Before I die I want to…. (fill in yourself) is an idea of Candy Chang. An abandoned building in New Orleans is used as a writable blackboard. Everybody can use it as the social medium of the neighbourhood. If the wall is full, it is cleaned and writable again.
In Japan they wanted something different with the Namba Park shopping mall. They ‘ve built a 8 level roof garden with streams, waterfalls, trees, lawns rock formations, cliffs and a veggie garden. The total surface spans several blocks.
Ben & Jerry’s found a way to use the unused characters in a tweet. To make the tweet Fair Trade you can visit the fairtweet website, make your message and according to the number of characters used, the website will fill in the unused ones with a Fair Trady message.
The Peter Petrie Egg Separator is a ceramic hand crafted head. Break an egg on his head, pour it in and the egg white will run out of his nose by tilting it forward. The egg yolk we be held by the nose. A perfect way to separate eggs.
Jonnie Boer, masterchef and owner of restaurant Librije made a culinary joke, a culinary joint. Totally edible and made of herbs, chocolate and peels of a lemon.
The new (yet to be opened) Danish hotel Bella Sky Comwell created a floor specially for female guests. The rooms are women friendly, by making the bathrooms more feminin and giving the rooms a make-up table and a full length mirror. Also the electronics are easier to use.
Schiphol Airport created an indoor park for travellers to relax. The park features sounds of cyclists, animals and children. There are also butterflies projected on the walls and floors. The Park Restaurant provides healthy and fresh products.
The paper phone uses elnk technology. This is electric paper and is used in e-readers. The phone is fully flexible. The elnk screen is only black and white, and very slow, the good thing is a long battery capacity. The electronic paper is also usable on clothes and they are working on a bracelet, the “Snaplet”, watch the movie.
kaas en thee pairingThe combination of Dilmah tea with cheese. Delicious! The warmth of the tea in combination with the cheese – it literaly melts on your tongue. Serve the tea in wineglasses.
A farmer in the south of Holland, owns about 50 camels. Not for show but for the production of camelmilk and chocolate (spotted in 2010) and bread with camelmilk. This type of bread is very convenient for people who are having a cowmilk allergy. Order your own camelbread online, it comes in a special ovenbag, so without unwrapping it, you can put the bread in the oven.
Teardrop shaped bottle cap designed by Shao-Nung Chen will allow you to easily open Coca-Cola bottles. This clever design makes bottle caps more user friendly and easier to grip.
Teardrop shaped bottle cap designed by Shao-Nung Chen will allow you to easily open Coca-Cola bottles. This clever design makes bottle caps more user friendly and easier to grip.
This theatre is designed by Aaron Jones, it’s a theatre where visitors plug in their smartphones and play music and video’s from youtube or their own movies. At this way one is able to create one’s own theatre night through social media.
Several guests received an invitation to take the subway in New York on the 1st of May, where they were treated with a superfast 6 course dinner, organised by chefs of the supper club A Razor, A Shiny Knife. The subway changed into a pop-up restaurant where small luxery dishes where served. The dinner took only 22 minutes.
The new ‘Presto e la Carte’, like the Otoucho which we are familiar with in the Netherlands, is a tablet which is used in restaurants. Through this tablet, guests can watch the menu, ordering dishes, pay the check, but as well play games during the waiting and writing reviews at the end of the dinnerparty. This tablet is not meant as replacement for the human staff, but rather compliment a pre-existing service.
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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