Yummy Mummy Buggy/Bike

This is the perfect accessory for a Yummy Mummy. Taga is a buggy that turns into a bike in 20 seconds and 6 easy steps. Mothers and fathers can pedal their children from home to the park or shops and still have the convenience of a pushchair once they arrive.

The bike saves on costly petrol and parking charges and helps protect the environment because it is carbon emission free.

It's cool because it easy to use, it's sustainable and it makes you look like a cool, multi-tasking and caring mom!

Lifestyleweek II Day III

Day III - "So this is our lunch?"

Today my group and I went to Breda to accomplish the tasks that another group made for us the day before. Again, we sent a picture of our group to a teacher and got the tasks.

Task 1: Choose a type of person that you want to follow. Look for 5 people with that type and take a picture with them. We chose to take pictures of militaries and managed to find 5 of them. We also had to make a creative picture of ourselves in the parc of Breda.

Task 2: Go to a school and try to sneek in a class. Make a picture of it. We managed to get in a classroom and we took a picture. That was an exciting task!

Task 3: Go to the restaurant "Flinstering" to make your own lunch. I love cooking so this seemed so nice. When we got there, the waiter gave us all a candle and gave us the task to trade the candles for something to eat. None of us expected that this would be our lunch so that was a suprise for us.

We went to the market and tried to trade our candles for tomatoes and eggs. We also got some bread. We went back to "Flinstering" and the nice waiter said he would get a meal for us with our ingredients! We we all so excited because we managed to get a free meal in such a nicely designed restaurant by just trading small candles. After a while the waiter came back with baked eggs on bread and it tasted very good!
     Our ingredients                                            us in the restaurant with our meals
Special task 1: get as high as possible in Breda and make a picture of it.

Michelle with a militair - Special task 2: My group throwing tomatoes at me a la Jack ass

I really enjoyed today. The most exciting part for me was that we managed to get a warm meal by trading candles for ingredients. It takes courage to come up to people and ask for that, so the task was daring. I liked Lifestyleweek II more than I thought I would, so I'm looking forward to the next one!

Lifestyleweek II Day II

Day II - "Wow, this is like a tv game!"
Today was all about creating an exciting day in the city. My group went to Utrecht. We had to take a picture of our group and we had to send it to a teacher to get our task for the day. When I heard what our task was, the first thing that came up in my head was: "Wow, this is like a tv game!" I like watching challenging tv programs like "Wie is de Mol?" that are full of challenging tasks and now we had to make a day for another group of students just like that. The day needed to have 3 dare-tasks and 1 needed to be hidden somewhere. During the day we got some special tasks that we needed to accomplish too.

We started brainstorming and searching for information about Utrecht at Mc Donald's. We came up with these tasks:

Task 1: Hidden task. We gave the other group a poem and they had to find out who wrote it and where in Utrecht the poem is located. They had to go to the VVV office and if they gave the right answers, the VVV employees would give them the key to a locker that had another task in it. The real task was: Recreate the magazine outfits that are in the locker. Make a picture of them in the same position and facial expressions and put it on twitter. This task is exciting and daring because you have to work for the next task, making pictures in a store isn't allowed and you have to wear things that you normally wouldn't.

Task 2: Ask people about what they don't dare to do and what they would like to dare. Imitate their fears and make a picture of them. This task is daring because you have to go to strangers and talk about personal things  with them.

Task 3: Give 15 people a "Merry Christmas kiss." Again you have to go to strangers and you have to get out of your comfort zone and step in to theirs.



Special tasks for our group: Make a picture in the window of a clothing store and  Make a pyramid in a creative way

I had a lot of fun today because we could do whatever we wanted. We had to work together all day and it's really nice that another group will really be doing what we came up with. I'm looking forward to tomorrow!

Lifestyleweek II Day I

Lifestyleweek II was all about daring. Daring to ask, daring to do something different and daring to overcome your fears. There were rumors about what we had to do, because all we knew was that we had to wear warm clothes and that we had to be outside all day. So I made sure I was prepared!


