Muru, the first pop-down restaurant
28-8-2012
In September 2012, the world’s first pop-down restaurant will open in a unique mining environment in Tytyri, Lohja. The restaurant is located 80 meters below the ground and during the evening you can go as down as 350 meters underground. The journey to the depths of the Earth is made using KONE’s test laboratory lifts. Chosen as restaurant of the year 2012 in Finland, Muru will bring its unique atmosphere, delicious food and excellent staff to Tytyri for two weeks. Down-to-earth food will be on offer in Muru’s signature style, in the spirit of a “mining canteen”.
A nice treat for breakfast
28-8-2012
the picture does it! For all pancake lovers, a great way to start your day with a smiley pancake!
Home made music instruments
27-8-2012
MTV and Sony Experia launch a new phone line by the slogan ‘Made of Imagination’. Key element of this campaign is that nobody can live without music. Creative producers are invited to send in music videos with their home made instruments.
Bubble Coffee and Tea at 8tea5
24-8-2012
Bubble Tea retailer 8tea5 in The Hague has Bubble Coffee on the menu from today on. Entrepreneur and initiator Herdjie Zhou creates the bubble coffee from freshly roasted coffee beans, soy milk and tapioca balls from cassave.
Lapka food sensor for iPhone
24-8-2012
The Lapka is expected to be available in the last quarter of 2012. It combines four sensors with an iPhone app. The sensors can measure if food is organic, but also humidity, electromagnetic fields and radioactivity.
Doritos Late Night Skip or Trip
24-8-2012
Doritos has developed an online game map where you can form a ‘traingle’ with two strangers. The invited strangers have 9 hours to ‘Skip’ or ‘Trip’ you. If someone skips, the game starts all over again. If all two invites ‘trip’ you have a chance to go on a Late Night Triangle Trip to Moscow, Istanbul and Berlin.
Paper straws
23-8-2012
London still fights the use of plastic straws through ‘Straw Wars’ and we see alternatives becoming more and more popular in various cities around the world. The paper straw makes a revival and for more extravagant drinkers a meat straw is the best alternative.
Northern light from a glass igloo
22-8-2012
The Northern Light is one of the most mysterious natural phenomonas. To avoid the freezing cold while looking into the sky you can visit the Igloo Village Kakslauttanen, where glass igloos make the spectacle a lot more comfortable.
D Pet Hotel New York
21-8-2012
New York offers a new hotel. Not just a hotel, but a hotel specially for dogs, called D Pet Hotels, which opened already in Hollywood. The hotel features rooms with full-size beds, flat-screen tv’s, but as well a doggy gym, a lounge and even a spa which offers several treatments.
Silicone leaf plate
20-8-2012
Serve dishes in an original way with this silicon leaf plate. The leaves are designed by Noa Tamure for the Museum of Modern Art in New York and are dishwasher-, oven- and microwave-safe.
