Together dinner via video link
6-6-2012
The Sichuan restaurant chain Hai Di Lao and electronics manufacturer Huawei are working together since September 2011. In the restaurant are interactive screens that enable guests to make contact via a video link with their friends or family in any of the other chains elsewhere in the country.
The Bang! lamp
5-6-2012
Made by Bitplay, it’s a novelty desk lamp that you turn on and by using a pistol-shaped remote control. Aim the gun, pull the trigger and the lamp turns on; do it again and it switches off. The styling and design are pretty conventional, so it looks just like any regular desk lighting furniture, but also fun in a hotel.
Fonckel lamp
5-6-2012
This Fonckel lamp is developed by Dutch designers. The lamp is fully adjustable with your fingers. Watch the movie about Fonckel.
Mayonaise recipes on the receipt
4-6-2012
As part of a recent ad campaign for Hellmann’s mayonaise in Brazil, recipes created to the just purchased ingredients were printed out on the store receipt. This action increased the sale of the mayonnaise to 44%.
Invisible campaign
1-6-2012
LYNX Anarchy created a marketing campaign for a new deodorant. The advertising is not visible to the naked eye, but only with polarized sunglasses. These sunglasses were distributed by LYNX to young passengers. A new way to create attention! Perhaps it is possible to create an invisible menu. Watch the video of LYNX.
We Want Cinema
1-6-2012
At the ‘We Want Cinema’ in the Netherlands your can decide which movie you want to see, whenever you want. You can do this via the website, where anybody can create a movie event, but you can also hook up with another event. If enough people buy tickets the movie will be shown. New and old movies, documentaries and programs, the movie theatre is yours!
Discover & Deliver
1-6-2012
Found something beautiful in for example a hotel, which you would perhaps like to have at home or in your restaurant? Take a photo, send this to the website Discover and Deliver of Isabel Rutland. A team of design experts will find this piece for you, or a good alternative. This product can be bought through the website.
Finger-print scan
31-5-2012
Last week we already found a handy Outta-the-door Reminder. Today we have spotted the Fingerprint-scan door handle. You do not need keys anymore, open the door easily with your fingerprint.
A very special opener
24-5-2012
This ‘sexy’ fridge magnet also opens bottles effortlessly. Easy for on the fridge because the powerful non-slip magnet, also usable as paper holder.
Street Charge
23-5-2012
Having your battery die: a constant problem for the person on the move in the city. It always feels a little silly to drag around cables to charge your electronics at the office, doesn’t it? The folks at Brooklyn-based design agency PENSA! have created a new concept that allows you to get your charge on outdoors. Aptly named ‘Street Charge’, the idea is to attach a thin structure to existing street infrastructure such as street signs, powered by photovoltaic cells and batteries, allowing passersby to plug in their digital toys with a USB cable.