Eco-friendly food shopping: a new kid in town

We are all concerned when it comes to recycling. If you live in Switzerland you know what an Eco center is, a place where you meet your neighbour on a Saturday morning - on your way to washing your car - to sort and throw out the recyclable trash accumulated during the week.

Packaging is an essential part of a product's sale. It's all good for those who appreciate the form, the aesthetics and the information it can provide. It's all bad for those who believe and/or work in daily task of reducing waste production.

Negozio Leggero promotes over 1500 cooperative goods in bulk. Just like in the olden days when having a bucket of milk was essential to transport it, you'll be helping yourself from a tap, filling containers brought from home with the desired amount.

Finally an alternative to shop without packaging! Great prices, organic products and there is everything: vegetables, soaps, pasta, wine, detergents, spices, teas and more.

So check out this new eco-friendly store where trendy presentation and emerging flavours will capture your attention and provide you and your kids with a totally new shopping experience.

Negozio Leggero, Via Lambertenghi 2, 6900 Lugano

Big projects for Lugano's future

Lugano is living an extraordinarily dynamic moment and it has been able to increase its inhabitants (over 57’000) and its territory (31.2 km2) by adding adjacent villages to its realm. The city is in the process of defining projects which will shape its future development. They regard architectural projects, urban projects and projects to improve the mobility. In the next few years, these interventions will define the face and character of the city.

In particular the projects are:

- the AlpTransit project which will bring Southern Europe sensibly closer to northern Europe in the next years
- the new FFS giving new prestige to the area of Besso
- the restructuring of the Lungolago walkway
- the renovation of the mouth of the Cassarate river
- the new cultural centre LAC (Lugano Arte e Cultura)
- the urban redevelopment of Pian Scairolo
- the creation of the new quarter of Cornaredo
- the building of a new exhibition area and the reconstruction of the northern side of Campo Marzio
- the enlarging of the University Campus
- the completion of the Vedeggio-Cassarate tunnel
- the improvement of the road network and conditions in the Lugano area
- the public transportation plan of the Lugano area (PTL)
- the airport of Agno

All of these projects represent different ways of building the future and aim towards the concept of a city which rotates around its historical downtown centre.

So keep your eyes open and you'll discover something new everytime you stroll around town.

A really smart fridge

"I have the body of an eigtheen year old. I keep it in the fridge."
Spike Milligan

This new gadget I read about today is so cool I just had to share it with you:

a refrigerator with a touchscreen LCD display that lets users keep tabs on where items are located in the refrigerator and when they expire.

Hello, can you beam me to the Caribbean as well?

But it doesn't stop there: an owner can access the information while shopping via a smartphone and check whether they have enough milk or orange juice, for example. In case of a problem such as a door left open, the LG refrigerator can send an alert to an owner's smartphone or computer.

This unbelievable fridge is part of LG Electronics latest home appliance range called "Thinq" which are connected to a home Wi-Fi network and can be controlled by a smartphone or a computer.
The "Thinq" range includes washing machines that can be instructed from the office to run at the most cost-effective times and a camera-equipped robot vacuum cleaner, the Hom-Bot, which can be instructed remotely to clean the floor.The camera embedded in the robot can also be used to keep an eye on the house while the owner is away.

Who needs a babysitter at this rate?

It only gets better, Smart Diagnosis, which delivers built-in diagnostic tools, allows LG technicians direct access to fault codes. For example, instead of disassembling an entire machine to determine what’s gone wrong, LG customer service can use Smart Diagnosis to plug into the appliance’s innards – even remotely – to ask the computer inside what the problem is.

..and all hell breaks lose if your WIFI conks out, there is an electricity failure or worse a virus enters the system!!!