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Not a refrigerator but a scale…

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We all know most products in our home will be connected to the internet. It’s only a matter of time. Surprisingly a scale is one of the first products commercially available and not the smart refrigerator that automatically creates your shopping list.
This scale is WiFi enabled and automatically registers weight, fat and BMI calculation. For more information visit withings.com

Sir, where can I find the sugar?

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Delhaize made me wonder
Apparently Delhaize Plantijn started with a new classification system by “task”?  I noticed something was wrong when looking for vegetables to be used in a wok at the vegetables-corner. Wrong, I needed to look for this in the wok-corner. (I know one cannot hyperlink in real life but a small sign could have done the trick.) I wonder whether they applied card-sorting for this? btw the former vegetable corner is still in place but without the wok vegetables, but I guess duplication is also more difficult off-line.

It made me think of a joke by Philippe Geubels (a former Colruyt employee), describing a scene in a Colruyt (Belgian hard discounter) where a customer walks up to him:

Customer: “Sir, where can I find the Sugar?”
Employee: “Under the ‘S’!”

(Video in dutch – 2:48)

Small in Belgium but big on-line

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Becoming famous in  Belgium in one day is one thing, becoming a worldwide youtube star is something completely different. But nothing is impossible, this man parks his 1m49 wided car (Fiat Panda)  in a 1m55 wide parking garage. Indeed one starts wondering, how do you get out and that is exactly why Eugène became famous.

The item was featured in a belgian television show (Man bijt hond/Man bites dog) and was afterwards covered by other channels and  on-line in UK ( BBC – TOP gear) , Croatia, Poland and Korea

With over 1 million views before it fully reaches the US and China this could become a real youtube hit and show up in the viral video charts soon. Eugène explained to a Belgian newspaper (de standaard) how he was asked to give demonstrations for different TV stations and receives phone calls from all over the world. Eugène would like this stop (when he again parks his car in front of another camera) but it can only get worse for the man from Liedekerke, Belgium. (Facebook fan page in dutch)

(Visit youtube for English captions)

Hallelujah!

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Despite the commotion about the Alexandra Burke version of Hallelujah, Natalia & Gabriel Rios recorded a new version of the Hallelujah-song for the 1212 – Help Haiti charity show on Belgian public and commercial TV stations (één & VTM)
With competition from Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Damien Rice and a lot of others, this version may not necessarily pass the test of time. (Nevertheless a strong performance by Gabriel Rios).  But  more importantly all profits will be donated to Haiti charity .

Buy the song to support Haiti (not yet available on itunes – 21- Jan 2010)

Hallelujah – Natalia & Gabriel Rios


Feel free to compare with:

Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley

Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen

Hallelujah – Damien Rice

Hallelujah – Alexandra Burke

The eleventh province of Belgium

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Is Belgium a real banana republic, meet governor Meulemans in the eleventh province of Belgium. Nice viral (in Dutch) from vredeseilanden.be, covered on Belgian television (Canvas – Phara – 17/11/09).

Played 1,654 times on vimeo and 144 inhabitants so far (Uploaded on 18 November 2009)
http://lebelge.vredeseilanden.be/