Rice Shop Revitalizes Lifeless Tokyo Shopping Street
In Tokyo, the local initiative Owan Ltd. aims to revitalize a declining shopping street by launching a series of inspiring, small shop concepts. After operating a coffee roastery and a café in this neighborhood near the Togoshi Koen station, their latest initiative is a simple but beautiful little rice shop.
Airpnp Lets You Use Strangers’ Bathrooms
The name Airpnp obviously plays off the widely renowned peer-to-peer service Airbnb, but instead of rooms or apartments this peer-to-peer platform sees the arrangement of bathroom 'stays'.
Carl Goes Berlin
Carl Goes Berlin is a new travel guide for urban nomads that invites you to become a citizen of Berlin for three days, three weeks, or three months.
App-Driven Laundromat Serves Busy Urbanites
Doing your laundry sucks. Not only does it feel like a huge drain on time, it can be genuinely difficult to factor it in the average, chaotic, urban schedule. This is when the people behind Bubble & Stitch come in with their newest store in West Amsterdam, to provide you with a hassle-free service, 24 hours a day.
Cycleswap Lets Amsterdamers Rent out Their Bikes to Tourists
Peer-to-peer platform Cycleswap enables citizens in Amsterdam to earn some extra money by renting out their bicycles to tourists, or perhaps to a flat-tyre victim in need.
Urban Vineyard Helps Revitalize Cleveland Neighborhood
In Cleveland, an urban vineyard helps revitalize one of the city's most infamous neighborhoods.
Cut Throats On The Move
Business mobility is no longer an abstract idea. Recently we've featured cafe franchises on wheels, showers on wheels, offices on wheels and whilst we were paying a visit to Amsterdam's Food Soul Festival a few weeks ago, we discovered a barber shop on wheels.
Hand-Drawn Paris
After creating lovely maps of London, New York, San Francisco and Berlin, illustrator Jenni Sparks drew an amazingly detailed map of the city of Paris.
Home Office In Swedish Is Hoffice
In Sweden, a new peer-to-peer platform enables people to come and work at someone's home, or turn their own home into a co-working space.
Eaze: The Uber For Pot Delivery
Combining marijuana with high-end service-oriented technology, start-up Eaze delivers (medical) marijuana to people's doors within 10 minutes after purchase.
People Of Edmonton, Get Your Skates On!
In Edmonton, people might just start to use their skates to commute in the future. Citizen Matt Gibbs wants to inspire the Canadian city to develop 10 kilometers of inner city ice skating infrastructure.
Cooperative Milk Vending Machines Pop Up In Greece
Greeks take milk production into their own hands. A group of farmers in Greece founded the cooperative 'Θες Γάλα, Πιες!', that sells milk independently through vending machines across the country.
Vending Machine Offers Flowers 24/7
24 Flower is the latest addition to the 24/7 retail ventures in Amsterdam. Located near the creative NDSM Wharf hub, the store operates just like Amsterdam's famous FEBO vending machines, but on a purer level — pick your favorite type of flowers, insert the money and instead of getting something deep-fried, you'll take home a colorful bunch of Spring.
Pearlfisher Wants You To Jump In!
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Jack clearly didn't work for Pearlfisher, an independent design business who, in their latest project 'Jump In!', were promoting the transformative power of play. Sounds weighty, but really, it's about filling a vast room with tens of thousands of plastic balls for your very own amusement.
Amsterdam Food Truck Serves Horse Burgers
A food truck in Amsterdam now serves burgers with meat from retired race horses.
