Written in the stars
A revolution in Christmas-cards. Write it in the stars with an iOS device via stars.akqa.com.
A revolution in Christmas-cards. Write it in the stars with an iOS device via stars.akqa.com.
At the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles the largest pop-up book in the world introduced the premiere of ‘The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug’. For five days the book promoted New Zealand as holiday destination. See the book here.
Are you in a winter dip? With the Positivo cocktails of Happy Drinks, your body and soul will get a heartwarming energy boost en brings the summer back into your glass. 0% alcohol, 100% positive. The ‘Positivo’ cocktails is made with balsamic vinegar, strawberries and pepper and this combination makes every pessimist positive. The ‘Positivo Classico’ is more powerful and intense than the ‘Positivo’ and gives you a thrill. The recipes are only available in Dutch.
2014 will be another special ‘orange’ year. With the Winter Olympics, the World Cup and Kings day coming, brewery Heineken is seeking a Chief Orange Officer by February 1, 2014. The new Chief Orange Officer will bring the orange feeling at home and abroad and the first coaches the legion of supporters. With an orange car and an orange suite, the Chief Orange Officer will visit all the orange events and if the Netherlands are world champion in Brazil, the annual salary will be doubled.
The Polish artist Pawel Althamer will show his latest collection on the second, third and fourth floor of the ‘New Museum’ in New York from February 12 to April 13, 2014. Part of his collection is ‘The Neighbors’ where the artist involves the visitors to make an ambitious artwork. On the fourth floor of the museum, a white wall will be covered by paintings and drawings made by the visitors. Visitors can show their arts and will be part of the exhibition. At various times during the exhibition musicians will provide live music.
The Hanjie Wanda Square is a new shopping center in Wuhan, China. In 2011 a contest was held with various national and international architects. The design of UNStudio’s was chosen as winner. The building has luxury design and combines modern and traditional elements with simple materials. The focus of the design is on the visitor flows, from the three main entrances visitors are guided to two central spaces. The facade consists of 42,333 spheres with 3.1 million LED lights that can be combined to create a beautiful lighting effect.
It remains difficult to make a perfect cocktail, you often pour too much or too little of an ingredient in the cocktail. With the ‘Perfect Drink’ you can now easily make the perfect cocktail with the right amount. The digital kitchen scale is connected with an app and tells you what ingredient you need to add, considering the weight during the preparation and indicates when to stop adding an ingredient. You will get the perfect cocktail. The app has a large database of cocktail recipes but you can also add a recipe yourself.
With the new search engine ‘Accor Meeting Hotel Finder’ of Accor Hotels, MICE- and meeting planners can search easily for a suitable location for their conference or event. They can search for a location based on the geographical location, type of event, accommodation and hotel segment. When the meeting planner has selected a location they can directly request for an offer or book the location. The search engine has more than 1,000 locations and 10,000 rooms in 90 different countries of which 65% in Europe and 23% in Asia Pacific.
No mayonnaise, ketchup or curry with the fries but a chocolate dipping sauce?! Japanese fast food chain Lotteria will serve its fries with a Lotte Ghana chocolate dip called ‘Dipping Fries’ in the months January and February. The salt of the fries and the sweetness of the chocolate makes a unique combination. We have tried the fries with chocolate at the office and… A few colleagues thought it was pretty good but most prefer mayonnaise!
A driving tram through the city of The Hague and during the trip a high-quality four-course dinner while passing the highlights of the city. Around February 2014 this will be possible in tram restaurant Hoftramm. The driving tram will be transformed into a modern and elegant restaurant and has all amenities including a kitchen, bar and toilets. Tram restaurant Hoftrammm will be a route through the center of The Hague six days a week and the guests will get served a four-course dinner with a matching beverage package. To achieve the tram restaurant there is currently a crowdfunding campaign.
Network club INCH (international network connecting hotelschool graduates) has decorated a hotel suite at the Hotelschool The Hague campus Amsterdam in collaboration with Balsan DUO carpet. The design studio of Balsan DUO has designed the room together with architect Frank ter Horst. The hotel suite is themed unruliness, spontaneity and to act unconventional. Balsan has placed a striking carpet with 4 designs on the floor and they also decorated the wall and the window frame with the same carpet. There is a bed of 2m by 2m in the middle of the room, a maxibar and enough space to move freely.
Start 2014 without a hangover. The organizers of the ‘Chocolate Club’ celebrate New Year Eve with a conscious clubbing night. Drink alcohol-free super-drinks and elixirs with natural ingredients and watch the fireworks over Amsterdam from a hot tub or dance the night away in the ‘Amsterdam Dansmakers’–studios. Recently we mentioned the rise of superfoods, this is the first healthy clubbing concept that we came across. See the video of the previous edition in July.
Take an adventurous book, combine it with a shoestring travel guide and bake it with delicious recipes to a practical cookbook. That must have been the recipe for ‘Gastrovan – Met je neus in de boter'(proverb: hit the jackpot). This recipe was created by Sjaak Borsboom, Jeroen Simons and Olivier van der Ree after a summertour with their campervan through the Netherlands, France and Spain where they cooked for more than 200 people. The combination of funny stories, describtion of exclusive destinations and local recipes will be mouthwatering for every foodie.
