Dr. Drip coffee
1-12-2011
Spotted the same idea before, but still a nice gadget; Dr. Drip. This enables you to brew a fresh cup of coffee, wherever you are. By placing a special holder on a cup and pooring hot water over it, a fresh cup of coffee can be created. Convenience and portability are on top of mind, besides the fact that everything is organic, fair trade and recyclable.
Personal Mini Newspaper
30-11-2011
Little Printer is a small thermal printer that can print personalised newspapers from selected messages of The Guardian, Facebook and Foursquare and is expected to be launched in 2012. Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossips from your friends. You can set up subscriptions by smartphone and Little Printer will combine them in a timely mini-newspaper.
From chopstick to plant
29-11-2011
Gyeongwan Koo is the creator of these ‘green’ chopsticks. These contain a seed. After using the chopstick, it can be placed into ground after which the seed in the tip of the chopstick will start to grow. After a few days a small climber plant will start to grow around the chopstick. A nice give-away promotion tool for your Asian restaurant!
Eating advice based on your agenda
28-11-2011
The Dutch Food Center has developed a new app where users can receive nutrition advice based on their agenda. After the free app is downloaded, it makes a scan of the agenda based on keywords. The program will then give you specific advice and practical tips to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The Food Centre thinks that the Eat Guide app will meet the needs that people have to obtain practical information about healthy eating.
Crowd funded internet restaurant SociRant
25-11-2011
The SociRant, the worlds first restaurant that will be created with the use of Crowdfunding. The SociRant is a Social restaurant with the latest high tech features. Everything from reservation to changing the lights in the restaurant will be done via the internet. Even in the restaurant itself, everything will be arranged via the internet. See the video for more information.
The Pizza Hero
24-11-2011
Domino’s Pizza created an app for the iPad, the Pizza Hero, to create your own pizza and to order it afterwards. User can knead the dough, spread the pizza sauce and add all preferred ingredients. The application is divided into 11 stages in which the game element is added of making it a race against the clock, prior to the order-phase of the pizza. By means of this application the ‘handmade’ aspect of Domino’s Pizza is stimulated.
Take-away menus with QR codes
24-11-2011
QR codes have been generally used to provide consumer with more information about a product or company. Now Paperlinks used these square barcodes in mobile take-away menu’s. Guests can order and pay for their food by scanning the code with their smartphone. ‘The Order Takeout’ platform has been launched this month in a few restaurants in Los Angeles.
App to recognize customers
23-11-2011
Brouha is new application that combines chip cards with mobile phone. If customers enter a store with a RFID chip embedded customer card, the entrepreneur receives a message. He can use this information to send an automatic of customized message to the shopper.
Chalk with regards to the PLAY Festival
17-11-2011
The Play Festival in Amsterdam is getting ready to PLAY! It is a nice way of (free) publicity by hanging chalk behind a bicycle. Did you spot the stripes already?
Flying remote controlled fish
16-11-2011
Air Swimmers swim through the air by the energy of four AAA batteries. These remote controlled fish are available in Flying Shark and Flying Clownfish variant. A cool gimmick for fish restaurants!