Fishing for cookies
19-2-2011
Fat Cookie is a cookieshop that litteraly fishes for customers. This bakery sells cookies from a bag from the second floor above a street and just lets its dangle there. By passers can put $ 1 in the bag and the biscuits are hoisted down in a bag.
Anatomical sleeping bag
19-2-2011
This 215 cm long sleeping bag shows the exact anatomical lay out of your body. This sleeping bag is banned in Japan and there is little information available about it, but is is definitely an eyecatcher on any camping site!
Philips Avent baby app
19-2-2011
Philips Avent presented an app to help pregnant women and mothers. ‘My baby & me’ logs the growth of your baby, its weight, sleeping pattern and findes breastfeeding locations.
Times Square to become open air museum
19-2-2011
A group of Dutch designers and art lovers launched an initiative to turn Times Square into Art Square. For one day, they want to replace all advertisements on billboards by the art from the world’s most famous museums. The project should be financed by crowd funding, and achieved in 2012.
Grubwithus
18-2-2011
Grubwithus is a site that organizes group meals in a restaurant aimed to meet new friends.The evenings have a fixed price (about $ 20) and time (2 hours). For now it is only offered in San Francisco and Chicago.
The Mazooka
17-2-2011
The Mazooka shoots marshmallows and great is great for parties or “food fights”. The Mazooka can shoot a as far as 10m and is made by the Marshmallow Fun Company.
Taste of art plates with QR-codes
17-2-2011
Taste of Art will team up with Pocketmenu, a company that builde mobile websites for restaurants. On the new plates QR-odes will be printed that, when scanned with a smartphone, will direct you to the (mobile) website of the restaurant.
Personalized recipes through Twitter
16-2-2011
The Spanish food brand Gallina Blanca offers followers the posibility to tweet ingredients and you will receive a response with a recipe.
SODIS Solar Water Desinfection Method
16-2-2011
It sounds too good to be true, simply fill plastic bottles with water and UV-A rays kill all viruses, bacteria and parasites, known as SODIS (Solar Water Disinfection method). Problem is that it cann’t be checked if the water is really clean. Students of the University of Washington now developed the PotaVida, an electronic sensor that can determine if the water is clean or not.
Bevvy
16-2-2011
There are already numerous providers of ‘today only deals’. Bevvy offers one-day-deals exclusively for clubs and bars. Currently only in the US.