Wifi in Japanese taxis

7-3-2011

While travelling it is sometimes difficult to stay connected to the world wide web. That is why DoCoMo develloped and installed free wifi in 820 taxi’s in Tokyo.

app for German cities

7-3-2011

Storytude developed, in addition to WHAI WHAI’s mobile guide, location-based stories of several German cities. Each chapter will be associated with a spot in the city. From April, Storytude will publish stories about Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne.

Chocolate wine

4-3-2011

Cocoa di Vine is a 14 percent alcohol fusion of Moscato, Torrontes and Pedro Ximenez. The wine has rich flavours of vanilla, caramel and of course chocolate.

Rice to Riches

4-3-2011

Concept in New York: a store that exclusively sells rice pudding. Like with ice cream, you can choose your own toppings.

Art on electrical junction boxes

3-3-2011

Fortum is an electricity company in Sweden. Every year grafitti and vandalism to electrical junctionboxes cost the company over $1,5 million. Research shows that art in public places and a well maintained urban environment lead to increased safety and decreases vandalism. Fortum created the competition “Art on electrical boxes”. Anyone could upload their artwork and collect votes through social media. The artworks with the most votes were posted on electrical junction boxes throughout the city.

Force soda for men

2-3-2011

Force is the new soda by Jupiler brewery. With this soda Jupiler wants to target men over 30 years old and it is available in The Netherlands and Belgium as from this month.

Japanese website gives away food for free

1-3-2011

Tada Yasai is a Japanese initiative to give away ‘left over’ food for free. For example products that do not meet the aesthetic demands of supermarkets. Members of the site pay the shipping fee and local farmers have the opportunity to ‘sell’ their products.

BVLGARI Hotel in London

1-3-2011

In 2012, fashion brand BVLGARI will open its third hotel. After Milan and Bali, a hotel will be opened in London. The hotel will have 85 rooms including 8 suites of 200 sqm.

Daft Punk and Coca Cola

1-3-2011

The French DJ duo Daft Punk has designed two Coca Cola bottles for the campaign “Coke Club. It is still unknown in which country the bottles will be available.

Healthy and organic lunchbox

1-3-2011

Tiss Lunchtime launches a new, sustainable, lunch concept for schools in The Netherlands. Parents can subscribe online. The boxes are delivered daily and contains a healthy lunch. All products are organic, local and free range products.

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