Post, pay, fly.

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines makes it possible for consumers to confirm and pay their flight by using social media.

As first airline in the world, KLM has developed a method of payment which enables consumers to pay via social media. KLM has a team of 130 employees who are specialized in social media, are connected with customers through Twitter and Facebook and who give answer around 35.000 queries a week. Via these social media canals consumers can speak out their preference about departure/arrival time and day and KLM will do the rest. When they have found the perfect flight for this consumer they will share it with you via a personal Twitter or Facebook message. A private link in this message enables to complete the payment and one message later you’ll get another message to confirm the payment has been received. By this service you don’t have to navigate to the website anymore. It takes maybe a little longer than if you do it by yourself, but the service is awesome.

KLM Meet & Seat
KLM has developed earlier a way to involve their consumers by means of social media. KLM Meet & Seat offers the opportunity to choose your seat next to a person with an interesting (LinkedIn)profile.

Pay with your talent

‘We’ll be so much richer if we only had to pay with talents.’

The Merit Shop, an online shop that accept talents in form of video as payment for items. Founders Daniel Soares and Pedro Sampaio are from San Francisco. ‘Were we come from – San Francisco – there is a huge disparity in incomes. It’s like the city is divided in two; rich and poor.’ That thought made them develop this shop, but it’s intended for everybody. Not only the poorest.

You can purchase an item from the shop by taking a YouTube of Instagram record of yourself. You have to do something awesome and then just upload the link tot the website. Founders Soares and Sampaio will check those records and send you an email to confirm the purchase. On this moment people earned a kilogram of rice, an iPod, a football and gummy bears. They promise the shop will be ‘refilled’ soon. They are not doing this project for making money, just to make some good in our world.

This video below shows how people have earned their stuff:

Travel guides made by Instagrams

Arlanda Airport – Sweden – has developed a Local’s Guide composed of real-time Instagrams.

The guide is made by people who live in ‘holiday cities’. By this personalized travel guide visitors can discover new locations based on other people’s pictures.
On this moment the cellphone application is available for tourists in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dubai, London, New York, Bangkok, Copenhagen, Rome, Prague and Paris. The app uses Instagram pictures to create a real-time overview from the city. Every photo with a geotag will be shown. So you can see what REALLY happens on that moment and where you should go. The Stockholm Arlanda Airport also has installed large screens whereby a touchscreen version of the app is available. This video below shows how the app works.

NS Lost&Found pop-up store

Nederlandse Spoorwegen initiates a small exhibition and pop-up store with lost property.Most of lost property items will be thrown away when they aren’t picked up by customers. In the context of sustainability Kumpany developed the NS Lost&Found project. NS opens a small exhibition and pop-up store with most unusual items. Some of them are transformed into new products like jackets, bags or stuffed animals. Between 12 and 14 December customers are able to pick up some special products at Amsterdam Central Station. Things that will be exhibit are a fake leg or a suitcase filled up with fake money. The proceeds of the ‘second life product’ sales will ben donated to charity.

Hotel without a dishwasher

A sustainable hotel without a dishwasher but including disposable plates. Dutch brains in London.

Throw-away-plates doesn’t sound very chique, but London Qbic hotel quite likes it. The plates that are used in this hotel, are made of sugar cane, bamboo and palm-tree leaves. Dutch entrepreneur Paul Rinkens – SD tradings – brought these special plates to London because it perfectly fits in its hotel.

The benefit of these plates are that they’re nutrition for vegetables and fruit. After composting will it be strewed on the rooftop garden of the hotel. Thereby the hotel reduces their costs by not using water and energy by dishwashing.

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ICE RECORD

Swedish band called ‘The Shout Out Louds‘ releases a record made of ice.

There new single Blue Ice from its Optica album had to be released so, the band decides to create ten boxes, containing a record-shaped mould and a bottle of water. Their fans (who got their hand on the boxes) could fill the mould and place it in a freezer. A couple of hours later, when it’s ready, the piece of ice can be placed on a record player and it will play the single at a 30 percent of its original recorded quality.

This video below will show you how it works!