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Ventures, December 3

Ashley Acton, Rocky Mountain News

Published December 3, 2005 at midnight

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Binsi

Price: $40-$52

•Labor and birth apparel, maternity clothes

Where you can get it: Mama Mama Maternity in Longmont; and Becoming Mothers in Boulder

Business owner: Carri Grimditch

Location: Berthoud

Tidbits: Last spring, Carri Grimditch, a doula and mother, decided to take important matters into her own hands. She was pregnant with her second child and knew that she didn't want to wear an undignified hospital gown during labor. After talking with her friends and recruiting their mothers, she came up with a simple skirt and modified sports bra as solutions and they soon became her success. Friends and clients began asking Grimditch to make similar outfits for them.

"I decided to go ahead with it and start a business last April because I know that pregnant women all over the world can benefit from these clothes. I'm already doing what I want to do as a doula and now, I'm able to expand my passion for helping women in labor, even when I'm not there!" she said.

Binsi, the clothing line, was created to enable women to feel empowered, in control, comfortable and beautiful during their pregnancy, as well as in labor. The skirts and tops also were thoughtfully designed with the doctors and medical staff in mind. Flaps, buttons, snap and ties are located in just the right places for easy medical access, while keeping you covered up and, as Grimditch said, "looking cute."

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GameCycles.com at 3D Innovations

• NeoRacer game, portable video-game exercise bike

Price: $219

Where you can get it: or 1-877-GameCycles

Business owners: Lisa Daily and Lori Colburn

Location: Greeley

Tidbits: After Colburn's son was diagnosed with asthma, she decided to find a fun and effective way for him to exercise indoors. Colburn's sister, Lisa Daily, joined in the hunt. In 2000 the sisters formed 3D Innovations, which is the umbrella company for GameCycles.com. "The whole concept behind our company is to make exercise fun . . . for kids and adults." The Web site sells gaming-control devices that marry video games and cardiovascular exercise, such as the popular Dance, Dance Revolution.

The newest addition to the GameCycles.com lineup of exercise entertainment is called NeoRacer, a compact, and portable, fitness bike that is compatible with PlayStation, PS2 and most video games. If you're the competitave type and have a broadband connection, you can race in real time with fellow NeoRacing gamers around the globe.

For more information: http://3DInnovations.com/neoracer/1.877.GameCycles

Shift

• Self-help board game

Price: $39.95

Where you can get it: Boulder Book Store, Tattered Cover, A Quiet Corner, Tulalah Jones, Shop Composition, It's Your Move, 12th House

Business owner: Nicole Casanova

Location: Boulder

Tidbits: Chances are your family will gather this season to celebrate the holidays. Inevitably, board games will fly off their dusty shelves and be put into action. Shift, a new "self-help" board game, was created by Boulder resident Nicole Casanova, founder of the umbrella company Exponential Growth. The game is based on empowerment and enlightening principles and uses references from "the big thinkers" such as Gandhi, Buddha and Byron Katie.

"I was trying to create something that conveyed these lofty principles in a really fun and cool way. . . . I wanted to distill all of these universal principles into something that people who weren't lighting incense in Boulder or Berkeley could experience," she explains on the Web site.

For more information: 1-866-SHIFT01