Based in London, Made feel that consumers are currently not getting the best deal and have to pay top prices so long as they [...]]]> Made.com, (you should look at their website), are an innovative company that allow shoppers to select and order designer furniture at near factory prices by cutting out the high street middle men.

Based in London, Made feel that consumers are currently not getting the best deal and have to pay top prices so long as they are at the mercy of the high street chains. Made, by stripping out the middle man, are taking on the retail giants and offer original furniture design at affordable prices, with savings of up to 80%.

Furniture Made For You

In support of their objectives Made say they are obsessive about design and passionate about their customers offering only handpicked furniture items manufactured and delivered to strict quality control guidelines. Made source globally from specialist, trusted furniture makers who often produce for designer brands.

Unusually consumers can visit Made’s Lab section. Here you can vote for the furniture that you like and in this way the most popular items are selected to be made available to order.

Made believe that good furniture is worth waiting for and as such all items are produced to order and delivered to the UK, a process that takes around ten weeks. Shoppers can monitor the progress of their orders by using Made’s real time tracking. Deliver is arranged so that it is convenient for the customers who are notified by SMS. Within fourteen days of delivery the customer has the right to return the furniture to Made so it is really a fail safe process.

This business model (and web site) gets my vote as one of the best and most refreshing I have seen in a while. Try it out.

Search For Bargains

We have all heard stories of shops and stores making pricing errors that have resulted in a few lucky buyers saving a stack of money when the purchase at the erroneous price.

Apnoti is a real time price search engine gathering product prices in real time for the German, American and [...]]]>

Search For Bargains

We have all heard stories of shops and stores making pricing errors that have resulted in a few lucky buyers saving a stack of money when the purchase at the erroneous price.

Apnoti is a real time price search engine gathering product prices in real time for the German, American and French markets. Apnoti is the first and only real time price search engine on the planet. On-line stores sign up with Apnoti enabling them to reach a huge number of potential buyers. The search engine crawls over sixty five million products from more that ten thousand on-line stores that have signed up with them.

Apnoti are able to provide potential purchasers with price trends from the past four weeks and, importantly, current prices generated within the last few seconds. Most price comparison services can only provide current prices generated on a daily basis.

Apnoti have discovered that sudden price drops, sometimes as high as ninety percent, occur quite regularly and these price drops are most often due to a retailer error. German buyers can take advantage of these mistakes through Preispanne.de, which translates as price breakdown. Preispanne offers an email alert service which notifies subscribers of price drops greater than 50% within selected product categories. The subscribers can seize these mega bargains before the retailer has a chance to correct the pricing error.

Surely there are opportunities here for entrepreneurs to set up webstores using information provided by Preispanne and Apnoti?

design computer gaems

YoYo Games allows aspiring computer game designers to create, share and play games online – just for the fun of it even if the creators have no programming experience.

Game designers start by downloading the free Game Maker software. The software allows you to create professional looking games without having to write code. [...]]]>

design computer gaems

YoYo Games allows aspiring computer game designers to create, share and play games online – just for the fun of it even if the creators have no programming experience.

Game designers start by downloading the free Game Maker software. The software allows you to create professional looking games without having to write code. Game Maker uses easy drag and drop to create games with backgrounds, animated graphics, music, sound effects and even 3D. Game maker comes fully loaded with freeware images and sounds and you can unlock extra functions.

For $25 those who have developed a more serious interest can purchase the Pro Edition of Game Maker which produces games that are free of advertising.

Those with more experience can move onto a built-in programming language which provides more flexibility and scope.

Once you have produced your game you can share your game with other Yoyo users,  currently there over twenty five thousand shared games. You can even burn your games on a CD and sell them.

Loo Seat Covers

Toletta claim that their loo seat covers are twenty [...]]]> If you have ever worried about the germs lurking on the seats of public toilets then relax and relieve yourself safe in the knowledge that the solution is here – Toletta. Toletta produce, market and distribute top quality paper toilet seat covers.

Loo Seat Covers

Toletta claim that their loo seat covers are twenty percent larger and almost as half as thick again as their competitors yet they remain discreet, flushable, biodegradable and safe to use in septic tank systems.

Their larger size helps prevent skin contact with the loo seat and the greater thickness helps provide more protection against germs that may be lurking on the rest room seat.

Tolettas come in small stylish packs, each containing five seat covers and will easily fit in your hand bag or pocket. They come in two colours, pink and blue, each colour supporting a different charity as part of their profits goes to worthwhile causes. The pink charity goes to breast cancer and the blue child poverty awareness.

Tolettass are currently available though retailers in Canada, USA, UK, Ireland and South Africa or directly from their website www.toletta.com. Prices start at $1.49 a pack.

AlertMe have released a range of easy self install, home security alarm and energy monitoring systems.

AlertMe components fulfil the usual window, door, motion and smoke monitoring functions using self install, wireless sensors linked to a central hub. Installation does not require any drilling as the sensors are simply placed around [...]]]>

Security and Energy Monitoring Systems

AlertMe have released a range of easy self install, home security alarm and energy monitoring systems.

