Category: Mobility

08. Solar Power Bags

Solar powered hand bags, purses, briefcases with a thin solar panel incorporated ibnto the outer design so that one van constantly charge ones’s iPod, mobile phone, computer.

09. Post-extreme double-decker bikes

Makeshift bicycles (two bicycle frames welded together) made in small bike workshops, driven in urban, up and coming areas. Require special skills to keep balance, even getting on or off a double-decker bike is difficult.

C’est comme ça Shops

Francesco Coviello, Italia:
Nowadays one of the major problem is time. So this company decided to go directly to their customers with a small shop that shows all their products. If they don’t find it or if they want it differently they will bring it directly home.
1. Located where it is needed without extra cost due to positioning to the best retail strip.
2. Taylor made service. We give you what you need where you need when you need.
3. Cost cut like any internet shop but due to fact that they show the products they have more possibility to sell them.
4. They’ve used APE Cars like the retailer in the city markets during the ’60s.

Mothers

Rick Slaathuis: I saw this trendy carry pocket for babies in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam. During the conversation the woman told me about this latest trend. I think this way to carry your beautiful boy or girl is getting more popular, because it’s practical and wrestling with the buggy is out of question. People use it to go to the city, beach or even to visit their mother in law. So let’s be honest, isn’t it more beautiful to share all these moments with other people in the same situation? I think the buggy is old – fashioned and the carry pocket, especially for babies is the latest trend.

01. The True Masters of Cradle to Cradle

We all know Africa is the garbagedump of the western world. Literally. Western companies pay African countries loads of money to import their garbage. Cars that are not allowed to ride the European roads anymore are massively shipped to Africa. What is not good enough for us, is good enough for them.
Africans make the best of our stuff and try to recycle as much as possible. This recycling has reached a new peak with the assembly of a working four-seater helicopter. It was made from old car parts and parts from a crashed 747. It was build by a 24-year old undergraduate student who got his information solely from the internet, in just eight months time.
This is Cradle to Cradle meets Cool Sustainability meets Cool Creators, wow!

09. Blyk

Blyk is a new Mobile Virtual Network (MVNO) running on the Orange network in the UK, for 16 – 24s, by invite-only, which, the founders claim, will allow a control of users experience and offer advertisers real-time feedback into interaction rates for their ads. A tempting prospect both for advertisers and those young enough to go for the free calls.
Over 40 brands are already supporting Blyk’s offering, and the service is available for up to 4.5 million youngsters: two thirds of the people of that age group in the UK. Brands advertising through the network include Adidas, Boots, Borders, Coca-Cola, Colgate, Ford, JJB Sports, L’Oreal, McDonalds, Mastercard, NatWest, Miss Selfridge, Penguin, Sky, STA Travel, Sony BMG, Sony Ericsson and Xbox.

Smart

Fabrizio Bolis, Italia:
The concept and store image is the same in every country;
Sustainability, is the more actual word: you can buy with a tecnology focused on the ecology, enviroment, congestion charging;
You can go to the store, choose the colors and come back with your new car;
For young people or people who feel to be young;
For the first time a different way for sale a car.

BMW Showroom

Luc Vekemans, Brussels:
On the Boulevard de Waterloo (Brussels’s uptown) are installed the most prestigious names of the Haute Couture: Delvaux, Versace, Christofle, Christian Dior, Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, Louis Vuitton, Pierre Cardin, Chanel, Gucci, Fratelli Rosetti, Xandres, Façonnable, Bulgari.

It’s the place where BMW opened in the spring of 2007 a show room (3.000 m²) in a renovated ‘hotel de maître’.

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