[Via POPSOP] SapientNitro, a customer experience company, unveiled the world’s first smile-activated vending machine —an ice cream truck for the digital age — for Unilever. This ice cream vending machine is an industry-leading innovative brand experience and part of Unilever’s new ice cream mission to encourage people everywhere to share life’s small moments of happiness. [...]
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No Comments » Starbucks makes a move to draw some more positive hype. They have designed a mug claiming to be the first ceramic mug to be recycled. The mug is manufactured at a zero-waste factory in Japan. The raw material is the old mugs and dishes that can no longer be used for their purposes. Designer: Alice [...]
PSFK reports: A coffee vending machine manufacturer Saeco from Belgium has developed a machine that can remember your taste in coffee. You just need to touch the fingerprint scanner on the machine (it’s called Xelsis Digital ID) and it will remember your preferences for future. Next time you touch the scanner it will load your [...]
Zalim Posted in Innovations Tags: Coffee, coffee machine, Innovations, Saeco, vending machine, Xelsis 1 Comment » Remember my last post about a scented online banner? Here’s another thing that you can sniff at The billboard features a huge piece of steak stuck on a fork, declaring “flavor is actual size”, and it smells of hickory BBQ, the scent developed by ScentAir. The billboard emits scents from 7 to 10 a.m. and [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising, Design, Innovations Tags: Advertising, billboard, Bloom store, Design, ScentAir, scented billboard No Comments » This is really interesting. ID/TBWA had the brief to advertise Kaiak’s new scent in online banners. And they managed to make the online banner pretty much real – you could literally smell it! There was a custom hardware made and attached to computers at some 15 LAN houses in Brazil. The agency created a special [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising, Innovations Tags: Advertising, fragrance, ID/TBWA, Innovations, Kaiak, scented banner 1 Comment » Interesting piece of design from Heo Jeong Im. Cappucino Coffee Stick is a new packaging for instant coffee. Now you can just pour water in a cup and put the stick inside. The coffee is on the stick and it is ready as your dip the stick in your cup. The stick can naturally serve [...]
Zalim Posted in Design, Innovations Tags: Cappucino Coffee Stick, Coffee, Design, Heo Jeong Im, packaging No Comments » A great concept from German design studio Biegert & Funk. The clock called Qlocktwo tells time in words contained in a quadratic matrix of alphabets. Some of the characters in the matrix glow, which is enabled by a built-in brightness sensor, and form words that describe time in five minute intervals, while looking at the [...]
Zalim Posted in Design, Innovations Tags: Bieger&Funk, clock, Design, Innovations, Qlocktwo No Comments » [Popsop] A chocolate that slows the ageing process has been introduced by Barry Callebaut, the international chocolatier company, one of the main Cadbury’s suppliers. Acticocoa is full of natural antioxidants which can protect the skin from damage caused by free radicals. According to the studies, 20 grams per day of Acticocoa could help hydrate the [...]
Zalim Posted in Business, Innovations Tags: anti-ageing, Anticocoa, Barry Callebaut, Cadbury, chocolate, cocoa, health No Comments » Sparkling water manufacturers in Thailand are having a hard time competing against Singha Soda, which is by far the strongest brand assotiated with sparkling water. I believe this is what has caused JEH United Bangkok to be extremely creative about advertising Chang Soda. Hundreds of balloons were blown with helium to create the effect of [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising, Innovations Tags: Advertising, billboard, Chang Soda, Fizzy Billboard, JEH United, outdoor advertising, Singha Soda, sparkling water, water No Comments » Green Fortune’s Plantwall is a vertical garden system enabling users to integrate greenery in homes and public places with space constraints. The choice of plants can be adjusted to suit the size of the room and the design you wish to create. Other than the new look it brings in to the room, the Plantwall [...]
Zalim Posted in Design, Innovations Tags: Design, Green Fortune, Innovations, Plantwall 2 Comments » 
