To make travel easier

25-10-2011

All suitcases should have two handles, one on the top and another on the side. This makes the carrying of suitcases much easier. Because not all suitcases have enough handles, Quirky designed a special strap. The strap is made for heavy duty work and is adjustable in size.

New tea flavours due to Hyves

24-10-2011

Pickwick tea brand again asked 150 thousand fans on social media network Hyves to develop new flavours. Last year, the company did the same and created Dutch Tea. This year three new teas are chosen: Chocolate Mint, the Caramelized Pear, and the Smooth Chai.

Make house wine in your living room

21-10-2011

Making housewine has just become a little easier and can even be done in your own livingroom nowadays. Designer Sabine Marcelis has scaled down the production of winemaking in an all-in-one homebrew installation. The installation requires a little nurture and care.

Luxury lunch box

20-10-2011

The French company Kaviari’s developed ‘En-K caviar’. This is a chic and trendy aluminium box with 15 grams of caviar and a caviar spoon, available in the colours black, gold, silver, blue, fuchsia and apple green. Buyers can choose either the version ‘Osetra’ or ‘Kristal’ caviar. Easy to take in your purse to enjoy the caviar any moment of the day.

Hot Booster

20-10-2011

The Hot Booster is a new soup in an easy take-away self-heating can. The can needs to be pressed on the bottom to start the self-heating process, which takes 3 minutes. The soup is made of all natural ingredients, and is available in three flavours; Oriental chicken, Italian tomato and Golden Mushroom which is a special. There is as well a sweet version available; Cheeky Choco. Enjoy a hot soup any place and anytime you want.

Bicycle light vending machine

19-10-2011

At the railway station of Leiden (The Netherlands) customers can buy a bicycle light from the fast food vending machines this Thursday. It’s an initiative of the Dutch Bicycle union in partnership with the fastfood chain Smullers. The new campaign is called “Ik Val Op” (I’m noticed) and focuses on the youth of the Netherlands.

Orange paprika ice-cream

19-10-2011

Paprika grower Hermans-Walter and ice cream maker Theo Clevers have taken the challenge to create a new flavour of ice cream for the Dutch market. Together they have created the orange paprika flavoured ice cream. The main reason for creating this flavour of ice cream is to promote the orange paprika throughout the country.

Nutri-Pulse e-cooker

18-10-2011

IXL Netherlands BV introduces a new way of cooking with the Nutri-Pulse® e-cooker. This e-cooker uses electric pulses to cook meat, fish, vegetables and fruit within minutes, or even seconds. By using this new way of cooking, all the nutritive value of food, as well as the taste, colour and flavour are preserved. At the same time it creates a reduction in energy and food waste. With the Nutri-Pulse e-cooker, IXL Netherlands BV has won the Food Valley Award of 2011. Watch the movie for an explanation.

Organic energy drink

18-10-2011

Scheckter’s OrganicEnergy is a new energy drink, developed by using natural ingredients. These natural products like the raw green coffee beans, guarana (seeds), ginseng and gingko biloba, gives this drink your body and mind a natural boost of energy.

Get well soup from Heinz

17-10-2011

Send your loved ones a “Get well soon” soup from Heinz if they are ill. Instead of a simple card, one can create a personal message on the website that’s printed on a can of soup and sent. This campaign is currently only available for UK facebook fans of Heinz.  

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