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Just great to watch, kids about Valentine’s Day. No trend or anything but we started this morning with a smile.
Have a nice day. Video and image courtesy of YouTube, Small Fry
Just great to watch, kids about Valentine’s Day. No trend or anything but we started this morning with a smile.
Have a nice day. Video and image courtesy of YouTube, Small Fry
Today one of the famous fast food item ‘currywurst’ (curry sausage) will be introduced at McDonald’s Germany. After the German specialties Big Rosti and McBrezer, the ‘McCurrywurst’ will be sold in approximately 1.400 locations. The next six weeks visitors can order the ‘McCurrywurst’ in combination with a Kaiserroll or with fries in a menu. McDonald’s Germany hopes that the McCurrywurst will soon become the company’s next classic menu item.
Another example of how to use Social Media. The campaign ‘Holiplay’ by Lego is simple. Simply building something with Lego, combine it with whatever you have in your surroundings and snap a photo. That concept captures the very essence of LEGO – use your imagination and play. Konstellation, the creative digital agency, responsible for the campaign likes to refer to it as ‘Brickmented Reality’. Watch the movie and see how Lego has used Social Media and the effect of it.
The Toasted Sandwich Factory, a living installation about the miracle that precedes the food on your plate. Situated in the middle of Amsterdam (in de Van Gendthallen) where the Toasted Sandwich Factory becomes part of the temporary city of Mediamatic. All the ingredients used in the toasted sandwich are grown or fed in the factory. Within a couple of months grain should be ready to harvest, the pigs ready for slaughter and the cows supply milk for the cheese. Anyone can come and visit or possibly help at the factory. The factory shows the origin and the production process of the toasted sandwich. Currently, the enthusiasts behind the Toasted Sandwich Factory are looking for donations.
Russian studio Arch Group has filled an old building in Moscow with its portable sleeping capsules to create the first Sleepbox hotel, Tverskaya. We already saw CityHub in the Netherlands, Tverskaya is founded the same idea. Each Sleepbox is mobile and can be placed anywhere, provided it can be connected to a power source. As well as beds, the rooms are equipped with LED reading lamps, plus sockets for charging laptops and mobile phones. Storage, toilets and showers are located outside the Sleepbox. Watch more pictures at Dezeen.
Inspiration from the Malaysian kitchen. Use crêpe batter instead of the salted coconut milk recipe of the ‘Roti Jala‘. Fill a mold as shows or a funnel with the batter and make circular movements above the stove. By circling you will create a perforated crêpe, streched over a dish will create a chic effect.
The Italian restaurant Sogno di Vino in America gives some families with children a discount on the bill. When children behave well during dinner, the parents will get a discount of 4 dollar. It is described at the bill as ‘Well behaved kids’.
Inspired by the Asian food court, the students Maaike and Charlotte devised the catering concept WE CANTEEN. This catering concept is for universities, businesses, hospitals or other institutions. There are several stalls where local entrepreneurs can offer their products and tell the story behind it. For each location WE CANTEEN determines which local entrepreneurs can offer their specialties for the relevant public. The offer will be diverse and the local entrepreneur get the opportunity to sell their products. During the Dutch Foodservice Congres 2013 (the 5th of February) WE CANTEEN is awarded ‘Most innovative Out of Home concept 2012/2013’.
The online restaurant reservation provider, OpenTable, has acquired ‘FoodSpotting’, a San Francisco start-up. FoodSpotting is an app and it’s sole mission is to let users showcase their latest restaurant meal, what it looks like and where to get it. OpenTable will intergrate the app into its reservation system. How the integration will look like isn’t clear yet except that the focus will be on visuals.
2021: the ‘FoodSpotting’ app, the Hot Trend of 2010, is no longer available. Check out the article at ChefsTemp about what happened to the app that once promised users they would help them decide “what to eat, not just where”?
A new shot of liquor, the bright green drink G-Shot. Introduced by two young entrepreneurs, Jeffrey van der Meer and Lars Bos from The Netherlands. According to the entrepreneurs: ‘The one and only tingling party shooter’.
Diageo, the owner of the famous whiskey Lagavulin, offers a whiskey fan the opportunity to spend two days at the distillery. Participants can register until 31 March on the website Friends of the Classic Malts. On the subscribers can be voted. The warehouse boss Iain McArthur who plays the leading role in the atmospheric film chooses the lucky one from the top 10 with the most votes. A nice way to put your company in the spotlight and start an application process at the same time.
Flip van Ierschot of Foodwire, has made a movie which shows the energy of the Slow Food fair ‘Terra Madre’ in Turin. It gives a nice overview of the exhibition in almost four minutes.
At the Fiturtech, the International Tourism Trade Fair, in Madrid the new concept ‘ITH Room Xperience’ has been presented. This prototype hotelroom has multi-touch transparant wallscreens which can be controlled via a smartphone or microsoft tablet. The room further has interactive floors and mirrors and a fingerprint payment system. The ultimate guest experience according to the architects, Serrona Brothers. Check out the Xperience is this movie.