Day I - "Just let go and trust your fellow students!"
Behind the warm wellness center Thermen in Son en Breugel, we were outside, in the snow. "What a contrast to start of your day, but don't judge yet, it might be fun!" We were divided in groups that had to do a parcours of different dare-activities. It was all about trusting the people in your group, cooperating with them and overcoming your fears.

In the "spiderweb" we had to work together to get everyone through the holes in the net, without touching the net or going through the same hole more than once. Because of those rules, other students had to get me through the net by picking me up, and passing me over to other students on the other side of the net. This was about cooperation, trust and creative thinking.




There were more activities that involved climbing and abseiling. I've done these things before, but because this time I had to climb up a tree in stead of a climbing  wall, I was a little harder for me.

Over all I liked most of the activities, because with some, I overcame my fears and all the activities were really binding. For me, most of the activities weren't too hard, because I don't have a fear of hight and most things were up high. It was interesting to see that other people really had to overcome their fears and that they had a hard time trusting other students. For instance: we had to climb up a ladder and let ourselves fall into the hands of the other students. Some students were really scared, so I heard comments like "Just let go and trust your fellow students!"

Match your nailpolish with your car!


Volvo had the awesome idea to get more female volvo drivers by making nailpolish that matches their new Volvo s60 series. "Oh I wish I could wear that color on my nails!" is a thought I always have when I see a car with a pretty color. Now here's your chance to do so! 


Cosmic White, Vibrant Copper and Ember Black.
Volvo has also launched an exclusive collection of accessories and products designed to match the new S60, including an iPhone case, sunglasses, leather weekend bags, goatskin driving gloves, and a key-fob. 

It's cool because it offers a real experience to driving and it makes driving and cars more interesting for women. Women want to match everything, so this is a very original idea to do so. 

I think we should all get car-matching nail polish in the future, right?

Maison Moschino


What it is?
Just like the brand, Maison Moschino is exclusive. It's a hautel (a highclass hotel) in Milan with themerooms that offer a total experience of the theme you choose. The hautel also has a restaurant  and a Culti Spa. It should give you the feeling of effortless sophistication. 


Why it's cool?
In the time of the experience economy, even sleeping needs to be an experience. So when you want a nice experience, every little detail needs to be right. Everybody wants a special and personal treatment, and the hautel offers themes with great details for the needs of every person. Now this is sleeping!


Glass top housing


What it is?
It's a glass roof. The tiles are made from ordinary glass and are laid on black nylon canvas and wooden spacers. The air between the spacers heats when the sun shines and is then collected to warm the house.


Why it's cool?
It's as expensive as normal tiles, but in the end, this will save money, because this warms your house. It's good for your wallet and the environment and it looks cool

Add a personal style to your gravestone


What it is?
RosettaStone is a stone tablet with an embedded microchip with symbols that can be selected to show important milestones in the deceased's life. The chip can be preinstalled in a new gravestone or added to an existing one to create a memorial that will allow future visitors to read the deceased's story from a mobile phone. Both photos and text can be linked with any RosettaStone, including family information, achievements and relationships or even favourite recipes and philosophical beliefs. 

Why it's cool?
If we want experience, we really want it. Even deceased people want it. So why not add experience to a gravestone? With this stone you can discover more than a name and date and people can be remembered in way more ways than usual. Everyting will be technoligical in the future and so will gravestones be. People want to be remembered, so why not in this way?


The Adidas Runbase store


This is the Adidas runbase store: 6 shower cubicles and 248 lockers for rent, for example. Also available are a lot of special Adidas shoes and clothing available for borrowing. Expert staff are there to offer tips and recommendations, so runners can try a different combination of clothing each time they work out, because of this you can try and find the combination that works best for you.


It's cool because your not just buying Adidas products, you can try them out and compare them. It's a store that offers way more than usual. It's a cool experience because you can work out in the park of Tokyo and come back to the Adidas store to shower. It especially works well for the Urban Nomad that can just jump in the store to quickly take a shower after their work-out and to quickly go somewhere else next.

Portable wedding toilets


What it is?
Atlanta Watercloset provides exceptionally clean portable restrooms for outdoor weddings and other special events. With flush toilets, fresh-water sinks for hand-washing, interior lighting, mirrors, coat hooks, shelves and brand-name toilet paper.


