Taco Bell has held a fun stunt in collaboration with agency Grip Limited during the launch of the long-awaited arrival of Doritos Locos Tacos in Canada. Impatient customers were surprised during a special fan event. The exasperated tweets from the impatient customers were burned with a special laser on the first batch of shells and served to the specific customer. These customers ate literally their own words on the taco.
Boutique hotel Affinia Hotels has started a partnership with US online grocer ‘FreshDirect’ to offer their guests an extra service. The rooms at the Affinia Hotels are equipped with a kitchen, separate dining area that allows guests to cook in their hotel room. Therefore the hotel offers meal packages by FreshDirect, such as the Healthy kit or the Business kit. The boxes are filled with food like fruits, vegetables, biscuits, dairy products and chips. Guests can order these boxed when they make the reservation for the hotel room or during their stay.
Two starred michelin chef Moshik Roth and business partner Salem Samhoud will open the DNA restaurant &samhoud Foodlab in Amsterdam on 31 October. It will be the first restaurant in the world that serves DNA in the dishes. The restaurant will serve three natural GenBoosters with DNA extracts. The menu also contains small shakes and meals, as well as lunches, dinners with GenBooster to choice. The exact location in Amsterdam is not confirmed yet. The restaurant will be open seven days a week.
Update: The foodlab appears to be a hoax to feed the discussion about better food for everyone.
During the open door days of supermarket chain Albert Heijn on 21 and 28 September you can personally meet local farmers and growers. Approximately 140 participating farms, greenhouses and orchards are open for visitors. For adults there are guided tours organized where they can learn everything behind the product. Children can experience where there food comes from and get their farmers and growers diploma. Using the online map of Albert Heijn you can see which farmers and growers participate in the Netherlands. During these days consumers can meet the people behind the fresh products of Albert Heijn.
From 3 till 6 September the second edition of the ‘On The Roof Film Festival’ will be organized. During the four evenings films and documentaries with the theme ‘your green heart’ will be played. The festival will take place on the roof of the ‘Vrije Universiteit’ in Amsterdam. Every night, before the film starts, interviews with scientists about their green heart will be shown. Watch the video to get an impression of last year’s edition.
Frossja and Martijn are serving coffee with organic mini donuts from a 1974 caravan . The ‘Donut factory’ makes traditional mini donuts of organic flour and the toppings are adapted to the occasion. The ‘Donut factory’ also serves several fair trade coffees, teas and organic soft drinks and juices. You can find the ‘Donut factory’ at festivals, (organic) markets, fairs in the Netherlands but it is also available for rent for companies or individuals.
Hotel Country Inn & Suites in Niagara Falls offers their guests an easy way to order pizza. Guests don’t have to search for a local pizza delivery because the hotel room telephones have a pizza button. The pizza button connects the guest directly with a local pizza company to order a pizza. An extra service for emergency pizza cravings.
Cafellow is a new social platform focused on cafés, bars and terraces. Consumers can find a café selected on characteristics such as location, type of cafe, specialties, atmosphere and openings hours. They can also invite friends or share their favorite café through this platform. At this moment the service is available in six cities in the Netherlands, where more than 1,200 cafes are mapped. Cafellow creates a direct connection between supply and demand in the market.
After chocolate beer, breakfast beer and coffee beer, a new special beer is introduced. During the opening of the Avocado Festival in Los Angeles, Angel City Brewery introduced a on guacamole inspired ‘Avocado Ale’. This special beer is made from a blend of Californian avocado, coriander, garlic, red pepper and lime. Ingredients that you normally use for guacamole. We are wondering if this beer also tastes delicious with tortilla chips?
In the Yotel hotel in New York, the luggage of guests is stored in a special way. It is not the concierge at the hotel taking the luggage, but the robot arm ‘Yobot’. Guests easily place their luggage in a bin and enter a pin number with their name. Yobot picks the luggage and stores it safely in one of the lockers. Guests will receive a receipt with a barcode that they can use to collect their luggage. An ingenious idea that gives more experience during a stay at the hotel. Watch the video of world’s first luggage robot here.
Earlier this year Hotel Zetta in San Francisco opened its doors with the motto ‘work hard, play hard’. Designed by Andrea Dawson and her team of Dawson Design Associates, the hotel has 116 rooms and a creative and sustainable design with a unique experience for tourists and business travelers. In the lobby guests can enjoy various games. On the ground floor is a bar with different lounge areas and a large game where guests can roll a ball from top to bottom and score points. Upstairs is another public area with sofas, TV, video games, a pool table, a shuffleboard and other games. By offering these games, the hotel generates a creative (work) place for guests.
