Coffee with a text message
13-4-2012
A simple coffee machine built in an IKEA cabinet. Send a text message with “coffee” or “latte”and the Textspresso makes a cup of coffee for you. Soon, the machine also features a printer with edible ink, so you can get foam on your coffee.
Gastronomixs
12-4-2012
Gastronomixs is the new idea generator for chefs and food professionals who want to be inspired. By entering ingredients (components) the website generates recipes, flavor combinations, variations tips and creation methods.
No doggybag but a Foodiebag
12-4-2012
The Foodiebag must reduce the food waste of restaurants, designed by the sustainable production label VerdraaidGoed!. The Foodiebag will be accompanied with a special spoon. When the guest leaves this spoon on the plate after dinner, the waiter knows that the guest is interested in a Foodiebag.
Yogurt snack
12-4-2012
Greek yogurt with toppings instead of yogurt ice cream! Spotted in Singapore, we haven’t seen this in the Netherlands yet! With low fat Greek yogurt and the right ingredients it is a good alternative for Ice cream.
For the diehard popcorn fans!
12-4-2012
Spotted in Singapore, Ion Orchard shopping mall. A store where they sell just popcorn in several tastes.
Tasty cooking with insects – The Insect Cookbook
12-4-2012
Mid April the first Dutch insect cookbook will be available in stores, created by entomology professors Arnold van Huis and Marcel Dicke and cooking teacher Henk van Gurp. With recipes like grasshopper skewers, insect cookies, flower power insect salad and much more. In the Netherlands, insects are rare as a dish, but 80% of the world population eats insects. The ‘fruits de terre’ are full of proteins and have a much smaller environmental footprint. This cookbook provides besides recipes facts and figures about buying and preserving insects as well. It also features interviews with top chefs and growers.
Think Oven Facebook Dominos pizza
11-4-2012
Domino’s pizza has received a number of complaints, and to remedy this, they have a Facebook page placed the ‘Think Oven’. This allows people to share their ideas. The two people with the best ideas will receive a prize.
Reusable brown paper bag
11-4-2012
Do you like the classic brown paper bag of bread, but you think it is annoying that you can use only once and that the bag will quickly tear apart. Try this new paper bag, the bag is insulated and therefore reusable and also good for the environment.
Decorate your own hotel room
11-4-2012
In the English Waterhead hotel, you can partly your own hotel room setting. If you make the reservation you can choose between a variety of toiletries, tea pots, candles, flowers, pillows, candy, welcome drinks and fruit.
Make-up pallette
11-4-2012
A nice idea for Mother’s Day, a chocolate pallette. Christophe Roussel made ??a nice make-up set of edible chocolate, a nice alternative for the traditional box of chocolates.
Omelet and a waffle at once
11-4-2012
The ideal breakfast, an omelet with a waffle. It can now at the same time with the new ‘Warning Breakfast Express’.
From container to pizzeria
10-4-2012
A nice example of re-using containers. This pizzeria in Barcelona, designed by the Spanish architect Pedro Scattarella, is fully designed and build by using old shipping containers.
In-N-Out Burger
10-4-2012
The American chain In-N-Out Burger opened on March 28th a one-day pop-up restaurant in Tokyo. This event was to research the Japanese market and to test if it would be appropriate to move across the Pacific.
Ordening drinks with your BlackBerry
10-4-2012
Do you own a BlackBerry? Than you can order your drinks through your phone and do you have direct contact with the bartender, at the Mataysian Jazz Club ‘No Black Tie’. Through BlackBerry Messenger you can communicate with the bar. A nice example of collaboration between a club and a company like BlackBerry.
Rainbow Hotel
10-4-2012
The Saguaro in California already exsits a year, but is still very brightly. This hotel is based on the colors of the rainbow.
Hugging for a Coca-Cola
10-4-2012
This vending machine of Coca-Cola distributed free drinks to everyone who hugged the machine. It was placed on a university in Singapore and it invited passengers with the lines ‘Hug Me!’
Tackiest VIP card
6-4-2012
Frank’s is an exclusive speakeasy in Buenos Aires. You can enter the club via a password (changes every week) that is spread by word-of-mouth. Because of the changing password, 200 of the bar’s most high-profile customers (actors, businessman, models etc.) stopped visiting. That’s why the bar created the ‘tackiest VIP card’, hiding the real identity of Frank’s, which was printed on the card in invisible UV ink and sent it to these customers. They successfully converted over 130 people, who returned to the bar using their VIP-card.
Ice cream salon with characters
6-4-2012
Once upon a Milkshake is an ice cream salon with different characters for every flavour. Inspired by various writers who tell stories about their travels and experiences, they created a character for each product with a short story. The characters include: Agent Red Velvet (cacao with cream cheese), Honey Nougat (premium nougat and honey) and Spooky Mocha (aromatic coffee beans and chocolate).
Scrabble coasters
6-4-2012
Do you have a Scrabble game sitting around that’s missing more than one letter tile? Recycle those Scrabble tiles and make clever and quirky coasters! Click for the list of supplies and how to create these coasters.
Volkswagen makes portrait of Dutch ‘oldest bakery
6-4-2012
Wim Hartog (88 years old) become the Dutch ‘oldest bakery’. To honor Wim, Volkswagen made this beautiful portrait of the baker and his passion for the company for their 65-handyman campaign.
Restaurant Day
5-4-2012
Restaurant Day is a day where anyone can set up a restaurant, café or bar. It can be anywhere, like at your home, at the office or on a street corner! The next Restaurant Day is planned on the 19th of May.
Pinterest campaign by Kotex
5-4-2012
Kotex released worlds first Pinterest campaign where they found 50 influential women on Pinterest and sent each one of them a personalized gift, based on their interests and passions. These gifts drove social commentary across Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Chocolate scented business card
5-4-2012
Choko La (chocolate chain in Delhi) designed chocolate scented business cards. The scent describes the company.
Replacement of the iPhone?
5-4-2012
“Google’s Project Glass ” is a ‘wearable computing device’, in this case glasses, which projects information directly on your vision. The glasses are controlable by voice commandos. Watch the movie to have a look in the future, where meetings with friends are made, how a route is mapped out and explored and how a view is shared with friends, all by voice.
Scanners recognizes products
5-4-2012
Toshiba Tec created the Object Recognition Scanner which reads items without the use of barcodes. The scanner is still in development, but can be seen as the end of the barcodes like we know them.