Why it's cool?
In an over-the-top wedding, even going to the restroom should be an experience. This is the perfect example of how much we want to have an extra value added to life.

Stereomood



Stereomood provides music that suits your mood and your activities best. It's a great way to find new music and to easily find the music that goes with your mood.

It's cool because it's interactive. It fits the trend web 2.0 because the viewer doens't just view a website, but the site also adjusts to what you want very easily.

Idée Lab

Idée Lab shows you similar pictures of what you want. You can pick any colour(s) you like and the website shows you pictures with the colors you chose. You can combine tags and visual searches to find what you want.

It's cool because it makes it easy to find images in the right colour range for an essay etc. It's interactive and easy to use.

web 2.0: www.jott.com

With Jott you just call a simple phone number, speak your notes, messages, or updates and hang up. Jott Voicemail works the same way, but your friends, family, and colleagues are the ones leaving the messages when they call your number. Then, Jott takes the spoken messages, turns them into text, and sends them to the right destination via email, text message, or web update.

It's fast and easy and you can reach a lot of people in a small amount of time.

All recipes

www.allrecipes.com is a website with a bunch of recipes on it. You can post your own and vote for the best recipe of tomorrow. It even has an iPod application, where you can choose recipes sorted in the type of dish, the ingridients and the preparing time. It's good for people that struggle to come up with a nice meal every day!

It's cool because it's very interactive, so you can help and get help on it. It makes life a little easier.

web 2.0: Last.fm

www.last.fm keeps a record of what you listen toBased on your taste, Last.fm recommends you more music and concerts. You can change the music to your mood. Simply type an emotion into the music search field, and then click on the appropriate tag. You’ll get a station full of songs that other Last.fm-ers have tagged as being appropriate to that emotion. In addition, you’ll get a heads-up on the artists included in the station, and a list of suggested tags that might be related to what you’re looking for.

An outside gym

Usually, excercising outside means dull jogging, That's over now. 

Nearby my house, they placed a course of fitness equipment and shields with instructions that explain how to use the equipment and how long you have to use it.



It's cool because for people with busy lives, like the urban nomads, it's good to have excercise material nearby when you're on the way. It's also a nice way to be outside and to work out at the same time. People like to be in nature more, so this is a good initiative.

Fastfruit

What it is?
Fastfruit is an machine with fruit from local growers. In stead of getting snacks "out of the wall" in Rotterdam Central Station, you can get fresh fruit. The fruit costs about €0,30 and you can choose to make smoothies etc.

Why it's cool?
It's quite cheap, it's healty, you can get it when your in a rush to your work. Fastfruit is trying to expand to other stations in the Netherlands, so everyone will be able to get fastfruit in stead of fastfood.

Wedding ring projects pictures

"As an artist, you can't just give your fiancé a simple wedding ring." That's what Luke Jerram thought.

What it is?
 In the wedding ring are a number of (replaceable) mini-slides that are projected when light is held behind the ring.

Why it's cool?
It's original, unique and very personal. You can see the important people in your life even by looking at your ring.

The "Bokito Kijker" let's you watch gorilla's without being attacked.

In the Netherlands, Bokito has become a real phenomenon. He attacked a woman that was looking at him in the Rotterdam Zoo.




What it is?
The Bokito Kijker or The Bokito Viewer, translated to English, is a piece of eyewear with an image of human eyes looking to one side. It has peekholes, so you can watch gorilla's without giving them the instinct to attack you.

Why it's cool?
The glasses are effective, that'll keep the gorilla's calm. Plus, watching groups of people walking around with those glasses might be way more fun than watching gorilla's!

Spink keeps you from knocking over your drinks

You're making homework, you're almost done, you spill your drink and you can start all  over. Here's the solution: "Spink".

What it is?
The Spink, short for "Never SPIll another drINK." is a cuffee cup holder that holds mugs, bottles, soda cans and take-out cups. You can stick The Spink to your desk by pressing down the inside lever. 

Why it's cool?
Spink can help clumsy people make their study-or-officetime a little less hard. It's hard to spill and if you do, you don't have to clean your whole desk. It's easy and it works.


Source: http://dreamfarm.com.au/products/spink/

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