Black spiced rum
25-1-2012
The Kraken made a black spiced rum. The rum is distilled on the Virgin Islands and fermented with natural sweet sugar. For their tv commercial they used the rum, the bottle and the legend of Kraken. Watch the movie to see the result.
Who grabs the phone pays dinner
25-1-2012
The California hip-hop dancer Brian Perez (25) devised a game to end the facebooking, tweeting and telephone calls in a restaurant. His bet: a game called “Do not Be A Di*k During Meals With Friends”. The rules are very simple. The game starts after everyone has ordered. Then everyone puts the phone down with the display on the table and the first one that picks up the phone has to pay the entire bill.
Handpresso
25-1-2012
Handpresso designed a portable espresso machine which helps you to enjoy a premium quality coffee indoor as well as outdoor. With a bicycle pomp look-a-like the pressure can be pumped to 16 bar. Watch the video for the instructions.
Keep Valentine’s day in mind
25-1-2012
Valentine’s day 2012 is approaching, so Marjolein van Spronsen has highlighted a few potential incentives. Check the inspirational article for café, restaurant, hotel and citymarketing via Google Translate
Romantic bottle of wine
24-1-2012
Design studio Calcco designed for a fictional person called Marques de Burgos a romantic bottle of wine. The design of this bottle reflects the character of this person, which is romantic and adventurous. See the bottle here.
Eco-friendly cardbord can
24-1-2012
The German company Keienburg GmbH developed an eco-friendly cardbord packaging for carbonated drinks. It allows both a greener and cheaper production process and benefit consumers with a beverage which stays cool for a longer period.
Crowd Craft project
24-1-2012
The Samuel Adams brewers are teaming up with social media guru Guy Kawasaki to crowdsource a new beer through Facebook. The “Crowd Craft” project uses an app that invites fans to help determine all of the different aspects of the collaborative brew.
Expensive tea grown in panda muck
19-1-2012
A Chinese entrepreneur An Yanshi quitted his job to produce world’s most expensive tea. The tea plant will grow in panda muck which he bought from a panda breeding centre. The tea will cost around 35.000 dollar per 500 grams. Despite the tea is yet untested he is thinking of expanding.
Lays win action
18-1-2012
Lay’s is organizing an action “Maak de Smaak” (Dutch for Make the Tase) in the Netherlands, after the success in 2010. New is that consumers can “Battle” online to help determine making three finals in August. The winning taste will be for sale as a limited edition for one year, beginning from November 2012.
Cakehouse hangs on cup
17-1-2012
Dille & Kamille sells a baking form of a house where three separate forms after baking can be glued together with icing. This creates a cottage with a notch that can be hanged on the edge of a cup. Nice to serve this next to a cup of coffee. See the cookie here.