Preview your hotel online at Room 77

13-4-2011

The new website Room77.com contains almost half a million hotel rooms. At the website, potential guests are able to virtually look at the view and surroundings of the room prior to their visit. Room77.com is using Google Maps and Street View.

McDonald’s without hamburgers

13-4-2011

McDonald’s is testing a new restaurant concept without hamburgers in La Defense business district in Paris. At the McCafe & Salads Live, salads are freshly prepared at the request of the consumer. French fries and hamburgers are not on the menu.

Carbon neutral ecological beer

12-4-2011

 Limburgs Land Ur-Weizen. A carbon neutral ecological beer! This beer is an addition to the existing ecological climate-neutral products of the ‘Limburgs Land’ line from Gulpener. This Weizen beer is brewed exclusively with organic wheat, barley, hops and pure water from their natural sources. The raw materials are, just like the other beers of Gulpener, cultivated by farmers in Limburg (The Netherlands).

Posh bowling

12-4-2011

‘Posh’ will not be the first association when it comes to bowling alleys or curling rinks. Yet, at The Spare Room, on the mezzanine level of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, both bowling and the bowling oxfords custom-designed for the newly opened lounge by George Esquivel are now decidedly in. Worth a visit to Los Angeles!

Wine tasting with QR codes

12-4-2011

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For the first time, the QR-code is used in the wine industry. This new mobile technology is applied at Wijnen & Likeuren Dulst, Blanden (Belgium). The try-out wines come with a QR code which can be scanned with a smartphone. The code links directly to a website where all information about the wine is readable on the screen of the phone: Where is the wine produced? What is the composition? How long can I store the wine? Next to which dish can I serve this wine best?

Healthy cupcakes

12-4-2011

Petit Pois Cakes, an extraordinary line of cakes that can be eaten without any guilt. The butter in the cakes is replaced by a most unexpected and secret ingredient: vegetables. Petit Pois cakes have half the calories and fat of ‘normal’ High-Street cakes and are both gluten- and lactose-free. With the use of vegetables –which are tasteless by the way- comes a naturally longer shelf life without any additives.

Billboard houses

11-4-2011

Got the flu? Call a doctor. Can’t pay your mortgage? Call Adzookie.com. Why? Adzookie.com, a free mobile advertising company, is doing something revolutionary, not only to advertise themselves, but to help homeowners pay their mortgage. They’re turning houses across America into billboards.

 

Handy cutting board

11-4-2011

Designed by Paul Williamson, the chopping board gives you big slab of wood for doing all your kitchen preparations. Unlike other boards, however, it comes with detailed line markings that you can use to accurately measure the length, width and even arc a piece of food you’re guttering to pieces.

 

No more soggy cereal

11-4-2011

“the original crispy bowl,” the tableware takes a regular bowl and puts a spiral slide divider in the middle.  That way, you can put milk on one side and your favorite crispies  on the other. To keep everything crunchy, rather than pouring everything together, with as result  soggy cereals in a couple minutes.

 

Minibarbox

8-4-2011

A minibar is for each hotel a service with many disadvantages. It takes time and  money to maintain, and continues to rise questions. Empty the minibar, reduce products or replace minibar? Therefore, there is an alternative developed by hotel experts: the Minibarbox. A nicely designed box that contains a selection of beverages. Hotels can sell the box at the reception or place it directly in the hotelroom.

Wichy’s Sushi sandwiches

8-4-2011

Wichy’s – Sushi sandwiches from Germany. Rice combined with norisheets and in different combinations; for example tomatos, lettuce, tuna, chicken, salmon and basil. Sounds like a good lunch portion of sushi lovers! Each sandwich contains between 200 and 250 Calories, depending on the combination of ingredients.

Goshi, European Sushi from Germany

8-4-2011

Wichy’s – Sushi sandwiches from Germany. Rice combined with norisheets and in different combinations; for example tomatos, lettuce, tuna, chicken, salmon and basil. Sounds like a good lunch portion of sushi lovers! Each sandwich contains between 200 and 250 Calories, depending on the combination of ingredients.

Namaste Tower Mumbai

8-4-2011

W Hotels has just announced plans for the Namaste Tower, a new W Hotel in Mumbai that is due to open July 2015. The striking 984-foot-tall building will house 62 floors combined into a hotel, office, and retail space. The design of the tower is actually meant to reflect the ‘Namaste yoga’ gesture where two wings of the hotel are clasped together like hands greeting the city of Mumbai.

Landal Greenparks implements “glamping”

8-4-2011

With the construction of luxury safari tents, Landal Greenparks implements “glamping”. It’s a combination of glamour and camping. In other words, camping with luxury around you. Five luxurious tents will appear at Landal Coldenhove Eerbeek (The Netherlands).

 

Hotel in table tennis paddle shape

8-4-2011

A hotel in China will be build in the shape of a ping-pong racket. The 150 meters high building is part of a 67 acres sports complex in the Chinese city of Huainan. The local government spends 32 million euros in the development and construction of the hotel.

 

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