Groupon is one of several companies offering consumers some amazing deals and changing the way businesses market themselves along the way.

Find The Words.  (a fun break for your brain)

Introducing the Philips Fluid smartphone, latest innovation on function and form.

Would cost you $9,900 with the new proposed cost of helium. The question has been asked, have we reached peak helium? “Helium is a non-renewable material here on earth. About 80% of global reserves are in the American Southwest, created as a by-product of refining natural gas. Dr. Richardson recommends raising prices drastically, so a helium balloon would run around $100, to reflect the value of the gas inside.” Hence the expensive red balloons.

Or crunchy chip bag, whichever is louder, usually gets the attention. SunChips Eco Innovation is getting some negative attention in the the news lately. Sure the bag is loud, [it has a recorded a 95 decibel level], but it gets your attention, and that’s what we need to get a conversation started. We applaud SunChips for their incredibly loud bag. Now, why not come up with a quieter bag?

BRANDIMAGE has created the 360 Paper Bottles which are bottles made of 100% renewable paper. This idea has granted them an IDEA (International Design Excellence Award).

Explanation of the concept:

CHALLENGE
Each day, Americans throw out 60 million plastic bottles. Only 14% actually get recycled—meaning 86% become garbage or litter. We looked at this as a radical problem requiring an
equally radical solution. Could we design a container that would leverage sustainability, be
easy to transport, and enhance the consumer’s drinking experience?

SOLUTION
The 360 Paper Bottle is a sustainable vision of the future. It is the first totally recyclable
paper container made from 100% renewable resources. Versatile in its range of consumer
applications and made from food-safe and fully recyclable materials, it decreases energy
consumed throughout the product life cycle without sacrificing functionality. It is paper
packaging that stands up to all liquid categories.

Now that there is a functional solution, who will be the first?

Challenge the leaders: Coke, Pepsi, Deer Park

Why were playgrounds so boring for so long? And what’s suddenly changed? Imagination Playground!

Canadian startup Lymbix thinks it can help you avoid situations that come out of misinterpreted textual communication with the launch of a new service called ToneCheck.

Think of it as an emotional spell-check application.

The application gauges words and phrases against 8 levels of connotative feeling, enabling end users to make real-time corrections and adjust the overall tone of messages using a simple menu system. Text interpretation problems: solved.

Seventh Generation and Walmart are forming a strategic partnership that will see the non-toxic cleaning product company sell its products at 1,500 Walmart stores and on Walmart.com. Positive, the masses have access to non-toxic cleaning supplies. Negative: Seventh Generation could theoretically back out of the partnership. Hollender warned on his blog, “Certainly any retreat on [Walmart's] social or environmental progress would trigger some rethinking. Our positions on responsibility, accountability, and transparency aren’t subject to change, and we expect our partners to keep working toward these goals.”

Instead of spending millions to widen roads, the Shenzhen Huashi Future Parking Equipment company is developing a “3D Express Coach” (also called a “three-dimensional fast bus”) that will allow cars less than 2 meters high to travel underneath the upper level carrying passengers.