Starkbucks will introduce a new logo

5-1-2011

In the spring of this year Starbucks will introduce their new logo. The name “Starbucks Coffee” will disappear and the mermaid will be set free from her circle in order to give people a “more free” feeling. The new logo looks simpler, but Starbucks expects that the logo will be eazier to recognize.

Church, brewery and restaurant by Jopen Beer

5-1-2011

The brewery Jopen in Haarlem has a new home. It is not just a church where a brewery is located, but it’s also a restaurant and a grand café. This allows guests to whitness the brewing process with their own eyes, during their meal or while enjoying their drink.

mTrip Travel Guide

4-1-2011

The mTrip Travel Guide is designed to make traveling easy and fun. The app is available for the iPhone and iPad, the guide plans a trip along different attractions, restaurants, bars, etc. based on your personality. The app is partly composed by experts and partly realized by other users.

Exclusive Whiskey from Macallan

3-1-2011

 The Scottish whiskey maker Macallan will soon release an exclusive whiskey. It is a whiskey that is distilled in 1946. The bottles are produced in honor of an upcoming collaboration with Albert Watson. A single bottle will cost $16.000,=. Only 36 bottles will be made.

Restaurant guide with QR-codes

1-1-2011

The Italian website 2spaghi.it has published a restaurant guide which is linked to online reviews, the SpagoGuida 2011. The guide contains over 1,000 restaurants in Italy. Each restaurant has a so-called QR (Quick Response) code that can be scanned with a smartphone. This way it is possible to read different reviews from other guests and to post your own review.

Iphone cookie

29-12-2010

For those who can not get enough of the iPhone, there’s now an edible version. A small bakery in Japan now makes the “iPhone Cookie”. The biscuit is made of chocolate biscuit and comes with various colorful and edible applications!

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.

Innovative wine glass by Alvaro Uribe

20-12-2010

Designer Alvaro Uribe has designed a wine glass. The glass is introduced at the Tipsy Wineglass Conceot Testing at the MOMA in San Francisco. Good wine is tested by his look, smell and taste. This glass’s head tips forward, to give acces to the best qualities of the wine.

Wine vending machines of Walmart

16-12-2010

Selling wine in a supermarket in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania is illegal, unless the wine is sold with the help of vending machines. A new innovative vending machine only sells wine to people who did an alcohol test and had their driverslicense scanned and had their identity verified.

 

Robot-waiters

14-12-2010

The Chinese Restaurant “Dalu Rebot” uses six robots to serve food and drinks to the tables. The robots follow a fixed route laid down in the restaurant. The idea behind these “restaurants robots” comes from the Shandong Dalu Science and Technology Company.

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