Amphibious ice cream truck

18-6-2011

The world’s first amphibious ice cream truck is a fact. The ‘HMS flake 99’ is commissioned by Fredericks ice cream company to celebrate the national ice cream week in England.  Its  marks the beginning of a UK tour, with plans to visit Venice in 2012.

The hamburger that fits

17-6-2011

A big mouth, but pain in the jaws after eating a hamburger? Two students from the MiamiAdd School in Berlin have developed an app that chooses the ideal hamburger for you by using a webcam. As a bonus, McDonalds randomly selects a burger that can be picked up by people with the ideal mouth size.

Back from the past: Bocuses cuisine rapide (2009)

17-6-2011

A few years ago we noted that the Bocuse restaurant group also wanted to create a modern version of a fastfood restaurant. The video expresses perfecly what they categorize as fastfood.

Energy Kitchen, popular & low Calory

17-6-2011

For those who want to visit New York this summer and don’t want to come back with some extra kilo’s there is Energy Kitchen. The restaurant serves low Calorie food and healthy hamburgers. Besides that they advocate a healthy lifestyle.

Restaurant ‘ De Culinairy Workshop creates edible paper

16-6-2011

‘De Culinaire Werkplaats’ is an eating concepts restaurant that among other specialties is particularly known for its fruit and vegetable paper. Founded by textile designer Marjolein Wintjes and chef Eric Meuring, ‘ De Culinaire Werkplaats’ focuses on a blend of food, design and art.

A wide range of fruit and vegetable paper is homemade and used both in their dishes and for conceptual art work. Each meal at the restaurant highlights one of the flavored papers during its five courses.

Wintjes and Meuring have also used the paper in other projects, promoting the idea of sustainable fashion by creating clothing and accessories with the edible paper.

Practical lemon squeezer as utensil

16-6-2011

The Press Art lemon squeezer makes it easier to press the juice out of one lemon part. Apart from more juice it makes it easier to dose. The Press Art can be customized with a (company) logo.

Vivid coasters

16-6-2011

A Japanese designer (Terada Naoki) has designed a coaster set that creates a story around your glass. There are three different coasters that express various environments, namely the city (red), a grassy plain (green) and water (blue). By clever folding, the coasters can be combined to create your own scenery.

Drive-in 2.0

15-6-2011

A modern twist on the American drive-in movie theaters, is the bike-in movie theater, organized by marketing agency Manifold and food blog Forking Tasty. This free event, where hundreds of cyclists were attracted to, took place in Brooklyn, New York and was organized to celebrate summer and bike month. Due to the success more events like this one, will be organized.

 

Apple in the hotelroom

15-6-2011

The new Sofitel So Bangkok, yet to be opened, will be fully equipped with Apple equipment. All the 238 hotel rooms will feature an Apple Mac mini, an iPod, iPhone and iPad, which connects the guest directly to the hotel services. The hotel will open its doors in the first quarter of 2012. 

 

Smart City Chase

15-6-2011

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On the 11th of June, the first Dutch Smart City Chase took place in Amsterdam. During this existing sports event, teams of 2 have to fulfill several missions all over the city, by using the internet, public transportation, friends and strangers. The first Smart City Chase took place in 2003 in Canada and became a great success.

 

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