Dieting
Coming soon: the Angry Birds diet. One study shows that boys consumed 50 fewer calories, following a game of Angry Birds, than they did at a meal that wasn’t preceded by the game.
3D Printing
A new market for 3D printing: 3D printing photographs for the blind.
Offices
IKEA has just released a new sit/stand version of their BEKANT desk that can be adjusted from 22 to 48 inches in height at the push of a button. Standing desks are a trend to get in front of.
Everyone home and business already has a smoke detector, and a carbon monoxide detector. What’s next in the detector business? Gun fire detectors.
Cars
Valet parking? There’s an app for that.
Ebola
Proving that there are markets in everything, one company profiting from the Ebola outbreak, sells ebola plush toys.
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