Your own submarine
23-2-2011
Do you want to discover the beauty of marine life in a submarine? You now can with the Raonhaje, a combination of an electric boat and a submarine. You don’t need training in order to drive this boat. The Raonhaje acts as a boat with a space below sea level where you’re surrounded by glass.
Sweet meat treats
23-2-2011
If you are craving for something sweet, savory and spicy, try the Peanut Butter Kandy Kake. This treat consists of patties, peanut butter, jam and cheese.
Green Beer from Copenhagen
22-2-2011
Global Ale beer by the Nørrebro brewery in Copenhagen is the first eco-friendly brewed beer. The restaurant, also part of the brewery, serves several ‘green’ dishes to accompany the beer.
Spcial Media poster
22-2-2011
Socialprintstudio.com makes huge posters of all your Twitter followers, people you follow or all your Facebook photo’s. Nice to put in your the office, for example!
Angry Birds birthday cake
22-2-2011
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You’ve always been told not to play with your food. But not in this case! With this cake, the populair game Angry Birds comes to life!
Wine store made of 1.500 wine boxes
21-2-2011
This wine shop is made from 1.500 wine boxes. The classy Albert Reichmuth store in Zurich Switzerland, is perhaps the greenest wine shop in the world with all its recycled ‘waste’. Created by design agency OOS.
Worlds oldest wedding cake
21-2-2011
A 113 year old wedding cake will be on display at the Willis Museum in Basingstoke, UK. This cake is surprisingly well preserved. There’s only a crack in the bottom due to WWII bombings.
Vintage wine disc
21-2-2011
This wine disc will help someone who doesn’t know anything about wine to be able to join the converstation. This wine disc only features wines French wines and the ratings are based on the “Guide Hachette des Vins”.
Rocker Garlic Crusher
20-2-2011
With this ingenious piece of design by Joseph and Joseph you no longer need an old fashioned garlic press. The Rocker has an ergonomic design, is easy to use and easy to clean.
App for etchical shoppers
20-2-2011
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This app contains over 700 famous clothingbrands and their collections. The app tells the consumer the do’s and don’t’s with regard to (non) responsible clothing brands.
Being married pays off
20-2-2011
According to the ad, if you are married over 20 years, you receive a 30% discount at Hooters. Ironic? Yes, especially if you know what Hooters-waitresses are famous for…
Fishing for cookies
19-2-2011
Fat Cookie is a cookieshop that litteraly fishes for customers. This bakery sells cookies from a bag from the second floor above a street and just lets its dangle there. By passers can put $ 1 in the bag and the biscuits are hoisted down in a bag.
Anatomical sleeping bag
19-2-2011
This 215 cm long sleeping bag shows the exact anatomical lay out of your body. This sleeping bag is banned in Japan and there is little information available about it, but is is definitely an eyecatcher on any camping site!
Philips Avent baby app
19-2-2011
Philips Avent presented an app to help pregnant women and mothers. ‘My baby & me’ logs the growth of your baby, its weight, sleeping pattern and findes breastfeeding locations.
Times Square to become open air museum
19-2-2011
A group of Dutch designers and art lovers launched an initiative to turn Times Square into Art Square. For one day, they want to replace all advertisements on billboards by the art from the world’s most famous museums. The project should be financed by crowd funding, and achieved in 2012.
The easiest way to grow your own
18-2-2011
This’ BTTR Gourmet Garden is an all in one package which you only have to place in a little sunlight. The only thing required is that the box is sprayed 2x a day, this spray is included in the package and costs $ 19.95.
Grubwithus
18-2-2011
Grubwithus is a site that organizes group meals in a restaurant aimed to meet new friends.The evenings have a fixed price (about $ 20) and time (2 hours). For now it is only offered in San Francisco and Chicago.
Drink responsible
18-2-2011
The Bottle is a smart arlternative for plastic bottles. Water you drink from this bottle is purified by an ingenious carbonfilter. Through this filter chlorine, lime and organic bacteria will disappear from the water. The Bobble is available at € 11.95 at the Bijenkorf and Schiphol Amsterdam Airport.
Foie Gras cotton candy
18-2-2011
Cotton candy with foie gras was served at several Grammy pre-parties.
The Mazooka
17-2-2011
The Mazooka shoots marshmallows and great is great for parties or “food fights”. The Mazooka can shoot a as far as 10m and is made by the Marshmallow Fun Company.
Device measurse effects of junkfood
17-2-2011
If you are young and / or fit, it’s hard to believe that certain food or habits like smoking can harm your body. This device the size of a mouse sends a beam of light to your body and then collects the reflected ‘light. It can then be determined how many wavelengths are absorbed by the body, and thus how many antioxidants the skin contains on a scale from 1 to 10.
Taste of art plates with QR-codes
17-2-2011
Taste of Art will team up with Pocketmenu, a company that builde mobile websites for restaurants. On the new plates QR-odes will be printed that, when scanned with a smartphone, will direct you to the (mobile) website of the restaurant.
Grow your own
17-2-2011
A British art student, Ben Huttly, designed vetgetable packaging that is 100% biodegradable. By laser cutting the labels you avoid using polluting ink and it is also is also filled with seeds so the buyer can harvest his own vegetables.
Personalized recipes through Twitter
16-2-2011
The Spanish food brand Gallina Blanca offers followers the posibility to tweet ingredients and you will receive a response with a recipe.
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.