The Leading Hotels of the World commemorates its 85th anniversary year along with Hollywood’s Oscars. To celebrate this exciting milestone, they have selected 85 Leading Hotels featured in iconic films over the past decades around the globe. Click here for the Leading Hotels.
Picture this; just before dessert, the waiter dimms the lights and serves a brown pyramid, the chocolate starts to melt slowly and a led lights appears. Sweden-based designer Alexander Lervik created this chocolate lamp with the help of Scandinavian LED specialists SAAS Instruments.
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Learn About Wine, a U.S. organization that organizes wine tastings, has a new project. They will organize tastings with different red wines combined with real American hamburgers.
For bedpartners who both have a different definition of a comfertable bed, this mattress is a solution. Both sides can be chilled or warmed separately.
This modern-style toilet is a combination of a sink and a toilet. The water that is normally flushed down the drain, is now being collected in the reservoir under the sink. It is then used to flush the toilet.
Specially for Valentine’s Day TomTom launched a red and white GPS system. With additional locations such as hotels, restaurants and shops, a romantic weekend can’t get any better. Available for € 159.95.
Always having trouble to get chopped onions in a bowl? This cutting board has a slot where a board can be slid in, this way onions, peppers or other foods will never end up on the counter after cutting.
When preparing a toasted sandwich it’s always a problem when the cheese starts to melt and leak! result: burnt cheese in your sandwich maker. “Toast a bag” offers a solution. The bags goes into the toaster with the sandwich, keeping the toaster clean. It can also be used for a pizza or pita bread.
Ubuntu is a vegetarian restaurant in California, with only home grown fruits and vegetables on the menu. What makes it special is that a meal can be combined with a yoga class. So you come home healthy and more relaxed after dining out.
‘Play Rethink’ is an interactive board game to bring groups of people together. It helps groups to think creatively about everyday products and services and creating environmentalfriendly ideas. It is an inspiring game for designers, teachers, students and creatives.
Couverts is a service aimed at improving accessibility of restaurants. In order to achieve this a reservationsystem is developed. The Dutch company Couverts is also offering a telephone service. This way no reservations can go wrong. The reservation system provides essential and unique features for every restaurant like: an intelligent logic table, a newsletter application and automatic confirmation of your reservation by e-mail or SMS.
These lamps have the shape of wineglasses. They create a romantic atmosphere and they are nice if you have an open kitchen. The LED lights can burn up to 30,000 hours.
With these stickers everyone can put their own character/mood on a winebottle. With the stickers attached, each bottle literally has his own face.
Especially for those parents who frequently have to take their child on their lap when there’s no chair, a foldable cardboard chair is designed. The flat package can be unfolded after which a complete chair, including strap arises.
Restaurant Linnen, Oisterwijk, the Netherlands, now serves edible Lego blocks of chocolate. They are served with the tea of Betjeman and Barton and the coffee from Buscaglione. Available in 5 different types of Lego-blocks.
This bag allows wine to be tapped into a glass. Perfect for a picnic or a day at the beach. It is easy to pour the wine into the bag and vice versa.
To promote the new grilled hamburger from McDonalds in Puerto Rico, the restaurant used projections and a smoke machine.
An air mattress in the pool has been around for years. But a real bed, with sun protection that can be comfortable for two people is surely something new.
These Hollywood inspired theabags are very striking. A true “teaparty” will be cheered up by these five Hollywood stars. Available with Mr. T, Pamela Anderson, Don Perry, Jen and Vicious Will.
This automatic beater does all the work for you. You put the beater in the sauce or soup and with the touch of a button its all whipped.
Ice cubes in the form of high heels. This ‘Tipsy Toes’ are safe to drink and are 1.75 x 0.25 x 2 inches.
Boom Boom printed 26 good deeds on small cards (for example buy a cup of coffee for a stranger). The idea is to pass these cards to friends or strangers. Through the site, people can share their experiences through pictures and videos. The card can also be followed through the site to track how many times the card is forwarded.
The American manufacturer XAN launched a chocolate collection called ‘Jewel’. This chocolates have the form of crystals and are available in sets of 5, 7 and 12 flavors.
The website of Eggwatchers shows how long to boil an egg and in the meantime find a small movie that lasts just as long as the required cooking time.
Recently the only ice hotel in North-America opened in Canada. 15,000 tons of snow and 500 tons of ice were needed to build the Ice Hotel in Quebec. The hotel has 36 rooms and is only open until April.
With this temporary tattoo you can put all the things you absolutely can’t forget on any part of your body.
The city of Rotterdam has recently received the innovation award for public services for the project ‘Verlaatje by SMS’. This project gives clubowners the ability to quickly and easily request exemption from the curfew via textmessages. Businessowners may request to their company to keep open until 06:00 ten times a year via textmessages, instead of a written permision two weeks in advance.
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