Meetingspot.nl

12-2-2010

Meeting Spot is the first Dutch demand-driven marketplace to meeting, convention and event venues.

Restaurant in The Museum of Arts and Design

12-2-2010

In The Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Restaurant The Robert openend on the top floor. Besides the modern décor and modern lighting and acoustics, the restaurant is overlooking Central Park and Broadway among others.

Online shopping with an extra touch

12-2-2010

This wireless device allows Internet shoppers to feel the structure of  garments or other products and smell products through scented cartridges. This allows a webshopper to better determine whether a particular product meets his or her demands.

Bar Battle Zandvoort 2010

10-2-2010

In Zandvoort, The Netherlanfs, three restaurants (Laurel & Hardy, The Klikspaan and Fame) initiated the Bar Battle. For 1 week,12 teams take over a bar. The teams are judged on promotion activities, special offers professionalism and skills. There are teams of the police force, de local tourist information office, drivers and other groups.

sleeping in the swimmingpool

3-2-2010

An air mattress in the pool has been around for years. But a real bed, with sun protection that can be comfortable for two people is surely something new.

Forward a good deed

2-2-2010

Boom Boom printed 26 good deeds on  small cards (for example buy a cup of coffee for a stranger). The idea is to pass these cards to friends or strangers. Through the site, people can share their experiences through pictures and videos. The card can also be followed through the site to track how many times the card is forwarded.

 

Ice Hotel in Quebec

1-2-2010

 Recently the only ice hotel in North-America opened in Canada. 15,000 tons of snow and 500 tons of ice were needed to build the Ice Hotel in Quebec. The hotel has 36 rooms and is only open until April.

Extend opening hours bij text message

31-1-2010

The city of Rotterdam has recently received the innovation award for public services for the project ‘Verlaatje by SMS’. This project gives clubowners the ability to quickly and easily request exemption from the curfew via textmessages. Businessowners may request to their company to keep open until 06:00 ten times a year via textmessages, instead of a written permision two weeks in advance.

Car sharing

31-1-2010

‘Relay Rides’ calls itself as the first company which offers “person-to-person car-sharing offers. The website allows people with cars to earn money by lending it to other people. Car owners may register through the website, then a mechanic will install a chip so that tenants can easily borrow the car keys without having to ask. Through the website, the carowner can publish what days and at what times tha car can be rented.

 

Urban garden

26-1-2010

Urban and private gardens are getting increasingly popular. With Urbgarden people can create a vertical garden of herbs at home. The worm colony fertilized the earth and makes sure it’s recycled in a biological way.  

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