Compact Espresso Press is a Bold Adventurer- Let's Catch Up #19
Smart electric retail shelf labels, Wildhood's sustainable packaging for deodorants, Volkswagen EV personalisation, Red Bull engineer scooters, CAKE sustainable EV dirt bikes and beautiful liqueur
Over the last 18 weeks I have been seeing and talking to a lot of startups. Being part of a startup is an amazing experience but comes with a lot of challenges. Resources, funding, time, pitching, it's a side hustle and you have to be a jack of all trades, all of which can see you stretched very thin. But the ideas, enthusiasm and willingness to change the world is an opportunity that cannot be missed. So this week I’m sharing some resources for start-ups, so if you have an idea why not start it up…
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Portable, Lightweight Wacaco Minipresso Ensures Coffee Can Go Anywhere
PRODUCT DESIGN
For the coffee lovers, never be left without coffee on your camping expeditions. This novel, compact design weighs only 285 grams and can easily fit into any bag, backpack or even a jacket pocket. The beautiful appearance of modern minimalism with added colour to accent the functional parts of the product ensures that this is home with the outdoor environment while hiking, camping or adventuring into the wilderness. Not only is this lightweight and well designed but it brings added safety with a double walled chamber to help hot surfaces as well as thought for impact on environment via its outer shell being composed of a wheat-composite polymer to replace traditional petrochemical based plastics.
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Smart Shelf Labels Coming to Dan Murphy’s
TECHNOLOGY
Credit Insidefmcg
Soon you will be seeing Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs) in a Dan Murphy’s near you! These electronic displays on shelf will allow for quick and efficient shelf and labeling changes to support activations in store for customers, such as price beats. Additionally these electronic labels will enable customers to engage with the labels and access additional information on the products they are interested in.
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Oz Beauty Start-up Leads With Non-Toxic Beauty Product and 100% Recycled Packaging
PACKAGING
Credit Mywuldhood.com.au
Great to see some Australian brands making the change to better pack solutions with Wildhood who sell the deodorants in 100% post consumer recycled plastic canisters. But they didn’t stop there, thinking about their full value proposition, they extended this better pack thinking to include their secondary packaging that is 100% waste recycled paper as well as having non-toxic vegetable inks used on pack.
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Wildhood Website
VW Adds Personalisation to EV Mini Bus
AUTOMOTIVE
Credit Volkswagen
Personalisation for vehicles normally comes via the choice of extras or after market parts. This welcome exploration of how vehicles can be personalised to the customer is fantastic way to increase engagement and brand loyalty. Volkswagen have allowed for custom wraps to be applied to their new range of ID.Buzz coming in 2025.
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Red Bull Design Next Level Scooter
PRODUCT DESIGN
Credit Red Bull Racing/PR Newswire
F1 is the pinnacle of motor racing, with teams pushing the boundaries of the cars every race. Now that same level of precision engineering has been applied to the humble scooter. The RBS#01 mobility vehicle is the result of Red Bull Engineering and 2,500 hours of development. The RBS#01 boasts lightweight carbon fibre chassis, large kart tires to ensure grip at speed and surprisingly not electric power! Just a good old person powered scooter with no suspension to emulate the connection with the road similar to a Formula One car.
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EV Dirtbike CAKE Brings a Slice of Sustainability
AUTOMOTIVE
Credit CAKE
This 2023 throwback of a full electric dirt bike from manufacturers CAKE aimed to not only provide greener function mobility but also reduce the overall impact and carbon footprint. Aiming for a 2025 release and an ambitious claim of ‘most fossil free vehicle ever produced.’ The CAKE dirt bike’s thoughtful design and careful selection of materials using post consumer scrap metal has reduced its total aluminium footprint of 37% by 77-97%.
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