Vote bar music with BarTune app

16-3-2012

With the BarTune app,  guests can choose the music they want to hear. To do this go to one of the participating bars, login and pick their favourite song from the available tracklist.

Holiday Inn – First augmented reality hotel

16-3-2012

Holiday Inn hotel in London created their first augmented reality hotel, where guests can see Olympic athletes appear through their smartphone. Watch the ‘Making of’ video.

Divorce Bar

16-3-2012

Jim Halfens opened a DivorceBar in Den Bosch (Netherlands) on Valentine’s Day (2012). The bar looks like an après-ski café and you’ll get a free cocktail if you show your certificat of divorce. Let’s celebrate life!

Vacuum shapeable chair

16-3-2012

Lapo Germasi, a 24-year-old Industrial Design student from Italy, designed the Inspiration Chair. The chair is made of an electro-welded PVC cube, low-density polyurethane balls and a suction valve. The Inspiration Chair can be suctioned into any preferred shape by a vacuum cleaner.

Become a fan and choose your favorite burger

15-3-2012

To create a social media fanclub, Café Causette of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel (Hong Kong) launches the mini-hamburger-campaign. Guests can vote for their favorite burger, and the winning burger deserves to be on the menu. Before guests can vote, they do have to become a member of their Facebook-page.

Creative with chocolate

15-3-2012

Create your own QR-code of chocolate, and leave a message. Watch the movie for the instructions.

Give twitter back to the birds

14-3-2012

A good example of a simple video that is a hit on the internet. Watch how Latvia (magazine) gives Twitter back tot the birds.

Inspiration for a spring egg this weekend!

14-3-2012

Looking for Easter inspiration we saw these sunny side up flower eggs. As we are anticipating the first springweekend, an egg served this way might be a nice suggestion for breakfast in the sun!

Behind the scenes – Michelin Guides NY

13-3-2012

Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten of 3 Star rated Jean-Georges Restaurant, and Chef Wylie Dufresne of 1 Star rated wd-50 discuss their personal culinary journeys, their many years of working with one another, and what a Michelin Star really means. This interview is part of the Michelin’s Chef Video Series. Great to watch if you’re a foody!

Foie Gras Hot Dog

13-3-2012

A nice example of twitter for restaurants. Ryan Sutton, the NYC food critic for Bloomberg news, posted a photo from a small part of the menu of restaurant The Dutch in NY. As far as we could find The Dutch aren’t present on twitter so perhaps they find out that their dish, foie gras hot dog, is used as inspiration via Horecatrends ;-).

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