carlson Last Sunday, I had a minor accident that as I attempted to remedy illustrated some basic failing that many small businesses suffer from. While weed whacking my yard , I shot a handful of small stones towards my house and broke my sliding glass door and another window. The outer pane of the windows shattered into a spiderweb of cracks, but the windows held and remained intact. I knew that since it was Sunday during Memorial Day weekend that there wasn’t really anything that could be done, so I waited until Tuesday morning to call anyone about it