Clever Spoon

27-11-2010

In the kitchen you often work with precise amounts of various ingredients. With the Clever Spoon it is easy to measure these quantities. The Clever Spoon has a slide which indicates different amounts. The Clever Spoon consists of two parts and is therefore easy to clean.

Glace Rare Iceberg Water

27-11-2010

Soon you can drink water directly from an iceberg in Greenland. The water doesn’t  contain any pollutants and, according to the man behind Glace Rare Iceberg Water, Ron Stamp it is “so tasteless that it creates taste”. The water is drunk like a wine for special occasions. One Glace Rare Iceberg Water bottle costs € 15, =

Barbecoa by Jamie Oliver

25-11-2010

Jamie Oliver’s latest restaurant is called Barbecoa. For this barbecue restaurant Oliver teeamed up with the American chef Adam Perry. The restaurant has its own butcher, where consumers can buy their meat.

Happy Pills

24-11-2010

Spotted in Barcelona: Happy Pills. A design candy shop with a hospital theme. There are ‘drugs’ against a broken heart, problems at work and friendships to recover.

Pier Paris Beer

23-11-2010

The new gift bottle by Grolsch focuses specifically on women. On the limited edition bottle are two toatsing, glamorous women  with the line ‘to 2011’. The bottle was designed by the Dutch fashion illustrator Piet Paris. In 2009 Paris already designed a coaster. The bottle of 1.5 liters is for sale for € 12.95.

Crowdfunded fashionlabel

22-11-2010

On websites www.fashionstake.com and www.catwalkgenius.com fashion lovers can invest in upcoming fashion labels for a minimum of € 10, = Shareholders receive a few percent of the profits. Shareholders can market ‘their’ brand on Facebook and Twitter, this  structure is called Crowd Funding. 

Eat Carrots Like Junkfood

20-11-2010

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An interesting way promote healthy carrots, “eat them like junk food. ” Bolthouse Farms came up with this playful promotional video. The idea was to use advertising techniques that are used to promote junk food and apply that to small healthy carrots. We don’t tell that carrots are healthy because people already know that, according to the creators.

Kommt Essen!

20-11-2010

Residents of Sweden, Norway and Germany who do not know what to eat for dinner can nowturn to the Facebook pages of KommtEssen Middagsfrid. Through these website people can see what’s on the menu, not only for today but for the next few days. KommtEssen then provides all the ingredients required. The products delivered are local and are also ecological. All dishes come with clear instructions for preparation.

Luminous nano-tree

19-11-2010

Scientists in Taiwan created an environmentally friendly alternative to streetlights. They developed a luminous tree. By applying golden nanoparticles to the leaves of a Bacopa plant, the leaves light up. In the future, they think of using this technique on roadsides to save energy costs and to reduce the CO2-emissions.

High Tea at Omar Munie

18-11-2010

On November 17th the Dutch bag designer Omar Munie opened a new store in Rotterdam. In this store he sells his bags and during the weekends a Bag & Tea is offered on the first floor of the building. During a high tea, the customers can search for the perfect bag. Munie wants to give his customers a relaxed feeling of being together. The menu offers sweets like cupcakes but also several savory dishes as quiche and sambusa. 

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