Times Square to become open air museum

19-2-2011

 A group of Dutch designers and art lovers launched an initiative to turn Times Square into Art Square. For one day, they want to replace all advertisements on billboards by the art from the world’s most famous museums. The project should be financed by crowd funding, and achieved in 2012.

The easiest way to grow your own

18-2-2011

This’ BTTR Gourmet Garden is an all in one package which you only have to place in a little sunlight. The only thing required is that the box is sprayed 2x a day, this spray is included in the package and costs $ 19.95.

Grubwithus

18-2-2011

Grubwithus is a site that organizes group meals in a restaurant aimed to meet new friends.The evenings have a fixed price (about $ 20) and time (2 hours). For now it is only offered in San Francisco and Chicago.

 

Drink responsible

18-2-2011

The Bottle is a smart arlternative for plastic bottles. Water you drink from this bottle is purified by an ingenious carbonfilter. Through this filter chlorine, lime and organic bacteria will disappear from the water. The Bobble is available at  € 11.95 at  the Bijenkorf and Schiphol Amsterdam Airport.

Foie Gras cotton candy

18-2-2011

Cotton candy with foie gras was served at several Grammy pre-parties.

The Mazooka

17-2-2011

The Mazooka shoots marshmallows and great is great for parties or “food fights”.  The Mazooka can shoot a as far as 10m and is made by the Marshmallow Fun Company.

Device measurse effects of junkfood

17-2-2011

If you are young and / or fit, it’s hard to believe that certain food or habits like smoking can harm your body. This device the size of a mouse sends a beam of light to your body and then collects the reflected ‘light. It can then be determined how many wavelengths are absorbed by the body, and thus how many antioxidants the skin contains on a scale from 1 to 10.

Taste of art plates with QR-codes

17-2-2011

Taste of Art will team up with Pocketmenu, a company that builde mobile websites for restaurants. On the new plates QR-odes will be printed that, when scanned with a smartphone,  will direct you to the (mobile) website of the restaurant.

Grow your own

17-2-2011

A British art student, Ben Huttly, designed vetgetable packaging that is 100% biodegradable. By laser cutting the labels you avoid using polluting ink and it is also is also filled with seeds so the buyer can harvest his own vegetables.

Personalized recipes through Twitter

16-2-2011

The Spanish food brand Gallina Blanca offers followers the posibility to tweet ingredients and you will receive a response with a recipe.

SODIS Solar Water Desinfection Method

16-2-2011

It sounds too good to be true, simply fill plastic bottles with water and UV-A rays kill all viruses, bacteria and parasites, known as SODIS (Solar Water Disinfection method). Problem is that it cann’t be checked if the water is really clean. Students of the University of Washington now developed the PotaVida, an electronic sensor that can determine if the water is clean or not.

Bevvy

16-2-2011

There are already numerous providers of ‘today only deals’. Bevvy offers one-day-deals exclusively for clubs and bars. Currently only in the US.

 

Dutch social platform Whoopaa

16-2-2011

Whoopaa is a new Dutch social platform that makes a distinction between your online business and personal identity. Or: “The social platform to connect, integrate and manage your social identities”.

 

Potato Clock

15-2-2011

This Potato Clock is a set of two wires and conductors which generate power of the peel of potatoes and sends it to a digital clock. Available for $ 11.08 on Amazon.com … excluding potatoes.

 

Love in a bottle

15-2-2011

The most famous spring water from Belgium, Spa, came up with a new campaign. Through www.spaloveinabottle.nl you can send a free postcard to the love of your life (or someone else who can use a bottle of water )….

 

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