Holiday park Landal GreenParks has introduced the first bungalow for hearing impaired at the Landal Rabbit Hill park in collaboration with the Dutch Association for Hearing impaired. The bungalow has a number of adjustments and additional functional elements to make the stay of the guests with a hearing loss more enjoyable. There is an audio induction loop for the radio, DVD, TV and WII console. Both the smoke detector and the alarm are linked with an alarm- and warning system. This system creates intense lights and vibrations if necessarily. The front desk also has an audio induction loop. If the bungalow is successful, Landal GreenParks will extend the number of bungalows for hearing impaired to other locations.
Belgium, the country of French fries, is testing a fries vending machine. For a number of years we get croquettes, cheese soufflés and minced-meat hot dogs through a hole in the wall, so why not fries? The fries vending machine ‘De Friethoek’ from BreakTime Solutions offers fries for € 2,50. Within 90 seconds you will get fries with salt and mayonnaise or ketchup. A number of countries are already serving fries via vending machine, but Belgium claims to serve the best fries because of the use of special vegetable oil.
The western edition of 24H Amsterdam takes place on 7 and 8 September. For 24 hours companies, organizations, museums and theaters open their doors in Amsterdam West. There is for instance a tour by the ‘Afval Energie Bedrijf’ (Waste Energy Company) and a tour through the fourth harbor of Europe. Sporty (hotel) guests and employees of the Conscious Hotel Vondelpark will ride for 24 hours on a stationary bicycle to collect money for the ‘Bike for Water’ project and the second edition of The Race To The Top takes place at the Ramada Apollo Hotel. The next edition of 24H is in the northern district of Amsterdam.
Fresh fruit, organic and sometimes herbs or tea.. These are the healthy pop-ice cream ‘Nice on a stick’. Nina and Elisabeth were looking for healthy and tasty snacks for themselves and their children and started to make ice cream of fresh fruit. The ‘Nice on a stick’ are 100% natural, made of organic fresh fruit and contain less sugar. The flavors for this summer are raspberry+ hibiscus, pear+orange, pure strawberry and watermelon+mint. These happy and healthy ice creams are available at several outlets and festivals in the Netherlands.
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For bed manufacturer Recor Bedding, the Belgian designer Axel Enthoven designed a special bed for people who suffer from restless sleepers. The beds can be pulled apart. Under the bed there are lights automatically turn on when you leave or go into the bed. It is also possible to fold back the headboard into a kind of cocoon. Besides these practical features, the bed also features a TV or an integrated iPad. Prices start at € 5000, =.
Zeal Optics has developed goggles with built-in GPS. Now it is possible to see your speed an altitude the glasses of the Transcend, as the goggles are called. The goggles are controlled by three buttons on the side and you can exchange information with a computer by a USB port. The goggles are available from € 399, =
The Circut Cake is a printer for decorations of cakes. Where a regular printer prints ink on paper, the Circuit Cake cuts shapes from cookie dough, icing, marzipan, chocolate and other ingredients used for decorating pastries. The Circut Cake is available for $ 270, =.
Last Sunday restaurant Fifteen restaurant in Amsterdam organized a ‘Less common shares dinner’. It was a seven-course menu with ‘less common parts’ of food. These ingredients are often discarded because they are ‘scary’. Many chefs are scared to work woth ingredients like: kidneys, bone marrow or blood. By wokring with less common parts the initiators want to make sure kitchens will work more sustainably.
The Cubi is a kind of Ikea kit, developed by TomorrowToday. The Cubi is composed of five prefabricated modules where you can sleep, wash, work and cook. The Cubi can be built in one day and together they form a complete apartment or in large quantities even a hotel. Starting next year, Cubi’s are located in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Groningen and Eindhoven.
In the kitchen you often work with precise amounts of various ingredients. With the Clever Spoon it is easy to measure these quantities. The Clever Spoon has a slide which indicates different amounts. The Clever Spoon consists of two parts and is therefore easy to clean.
