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.
Plus One Berlin
1-5-2012
In the Plus One Berlin Hotel you just do not only book a room, but also an inhabitant of Berlin, who shows you all the nice hot spots and gives you tips of the city. This hotel is located in the hip, not yet touristical district Kreuzkölln.
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…
Sandwiches and cakes on two weels
1-5-2012
The owner of the French company Tifamade combined her two passions, good food and biking. She delivers home-made sandwiches and cake by bike. A nice idea for a summer afternoon pick nick or a party.
1 – and 2-star hotels examined
27-4-2012
Van Spronsen & Partners has examined the 1- and 2- star hotels in the Netherlands. Only available in Dutch.
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.
Queen’s Day inspiration: orange sushi
27-4-2012
In Rotterdam (The Netherlands) the Iizo sushi café prepares a robot to make only orange sushi for Queen’s Day. The sushi will be in orange shells made of soy or have a layer of orange fish eggs.
Hoppit, a new dining-out search engine
26-4-2012
Hoppit is the first site which provides a dining-out search engine which filters its results based on the ambience of restaurants. Based in Manhattan and currently available in 25 cities in the US, each restaurant in the Hoppit database is tagged with one of ten “vibes” or types of atmosphere. These include ‘classy & upscale’, ‘hipster’, ‘romantic’ and ‘cozy & quaint’, among others.