Clever cutting board

1-5-2012

Very clever cutting board! Scaling your food whilst cutting. This cutting board features a scale.

Playing chess with shot glasses

1-5-2012

A funny way of playing a game of checkers…

Sandwiches and cakes on two weels

1-5-2012

The owner of the French company Tifamade combined her two passions, good food and biking. She delivers home-made sandwiches and cake by bike. A nice idea for a summer afternoon pick nick or a party.

1 – and 2-star hotels examined

27-4-2012

Van Spronsen & Partners has examined the 1- and 2- star hotels in the Netherlands. Only available in Dutch.

Hamster Hotel

27-4-2012

In Nantes a French entrepreneur Yann Falquerho came up with a hamster hotel. In the hotel you can experience a hamster life. The hotel rooms look like a hamster cage with bed of straw, giant hamster wheels, hamster food and a fountain with only water.

Bubble lamp

27-4-2012

A bubble is brief, and bursts at your touch. But while it lasts, it catches the light and reflects the room like a multi-coloured

temporary structure. Front Design, Nacho Carbonell and Formafantasma created a bubble lamp which works for 50.000 hours. In the time it takes the LED to burn out, the lamp will have had 3 million different globe shades.

Queen’s Day inspiration: orange sushi

27-4-2012

In Rotterdam (The Netherlands) the Iizo sushi café prepares a robot to make only orange sushi for Queen’s Day. The sushi will be in orange shells made of soy or have a layer of orange fish eggs.

Hoppit, a new dining-out search engine

26-4-2012

Hoppit is the first site which provides a dining-out search engine which filters its results based on the ambience of restaurants. Based in Manhattan and currently available in 25 cities in the US, each restaurant in the Hoppit database is tagged with one of ten “vibes” or types of atmosphere. These include ‘classy & upscale’, ‘hipster’, ‘romantic’ and ‘cozy & quaint’, among others.

A culinary diner at a Dutch farm

26-4-2012

Organic farmers throughout The Netherlands (33 locations) welcome guests at their farm. To get familiar with organic farming and enjoying a delicious meal at their farm. As from May 12th.

A recovery package

26-4-2012

New York’s The Pierre hotel and a local plastic surgeon-in-chief Dr. Robert Grant, created a luxury post-operative recovery package. The Pierre Hotel recently underwent a USD 100 million renovation it is now offering woman the luxury and privacy during their recovery. They updated 189 guestrooms and suites as well as the hotel’s banquet and public spaces.

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