mTrip Travel Guide
4-1-2011
The mTrip Travel Guide is designed to make traveling easy and fun. The app is available for the iPhone and iPad, the guide plans a trip along different attractions, restaurants, bars, etc. based on your personality. The app is partly composed by experts and partly realized by other users.
Exclusive Whiskey from Macallan
3-1-2011
The Scottish whiskey maker Macallan will soon release an exclusive whiskey. It is a whiskey that is distilled in 1946. The bottles are produced in honor of an upcoming collaboration with Albert Watson. A single bottle will cost $16.000,=. Only 36 bottles will be made.
Restaurant guide with QR-codes
1-1-2011
The Italian website 2spaghi.it has published a restaurant guide which is linked to online reviews, the SpagoGuida 2011. The guide contains over 1,000 restaurants in Italy. Each restaurant has a so-called QR (Quick Response) code that can be scanned with a smartphone. This way it is possible to read different reviews from other guests and to post your own review.
Iphone cookie
29-12-2010
For those who can not get enough of the iPhone, there’s now an edible version. A small bakery in Japan now makes the “iPhone Cookie”. The biscuit is made of chocolate biscuit and comes with various colorful and edible applications!
Dutch restaurant Iphone app
24-12-2010
The Dutch Restaurantguide “Lekker” introduced an app for all the restaurants listed in their magazine. The app provides an overview of the 500 best restaurants in the Netherlands.
Innovative wine glass by Alvaro Uribe
20-12-2010
Designer Alvaro Uribe has designed a wine glass. The glass is introduced at the Tipsy Wineglass Conceot Testing at the MOMA in San Francisco. Good wine is tested by his look, smell and taste. This glass’s head tips forward, to give acces to the best qualities of the wine.
Wine vending machines of Walmart
16-12-2010
Selling wine in a supermarket in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania is illegal, unless the wine is sold with the help of vending machines. A new innovative vending machine only sells wine to people who did an alcohol test and had their driverslicense scanned and had their identity verified.
Robot-waiters
14-12-2010
The Chinese Restaurant “Dalu Rebot” uses six robots to serve food and drinks to the tables. The robots follow a fixed route laid down in the restaurant. The idea behind these “restaurants robots” comes from the Shandong Dalu Science and Technology Company.
Hotel Daaldersplaats in Sneek, Friesland, The Netherlands
13-12-2010
Hotel Daaldersplaats Sneek, Friesland, The Netherlands uses social media. In an inspiring movie they show how they do it and they do encourage their guests to do the same! in the hospitality industry use different social media.
Special Japanese wine to Holland
12-12-2010
The wellknown Dutch sommelier Edwin Raben brings a special Japanese wine on the Dutch market. It’s not about Japanese rice wine, but wine made from the Koshu grape. The wine is called “Shizen” which means nature in Japanese.