Domino’s made a darts game in the inside of the pizza box. The dart board works together with the smartphone application from Domino’s. At first they make their customers familiar with the game in the pizza boxes, and later on those people can kill time doing the game on posters in public area’s.
Alice van der Kuijl (de Bierkoning), Dagmar Baartman (de Bierderie), Hanneke van het Ende (Mitra, Stibon), Jolanda Buhrs (Drinks and Gifts) en Lenie van Gelderen (bierspecialist) five women who are determined to wipe out the assumption that women don’t like beer. Actually women do like beer and to prove that these 5 women made their own Tasty Lady beer at the Breugems Brewery, full of hop but accessible to everyone with 6,2% alcohol.
Danku (or: Thank you in Dutch) is a new and the first raw food restaurant in Belgium which has recently opened their doors. The menu only contains sprouted seeds and raw vegetables, ways of cooking are to marinate, mix, centrifuse, dry, sprout and ferment. Also cold “cooking” is possible with lemonjuice of vinegar. The philosophy is that all enzymes are kept in the food when you don’t cook it and ultimately this should be the recipe for a longer live expectancy.
This chair is designed bij Victor M. Aleman. The general idea of people facing towards eachother is that they can communicate more while sunbathing. The chair is made with a modular design so that it is easy to transport and store. We only expect a quarrel if both want to lie in the sun.
In an old hangar across the Zurich Airport an old Soviet Iluyshin IL-14 plane was completely renovated and is transformed to a restaurant, called Runway 34. Meals, cigars, whisky can all be enjoyed in and around the plane.
The designers of “2012 Architecten” thought of a way to use the three wings of a windturbine. The wings are big enough to fit a bed, a table with chairs and a wardrobe. These rooms will contain as well a solar powered shower, solar energy cooking facility and a compost toilet.
In France a new app for the Iphone is introduced. It scans your bottle of Coca Cola and depending on the level of fluid still left in the bottle, it picks music for you. Coca Cola tastes the same everywhere, but sounds differently. Watch the movie on the website.
Townhouse Designhotel Maastricht is nominated for the Dutch Hotel Award. The Jury gave the three nominated hotels an assignment. They have to use social medie to let people know they are nominated for the award with the message self (&) service added. Townhouse is serving free soup during check-in at the hotel. Because of that, the website Self-service-soep.nl is launched, here all the social media traffic about Townhouse is gathered. Hans van Wolde , star master chef is asking people to send in new recipes for soup.
Carlsberg introduced a new beer, specially made for younger consumers. It is made with natural ingredients and has a fresh and sparkling taste. The label was designed by the agency e-Types. According to them, the label is minimalistic. Nordic at its best.
This is a fully automated toilet. When you enter the bathroom the lid rises and with a flick of your foot you determine whether the seat has to rise or not. Before you sit down, the seat and feet warmers have already done their work. For that little bit of entertainement, a mp3/radio is integrated into the toilet. It plays a preset playlist or a radio channel. When you are finished, the sprinkler and dryer take care of the rest.
Nowadays there are a lot of energydrinks. Energydrink 28Black has as one of the few a natural ‘background’. The drink is made from the Acai berry and comes in a mat black can that gives a stylish touch. The name represents the mindset of the creators; a day can have 28 hours.
Test note:
Our test panel was enthusiastic about 28Black during one of our trend presentations. The energy drink tastes refreshing, got a hint of cassis and is less sweet than expected. The mat black can will easily integrate at a trendy club.
Beer Craft is a simple and illustrated book about making your own beer. The authors, William Bostwick and Jessi Rymill explain every single step from mash to bottling the beer. Besides that, the book also gives information about branding, naming, labeling and how to customize the flavour.
United tastes of 1097 is a restaurant concept located at zipcode 1097 in Amsterdam. The formule of the restaurant is based on trading goods. Thus people from the neighbourhood can trade furniture for a meal or add home recipes to the menu. In this way, the neighbourhood can determine the look and taste of the restaurant. It integrates into the neighbourhood and gives a building that will be demolished in a year a temporary purpose.
Choccywoccydoodah in Brighton is thé store for chocoholics. They sell all sorts of varieties of chocolate, cakes, tarts, shakes, truffs and so much more. Besides that, they have a chocolate boudoir. For 2 hours its yours, and you can indulge yourself with all the nice chocolates they serve.
Ordering a drink in a bar will never be the same with the Oscar Stock Market system of the Belgium companies Torex and Drugstore. This POS won in 2010 the ‘Innovation Award’ of the Horeca Expo, for new concepts. A dynamic screen in the bar shows the current prices of the drinks, based on the fluctuating stock prices. Even a stock crash can be simulated. A nice way of increasing the experience around ordering drinks and herewith stimulate the sales.
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