The heavy plastic look is history. A clean, simple design is on the way in.
A comfortable armchair. Cool hanging lights. Funky graphics and photos ... read more
30/08/2006 | 12:01 pm
Eons: online social network for baby boomers
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by Tom Meeus to innovative products / services
Eons is a new, full-fledged social network and information portal for baby boomers, encouraging them to celebrate life, get things done, learn and con ... read more
London buses will soon carry the world's first GPS advertising. Yell.com has retained 25 buses outfitted with digital LED panels that will show messag ... read more
28/08/2006 | 05:52 pm
Concept iMac
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by Joris Claes to innovative products / services
Designer Adam Benson is working on this concept for apple. Wireless and boasting a 30" screen, many assume the screen would include touch-sensitive ca ... read more
What do you do when your three twenty-something daughters drink nothing but Bacardi Breezers and hard liquours on their nights out? Correct: you team ... read more
"We hypothesized a future where we lead extremely fast-paced and potentially stressful lives."
Wendy Chua, industrial-designer
Quote from fast ... read more
zeeDive is a reverse auction e-tailer. "The longer you wait, the more you save." The company doesn't hold stock. Like eBay, it facilitates auctions be ... read more
24/08/2006 | 10:38 am
Google video: the future of Google?
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by Tom Meeus to innovative products / services
Last week Google took a step in their new direction by adding a link to Google Video above their main search box, and dropping their link to Froogle. ... read more
23/08/2006 | 07:53 am
Shared spaces: Finding your match to buy a house
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by Tom Meeus to innovative products / services
Haven't we all been in the situation where you saw the piece of real estate of our dreams? Exactly what we were looking for:perfect...except for the p ... read more
22/08/2006 | 08:56 am
Pheeder: turning phone calls into phonecasts
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Voice over IP isn't just making phone calls cheaper. It's also spawning innovative services that make calls smarter. Case in point: a new start-up cal ... read more
21/08/2006 | 02:22 pm
Bureaux: Stylish work spaces for mobile entrepreneurs
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by Tom Meeus to innovative products / services
Are you setting up a business and having a hard time to find a proper location for your offices? Australian based Bureaux has just the right thing for ... read more
Starbucks just announced that it will open a temporary arts and performance coffee house in New York City this fall. The Salon will be open September ... read more
Dutch Boomerang Media recently came up with a new advertising outlet. Their so-called 'dressboxes' are roomy, circular changing rooms that are placed ... read more
What do you do when you are in the process of building a hotel that won't open its doors until 2008? Right, you create some pre-opening buzz, and give ... read more
Sure we've all heard about serial entrepreneurs like Sir Richard Branson or Stelios Haji-Ioannou, but can you imagine your own child being tomorrow's ... read more
14/08/2006 | 08:11 am
For your holiday abroad ... hire a local mobile phone!
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by Geert Laenen to innovative products / services
Travelcell provides a solution to avoid high phone-bills for your mobile phone when you travel abroad. Via Travelcell, you can rent a local mobile pho ... read more
12/08/2006 | 08:23 am
Quintessentially - 24h at your service for VIP arrangements
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by Geert Laenen to innovative products / services
Quintessentially is the world's leading private members’ club. Focused on 'accessing the inaccessible', Quintessentially aims to make life that much e ... read more
11/08/2006 | 04:10 pm
A veteran technology commentator attempts to live entirely on Web 2.0 for two weeks.
Homo Conexus: Sooner or later, we all face the Dodgeball truth. This comes at the moment when you realize that one of life's possibilities -- a produc ... read more
11/08/2006 | 12:01 pm
Cell Zone: the return of the phone booth
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by Tom Meeus to innovative products / services
In recent years, the succes of the cell phones marked the end of an era: phone booths simply dissapeared from our daily lives. Merely a few lonely boo ... read more
Reading in the New York Times the following article almost made me feel like an old guy: "What if, instead of burning up minutes on your cellphone pla ... read more
10/08/2006 | 12:01 pm
Shrimp farming: a core business!
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by Tom Meeus to innovative products / services
Who ever said everything is going to be outsourced, from salary slips to agriculture? In The Netherlands, Happy Shrimp is working hard to build Europe ... read more
10/08/2006 | 08:11 am
Edible fruit bouquets
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by Geert Laenen to innovative products / services
In the US, Edible Arrangements is offering edible fruit bouquets. A delicious fruit bouquet overflowing with pineapple daisies, strawberries, grapes, ... read more
10/08/2006 | 08:01 am
East Japan Railway Company: Letting passengers generate energy for trains
The East Japan Railway Company (EJRC), as part of research aimed at developing more environmentally friendly train stations, is testing an experimenta ... read more
09/08/2006 | 09:18 am
Reading in bed made comfortable now!
