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Dear christine,

Our latest edition is now online. Ideas featured this week:

Schedule online flight check-ins ahead of time
Tourism & travel / Life hacks

While being able to check in for flights online has made life easier for
airline passengers, it isn't always as convenient as it could be. Check
Me In solves that, for a small fee.

Recyclable Travelodge can be built in 12 weeks
Tourism & travel

Travelodge UK recently announced that they're building hotels made
of steel modules that resemble shipping containers, creating nearly
instant structures that can be disassembled and reused elsewhere.

Neighbourhood approach to renewable energy
Eco & sustainability / Homes & housing

Homes with wind & solar energy generators can find themselves with
surplus energy at some times but not enough at others. Qurrent could
help them share with neighbours, using a sophisticated server.

Navigation system gives drivers a visible lifeline
Automotive

Follow the red line: Virtual Cable has designed a dashboard display
that virtually 'paints' a line on the road ahead, showing directions
instead of speaking them.

Rice babies, weighed to measure
Lifestyle & leisure

Yosimiya sells bags of rice printed with a newborn's photo, name and
date of birth. The bags are shaped to resemble a swaddled infant and
contain the baby's exact weight in rice.

Starter kits for home-made cleaning products
Eco & sustainability

Besides kits for home cleaning, Eco-Me also sells kits for making
natural body, baby and pet products—all from natural, readily available
ingredients.

Social shopping meets interior design
Homes & housing / Media & publishing

Amateur interior designers can go all out on Design My Room,
decorating to their hearts' delight. Other consumers can tag along
and buy straight from an automatically populated shopping list.

Auto insurance by the mile
Automotive / Financial services

Consumers can now buy auto insurance in increments of a thousand
miles; when their odometer reaches the end of an increment, the
coverage expires. Pay as you drive!

Hotel as retail space
Retail / Travel & tourism

The Emerald 5 ShowTel is reportedly so named because it is meant
to be a showcase of environmentally responsible products. Virtually
everything a guest might see or touch in the hotel will be for sale.

Cartoon stardom for every child
Entertainment

Personalized DVDs make it possible for children to watch themselves
interact on screen with their favourite cartoon characters—from
Spiderman to Dora the Explorer.

Our next issue will arrive in your inbox on 23 January 2008. In the meantime, please
check out our daily posts.

Warm regards,

Liesbeth den Toom
Senior Editor
liesbeth@springwise.com

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16 January 2008 | This week's brightest new business ideas