Art on electrical junction boxes
3-3-2011
Fortum is an electricity company in Sweden. Every year grafitti and vandalism to electrical junctionboxes cost the company over $1,5 million. Research shows that art in public places and a well maintained urban environment lead to increased safety and decreases vandalism. Fortum created the competition “Art on electrical boxes”. Anyone could upload their artwork and collect votes through social media. The artworks with the most votes were posted on electrical junction boxes throughout the city.
Japanese website gives away food for free
1-3-2011
Tada Yasai is a Japanese initiative to give away ‘left over’ food for free. For example products that do not meet the aesthetic demands of supermarkets. Members of the site pay the shipping fee and local farmers have the opportunity to ‘sell’ their products.
SODIS Solar Water Desinfection Method
16-2-2011
It sounds too good to be true, simply fill plastic bottles with water and UV-A rays kill all viruses, bacteria and parasites, known as SODIS (Solar Water Disinfection method). Problem is that it cann’t be checked if the water is really clean. Students of the University of Washington now developed the PotaVida, an electronic sensor that can determine if the water is clean or not.
A floating and mobile hotel
12-2-2011
To make a Norwegian village more attractive for tourists, an international contest was set up. The Swedish architect company Jägnefält Milton came up with the idea to use the existing railway for riding hotelrooms. The rooms do float as well and can be stacked.
Machine to recycle office paper in toiletpaper
5-2-2011
The Japanese company Oriental has developed the White Goat, a machine that directly recycles office paper into toiletpaper.
Donate to charity via rounded-up credit card purchases
1-2-2011
Pennies is an organization that allows online buyers to round up their purchase by credit card or debit card and donate the difference to charity. Dominos Pizza, Zizzi Pizza and TravelLodge have already joined.
WHAI WHAI app as city guide
14-1-2011
The city guides of WHAI WHAI lets tourists explore the city. By sending a text message and set the duration, difficulty level and start location, the game begins. The participant will receive different enigmas while walking through the city, and gets a part of the story that is told about the city every time.
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.
Intelligent street lightening
2-12-2010
Within one year an area of Eindhoven will have intelligent streetlighting. These are streetlights that burn brighter when someone passes by. It saves energy this way. In which area in Eindhoven the lights will be hung is not yet known.
Starbucks supports Worlds Aids Day
2-12-2010
On World AIDS Day, Starbucks donated 5 cents from every coffee sold to (RED). With the action “Share a red cup” Starbucks hopes to raise much money for this charity. Through the website of Starbucks it is possible to buy a ‘red cup’ for all your friends on Facebook.