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by Geert Laenen to innovative products / services
Those who like reading in bed, already experienced that it is not always very comfortable for your neck. The revolutionary way Bed Books are printed w ... read more
Japanese convenience store Happily exclusively targets women. The thinking behind this concept? Convenience in a time-compressed world is priceless, a ... read more
New opportunities for health-focussed products in the confectionery industry have bolstered the market, which is estimated to increase by 16 per cent ... read more
The UK-based International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) has warned snack food manufacturers that reluctance to address the growing obesity epidemic c ... read more
With business interests on six different countries and in industries ranging from air travel over express trains and limousine services or even credit ... read more
07/08/2006 | 08:08 am
Now US Kids can get healthy lunches at school too!
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by Geert Laenen to innovative products / services
Kid Chow delivers healthy lunches to Nor Cal school kids
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
Time to outsource those bleary-eyed mornings of sandwich making. Ba ... read more
When we think of high tech innovation, we think of places like Hong-Kong, New York, London or Singapore.
How about ..... Lommel ?
It doesn't have qu ... read more
06/08/2006 | 11:25 pm
Flying like a VIP without buying your private jet!
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by Geert Laenen to innovative products / services
As in the United States, the Marquis Private Jet Card programme in Europe gives you access to 25 hours of flying time on the finest fleet in the sky, ... read more
06/08/2006 | 08:15 am
A perfume which reminds us of our childhood times
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by Geert Laenen to innovative products / services
It has been proven that certain smells remind us very strongly of our childhood times in a fraction of a second. One of these smells is definitely the ... read more
05/08/2006 | 08:07 am
Belgian iCity running for World Communication Awards
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by Michele Mees to innovative products / services
i-City is the first Belgian hotspot project where a number of mobile applications are developed and tested in 2 cities (Leuven and Hasselt).
The pr ... read more
Lacking inspiration for tonight's recipe? Nordiska Kompaniet has just the right thing for you: the iFood terminal. The iFood terminal at Nordiska Komp ... read more
04/08/2006 | 07:58 am
From now on, men will like swimming much more!
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by Geert Laenen to innovative products / services
In Austria, men have found a great excuse to start swimming: the beerbath! In a newly opened spa, men can swim in a mixture of water (80%) and beer in ... read more
Last year, Illy announced that its line of concept bars would continue to expand under a new brand: Espressamente. Over a hundred cafes have opened ev ... read more
03/08/2006 | 12:07 pm
iPod Generation plugs into download terminals
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by Michele Mees to innovative products / services
1. Fuel for Travel
Schiphol Airport (Amsterdam) launched Fuel for Travel: consumers download travel guides, music, audio books, tv shows and movies t ... read more
03/08/2006 | 10:28 am
Become part of your own island tribe
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by Geert Laenen to innovative products / services
The idea has been launched by 2 English entrepreneurs. They hired a small island close to Fiji from a local chief for a period of 3 years, to form the ... read more
03/08/2006 | 07:48 am
Urban farming: seeding vegetables in your kitchen
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by Tom Meeus to innovative products / services
Sick of shopping for vegetables? Just grow them in your kitchen! Designed by Michael Kritzer for plusminuszero, the Japanese manufacturer of minimalis ... read more
02/08/2006 | 06:54 pm
"Reading" a book via your cellphone.
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by Geert Laenen to innovative products / services
Bokilur is Swedish for book on phone. And the company offers exactly that: audiobooks for cellphones.
To get started, customers download and insta ... read more
02/08/2006 | 08:32 am
Jorg & Olif: Selling old-bikes to a 'nouvea niche'
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by Tom Meeus to innovative products / services
Vancouver based Jorg & Olif, which is the only company in North America to sell Dutch city bikes, is a firm believer in the slow life. "After all, it' ... read more
02/08/2006 | 07:57 am
Au Japon, Lawson inaugure des magasins de proximité pour les seniors
Face à une concurrence importante et à la stagnation de ses ventes, Lawson réagit et cible les seniors, population en évolution constante. Les aménage ... read more
Une société australienne, Unistraw, vient de lancer sur le marché une paille contenant des perles comestibles. Peu sucrées et 100% naturelles, les cap ... read more
Le cabinet de conseil Accenture installé à Nice (Sophia Antipolis) vient de lancer un ordinateur équipé de webcams et de capteurs qui affiche votre vi ... read more
Bouygues Immobilier lance la construction d’un immeuble de bureau intégrant les principes du Feng Shui. Concept en vogue dans les grandes villes asiat ... read more
01/08/2006 | 11:25 am
Companies put fat trimming on meeting agendas and tables
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
What’s a meeting without gigantic chocolate chip cookies? You may soon find out. In some workplaces, companies are complementing ... read more
01/08/2006 | 08:25 am
It's in the Jeans
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by Tom Meeus to innovative products / services
Sick of trying on eight or nine pair of jeans before you find the one that actually fits? The lack of standard sizing results in a regular tiring 'que ... read more
