Pick your charity

4-11-2010

Customers of Blue State Coffee shops in Providence in the U.S. can decide for their own to which charity the coffee chain donates part of its revenue. With every coffee purchased, the customer receives a coin, this coin can then be placed in different containers. Each box represents a good cause. Since its opening in 2007 Blue State Coffee has donated more than $ 175,000 to over 50 charities.

Landal looking for testers on Hyves

3-11-2010

On December 17th Landal Green Parks opens a new holiday parc on the slopes of the Winterberg. For the opening weekend, Landal was looking for four families who want to test the new accommodations. All expenses are paid by Landal and all you have to do this for free ski weekend is to install a pimp on your Hyves (Dutch social network). The campaign aims to increase Landal number of followers on Twitter and Hyves.

Under water museum in Cancun

25-10-2010

In Cancun, Mexico they are working on an underwatermuseum in the Caribbean Sea. The museum will be bult in the National Marine Park and consists of over 400 images at a depth of 3 to 6 meters. The initiator behind this underwater museum is Jason deCaires Taylor. The artist wants to show how the original Mexican people “the Mayas’, have developed over the years.

Double Dish

23-10-2010

Eating nuts, cherries and olives is always kind of messy.  With the Double Dish you can trow your peels of pips back in the bowl. Useful in hotel bars.

Salt flower

21-10-2010

The young French designer Emily Demers Moreau came up with a creative way to offer small portions of salt. The salt servings are in inside a number of leaflets which together form a flower. The leaves can be picked separately.

Free drinks and snacks at Japanese cafe

18-10-2010

The Free Cafe at Harimaya Station in Japan offers customers free drinks and snacks at any time of day. Inventor of this concept Honten Maya Hari, a known producer of rice crackers in Japan. Guests can enjoy freshly brewed tea or coffee with a rice cracker. There are now seven of these Hari Maya cafes in Japan and next to advertising its rice crackers, Honten hopes that people will become more environmentally aware and treat ech other woth more respect after a visit to one of his pubs.

Artisan lip balm on montlhy prescripion

17-10-2010

Chocolate offers customers the posibility to receive another lip balm each month. For 5 pounds per month customers get a different Artisan lip balm, including the flavors caramel and mojito. The lip balm is made from natural products like shea butter and vertable oils. Where possible organic, fair trade ingredients are used.

Become the neighbourhood chef

14-10-2010

Tweetjemee an online marketplace for chefs and people who enjoy food, launched October 10th. Local chefs can start their own ‘webtaurant’ on www.tweetjemee.nl. The idea is that you cook a number of meals and then sell them online to people in your neighborhood. People pay through www.tweetjemee.nl, the amateur-chefs each receive 70% of their sales, 10% goes to The Hunger Project and the rest of the money goes the website to improve the platform.

Red Bull Mobile

12-10-2010

Red Bull introduces telecom services in dozens of countries around the world. To attract customers potential customers receive exclusive reports and videos on their phone of several extreme sports. In Austria, Hungary and Switzerland, Red Bull Mobile already operates. The plan is to operate in 140 countries. Whether Red Bull Mobile will also be inrtoduced in The Netherlands remains unknown.

Kochhause makes cooking easy

12-10-2010

Kochhaus in Berlin makes buying ingredients and getting inspiration for cooking easy. The shop put down ready-made dishes at different places in the store, with the ingredeients necessary to make the dish right beside it. Finding the right ingredients belongs to the past.

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