Doesn’t it sound like a great idea to have chilled champagne while bathing? The design of Hammacher Schlemmer is offering the solution. By using special chrome clamps the cooler can easily be attached to the bathtub. The cooler can also hold any other beverages. Perhaps an idea for your honeymoon suite? See the champagne cooler here.
Starbucks recycled shipping containers to a Starbucks coffee shop in Tukwila, Washington. Starbucks used in total four shipping containers to build the coffee shop, it is decorated in the style that people would expect from Starbucks. The coffee shop is a initiative from Starbucks to stimulate the use of green buildings and environmental design in the retail. Another keen example of container upcycling.
This week, the Trendgids.com (Dutch) is presented and published. Tackle opportunities, creativity, collaborate and innovation dominate this edition. Trendgids.com is a free digital magazine in which experts, including Marjolein van Spronsen (Horecatrends / Van Spronsen & Partners), give their vision on hospitality in 2012. This magazine is intended to be a source of inspiration for entrepreneurs of the industry.
Last week the fifth store of GooodyFooods opened in Apeldoorn. Apart from the 100% biologic supermarket, there is a 35 seat biologic café as well. GooodyFooods’ goal is nationwide coverage within two years.
No longer squeezing lemons. With the new design from quirky.com you can instantly spray the lemon juice from a fresh lemon. You can put the spray directly into the fruit. It’s still unknown when the product gets into production.
On a Saturday evening in December there was a disco evening at gas station De Lucht next to the A2 highway. The owner of the gas station organized a special disco evening for the visitors on their way to a techno festival in Den Bosch.
The Czech designer Martin Jakobsen had designed a whole new type of wineglass. The design is special because it is an laying glass. The difference with a traditional wine glass is that it has no foot. Handy because falling over is history now.
The first island of the Dubai World project is opened this week. The Island has different luxurious facilities including a 100 seat restaurant. The exclusive island can cost members up to $10,890 per year.
During the Open’er Music Festival in Poland, Heineken gave away personalized stickers with QR-codes. The brewer wanted to stimulate more interaction between the visitiors and introduced the slogan ‘Open your world’. The ice breaker was called ‘U-code’ and was requested and printed 5.000 times in four days.
It’s sometimes difficult to maintain a proper (reservation) website and run a Bed and Breakfast at the same time. Stinngo provides a user friendly web application to design and edit a B&B website that’s compatible with bookings via internet, mobile phones and tablets. Next to that the site is available in several languages and people can make reservations with Facebook. Subscription for VIP invitations are now available at Stinngo.com
The website masterofmalt.com provides a ‘lab’ to mix ten different flavors of whisky. Dose it by millilitre and personalize the label.
There is a special Scrabble board game Cooking Edition, especially for (hobby) cooks. Get bonus points for cooking words and special recipe playing cards. See the game here.
Growing vegetables on rooftops is already known. But growing vegetables and fish on a rooftop is new. The German company Frisch vom Dach is planning to exploit a roof on a old malthouse in Berlin. Currently the company already placed an shipping container with an integrated fish tank and an attached greenhouse, this container version operates on a closed water cycle whereby fish waste fertilizes the plants, and the plants purify the water. See the initiative here.
Haiko Cornelissen Architects designed the picNYC table, which brings the nature into your interior. The table is build of aluminum with in the middle dirt and stones. Because of the presence of a drainage system it is possible to grow different kinds of grasses, vegetables and herbs on your breakfast table.
In the Marche area in Italy it is possible to adopt your own olive tree. For $ 116 you receive a certificate, and two times a year a shipment of olive oil from your own olive tree. In the spring you will receive two liters of extra vergine olive oil and in the fall a trio of different flavors (lemon, chili and orange).
We couldn’t find an immersive Christmas Light Maze in Europe yet, howevere correct us if we are wrong. But we love the idea, another fun read more
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