Donate to charity via rounded-up credit card purchases
1-2-2011
Pennies is an organization that allows online buyers to round up their purchase by credit card or debit card and donate the difference to charity. Dominos Pizza, Zizzi Pizza and TravelLodge have already joined.
WHAI WHAI app as city guide
14-1-2011
The city guides of WHAI WHAI lets tourists explore the city. By sending a text message and set the duration, difficulty level and start location, the game begins. The participant will receive different enigmas while walking through the city, and gets a part of the story that is told about the city every time.
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.
Intelligent street lightening
2-12-2010
Within one year an area of Eindhoven will have intelligent streetlighting. These are streetlights that burn brighter when someone passes by. It saves energy this way. In which area in Eindhoven the lights will be hung is not yet known.
Starbucks supports Worlds Aids Day
2-12-2010
On World AIDS Day, Starbucks donated 5 cents from every coffee sold to (RED). With the action “Share a red cup” Starbucks hopes to raise much money for this charity. Through the website of Starbucks it is possible to buy a ‘red cup’ for all your friends on Facebook.
Tourist information office launches virtual office
4-10-2010
The Dutch tourist information office ‘VVV’ will help its clients and will provide information through a virtual office by using a webcam. With this new service, the VVV is responding to the changing market and to obtain the level of service.
Clean drinkingwater for everybody
18-8-2010
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.
Busses in the future
16-8-2010
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!
Not far from the tree
6-8-2010
Toronto has launched a project to prevent local grown fruit to perish. Volunteers pick fruit in the gardens of people who do not want to do this themselves. One third of the fruit is meant for the owner, one third goes to the volunteers and one third goes to charities in the area.
German highway turns into picnic place
24-7-2010
To promote the Ruhr area in Germany, the A40 highway was closed for 60 kilometers. The highway became a picknick place. Over 3 million people gathered on the highway.