Maybe you’ve seen this everywhere already, maybe not but whatever. I’m not one to care – if it’s something I like, I’m posting about it! This “Furniture Tasting” project by Japanese/Portuguese duo Ryosuke Fukusada and Rui Pereira was inspired by the idea that the contemporary furniture industry is feeding us so much that it’s nearly impossible to “digest” it all. I love furniture and decor, and often times I say it’s good enough to eat… and now, I can have my chair and eat it too!

Developed by international ad agency I&S BBDO for the umino seaweed shop, ‘design nori’ is a series of intricately  laser-cut seaweed for rolling sushi. each sheet of five designs– ‘sakura’ (‘cherry blossoms’), ‘mizutama’ (‘water drops’), ‘asanoha’ (‘hemp’), ‘kikkou’ (‘turtle shell’), and ‘kumikkou’ (‘tortoise shell’)– is based on an element of japanese history  or symbology, meant to bring beauty, good fortune, growth, happiness, and longevity.

lasercut nori for designer sushi [Designboom]

If you ever wanted a way to dessert up your beer, or just plain keeping it colder for longer, Japanese beer maker Kirin has got the item for you. Presenting: Frozen beer foam in the vein of soft serve ice cream that sits atop a beer, keeping it cool.

In order to make the topping, Kirin freezes their Ichiban Shibori Frozen Draft beer to 23 degrees Fahrenheit while air is blown into it. Simple as that. When the frozen foam topping is placed on the beer, it acts as something of a lid, keeping the beer cold for thirty minutes. Due to the nature of the topping, when the foam eventually does melt into the beer, it doesn’t dilute the taste, but provides a somewhat creamier flavor to the overall beverage.

Japanese Company Tops Drinks With Soft Serve Frozen Beer Foam [Geekosystem]

Sweeten your life with handmade candy, delivered to your door?

In early 2012, the people behind Candyscovery were traveling around the world and had plenty of opportunities to discover wonderful candy, manufactured and sold in very small shops. While they were enjoying some of these sweets in Hong Kong, they were struck by the idea that only people who could physically visit the confectioners’ place would have a chance to taste these sugar wonders. So they decided to create a simple candy-tasting service, to let every candy lover get a bite of these treats. Thus Candyscovery was born!

So if you are candy lover or simply crave for candies around the world, no harm checking out Candyscovery!

As our society has shifted from eating whole foods to consuming processed food-like products, food packaging has become a major part of our solid waste stream. An unfortunately, because there are rules about what’s safe for food to be wrapped up in, lots of this packaging is difficult or impossible to recycle.

Apparently, this problem has vexed Harvard scientists, who recently announced that they have developed a food packaging technology that could eliminate the need for plastic containers, and we could see on grocery store shelves in the next 12 months.

WikiCells, the brain child of Harvard professor David Edwards, are “novel edible forms for eating and drinking transportable foods and drinks without plastic.” WikiCells consist of a natural food membrane held together by electrostatic forces and containing a liquid, emulsion, foam, or solid food substance possibly within an edible or biodegradable shell.

Is Edible Food Packaging The Answer To Plastic Waste? [Care2]

We love this cute (but totally geeky) chocolate space invader as a thoughtful, but not too over-the-top Valentine’s Day present! Available from www.chocolateinvader.com for $20 and if you order one now before the 14th, you get an extra one free!

Chocolate space invader for your valentine [Popgadget]

Tired of burning your tongue on coffee only to have it get cold a few minutes later? With the Coffee Joulies Gift Pack your coffee will be ready to drink in minutes and will stay that way for hours. Each polished stainless steel shell is filled with a special phase change material that melts at 140°F. Put them inside the custom-printed thermos and they absorb heat from your coffee when it is too hot and release it back into your coffee to keep it at the perfect temperature

Uber Review: If you find figuring out how much spaghetti you need to cook for a meal, you might want to take a look at this Icelandic spaghetti measurer. It starts with a kids’ portion and ends with a horse-sized portion.

Available in green plastic, white plastic and stainless steel.

Eat a Horse, Can You? This Spaghetti Measurer Has You Covered [Uber Review]

Springwise: Restolib’ has established partnerships with more than ten restaurants in Paris, with an agreement that they may use the premises of those establishments after the restaurants have closed. The company makes use of those commercial kitchens to hold a wide variety of cooking classes, wine tasting sessions, table decoration workshops, cocktails classes and more, for both individuals and companies. Restolib’ also offers the opportunity for anyone to show off their skills by acting as chef for a night for a group of their friends, with coaching and help from one of the company’s own chefs. Cooking class pricing begins at EUR 40 for a two-hour session.

Offering restaurants a way to monetize their off-hours, while delivering on-site cooking experiences in the most authentic of locations, Restolib’ may just have hit upon a sweet spot in the culinary world. Restaurateurs and chefs around the globe: how about starting something similar near you?

In Paris, cooking classes & events in closed restaurants [Springwise]

Springwise: Interested consumers begin by investing EUR 100 in Buitengewone Varkens’ pigs, which are bred sustainably and allowed to live naturally outdoors in the Dutch forests and fields. Farmers, in turn, are paid fair wages for the work they perform. Investors, meanwhile, receive the right to pork products over the next three years — including chorizo, dry sausage, pate, coppa and ham — along with tickets to events, for a total value of EUR 150. Opportunities for restaurateurs are also available.

A crowdfunding model for pork products [Springwise]

The Drinks-Lab Homebrew Kit is the fun and easy way to experience creating each own alcoholic drinks, the way each like them. The Kit contains everything needed to turn each favourite fruit juices into sparkling alcoholic drinks in three easy steps.

Simply choose or mix up your favourite juices, pour the special yeast blend into the bottle, seal the bottle with the supplied stopper and wait. Drinks-lab specially blended yeast eats the sugar in the juice to produce alcohol and bubbles!