TripShake app
19-10-2011
KLM has developed the TripShake app for the Smartphone, for everybody who has difficulties to decide what the next holaday destination will be. The app for iPhone and Android gives users the ability to explore various destinations. Just by shaking your phone, a destination and a ticket price will pop-up. A fun way to explore a new destination.
Nutri-Pulse e-cooker
18-10-2011
IXL Netherlands BV introduces a new way of cooking with the Nutri-Pulse® e-cooker. This e-cooker uses electric pulses to cook meat, fish, vegetables and fruit within minutes, or even seconds. By using this new way of cooking, all the nutritive value of food, as well as the taste, colour and flavour are preserved. At the same time it creates a reduction in energy and food waste. With the Nutri-Pulse e-cooker, IXL Netherlands BV has won the Food Valley Award of 2011. Watch the movie for an explanation.
Blippar
12-10-2011
Blippar shows the consumer extra product information of a certain product by using augmented reality. By filming the product with a smartphone, product information and recipes appear in the screen of your phone. Blippar has a partnership with several supermarket chains in the UK, such as Tesco and Cadbury’s, in order to make sure that most products will be recognized by Blippar.
Ordering roomservice with a smarthphone
12-10-2011
Hotel-restaurant Villa Ruimzicht, located in Doetichem (in the Netherlands), provides a service where guests order room service by using their Smartphone or tablet pc. Guests can download a free app and scan a QR-code which can be found in the hotel room. A menu appears on the screen in which the guest can order a certain dish or a drink. To offer this service, the hotel uses the ‘Yoursmartbutler’ app, which makes a connection to the register system and communicates the necessary information to the kitchen and to the guest accounts.
Drinking your coffee responsibly
4-10-2011
Drink your Starbucks coffee responsibly with this reusable coffee mug, designed by Jang Jin-hee and Lee Min-jeong. Every time you refill your mug, a green leaf will light up through an integrated LED system, which measures the times you refill your cup. After 365 refills, the leaves form a map of the world to show you how eco-friendly you are by discarding cardboard cups.
Cooking on solar energy
3-10-2011
The Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen is a temporary restaurant that uses solar energy to cook. Last yea,r the initiative traveled to Helsinki, Stockholm and Milano. The use solar heat creates an unique texture and tast. The cooks claim that it creates a whole new taste experience.
Food free of pesticides
29-9-2011
On 70% of the fresh vegetables in the supermarkets you can find invisible pesticide residue. These residue are dangerous for our health. Washing the vegetables under the tap is not effectively enough to get rid of the pesticides. Philips has development a device that cleans all the vegetables effectively. At the moment this device is the most effective on the market.
Window shopping 2.0
26-9-2011
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We saw this before in South Korea, where the supermarket chain Tesco developed a virtual shop at a subway station. The British online supermarket ‘Ocado’ created a shopping wall in a mall in the centre of London, where people can select their groceries by using their smarthphone and QR scanner. The groceries are directly ordered online and by the time they arrive at home, the groceries are delivered.
Restaurant meals home delivered in London
22-9-2011
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Housebites, a company based in Londen is making it possible to get meals from restaurant quality home delivered. On the website of Housebites people will enter there zip code and Housebites will show the chefs which are working in the neighborhood. The chefs which are a member of Housebites are either working in restaurants or in education. Before becomming a member of Housebites the skills of the chefs are screened. Gobble in San Francisco is a simular system and Chef Frank Hannon started his Friday Nigth Take Out from his home in Londen.
Is your flight reliable?
20-9-2011
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The new app Tripanomanly calculates the reliablity of an airline or a flight. By entering several data and your flight number, the app shows how reliable the airline is. A 10 indicates a fully reliable flight, but when the outcome is a 1, you might want to think about skipping the flight. Watch the movie for an explanation.