Virtual see through wall at InterContinental Chicago
2-5-2012
The InterContinental hotel is the only hotel in Chicago with an entrance that directly leads to Michigan Avenue. To emphasize this, there is a virtual live video stream of the street behind the check-in desk.
Clever cutting board
1-5-2012
Very clever cutting board! Scaling your food whilst cutting. This cutting board features a scale.
Playing chess with shot glasses
1-5-2012
A funny way of playing a game of checkers…
Hamster Hotel
27-4-2012
In Nantes a French entrepreneur Yann Falquerho came up with a hamster hotel. In the hotel you can experience a hamster life. The hotel rooms look like a hamster cage with bed of straw, giant hamster wheels, hamster food and a fountain with only water.
Bubble lamp
27-4-2012
A bubble is brief, and bursts at your touch. But while it lasts, it catches the light and reflects the room like a multi-coloured
temporary structure. Front Design, Nacho Carbonell and Formafantasma created a bubble lamp which works for 50.000 hours. In the time it takes the LED to burn out, the lamp will have had 3 million different globe shades.
A recovery package
26-4-2012
New York’s The Pierre hotel and a local plastic surgeon-in-chief Dr. Robert Grant, created a luxury post-operative recovery package. The Pierre Hotel recently underwent a USD 100 million renovation it is now offering woman the luxury and privacy during their recovery. They updated 189 guestrooms and suites as well as the hotel’s banquet and public spaces.
I Love Orange Drink
26-4-2012
A new Dutch liquor – especially for Queen’s Day & the European Championship. Only available in the Netherlands.
Floating dish
26-4-2012
The rEvolution wineglass made by Vinice was already posted on our website. Today we saw a tweet of restaurant De Leeuw in Lichtenvoorde (The Netherlands) that uses the glass in a different way in the ‘floating dish’.
It sugar, putting fun back into candy
25-4-2012
It’Sugar, a shop spotted in Dubai (Mall of the Emirates) with shops in the United States as well. The IT’SUGAR experience, is set against a soundtrack that makes you want to get up and dance in the store, which is exactly what the staff does! Every time the ‘I Want Candy’ track is played, the staff (dressed in eye-catching “sweet” customized dungarees) breaks into a spontaneous dance routine – something which needs to be seen.
The only thing that scares
20-4-2012
Droste’s wants to emphasize the rural and spacious character of their the farm lodges in Twente. They do it in an original way with a photo of an electric cattle fence. The newsletter is minimalistic and there are no offers in it.