AlertMe components fulfil the usual window, door, motion and smoke monitoring functions using self install, wireless sensors linked to a central hub. Installation does not require any drilling as the sensors are simply placed around the home. The hub is connected to the householder’s broadband connection. In the event of an emergency the system immediately sends data via the Internet connection to AlertMe who in turn alert the home owner via mobile phone. If the Internet connection is down then a GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) takes over sending information to 2G cellular phones.

AlertMe have now added energy monitoring to their range of components. The new technology, Smart Plugs, plugs into any electrical socket and uses the same hub as their security system. The Smart Plugs can then monitor and control any device connected through it. Users can see both live and historical energy use by the devices.

Smart Plugs are definitely smart. Then can automatically turn on and off lights and other devices, can alert users when an appliance fails, can turn of equipment when the owner leaves the house and turn on such things as kettles when they come back in.

AlertMe security kits start from 49 pounds sterling

Global Electric Motorcars, based in North Dakota, produce a range of GEM cars which are in essence converted, street legal, electric golf carts. These small electric vehicles are becoming ever more popular in city neighbourhoods and are increasingly forming an essential part of the community.

Particularly popular in retirement communities the GEMs [...]]]>

Eco NEV

Global Electric Motorcars, based in North Dakota, produce a range of GEM cars which are in essence converted, street legal, electric golf carts. These small electric vehicles are becoming ever more popular in city neighbourhoods and are increasingly forming an essential part of the community.

Particularly popular in retirement communities the GEMs offer all the ecological benefits of larger electric vehicles but at a fraction of the cost. Neighbourhood Electric Vehicles or NEVs are no longer straightforward golf buggy conversions but are being customised to prove that their owners have street cred and an environmental conscience.

Look Out We're Coming

GoNev provides a range of accessories to boost the NEV’s power output and top speed. By hacking the engines and increasing wheel size top speeds now exceed twenty miles per hour. How long before NEV drag racing takes off? A Google search for images of NEVs produces an almost bewildering range of pimped up cars including those that look like miniature fire trucks, roadsters and stretched limos.

Another advantage of these green machines is that normally a driver’s licence is not required though insurance and vehicle registration are. GEM prices start from as low as $3,600 including available tax credits

A Funny Wedding Moment

The newlyweds begin the process [...]]]> Olapic, a Columbia Business School start up enterprise gives newlyweds the chance to gather together those photo gems that were snapped by their wedding guests. The photos can then be shared among everyone and printed to remind them and their guests of that extra special day.

A Funny Wedding Moment

The newlyweds begin the process by creating a profile on Olapic some time before their wedding day, they then upload the email addresses of their guests. Olapic follows this by sending an email to those on the list reminding them to bring their cameras and be ready to snap.

Following the day, Olapic requests guests to upload their wedding photos to the newlyweds site. The photos are not made public until the couple decides that they are suitable to be shared with the select list of guests or the world at large. This can be achieved by Olapic itself, Facebook, Flickr or Picasa.

Olapic also facilitates the downloading of high-quality images in bulk and, additionally, offers printing and album production services.

Olapic offers a free trial of up to one hundred photos. The newlyweds can then elect to take the $99 option which allows unlimited photos that can be stored online for a year and sends one hundred quality reminder cards to their guests. Extending the storage time for another year costs $25.

Professional photographers are not excluded as they have the chance to offer an additional service by including the guest’s photos in besides their own.

You can now download a portfolio of photos from the Internet and place them on a tough, polyester, water and crumple resistant material that can be delivered anywhere in the world.

The Dutch company Memolio allows you to upload twenty four images either from your own computer, from Flickr Pro or your Picasa [...]]]>

Mini Photo Albums

You can now download a portfolio of photos from the Internet and place them on a tough, polyester, water and crumple resistant material that can be delivered anywhere in the world.

The Dutch company Memolio allows you to upload twenty four images either from your own computer, from Flickr Pro or your Picasa photo album. Once uploaded you are able to edit each photo, arrange the order in which they are viewed and select the albums colour, title and description thereby making it your own. See a demo

Once you are happy with your arrangement you can preview your portfolio and save it. You can then elect to share your album or make it fully public.

Not only can you share your new creation on-line but you can order a hard copy for 14.99€, which includes tax and shipping around the world. Your print copy is 103mm x 62mm and 5mm thick making it pocket sized and easily portable.

The Memolios have a multitude of uses both personal and for business such as promotional brochures, guides, portfolios and teaching material.

It wasn’t so long ago that everyone was in a hurry to get everything on-line, now the opposite is happening with more and more ideas to get stuff from the on-line world back into the real world.

*emera’s elegant, quilted camera bags are designed to be both fashionable and practical. Beautiful on the outside they are strongly made and [...]]]> Camera equipment bags are almost always drab and unsightly affairs, best hidden under the seat. Now that has all changed with *emera’s camera and lens bag for the fashion conscious about town lady photographers.

*emera’s elegant, quilted camera bags are designed to be both fashionable and practical. Beautiful on the outside they are strongly made and water resistant. They are partitioned and padded to protect expensive and delicate cameras, lenses and other photographic gear.

High Fashion Camera Bags

Inside, the *emera bag has dividers that can be arranged to suit your cameras, lenses and other accessories. There are also smaller pockets for those all important memory cards and other miniature accessories.

Prices start at $149 for the canvas design rising to $169 for the quilted design. At these prices no fashion conscious photographer should be without them.