Soon you can drink water directly from an iceberg in Greenland. The water doesn’t contain any pollutants and, according to the man behind Glace Rare Iceberg Water, Ron Stamp it is “so tasteless that it creates taste”. The water is drunk like a wine for special occasions. One Glace Rare Iceberg Water bottle costs € 15, =
On November 26th a new concept will be in the hotel industry, Hotel Friends. Hotel owners can stay with colleagues at a reduced rate. The concept was created to give the hotel industry a posivite boost and to enhance the collegiality among hotel owners. In addition, a higher occupancy reate creates unique secundairy benefits. Condition is that hotels are member of hotelvrijmibo.nl or participate in hoteliers.com
Two weeks ago a pancake house for real princesses opened in the Marais district in Paris. The Princess Crèpe restaurant is designed so that you feel like you’re in a princess fairytale. At Princess Crèpe restaurant serves pancakes, but also other sweets like ice cream and pastries.
Jamie Oliver’s latest restaurant is called Barbecoa. For this barbecue restaurant Oliver teeamed up with the American chef Adam Perry. The restaurant has its own butcher, where consumers can buy their meat.
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The Break Up by Geertdesager. A clip from 2007 but still relevant to the break up between consumers and advertisers.
Spotted in Barcelona: Happy Pills. A design candy shop with a hospital theme. There are ‘drugs’ against a broken heart, problems at work and friendships to recover.
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The new gift bottle by Grolsch focuses specifically on women. On the limited edition bottle are two toatsing, glamorous women with the line ‘to 2011’. The bottle was designed by the Dutch fashion illustrator Piet Paris. In 2009 Paris already designed a coaster. The bottle of 1.5 liters is for sale for € 12.95.
Through the website of Dining With Dogs, people can see what restaurants ‘dog friendly ‘. It is also possible to leave a review. People can share their opinion with other dog lovers on Facebook and other social networks. Currently there are restaurants on the website in New York, Chicago, California, Arizona and Florida.
In the streets of the Italian city of Ferrara a special pop-up restaurant concept is offered. The location of the restaurant is sent by text right before the dinner. Persons who have registered in advance receive a message with clues to the right location. Each course of the dinner is offered in a different venue, guests will receive instructions to the next location after each course. The ‘street dinners costs € 60,=.
Staying in a self-sufficient and energy-neutral capsule floating on the mudflats is the new attraction in Friesland, The Netherlands. The construction of the capsule will start within two months and will be in the Waddensea in 2012. The capsule can accommodate up to four people and aboard the floater guests van cook, shower, sleep and eat. With this float technicians want people to feel the of the Wadden.
On websites www.fashionstake.com and www.catwalkgenius.com fashion lovers can invest in upcoming fashion labels for a minimum of € 10, = Shareholders receive a few percent of the profits. Shareholders can market ‘their’ brand on Facebook and Twitter, this structure is called Crowd Funding.
Near trainstation Amstel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands a durable four-star hotel will be build. The hotel will have twenty floors and a total of 300 rooms. Designstudios Paul de Ruiter and Mulderblauw take the utmost account of the environment by sustainable use of energy, water, waste and materials. The hotel will get a smart facade that responds to the outdoor climate, heat loss and possible overheating by the sun. The hotel will also generate energy with biomass that comes from the hotel.
The Pulp and The Coffee Bean offers a cup of coffee which contains ten times the standard amount of espresso. The coffee should not be sold to people over forty years or hart failure and is described as ‘porn in a cup’. The drink is called “Dieci”, Italian for the number ten.
Who has had enough of traditional pancakes with syrup or bacon can also have sushi pancakes. Just like real sushi, pancake sushi rolled up. The sushi pancake can be made to each person’s liking. Thus yu can put bacon or banana in it but also fish and rice.
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For those who may regret a Tweet if they had too mucht too drink there is the Social Media Sobriety Test, to make sure you can do a sobriety test before you send a tweet. All you have to do is install the plugin in your browser and specify the sites you want to block. When you then click on one of these sites you must first pass one out of five sobriety tests. If you’re not drunk, you can login.
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An interesting way promote healthy carrots, “eat them like junk food. ” Bolthouse Farms came up with this playful promotional video. The idea was to use advertising techniques that are used to promote junk food and apply that to small healthy carrots. We don’t tell that carrots are healthy because people already know that, according to the creators.
Artist Joshua Allen Harris is very creative with plastic bags. By attaching prefabricated shapes on the ducts of a subway, he makes the most creative artwork.
Residents of Sweden, Norway and Germany who do not know what to eat for dinner can nowturn to the Facebook pages of KommtEssen Middagsfrid. Through these website people can see what’s on the menu, not only for today but for the next few days. KommtEssen then provides all the ingredients required. The products delivered are local and are also ecological. All dishes come with clear instructions for preparation.
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