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12-42012

Tasty cooking with insects – The Insect Cookbook

12-4-2012

Mid April the first Dutch insect cookbook will be available in stores, created by entomology professors Arnold van Huis and Marcel Dicke and cooking teacher Henk van Gurp. With recipes like grasshopper skewers, insect cookies, flower power insect salad and much more. In the Netherlands, insects are rare as a dish, but 80% of the world population eats insects. The ‘fruits de terre’ are full of proteins and have a much smaller environmental footprint. This cookbook provides besides recipes facts and figures about buying and preserving insects as well. It also features interviews with top chefs and growers.

11-42012

Think Oven Facebook Dominos pizza

11-4-2012

Domino’s pizza has received a number of complaints, and to remedy this, they have a Facebook page placed the ‘Think Oven’. This allows people to share their ideas. The two people with the best ideas will receive a prize.

11-42012

Reusable brown paper bag

11-4-2012

Do you like the classic brown paper bag of bread, but you think it is annoying that you can use only once and that the bag will quickly tear apart. Try this new paper bag, the bag is insulated and therefore reusable and also good for the environment.

11-42012

Decorate your own hotel room

11-4-2012

In the English Waterhead hotel, you can partly your own hotel room setting. If you make the reservation you can choose between a variety of toiletries, tea pots, candles, flowers, pillows, candy, welcome drinks and fruit.

11-42012

Make-up pallette

11-4-2012

A nice idea for Mother’s Day, a chocolate pallette. Christophe Roussel made ??a nice make-up set of edible chocolate, a nice alternative for the traditional box of chocolates.

11-42012

Omelet and a waffle at once

11-4-2012

The ideal breakfast, an omelet with a waffle. It can now at the same time with the new ‘Warning Breakfast Express’.

10-42012

From container to pizzeria

10-4-2012

A nice example of re-using containers. This pizzeria in Barcelona, designed by the Spanish architect Pedro Scattarella, is fully designed and build by using old shipping containers.

10-42012

In-N-Out Burger

10-4-2012

The American chain In-N-Out Burger opened on March 28th a one-day pop-up restaurant in Tokyo. This event was to research the Japanese market and to test if it would be appropriate to move across the Pacific.

10-42012

Ordening drinks with your BlackBerry

10-4-2012

Do you own a BlackBerry? Than you can order your drinks through your phone and do you have direct contact with the bartender, at the Mataysian Jazz Club ‘No Black Tie’. Through BlackBerry Messenger you can communicate with the bar. A nice example of collaboration between a club and a company like BlackBerry.

10-42012

Rainbow Hotel

10-4-2012

The Saguaro in California already exsits a year, but is still very brightly. This hotel is based on the colors of the rainbow.

10-42012

Hugging for a Coca-Cola

10-4-2012

This vending machine of Coca-Cola distributed free drinks to everyone who hugged the machine. It was placed on a university in Singapore and it invited passengers with the lines ‘Hug Me!’

6-42012

Tackiest VIP card

6-4-2012

Frank’s is an exclusive speakeasy in Buenos Aires. You can enter the club via a password (changes every week) that is spread by word-of-mouth. Because of the changing password, 200 of the bar’s most high-profile customers (actors, businessman, models etc.) stopped visiting. That’s why the bar created the ‘tackiest VIP card’, hiding the real identity of Frank’s, which was printed on the card in invisible UV ink and sent it to these customers. They successfully converted over 130 people, who returned to the bar using their VIP-card.

6-42012

Ice cream salon with characters

6-4-2012

Once upon a Milkshake is an ice cream salon with different characters for every flavour. Inspired by various writers who tell stories about their travels and experiences, they created a character for each product with a short story. The characters include: Agent Red Velvet (cacao with cream cheese), Honey Nougat (premium nougat and honey) and Spooky Mocha (aromatic coffee beans and chocolate).

6-42012

Scrabble coasters

6-4-2012

Do you have a Scrabble game sitting around that’s missing more than one letter tile? Recycle those Scrabble tiles and make clever and quirky coasters! Click for the list of supplies and how to create these coasters.

6-42012

Volkswagen makes portrait of Dutch ‘oldest bakery

6-4-2012

Wim Hartog (88 years old)  become the Dutch ‘oldest bakery’. To honor Wim, Volkswagen made this beautiful portrait of the baker and his passion for the company for their 65-handyman campaign.

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