Saturday 11 January the chubby Gasconne pig ‘Pumba’ will be honored. The pig entered the Lindenhoff farm as a 20 kg piglet and is now, at the age of five, ready to be roasted next to open fire for 50 hours (!). Organizers Baaf Vonk and Roel van Vliet from Varkensroosteren.nl work together with restaurant Old-School in Amsterdam. The cooks are already working on mouthwatering recipes like ‘schwein with sauerkraut and Schwarzbier’, pig belly with Korean kimchi or American pulled pork with chutney.
Floske Kusse and Tine Sommeijer want to stimulate city-inhabitants to get more acquainted with local shops. Therefore they’ve started City Food Route. The website provides a map of the neighbourhood with shopping tips for the menu and recipes and relaxed places to get a cup of coffee and relax. The first tour through the old East of Amsterdam is online and soon a tour through the less-known parts of ‘De Pijp’ and ‘Rivierenbuurt’ will follow.
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Social Dipping is an online tool to create your own virtual ice cream shop. An ice cream parlor can show online what flavors are available. Customers can keep track of the flavors through social media.
Popcorn ice cream is now also available in The Netherlands. Popcorn ice cream is already popular in de US and Asia, and is now available in The Netherlands at selected retailes. The ice cream is served at a temperature of -37 degrees Celsius.
PALM beer is looking for a name for their newest beer through Facebook. Facebookers get several clues to guess the right name. Whoever guesses the right name, can win a weekend in Belgium and a visit to the PALM brewery.
Bring nature into your home Earlier this year a three-storey vertical garden was realized in Spain, making it the largest in the country. This indoor garden not only brightens up the office, but also filters the air and extracts pollutants.
If you visit veniceconnected.it you no longer have to go to Venice, Italy to visit the city. De website offers their viewers a boat ride through the canals with 366 degrees HD photo’s.
Do you want to discover the beauty of marine life in a submarine? You now can with the Raonhaje, a combination of an electric boat and a submarine. You don’t need training in order to drive this boat. The Raonhaje acts as a boat with a space below sea level where you’re surrounded by glass.
If you are craving for something sweet, savory and spicy, try the Peanut Butter Kandy Kake. This treat consists of patties, peanut butter, jam and cheese.
Global Ale beer by the Nørrebro brewery in Copenhagen is the first eco-friendly brewed beer. The restaurant, also part of the brewery, serves several ‘green’ dishes to accompany the beer.
Socialprintstudio.com makes huge posters of all your Twitter followers, people you follow or all your Facebook photo’s. Nice to put in your the office, for example!
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You’ve always been told not to play with your food. But not in this case! With this cake, the populair game Angry Birds comes to life!
This wine shop is made from 1.500 wine boxes. The classy Albert Reichmuth store in Zurich Switzerland, is perhaps the greenest wine shop in the world with all its recycled ‘waste’. Created by design agency OOS.
A 113 year old wedding cake will be on display at the Willis Museum in Basingstoke, UK. This cake is surprisingly well preserved. There’s only a crack in the bottom due to WWII bombings.
This wine disc will help someone who doesn’t know anything about wine to be able to join the converstation. This wine disc only features wines French wines and the ratings are based on the “Guide Hachette des Vins”.
With this ingenious piece of design by Joseph and Joseph you no longer need an old fashioned garlic press. The Rocker has an ergonomic design, is easy to use and easy to clean.
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This app contains over 700 famous clothingbrands and their collections. The app tells the consumer the do’s and don’t’s with regard to (non) responsible clothing brands.
According to the ad, if you are married over 20 years, you receive a 30% discount at Hooters. Ironic? Yes, especially if you know what Hooters-waitresses are famous for…
Fat Cookie is a cookieshop that litteraly fishes for customers. This bakery sells cookies from a bag from the second floor above a street and just lets its dangle there. By passers can put $ 1 in the bag and the biscuits are hoisted down in a bag.
This 215 cm long sleeping bag shows the exact anatomical lay out of your body. This sleeping bag is banned in Japan and there is little information available about it, but is is definitely an eyecatcher on any camping site!
Philips Avent presented an app to help pregnant women and mothers. ‘My baby & me’ logs the growth of your baby, its weight, sleeping pattern and findes breastfeeding locations.
A group of Dutch designers and art lovers launched an initiative to turn Times Square into Art Square. For one day, they want to replace all advertisements on billboards by the art from the world’s most famous museums. The project should be financed by crowd funding, and achieved in 2012.
This’ BTTR Gourmet Garden is an all in one package which you only have to place in a little sunlight. The only thing required is that the box is sprayed 2x a day, this spray is included in the package and costs $ 19.95.
Grubwithus is a site that organizes group meals in a restaurant aimed to meet new friends.The evenings have a fixed price (about $ 20) and time (2 hours). For now it is only offered in San Francisco and Chicago.
The Bottle is a smart arlternative for plastic bottles. Water you drink from this bottle is purified by an ingenious carbonfilter. Through this filter chlorine, lime and organic bacteria will disappear from the water. The Bobble is available at € 11.95 at the Bijenkorf and Schiphol Amsterdam Airport.
Cotton candy with foie gras was served at several Grammy pre-parties.
The Mazooka shoots marshmallows and great is great for parties or “food fights”. The Mazooka can shoot a as far as 10m and is made by the Marshmallow Fun Company.
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