Coffee with a text message

13-4-2012

A simple coffee machine built in an IKEA cabinet. Send a text message with “coffee” or “latte”and the Textspresso makes a cup of coffee for you. Soon, the machine also features a printer with edible ink, so you can get foam on your coffee.

Tasty cooking with insects – The Insect Cookbook

12-4-2012

Mid April the first Dutch insect cookbook will be available in stores, created by entomology professors Arnold van Huis and Marcel Dicke and cooking teacher Henk van Gurp. With recipes like grasshopper skewers, insect cookies, flower power insect salad and much more. In the Netherlands, insects are rare as a dish, but 80% of the world population eats insects. The ‘fruits de terre’ are full of proteins and have a much smaller environmental footprint. This cookbook provides besides recipes facts and figures about buying and preserving insects as well. It also features interviews with top chefs and growers.

Reusable brown paper bag

11-4-2012

Do you like the classic brown paper bag of bread, but you think it is annoying that you can use only once and that the bag will quickly tear apart. Try this new paper bag, the bag is insulated and therefore reusable and also good for the environment.

Make-up pallette

11-4-2012

A nice idea for Mother’s Day, a chocolate pallette. Christophe Roussel made ??a nice make-up set of edible chocolate, a nice alternative for the traditional box of chocolates.

Omelet and a waffle at once

11-4-2012

The ideal breakfast, an omelet with a waffle. It can now at the same time with the new ‘Warning Breakfast Express’.

Hugging for a Coca-Cola

10-4-2012

This vending machine of Coca-Cola distributed free drinks to everyone who hugged the machine. It was placed on a university in Singapore and it invited passengers with the lines ‘Hug Me!’

Volkswagen makes portrait of Dutch ‘oldest bakery

6-4-2012

Wim Hartog (88 years old)  become the Dutch ‘oldest bakery’. To honor Wim, Volkswagen made this beautiful portrait of the baker and his passion for the company for their 65-handyman campaign.

Pinterest campaign by Kotex

5-4-2012

Kotex released worlds first Pinterest campaign where they found 50 influential women on Pinterest and sent each one of them a personalized gift, based on their interests and passions. These gifts drove social commentary across Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Chocolate scented business card

5-4-2012

Choko La (chocolate chain in Delhi) designed chocolate scented business cards. The scent describes the company.

Replacement of the iPhone?

5-4-2012

“Google’s Project Glass ” is a ‘wearable computing device’, in this case glasses, which projects information directly on your vision. The glasses are controlable by voice commandos. Watch the movie to have a look in the future, where meetings with friends are made, how a route is mapped out and explored and how a view is shared with friends, all by voice.

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