If youre a beer enthusiast with an iPhone, Opena has created a unique phone case you will love. All you need to do is slide out the bottle cap opener and — pop — your beer is ready to drink, reports Inventor Spot.

Now, thanks to some enterprising young beer-swillers from Down Under, you can open your bottled beer with the same iPhone that you used to get to your destination station. The Opena iPhone case makes it easy to remove bottle caps from bottles, beer bottles specifically, with a sliding, stainless steel bottle opener.

Those of you more cynical martini types will likely ask, But what about the beer that gets all shaken up before being opened? Won

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New Zealand stocks rose, with Methven Ltd. leading gainers on the exchange after forecasting a 90% increase in profit in the coming year, while Heartland New Zealand Ltd. fell.

The NZX 50 Index rose 26.02 points, or 0.8%, to 3,447.36. Within the index, 31 stocks rose, 12 fell, and seven were unchanged. Turnover was $97.2 million. On the week, the index rose 1.2%.

Methven, the tapware manufacturer, rose 6.8% to $1.57 after it said it expected to make a $9 million profit for the year ending March 2012, while net debt will drop 20%.

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If you want to make some money, tap into something a starving college student will pay for. That is exactly what Amazon is doing with their recent digital textbook rental launch.

Students who cannot afford to buy their textbooks can now rent the digital version for a set price with a minimum rental period of 30 days, reports The Kansas City Star.

Amazon.com Inc. on Monday said it launched a program in which college students can rent digital copies of tens of thousands of textbooks at a fraction of the cost of buying them.

The online retailer said the rental fees could be as much as 80 percent lower than the purchase price.

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The dollar weakened ahead of a meeting of European officials later in the week as expectations build for a positive outcome. Greek Prime Minister Papandreou has already coined the outcome as a make-or-break event for the zone although he doesn’t seem to know much more than the rest of us. In the meantime investors continue to flood back into equities, inspired by strong earnings growth adding to pressure on the dollar where an earlier positive mood is falling by the way side.

Euro – The euro continued on a second day of gains as dealers felt assured that an EU summit on Thursday would deliver some sort of lasting resolve for the Greek debt situation. In Read more…

Apple’s solid profits failed to take away investors’ concern about the political wrangling in the U.S. over raising the nation’s debt ceiling, needed for the world’s largest economy to stave off default.

In afternoon trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged 0.09% higher and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rose 0.21%. The Nasdaq, however, fell 0.17%.

Apple’s stock rose to another record on its stellar quarterly earnings reported yesterday.

“There was some profit-taking this morning, but it’s over now,” Frank Lesh, a futures analyst and broker at FuturePath Trading LLC in Chicago, told Reuters. “Right now, the U.S. debt deal is the re

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• No data of any note focusses Euro market on Thursday’s emergency summit

• Interest hikes in UK and a cut in Australia – whatever next?

There is a distinct lack of macro data due to be released today and therefore the markets attention will no doubt return to events in the Eurozone as rifts among European policy makers further undermine the Euro. Investors will be anxiously awaiting the outcome of the emergency summit on Thursday and Friday. Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor , has warned that she will only attend if there is going to be an agreement on a new rescue plan for Greece and that she also wants private investors to make a major contribution.

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When you consider the cost of checking in your luggage, Andrew Gaules invention seems very appropriate. Although some people would never want a coat with pockets for cargo, people who need just a little extra space for their travel supplies can find refuge in the Rufus Roo.

Andrews unique coat offers fliers some extra space for travel supplies when they cannot afford the cost of an additional bag, reports Mail Online.

But I got fed up of seeing people having to pay a lot of money to check their bags, or completely repack all their luggage at the check-in just because they inadvertently fell foul of the rules.

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