Vigour

  • Coolunt #4; Human Movement – XQ Scooter

    We are all looking for new innovations that can solve the problem of burning fossil fuels, cause we all know that one day the earth won’t be able to cope with our problems and our stupidity as human beings. That’s why Ricardo Silva came up with a new idea, the so called XQ-scooter. What is…

  • Coolhunt #5; Human Movement – Bike Wasing Machine

    What is it? The battle against sustainability, means the consumptions we use in our homes. There are so much devices we use in one day in an unconscious state, we can’t imagine. The problem of pollution and sustainability can’t get along. With some fortune of these new innovations there will be a change in the…

  • Coolhunt #3 – Human Movement; The outisde fits the inside

    Isn’t it recognizable that when it’s summer, 33 Celsius and you’re sitting inside a building with the sun upon the glass, that you’re totally sweating away? For me it is. Only fans can compensate the heath, but that costs a lot of energy. In Seoul they know the solution for this: Skyscraper’s facade controls the…

  • Coolhunt #2 – Human Movement; Vibrating shoes tell you where to go

    These days, there is a very popular little movie about the effects of social media on Facebook. It tells you that social media narrow our view and that we don’t look up anymore and that we don’t look around us so that we miss certain opportunities which may appear in daily life. An example is…

  • Coolhunt #1 Human Movement; One house, one room

    What will our future city looks like? Will everything be digital, shall we never have to walk again? Or, maybe more important, will every human being be provided with a roof above his head? Well, this last point is hard to answer because of the exponential growth of humans. Or do we have the right…

  • Coolhunt #5; Food & Quality of Life – Find your food

    How recognizable it is when you walk through the shopping mall and you want to buy a particular kind of food but you just don’t know where to go. Well, Philips have found a solution for this subject, people call it  the ‘lamps-gps’. What is it? The ‘lamps-gps’ contains the following: Philps takes care of…

  • Coolhunt #4; Food transparency – No fiddle energy

    Energy has become a necessary of life; the food has to be heated, the tv must be turned on and the mobile phone is bound to be charged while we sleep. However, many people don’t know where their energy comes from, how it is generated and the most important thing where their money will end…

  • Coolhunt #3; Food transparency – Smart Knife

     What is it? We all want to know what we eat when we eat. What kind of ingrediënts are in it, what is the level of toxicity and are there any bacterias which can cause illness? Most of all when we buy food, we must trust on the information the fabricant gives us. But is…

  • Coolhunt #2; Food transparency – QR codes on Sushi

    In earlier times fish was just fish, nothing more and nothing less. Nowadays we’ve discovered so many kinds of fishes that it becomes harder and harder to catch the special fishes. So nowadays we gas a normal piece of fish with carbon monoxide to make them look like a fresh tuna. A recent report shows…

  • Coolhunt #1; Food & transparency: Nutrition Label Makeover

    In the early 90’s nutrition labels have been added to the packaging of a product so that we consumers know what we eat and what kind of nutrition is inside the packaging. But when it comes to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the nutrition label should have a make-over. What is it? It…