Divorce Bar

16-3-2012

Jim Halfens opened a DivorceBar in Den Bosch (Netherlands) on Valentine’s Day (2012). The bar looks like an après-ski café and you’ll get a free cocktail if you show your certificat of divorce. Let’s celebrate life!

Vacuum shapeable chair

16-3-2012

Lapo Germasi, a 24-year-old Industrial Design student from Italy, designed the Inspiration Chair. The chair is made of an electro-welded PVC cube, low-density polyurethane balls and a suction valve. The Inspiration Chair can be suctioned into any preferred shape by a vacuum cleaner.

A special Easter egg

13-3-2012

Boil an egg – peel the egg and put it in the mold. Special for Easter.

Music inspired by cocktails

13-3-2012

How does the perfect cocktail sound? ABSOLUT VODKA and the Swedish House Mafia DJs collaborated on a global digital cocktail & music experience to answer that question. The result? ‘Greyhound’, the first house track inspired by ABSOLUT cocktail. The ABSOLUT GREYHOUND cocktail: 1 part Absolut vodka; 3 parts Grapefruit juice!

Chutney made of fruits and vegetables

12-3-2012

Rubies in the Rubble, number 26 in the list of the Observer newspaper’s “New Radicals” series, makes delicious chutney out of discarded fruits and vegetables found at wholesale markets. Watch the video for more information!

Decorative sugar

12-3-2012

These fun sugars from Chambre De Sucre are handcrafted by one of the oldest family-owned businesses in Japan with the highest quality sugar possible. Chambre De Sucre delivers worldwide.

Flaming cupcake

9-3-2012

Baked Alaska is a layered dessert consisting of cake, ice cream and sweet meringue. To make the blue-flame, turn down the lights and sprinkle a couple of tablespoons of warm brandy over each meringue-coated cupcake. Ignite with a grill lighter or a long fireplace match.
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Crescent Moon Tower Dubai

9-3-2012

The Crescent Moon Tower is a design project by Transparence House and is submitted to the 11th Thyssenkrup Elevator Architecture Award. This building design symbolizes Dubai as part of the islamic world and shows the technology and economic development in Dubai. The building accommodates a childrens library, a conference facility, a restaurant, multiple cafés and an open air observation platform. If the design will be build, it is said to be completed in 2015 along with it’s sister project the “Full Moon Hotel”, resembling the Death Star form Star Wars.

Purple strawberries

9-3-2012

A new purple strawberry ‘Purple Wonder’ was unveiled by the W. Atlee Burpee Company this week at the Philadelphia International Flower Show. The strawberry was actually bred by horticulturists at Cornell University but Burpee will have exclusive rights to market the plant to home gardeners.

Special beer for the Kaban at the Kapellerput

8-3-2012

The KABAN at the Kapellerput, Conference Hotel in the Netherlands is known to make a meeting session almost into a party. To celebrate this success they brewed a special triple beer together with The Fontein brewery. The result is a strong lager with 7,5% alcohol. Remarkable is the ingredient gale (herb), which grows on the banks of the pond and was often used in traditional beer. 

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