The Crystal Cube from Fiss, Austria

3-1-2011

In the Crystal Cube guests can enjoy a culinary meal and winterscenes at an altitude of 2600 meters. Because the Crystal Cube has glass on all sides, guests will have a wonderful view on the different peaks and the clear blue sky. The menu includes champagne and fresh oysters in lime juice and beef tartare with toast and butter.

Friday Night Takeout

2-1-2011

The London freelance chef Frank Hannon has launched his own take-out service, “Friday Night Takeout”. Every Friday the chef sells different meals from home. People can choose to have the meals delivered between 17:00 hour and 19:30. Hannon also prepares vegetarian meals on request.

Macaron shower gel

29-12-2010

The known Macaron cookies are now also available as a shower gel. The French cosmetics company Le Club des Createurs de Beauté teamed up with astry Chef Christophe Felder to develop a number of shower gels. The showegel is only available in France and is available int the flavors: vanilla, cherry, chocolate, mint, blueberry and orange blossom.

Welcome Home Box Bio

28-12-2010

 Welcome to the home box is for people who com back from their holiday. It is a food box that is deliverd to your door, or to your neighbours, at a certain time. The contents of the box include: milk, bread, eggs and fruit. All products in the Welcome Home box are organic.

Fly 2 Miami with KLM and Twitter

27-12-2010

DJs, promoters and other people in the music industry thought it was about time KLM Rpyal Dutch Airlines started offering direct flights to Miami. Therefore, they made a bet with the Twitter team of KLM. When ‘Fly2Miami could get more than 351 passengers via Twitter, KLM would arrange a flight. After five hours the flight on March 21st was already booked. Currently there are already over 450 registrations for the flight to Miami.

Sushi Bonbons

26-12-2010

Following the previously introduced sushi sorbet the Japanese delicacy is now available as a bonbon.

Toothpaste predicting the weather

24-12-2010

David Carr of MIT Media is currently developing a toothpaste that indicates the weather while you’re brushing. The project is called “Tastes Like Rain” and it works with a microcontroller connected to an online network of weatherdata. When the weather is colder than the day before the toothpaste taste like mint, cinnamon when it’s warmer.

Dutch restaurant Iphone app

24-12-2010

The Dutch Restaurantguide “Lekker” introduced an app for all the restaurants listed in their magazine. The app provides an overview of the 500 best restaurants in the Netherlands.

Gift a follower

23-12-2010

At “gift a follower” tweeps and facebooker can treat their followers and fans to a present. The cost? 1 dollar per “internet surprise bag”. The sender does not know whats in the bag. Besides small presents, it is also possible that people do receive an iPad.

Bombay Sapphire Swarocski

22-12-2010

Travelers at the airport in Sydney have a chance to buy a special Bacardi Bombay Sapphire bottle, decorated with thousands of Swarovski crystals. There only four bottles and they have a value of $ 3.960,=. The sale lasts until January 6 (2011) and the bottles do come in a white leather case.

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