Paying with fingerprint

12-6-2012

Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel uses all kind of modern techniques to facilitate their modern guests. August 2011 they were one of the first hotels to introduce RFID technique to facilitate easy acces to the Facebookpages of their guests. Now they have rolled out a biometric system of payments utilising PayTouch.

Natural juice bar

12-6-2012

This natural juice consists of various grass trays that can be extended. The artist Kacey Wong has developed the bar to stand in, he can mix the apples and wheat for a healthy juice.

Pizza at your doorstep

12-6-2012

Domino’s pizza ran a campaign at their home market. They used a door-to-door guerilla strategy, placing flyers under each door (half in, half out), in a way that is seemed real oven spatulas delivering straight from the oven inside the house. From the 2000 flyers, with 10% discount for the next order, 14,5% were redeemed and overall sales increased 12%. Advertising Agency: Artplan, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Treehouse rooms above the vinyard

12-6-2012

German tree house maker Baumraum has crafted luxurious cocoons for the Mendoza resort Entre Cielos. The futuristic pods are designed to be surrounded by nature, located amidst the foliage of actual vineyards.

Grand cafe Van Buuren opens in Leiden

11-6-2012

Recently Grand Café Van Buuren opened in the city center of Leiden (The Netherlands). The interior has classical and modern elements. There are classy paintings, a cozy fireplace as well as a modern wall painting and a set of turntables. The name of the café is partly inspired by DJ Armin van Buuren.

Smulpaapje kids menu

11-6-2012

The website smulpaapje.nl shows you restaurants in the Netherlands that have special menus for children. As a Dutch restaurantowner with special, healthy and great children menu’s, you should be mentioned on this website.

To drunk to sing = to drunk to drive

11-6-2012

To communicate a drink-driving message to some of the heaviest drinkers on St. Patrick’s Day, the karaoke lyrics of famous Irish drinking songs carried a sobering message. As karaoke always seems like a great idea to people who’ve had a few too many, the singers unwittingly spread the message, singing an SOS to call them a taxi home. Created by Saatchi & Saatchi Frankfurt, Germany.

100 % LED lights at lounge bar

11-6-2012

The ‘Rede van Dronten’ currently holds the 45th position of the Dutch café top 100. One of it’s areas has recently been renovated and transformed into ‘loungebar Tokyo’. The lights in this bar are 100% LED lights. As a result there is a significant drop in power and air-conditioning costs.

Sable fish

11-6-2012

The Sablefisch (Anoplopomatidae in Latin) or Black Cod is recently introduced in Belgium at the European Seafood Exposition. Interesting blog, about this fish, by Nick Trachet at Foodlog, unfortunately in Dutch.

ProefMei food event

8-6-2012

Bergen op Zoom (the Netherlands) is 800 years old and that should be celebrated! From 7 till 10 June are the ProefMei days. Here you can enjoy the local products.

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