Coffee with a text message

13-4-2012

A simple coffee machine built in an IKEA cabinet. Send a text message with “coffee” or “latte”and the Textspresso makes a cup of coffee for you. Soon, the machine also features a printer with edible ink, so you can get foam on your coffee.

Gastronomixs

12-4-2012

Gastronomixs is the new idea generator for chefs and food professionals who want to be inspired. By entering ingredients (components) the website generates recipes, flavor combinations, variations tips and creation methods.

No doggybag but a Foodiebag

12-4-2012

The Foodiebag must reduce the food waste of restaurants, designed by the sustainable production label VerdraaidGoed!. The Foodiebag will be accompanied with a special spoon. When the guest leaves this spoon on the plate after dinner, the waiter knows that the guest is interested in a Foodiebag.

Yogurt snack

12-4-2012

Greek yogurt with toppings instead of yogurt ice cream! Spotted in Singapore, we haven’t seen this in the Netherlands yet! With low fat Greek yogurt and the right ingredients it is a good alternative for Ice cream.

For the diehard popcorn fans!

12-4-2012

Spotted in Singapore, Ion Orchard shopping mall. A store where they sell just popcorn in several tastes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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