The website Globetrooper enables adventurous people to meet companions for their journeys. Put your dream trip on the website and people can sign up for your trip or you can invite people. The trip can also be ranked by other users.
Festivals and concerts often create traffic jams and usually there are too few parking spaces. The “Ride here right now” website enables carpooling for the visitors.
In South Africa, researchers discovered a way to purify drinking water at minimal costs. By means of nano technology in a tea bag, everyone can make clean drinking water for half a penny. Put the tea bag in the bottle and your water is purified.
A lot of tents are left behind after festivals in Britain. These tents are now being recycled by WiTHiNTENT into ponchos, raincoats and bags for festival visitors.
Lebanese cuisine Noura, this summer guestcuisine in department store Le Printemp. Noura has two delis, two restaurants Gastronomique and 4 Noura Brasseries in Paris.
An idea from China. If it ever will be introduced, buses will go over the traffic, so that they are less affected by traffic jams, and traffic jams are shorter due to less buses!
According to the Dutch trendwatcher Adjiedj Bakas, potato is making a comeback! The potato fits into the trend of nostalgic-food. Consumers crave for nostalgia as counterpart to turbulent times. Who’s going to hit the streets with the Victorian potato ovens selling (baked) potatoes as street food? We Dutchies are already known for being “The Potato Eaters”.
Since June visitors are able to complain via textmessage at Pathé cinemas in The Netherlands. So if someone is making phone calls, is noisy or is just making nuisance, visitors no longer need to look for staff and miss part of the movie.
The Dutch brewer Koelschip from Almere, The Netherlands, brewed a beer with an alcohol percentage of 60%! You don’t drink this beer but sip it like cognac! A single bottle costs € 35, =.
In Japan an Adidas store opened where runners can borrow clothes and shoes. There are also lockers for rent to store their clothes and valuable items. After running, you can shower in one of the 16 showers.
Red Bull Sugar Free has been available in supermarkets for quiet a while. Now, Red Bull also targets restaurants and other outlets for Red Bull Sugar Free. Red Bull hid a number of 4-packs of Red Bull Sugar Free troughout The Netherlands. If you find one, report it on the website and you can win some nice prizes.
Nedap introduced a tweetmirror at the WE fashion stores. With this mirror pictures can be made to compare different outfits. In addition, you can send the photos by email, MMS or twitter to ask the opinions of others.
Another nice example of shop-in-shop. Ice maker of the year in 2004 Wesmael David, who works at the Groupe Holder (Ladurée among others), developed the ice cream Joly. The creamy ice cream is kept at -8 degrees Celsius and finished with toppings a la minute in the Water-bar of the department store Colette in Paris. Ice cream from Jerome Biarritz is alsosold ice here, the icemaker is specialized in special flavors of ice cream, for example Chantaco, Ginger Lime, Neige du Sahara, Rock’n Rhum, Xocolate.
With the Charcoal Companion Steak Station ‘you always make the perfect steak’. The sensors are poked directly into the meat and the display shows how long the meat should be grilled.
Order your own pancake online at panecake take out Unic. Sweet, savory or plain … everything is possible. For now, they only deliver in Zeist, The Netherlands.
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