Bus and more
21-8-2010
A personal dinner in natural surroundings, that is what ‘Bus en Meer’ offers. You will be picked up in an old fashioned VW van and a table and dinner will be arranged on location.
Pastry trolley
21-8-2010
Although reported before, it remains a welcoming gesture to make your own choice of pastries when having coffee. At Restaurant Le Phebus you can pick your choice from a trolley with excessive choice of several kinds of cookies, lollipops and ice cream. No more small plates with cookies, half of which you don’t eat or know if it is touched before or not.
Freeze
20-8-2010
During a special event (in 2009) Restaurant Lounge in Frankfurt served popsicles shaped like pistols. Created by the German designers Florian Jenett and Valentin Beinroth. The popsicle was available in the flavors, cherry, licorice, cola and cassis. The designers clearly have a thing with popsicles and pistols. In 2003, they hung up about 50 of them right in the center of Frankfurt. A great idea for dessert at a “who did it?” diner.
Fridge that helps you
20-8-2010
A refrigerator with whiteboard, ideal for the amateur cook who has other things to do!
Dip your cookie
19-8-2010
Thanks to the Entresuelo designers you can now easily dip your biscuit in the Taça coffee mug!
Travel the world together
19-8-2010
The website Globetrooper enables adventurous people to meet companions for their journeys. Put your dream trip on the website and people can sign up for your trip or you can invite people. The trip can also be ranked by other users.
Carpool to concerts and festivals
18-8-2010
Festivals and concerts often create traffic jams and usually there are too few parking spaces. The “Ride here right now” website enables carpooling for the visitors.
Clean drinkingwater for everybody
18-8-2010
In South Africa, researchers discovered a way to purify drinking water at minimal costs. By means of nano technology in a tea bag, everyone can make clean drinking water for half a penny. Put the tea bag in the bottle and your water is purified.
Recycled tents
17-8-2010
A lot of tents are left behind after festivals in Britain. These tents are now being recycled by WiTHiNTENT into ponchos, raincoats and bags for festival visitors.
Noura, Lebanese cuisine
17-8-2010
Lebanese cuisine Noura, this summer guestcuisine in department store Le Printemp. Noura has two delis, two restaurants Gastronomique and 4 Noura Brasseries in Paris.
Busses in the future
16-8-2010
An idea from China. If it ever will be introduced, buses will go over the traffic, so that they are less affected by traffic jams, and traffic jams are shorter due to less buses!
Potatoes for streetfood?
16-8-2010
According to the Dutch trendwatcher Adjiedj Bakas, potato is making a comeback! The potato fits into the trend of nostalgic-food. Consumers crave for nostalgia as counterpart to turbulent times. Who’s going to hit the streets with the Victorian potato ovens selling (baked) potatoes as street food? We Dutchies are already known for being “The Potato Eaters”.
File a complaint by text
15-8-2010
Since June visitors are able to complain via textmessage at Pathé cinemas in The Netherlands. So if someone is making phone calls, is noisy or is just making nuisance, visitors no longer need to look for staff and miss part of the movie.
Strongest beer in the world
15-8-2010
The Dutch brewer Koelschip from Almere, The Netherlands, brewed a beer with an alcohol percentage of 60%! You don’t drink this beer but sip it like cognac! A single bottle costs € 35, =.
Take shower at Adidas stores
14-8-2010
In Japan an Adidas store opened where runners can borrow clothes and shoes. There are also lockers for rent to store their clothes and valuable items. After running, you can shower in one of the 16 showers.
Red Bull hide and seek
13-8-2010
Red Bull Sugar Free has been available in supermarkets for quiet a while. Now, Red Bull also targets restaurants and other outlets for Red Bull Sugar Free. Red Bull hid a number of 4-packs of Red Bull Sugar Free troughout The Netherlands. If you find one, report it on the website and you can win some nice prizes.
Tweetmirror
13-8-2010
Nedap introduced a tweetmirror at the WE fashion stores. With this mirror pictures can be made to compare different outfits. In addition, you can send the photos by email, MMS or twitter to ask the opinions of others.
Joly ice cream
12-8-2010
Another nice example of shop-in-shop. Ice maker of the year in 2004 Wesmael David, who works at the Groupe Holder (Ladurée among others), developed the ice cream Joly. The creamy ice cream is kept at -8 degrees Celsius and finished with toppings a la minute in the Water-bar of the department store Colette in Paris. Ice cream from Jerome Biarritz is alsosold ice here, the icemaker is specialized in special flavors of ice cream, for example Chantaco, Ginger Lime, Neige du Sahara, Rock’n Rhum, Xocolate.
Always the perfect steak
12-8-2010
With the Charcoal Companion Steak Station ‘you always make the perfect steak’. The sensors are poked directly into the meat and the display shows how long the meat should be grilled.
Order pancakes online
11-8-2010
Order your own pancake online at panecake take out Unic. Sweet, savory or plain … everything is possible. For now, they only deliver in Zeist, The Netherlands.
Filter coffe anywhere
11-8-2010
With 100% Pur by Corinne Pant it is possible to enjoy a cup of filter coffee anywhere. It is a little cardboard box that contains a filter and grained coffee. With a little bit of hot water you can enjoy your coffee.
Smoking gun
10-8-2010
Do you love smoked food but don’t feel like waiting for hours to acquire the smoky taste? “The Smoking Gun” adds this flavor to your dish.
Dog-restaurant
10-8-2010
At restaurant Chew Chew in Sydney, Australia, only dogs are allowed. Owners are allowed to come in, but cann’t eat. The menu includes amongs others goat milk cappuccino with liver sprinkles. The restaurant was created by Naoko Okamoto, an animal nutritionist.
Grand Marnier cocktail balls
10-8-2010
Christophe Coppens has designed three globular Grand Marnier cocktail glasses. There is a personal message on each ball, that represents the mood you are in. For example: “Sure Maybe” and ‘No Thanks-Anytime”.
Rootop-to-table restaurant
9-8-2010
In New York Bell Book & Candle restaurant recently opened where all vegetables are grown on the roof of the building. Without uising soil but unique water systems instead, they can grow all sorts of vegetables. Due to the special water system the vegetables grow faster than usual.
